Portable Fastener Guide With Sliding Alignment for Even Spacing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing fastener guiding tools in the construction industry often fail to maintain a straight line and equal distances between fasteners, lacking safety and cost-effectiveness.

Innovation Solution

A portable fastener guiding tool comprising a support plate with a sliding part and handle, designed to attach fasteners in a straight line and maintain equal distances, featuring grooves and fixing holes for secure attachment.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If traditional fastener guiding tools are used, then fastener attachment can be performed, but the fasteners cannot be maintained in a straight line with equal distances

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvealignment precision of fastenersVSAvoidstructure complexity of guiding tool

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The guiding tool is divided into separate functional components: a support plate with grooves for positioning, sliding parts for attachment, and a handle for guidance. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function while maintaining overall simplicity and alignment precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The support plate acts as an intermediary element between the fastener and the surface, providing grooves that guide the fastener position. This intermediary structure ensures equal spacing and straight-line alignment without requiring complex measurement and adjustment mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If existing fastener guiding tools are used, then fastener attachment can be performed, but safety is compromised due to stray fasteners

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesafety from stray fastenersVSAvoidconstruction simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The grooves and positioning structures that define the tool's function also serve to contain and control the fastener trajectory, preventing stray fasteners. The same structural elements that provide guidance simultaneously eliminate the safety hazard of uncontrolled fastener placement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

3Ease of manufacture

If existing fastener guiding tools are used, then fastener attachment can be performed, but the tool is not cost effective

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecost effectivenessVSAvoidfastener alignment accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The guiding tool is designed with simple geometric features (grooves, flat surfaces) that can be manufactured using basic machining processes. The tool appears to be designed for economical production, potentially as a disposable or single-use item, while still providing precise alignment through its geometric constraints.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Data Source

PatentUS20250256383A1A portable fastener guiding tool

Publication Date: 2025.08.14 ZEKAS BYGGTJENESTER

AI summary

This disclosure relates to the tools for holding and guiding fasteners, in particular to the portable fastener guiding tool that is designed to maintain a straight line of fasteners and equal distances between them. The portable fastener guiding tool includes a support plate, at least one sliding part mounted on the upper part of the support plate and configured to attach the fastener, a sliding handle mounted on the side part of the support plate, wherein the sliding handle is pressed near the wall's edge and the upper part of the sliding handle is attached to the beam or batten. The support plate further includes at least one sliding bracket configured for mounting fastener tool, such as nail gun or a drywall screw gun.