Portable fish cleaning device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fish cleaning devices lack a convenient and stable solution for filleting fish on horizontal pier rails, as they do not provide a secure platform with necessary storage and retention mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A portable fish cleaning assembly with a platform featuring drink, tool, and hook apertures, coupled with grapples for secure mounting on pier rails, pivotally extended legs for stabilization, and a clamp for fish retention, along with additional features like storage holes, a knife sheath, and a ruler for measurement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If a portable fish cleaning device is mounted on a horizontal pier rail, then the device provides a stable platform for fish filleting, but the device requires complex mounting mechanisms (grapples and legs) to ensure stability
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting mechanism is divided into separate functional components: grapples for vertical rail engagement and legs for horizontal rail engagement. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in one direction of stabilization, reducing the complexity of any single mechanism while achieving overall platform stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The grapples and legs function as counterbalancing elements that resist the platform's tendency to tip or move. The grapples engage with vertical pier rails to prevent vertical displacement, while the legs engage with horizontal pier rails to prevent horizontal movement, creating a balanced stable mounting system.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple storage features (drink aperture, tool aperture, hook apertures, storage holes) are integrated into the platform, then the device provides enhanced functionality and convenience, but the platform structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple storage functions are merged into a single platform structure. The drink aperture, tool aperture, hook apertures, and storage holes are all integrated into the platform body, allowing users to store beverages, tools, and fishing tackle in one consolidated unit rather than requiring separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides a surface for fish filleting, storage for beverages, tools, and fishing tackle, and mounting for the entire assembly on pier rails. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate equipment.
3Reliability
If a clamp is added to retain the fish on the platform, then fish retention during filleting is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The clamp is designed to be manually operated by the user during the filleting process. The simplicity of the clamp mechanism allows it to be easily attached and adjusted by hand, providing reliable fish retention without requiring complex automated or motorized systems.
Data Source
AI summary
A portable fish cleaning assembly includes a platform that has a drink aperture, a tool aperture, a plurality of hook apertures and a pair of storage holes each extending therethrough. A pair of grapples is each removably coupled to the platform. Each of the grapples releasably engages a top pier rail having the platform being horizontally oriented on the top pier rail. In this way a fish can be positioned on the platform for filleting the fish. A pair of legs is each pivotally coupled to the platform. Each of the legs extends downwardly from the platform when the legs are positioned in a deployed position. In this way each of the legs abuts horizontal pier rails thereby retaining the platform in the horizontal orientation. A clamp is pivotally coupled to the platform to engage the fish for retaining the fish on the platform for filleting the fish.