Rotating Cylindrical Door Storage System for Rapid Weapon Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gun safes are cumbersome and difficult to use, with narrow access doors that make it hard to quickly insert or retrieve weapons, and lack an effective locking mechanism to secure various items like weapons and ammunition.
Innovation Solution
A storage system with a rotatable door and a locking mechanism that allows for a 180-degree access opening, featuring a cylindrical housing that can be locked or unlocked using a keypad, ensuring secure storage and quick access to weapons and accessories.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional rectangular safes with sliding bolts are used, then security is provided, but access speed and ease of operation deteriorate due to narrow doors and cumbersome mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by replacing the static rectangular door with a rotatable cylindrical door that can rotate 180 degrees. This dynamic mechanism allows the door to transition between locked and unlocked positions rapidly, improving access speed while maintaining security through the rotational locking mechanism with multiple bolts that engage and disengage simultaneously during rotation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the locking mechanism into multiple cylindrical bolts distributed around the circumference of the rotatable door. Each bolt can independently engage with corresponding recesses in the housing, allowing the security function to be distributed across multiple points rather than relying on a single locking point, thus maintaining high security while enabling rapid rotation-based access.
2Ease of operation
If narrow access doors are used in conventional safes, then compact size is achieved, but weapon retrieval difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable cylindrical door creates a dynamic access opening that can rotate to present a wide 180-degree arc opening. This allows the access area to effectively double compared to a fixed narrow door, enabling easy insertion and retrieval of weapons and accessories without compromising the compact cylindrical form factor of the safe.
3Reliability
If multiple cylindrical bolts are used for locking, then security is improved, but mechanism complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple independent locking functions into a single rotatable cylindrical door assembly. All cylindrical bolts are integrated into the rotating door structure, allowing them to engage and disengage simultaneously through one rotational motion rather than requiring separate operations for each bolt, thus reducing operational complexity while maintaining multi-point security.
4Productivity
If conventional rectangular safe design is used, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but access efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a cylindrical (curved) door design instead of a flat rectangular door. This curved geometry allows for more efficient rotational movement and creates a larger effective access opening when rotated 180 degrees. The cylindrical shape simplifies the rotational mechanism compared to hinged rectangular doors, as it eliminates the need for hinges and allows for more compact integration of the locking bolts within the curved surface.
Data Source
AI summary
A storage system for securing a weapon or valuable item. The storage system has an outer housing assembly including an elongated housing, an arcuate housing door and a handle assembly. The elongated housing has a non-rotatable curved inner structure. The handle assembly rotates the arcuate housing door concentrically about a longitudinal axis and partially within and adjacent to the non-rotatable curved inner structure. A rotational pivot of the handle assembly is aligned with the longitudinal axis and rotates the arcuate housing door about the longitudinal axis between a closed position that prevents access to an internal compartment within the elongated housing, and an open position that provides an access opening of approximately 180 degrees about the longitudinal axis into the internal compartment within the elongated housing.