Sliding-Arm Tool Stand for Fast Leg Deployment and Transport
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional tool stands are often large and cumbersome, making them difficult to move and transport, even with wheels, and the process of folding or extending legs can be cumbersome for deployment and collapse.
Innovation Solution
A compact tool stand design with sliding arms that double as handles, allowing for quick and easy deployment of legs using a strap for carrying, featuring a rack and pinion or linkage system to retract and extend legs within the body, enabling easy transportation and setup.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If legs are fixed in place to provide stable support, then stability is improved, but mobility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamically adjustable legs that can transition between fixed and movable states. The legs include movable components allowing the stand to be stable during use but easily repositioned when needed, resolving the contradiction between stability and mobility.
Solution Approach 2:
The stand allows changing the state parameter of the legs from fixed to movable. By adjusting the leg configuration, the stand transitions between a stable supported state and a movable transport state, enabling both stability and mobility as needed.
2Stability of the object's composition
If legs are made extendable to increase support span, then stability is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs nested or telescopic leg structures where segments are contained within one another. This allows the legs to extend to provide stable support when needed while collapsing to a compact form, reducing complexity for storage and transport.
Solution Approach 2:
The legs are divided into multiple segments that can be independently positioned. This segmentation allows the legs to extend outward for stability during use while being collapsible to a compact configuration, balancing stability requirements with reduced complexity for transport.
3Ease of operation
If the tool stand is made compact for easy transport, then mobility is improved, but support span deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The stand features dynamically adjustable legs that can extend outward to increase the support span when deployed. During transport, the legs are retracted to maintain a compact profile, thus achieving both mobility and adequate support span as needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The stand allows changing the spatial parameter of the legs from retracted to extended positions. This enables the support span to be increased when the stand is in use while maintaining a compact form factor for easy transport, resolving the contradiction between mobility and support span.
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AI summary
A portable tool stand having automatically deployable legs. The tool stand has a body with a work surface and opposed ends. Deployable legs are pivotally mounted to the tool stand. The legs move between a stored position adjacent to the body and a support position wherein the legs are deployed to support the body. Retractable arms are mounted to each end of the body and slide with respect to the body. The deployable legs and the arms are operably connected such that sliding the arms with respect to the body moves the legs between the stored position and the support position.