Socket Wrench Suspension Tag with Rotating Fitting Cap
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional exhibition and security arrangements for elongate tools with handles and bent or angled ends, such as socket wrenches, obscure visual inspection as they are typically housed in molded casings that cover most of the tool, hindering consumer inspection and leading to misunderstandings in retail transactions.
Innovation Solution
A suspension tag with a plate-like tag body and a fitting cap that securely retains tools through a hollow frame section with an internal projection, allowing for rotational and angular positioning, and easy detachment by cutting the frame section, enabling secure exhibition and theft prevention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If molded casings with recesses are used to retain tools, then tool security and retention are improved, but visual inspection capability deteriorates as most of the tool is covered
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the tool from the enclosed molded casing and displays it externally on a suspension tag, allowing full visual inspection while maintaining security through the tag's retention mechanism
Solution Approach 2:
The suspension tag uses a thin, flexible plate structure that can rotate and pivot, providing both security retention and unobstructed visual access to the tool from multiple angles
2Reliability
If tools are securely retained in enclosed packages, then theft prevention is improved, but consumer inspection capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The suspension tag incorporates dynamic rotation and pivoting capabilities, allowing the tool to be displayed facing different directions for thorough inspection while remaining securely attached to prevent theft
Solution Approach 2:
The suspension tag serves multiple functions simultaneously: it secures the tool against theft, enables 360-degree visual inspection, and provides an open display format that eliminates the need for enclosed packaging
3Reliability
If molded casings are used to house tools, then tool protection is improved, but product visibility and inspection deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The tool is extracted from the enclosing molded casing and mounted on an open suspension tag, providing full visibility and illumination access to the tool surface while maintaining protective retention
Data Source
AI summary
A suspension tag for a socket wrench is disclosed which provides a measure for easy and secured hanging of the socket wrench. The suspension tag includes a tag body forming a receptacle seat defining a bore to rotatably receive therein a fitting cap. The fitting cap forms a hollow frame section to receive a drive piece of the wrench therein. The hollow frame has an elastically deformable top panel that is connected to side panels in a limited moveability manner. The top panel forms an internal projection that, when brought into contact with the drive piece of the wrench at the time the wrench is inserted into the fitting cap, forces the top panel to deform and displace upward to allow the project to reach and thus engage a hole defined in the drive piece of the wrench that retains a spring-biased sphere therein so as to secure the wrench to the fitting cap and thus the suspension tag.