Storage Container Drawer Slide Frame Stacking Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional storage containers, especially the flap type, are not stackable and require large slide frames, leading to inefficient space utilization and inflexibility in meeting user needs.
Innovation Solution
A storage container design featuring a slide frame with a movable drawer, incorporating a bottom plate, column, and top plate with clamping grooves and blocks, a positioning enclosure for stacking, and a slide rail for smooth drawer movement, along with reinforcing features like abrasive strips and handles for enhanced stability and usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If flap type storage containers are used, then they are simple in structure, but they cannot be stacked which reduces space utilization
Solution Approach 1:
The storage container is divided into separate modular components: a slide frame and a drawer. The slide frame can function independently as a storage structure, while drawers can be removed and stacked separately. This segmentation enables both standalone use and stacked configuration, resolving the contradiction between structural simplicity and stackability.
Solution Approach 2:
The drawer is nested within the slide frame, with the drawer movably disposed inside the slide frame. Multiple slide frames can be stacked together with drawers nested within each frame. This nesting arrangement allows compact vertical stacking while maintaining the functionality of each individual unit, achieving both space efficiency and structural simplicity.
2Quantity of substance
If a large slide frame with multiple storage containers is used, then storage capacity increases, but space occupation increases and flexibility decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The storage system is segmented into independent slide frames, each capable of functioning separately or being combined with others. Users can configure the system by stacking one or more slide frames according to space availability and storage needs, providing flexibility while maintaining storage capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows dynamic reconfiguration where drawers can be removed from slide frames and slide frames can be stacked in various configurations. This dynamic adaptability enables the same components to serve different storage capacities and spatial requirements, resolving the contradiction between fixed large-scale storage and flexible usage.
3Ease of manufacture
If conventional storage containers are used, then they are simple to manufacture, but they occupy large space and cannot be flexibly used
Solution Approach 1:
The container is segmented into a slide frame and a separate drawer component. This segmentation allows each part to be manufactured independently using simple processes, maintaining ease of manufacture while enabling compact stacking configurations that reduce overall space occupation when not in use.
Solution Approach 2:
The design transitions from horizontal expansion (large single-unit containers) to vertical stacking (multiple compact slide frames stacked vertically). This dimensional change reduces the footprint area occupied while maintaining or increasing total storage capacity, and the modular segments remain simple to manufacture.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables independent use of the drawer or stacking of multiple containers without affecting drawer functionality, offering convenient assembly and disassembly, high stability, low costs, and practicality with broad application prospects.
Implementation Method 1
at least one abrasive strip II is disposed at the bottom of the drawer to increase the friction between the bottom of the drawer and the top of the bottom plate
Implementation Method 2
the clamping plates are also provided with clamping blocks connected to the clamping grooves
Implementation Method 3
at least one abrasive strip I is disposed in the positioning groove. When stacking two slide frames, the abrasive strip I increases the friction between the positioning groove and the positioning enclosure
Data Source
AI summary
A storage container includes a slide frame and a drawer movably disposed in the slide frame. The slide frame includes a bottom plate, at least one column and a top plate. The column is disposed between the bottom plate and the top plate. The opposite sides of the bottom plate and the top plate are provided with insertion grooves. One side of the inner wall of each insertion groove is provided with a clamping groove. Clamping plates are disposed at the top end and bottom end of the column. The ends of clamping plates far away from the column extend into the insertion grooves. The clamping plates are provided with clamping blocks connected to the clamping grooves.