Telescopic Corner Rail Extendible Height Container
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collapsible portable shelters struggle to expand into increased height configurations while maintaining standard ISO shipping dimensions, limiting their versatility for applications requiring additional space.
Innovation Solution
A portable, collapsible shelter design featuring a rigid container with telescopic corner rail elements, pivoting side walls, and a collapsible frame that supports a flexible cover, allowing the structure to expand in height while maintaining ISO compliance for shipping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the shelter is designed with fixed ISO container dimensions, then it can be easily transported through standard shipping channels, but it cannot be expanded to provide increased interior space
Solution Approach 1:
The container structure is divided into modular segments including telescopic corner rail elements with inner and outer sections, pivoting wall portions that can rotate between vertical and horizontal positions, and collapsible frame sections. This segmentation allows the container to be disassembled and reconfigured into different spatial arrangements, enabling expansion of interior space while maintaining standardized external dimensions for shipping.
Solution Approach 2:
The container incorporates dynamic elements such as telescopic corner rails that can extend and retract, pivoting walls that can rotate between different positions, and collapsible frames that can be assembled and disassembled. These dynamic features allow the structure to transform from a compact shipping configuration to an expanded shelter configuration, providing adaptability while maintaining ISO compliance during transport.
2Volume of moving object
If the shelter expands in height, then increased interior space is provided, but the external dimensions exceed standard ISO container specifications
Solution Approach 1:
The container utilizes the vertical dimension through telescopic corner rail elements that extend upward to support increased height. The pivoting wall portions can be positioned at different angles to create varied interior volumes. By employing dimensional transformation—extending in height while maintaining base footprint—the container achieves increased interior space without permanently altering its external shipping dimensions.
Solution Approach 2:
The telescopic corner rail elements feature nested inner and outer sections that can be stored within each other during shipping. The collapsible frame sections can be disassembled and stored within the container body. This nesting principle allows the expanded height configuration to be compacted back into standard ISO dimensions for transport.
3Ease of operation
If pivoting wall portions are used to create openings, then access and ventilation are improved, but structural integrity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The pivoting wall portions are designed to rotate between vertical and horizontal positions, creating openings when needed while maintaining structural continuity. The hinges and connection mechanisms are engineered to maintain structural integrity during both closed and open configurations, allowing dynamic adjustment of openings without permanently compromising container strength.
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AI summary
An extendible height container is provided in which the corner elements telescope to extend the height of the container from standard ISO dimensions. An enlarged shelter can be formed from the container by providing sides which fold down to form the floor of the shelter and a flexible cover supported above the floor thus created.