Throwable Rescue Bag With Rope Storage for Lightweight Camping Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wilderness campers face challenges in being self-sufficient due to space and weight limitations, often having to sacrifice comfort, convenience, or emergency items, as they can only carry a limited number of articles into remote areas.
Innovation Solution
A multipurpose rapid response rescue device in the form of a throwable camp and rescue bag that functions as a rescue tool, water pail, pillow, headrest, and food hoist, featuring a throwing weight, rope, and carabiner for securing items from bears, allowing for instant deployment and multiple uses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a camper carries multiple articles for comfort, convenience, and emergency use, then safety and comfort are improved, but weight and space requirements increase beyond carrying capacity
Solution Approach 1:
The rescue bag is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both a rescue device (throwing device with rope for emergency situations) and a camping item (water pail, pillow, headrest, or food hoist). This multi-functionality allows campers to carry one item that replaces multiple separate articles, reducing total weight and space requirements while maintaining safety and comfort capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines previously separate items into a single integrated device: the rescue bag merges the functions of a throwing weight, rope storage, carabiner attachment, and various camping accessories (pail, pillow, headrest) into one unified object that can be carried as a single item
2Ease of operation
If a camper carries multiple articles for comfort, convenience, and emergency use, then comfort and convenience are improved, but the number of articles that can be comfortably carried is limited by space
Solution Approach 1:
The rescue bag serves multiple purposes including water storage (pail), sleeping comfort (pillow and headrest), food security (hoist for bear protection), and emergency rescue. This eliminates the need for separate items for each function, significantly reducing the total volume of gear required while maintaining all convenience features
Solution Approach 2:
The design allows the rope to be stored within the bag itself, and various camping configurations (pillow, pail, hoist) are achieved by arranging the same basic components in different ways, creating a nested, space-efficient structure
3Weight of moving object
If a camper foregoes emergency items to carry other articles, then space and weight are reduced, but safety is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
By making the rescue bag multi-functional, the emergency rescue capabilities are integrated with everyday camping uses. The same device that serves as a pillow or water pail also provides emergency rescue functionality, ensuring safety equipment is never sacrificed while maintaining weight efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges emergency safety equipment (throwing weight, rope, carabiner) with routine camping items into a single integrated unit, ensuring that safety equipment is always present and accessible without requiring separate dedicated space or weight allocation
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AI summary
A multipurpose rapid response rescue device comprising a throwable multipurpose camp and rescue bag that in one mode can be used as multi modal rapid response rescue device, which can be employed instantly to rescue a person in distress and in other modes can be used as a water pail or pillow with the camp and rescue bag containing a throwing weight and a rope therein with a one end of the rope secured to the camp and rescue bag so that when the camp and rescue bag is thrown to a remote area or person in distress and the other end of the rope is hand held the rope unfurls from the camp and rescue bag to provide for retrieval of the camp and rescue bag or an object secured thereto.