Two-Legged Stool from Walking Sticks for Stable Portable Seating
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Solution Overview
Problem
Single-legged shooting sticks are unstable when used as stools, requiring users to maintain a specific foot arrangement for stability, limiting mobility and comfort.
Innovation Solution
A pair of walking sticks with releasably attachable seat members that form a two-legged stool, allowing users to sit with feet at the corners of a rectangle or triangle, featuring telescopically adjustable and lockable stick members and pivotable seat components for enhanced stability and adjustability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single-legged shooting stick is used as a stool, then it can provide a seating function, but it leads to instability requiring specific foot arrangements
Solution Approach 1:
The invention divides the single-legged shooting stick into two separate stick members, each with its own seat member. These two legs work together to form a stable base, eliminating the instability problem of single-legged designs while maintaining the compact, portable nature of the original shooting stick.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines two walking sticks with attachable seat members to form a unified two-legged stool structure. The seat members are designed to attach between the two stick members, creating a integrated seating system that provides stability through its two-legged configuration.
2Ease of operation
If seat members are made pivotable for adjustability, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The seat members are designed with pivotable connections to the stick members, allowing them to rotate and adjust to different angles. This dynamic capability enables users to optimize the seating position for comfort and stability while maintaining a relatively simple mechanical pivot mechanism.
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AI summary
The equipment (10) comprises a pair of walking sticks (12,14) or the like that are arranged so that they can be connected together to form a two-legged stool.