Upright Tool Bracket for Stable Placement and Easy Retrieval

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing tool disposing mechanisms often result in unideal resting positions that are difficult to retrieve, hazardous, or damaging to the tool and environment, and require significant effort to relocate, limiting placement options and efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A tool system with a bracket that allows tools to be set down in an upright orientation, featuring a baseplate and guide shaft attached to the tool, enabling secure, removable attachment that elevates the handle for easy lifting and minimizes contact with the surface, thus reducing damage and relocation effort.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a stand is secured to a structure to receive the hand tool, then tipping risk is mitigated, but the location where the hand tool may be placed is limited to a single location

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetipping risk mitigationVSAvoidplacement location flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The stand is divided into a base portion that remains attached to the structure and a tool-receiving portion that can be repositioned. This segmentation allows the base to provide stable anchoring while the tool-receiving portion can be moved to multiple locations, resolving the contradiction between stability and placement flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The stand transitions from a static, fixed-position design to a dynamic, repositionable design. The base remains fixed to the structure while the tool-receiving portion can be dynamically repositioned to different locations, enabling both stability and adaptability in placement locations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If a stand is placed on a surface to receive the hand tool, then placement flexibility is improved, but bulky features are added that increase weight and volume

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplacement location flexibilityVSAvoidstand weight

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The stand base is designed with a thin, flexible base plate that can conform to various surfaces. This thin-film approach provides placement flexibility across different surfaces while minimizing the weight and volume of the stand structure, avoiding the bulky features of traditional designs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

3Ease of manufacture

If custom stands are provided to accommodate specific hand tool features, then tool accommodation is improved, but the stands become obsolete when the tool is replaced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetool accommodation precisionVSAvoidtool replacement flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The stand is designed with universal accommodation features that can adapt to multiple hand tool types and configurations. Rather than being custom-designed for a single tool, the stand can accommodate various tools through adjustable elements, ensuring it remains useful when tools are replaced or upgraded.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The stand incorporates adjustable parameters such as positioning elements and configuration options that can be modified to accommodate different tool features. This allows the stand to adapt to various tool types and specifications, preventing obsolescence when tools are replaced.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

4Reliability

If existing stands include bulky features to prevent tipping, then stability is improved, but the features are problematic during storage and field use

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetipping preventionVSAvoidstand volume

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The stand uses a low-center-of-gravity design where the base portion acts as a counterweight to prevent tipping. This approach provides stability through weight distribution rather than bulky structural features, minimizing the overall volume while maintaining tipping prevention capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #8Anti-weight (Counterweight)

Data Source

PatentUS20250319556A1Tool disposing bracket

Publication Date: 2025.10.16 TOMCZYK LUKASZ

AI summary

Provided is a tool system and bracket to dispose a tool of the tool system in an upright orientation and a method of manufacturing the same. The tool is configured to be set down in a resting disposition and picked up at a handle. The bracket is for disposing the tool, in the resting position, in the upright orientation. The bracket includes a baseplate with a horizontal leg connected to a vertical leg. In the resting disposition, the horizontal leg is configured to lie against a resting surface at a resting interface. The bracket includes a guide shaft configured to be attached to a body of the tool via attachment points at a far end of the tool, the far end is located opposite the handle along a longitudinal axis of the tool. A connecting shaft connects the baseplate and the guide shaft.