Wall Anchor Slide Tool for Fastening and Release
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing tools for fastening and releasing wall anchors often require multiple tools, risk surface damage due to improper tool usage, and struggle with difficult removal of abandoned anchors.
Innovation Solution
A single tool with a slide housing, handle, and levers that pivotally connect to a slide, allowing for both fastening and releasing operations by displacing the slide between positions to grip and push the wall anchor's centre screw and collar, facilitated by springs for idle reversion and sharp edges for easy insertion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a single tool is used for both fastening and releasing wall anchors, then device complexity is reduced and productivity is improved, but the tool must perform multiple functions which increases design complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The tool is designed with a single body that performs both fastening and releasing functions through a movable slide mechanism. The slide can be positioned to either grip and pull the center screw (fastening mode) or grip and push the center screw (releasing mode), allowing one tool to replace multiple specialized tools.
Solution Approach 2:
The tool incorporates a movable slide that can be repositioned along the tool body using levers. This dynamic reconfiguration allows the same tool structure to adapt between fastening and releasing operations, enabling multi-functionality without requiring separate fixed tools for each operation.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If improper tool usage or rotation of the centre screw occurs, then surface damage may occur, but using a single integrated tool reduces the risk of improper usage
Solution Approach 1:
The tool introduces an intermediary mechanism (the movable slide with gripping elements) between the operator and the wall anchor. This intermediary controls the force application and prevents direct manual manipulation that could cause surface damage or screw rotation, thereby protecting the wall surface while maintaining operational reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The tool design incorporates features that prevent harmful actions before they occur. The slide mechanism is designed to grip the center screw securely, preventing unintended rotation. The tool body structure guides force application to avoid surface damage, implementing preventive measures built into the tool's operation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the slide is displaceable between multiple positions, then the tool can perform both fastening and releasing operations, but the mechanism becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The tool is segmented into distinct functional components: a fixed tool body, a movable slide, and levers for actuation. The slide itself is segmented with different gripping ends for fastening and releasing operations. This segmentation allows each component to have a specific function while working together to achieve versatility without excessive overall complexity.
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 efficient, single-tool operation for both fastening and releasing wall anchors, minimizing surface damage and simplifying the process, while ensuring firm grip and easy insertion.
Implementation Method 1
said means being a spring arranged to exert a restoring force on the slide to return the slide to its initial position
Implementation Method 2
a first lever pivotally connected to the handle and arranged to displace the slide in the slide housing between a first position and a second position
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AI summary
A wall anchor fastening and releasing tool comprising a tool body forming a slide housing, a handle rigidly projecting from the slide housing, a slide arranged inside the slide housing, and a first lever pivotally connected to the handle and arranged to displace the slide in the slide housing between a first position and a second position, wherein, when the first lever is in the first position, a screw gripping end of the slide is adjacent a first housing end, and wherein, when in the second position, the screw gripping end of the slide is retracted in the slide housing and a screw pushing end of the slide is adjacent a second housing end, the screw gripping end of the slide being arranged to grip underneath a head of a wall anchor centre screw, and the second housing end being arranged to grip underneath a wall anchor collar.