Waste Collection Drawer Frame With Adjustable Guide Covers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current drawer designs for separate waste collection face issues such as inconsistent guide sizes among cabinet makers, visibility and dust accumulation of the guide, and complexity in adjusting the frame width for precise bucket support.
Innovation Solution
A drawer design featuring a rectangular frame with elongated side bodies and parallel bars, allowing for adjustable positioning and fastening, along with a cover system that conceals the guide and prevents dust accumulation, adaptable to different cabinet maker dimensions and guide geometries.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If different cabinet makers install guides of different construction and size, then the drawer can be adapted to various cabinet designs, but the frame-work manufacturing complexity increases due to the need to produce multiple models
Solution Approach 1:
The drawer frame is designed with a universal adjustment mechanism that can accommodate multiple guide sizes and configurations. The frame includes adjustable side elements and positioning systems that allow a single frame design to fit various cabinet maker specifications, eliminating the need for multiple specialized frame models.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame structure incorporates adjustable parameters such as modular components, telescopic elements, or reconfigurable joints that allow the same frame to be adjusted to different dimensions and configurations. This enables a single frame design to adapt to various guide sizes without requiring multiple specialized models.
2Device complexity
If the guide remains visible in the drawer design, then the structure is simpler, but the aesthetic quality deteriorates and dust accumulation increases
Solution Approach 1:
A covering element or panel is introduced as an intermediary component between the visible exterior and the guide mechanism. This cover conceals the guide from view and prevents dust accumulation while maintaining a clean aesthetic appearance, without significantly complicating the overall drawer structure.
3Manufacturing precision
If the frame width is made adjustable to achieve precise bucket support, then the support precision improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The frame width is made dynamically adjustable through mechanisms such as telescopic sides, movable joints, or reconfigurable connections. This allows the frame to be precisely adjusted to match the specific width requirements for different bucket configurations, ensuring optimal support precision while using relatively simple adjustment mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
The drawer is installed inside a compartment (2) made in a cabinet (3) and delimited by two side walls (4) that support a respective guide (5) along which slides a frame (6) which supports a plurality of waste holding buckets (7). The frame (6) has a rectangular perimeter and comprises two lateral elongated bodies (8) parallel to each other and two bars (11) parallel to each other for connecting to one another the longitudinal ends of the bodies (8). Each of the bodies (8) has a covering member (21 and 22) of the corresponding guide (5).