Welder Multi-Tool Axle System for Tool Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Welding tools are often misplaced, damaged, and pose safety risks due to individual storage and transportation, lacking adequate handles and grips for effective use.
Innovation Solution
A welder multi-tool with a sleeve and axle system that securely holds and rotates multiple tools, including a fillet gauge, thickness gauge, and nozzle cleaner, providing protection and ergonomic leverage for the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple welding tools are stored and transported individually, then each tool can be accessed separately, but the tools can be misplaced, damaged, and pose safety risks to the user
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple welding tools (fillet gauge, thickness gauge, soapstone, nozzle cleaner) into a single integrated multi-tool device. This merging eliminates the need to carry separate tools, preventing misplacement and damage while reducing safety risks from loose tools in pockets or toolboxes.
Solution Approach 2:
The multi-tool device serves multiple welding-related functions through its integrated components. Each tool head performs a specific welding function (measurement, marking, cleaning), allowing one device to replace several individual tools while maintaining specialized functionality.
2Ease of operation
If tools are kept in a random array within a toolbox or pocket, then storage is simple, but consistently locating and protecting individual tools is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The multi-tool device is segmented into distinct functional components (fillet gauge with measuring portion, thickness gauge with notches, soapstone, nozzle cleaner), each clearly defined and accessible. This segmentation allows the user to locate and use specific tools immediately without searching through a random array, while the unified structure provides protection for all components.
3Force
If tools lack substantial handles and grips, then tool design is simpler, but users cannot apply suitable force or torques to the tools
Solution Approach 1:
The multiple welding tools are nested within a common handle structure. Each tool head (fillet gauge, thickness gauge, etc.) is positioned along the handle at different locations, allowing the user to grip the common handle for substantial leverage while accessing individual tool functions. This nested arrangement provides both force application capability and organized tool integration.
Data Source
AI summary
A welder multi-tool is provided including a sleeve having a first leg portion, a second leg portion, and a bridge portion interconnecting the first leg portion and the second leg portion. The sleeve extends along a central axis passing through the bridge portion and defines a space between the leg portions. A single axle is attached to the sleeve and spans, along an axis, the space defined between the leg portions. The axis of the axle does not intersect the central axis of the sleeve. The welder multi-tool further includes a plurality of tools rotatably attached to the axle. Each tool axis does not intersect the axis of the axle. The plurality of tools includes a fillet gauge tool and a thickness gauge tool. A further example of the welder multi-tool includes a fillet gauge tool, a thickness gauge tool, a soap stone, and a welding nozzle cleaner.