Wound Textile Fashion Accessory Device with Split Gear Tensioning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing devices for creating fashion accessories like bracelets and necklaces are cumbersome, time-consuming, and difficult for young children to use, as they lack simplicity and flexibility in design, often leading to frustration and safety concerns due to rigid materials and prone mechanisms.

Innovation Solution

A device featuring a body portion with inter-meshing gears and a split gear system that allows for easy manipulation of flexible mediums, providing lateral stability and enabling users to create unique designs without the need for complex mechanisms, allowing multiple strands of different materials and colors to be efficiently arranged.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional devices are used to create fashion accessories, then the creation process is simplified slightly, but the device complexity and time required remain high

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of creating fashion accessoriesVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The device is divided into separate functional modules: a holder for organizing multiple strands, a tensioning mechanism with adjustable components, and a cutting mechanism. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, simplifying the overall operation while maintaining organizational capabilities

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent removes complex drive chains and rigid mechanical transmission systems from traditional devices. Instead, it uses a simplified tensioning mechanism with adjustable sliders and guides that directly control strand tension without requiring complex intermediate mechanisms, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining functionality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Stability of the object's composition

If rigid metallic mediums are used in traditional devices, then structural stability is achieved, but safety and ease of manipulation deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidsafety concerns for young children

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces rigid metallic components with flexible elements including elastic bands for tensioning, flexible guides for strand management, and soft cutting components. These flexible elements maintain the necessary mechanical functionality while eliminating safety hazards associated with rigid metals, making the device suitable for young children

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The tensioning mechanism uses elastic bands with adjustable tension parameters rather than rigid mechanical springs. This allows the tension to be dynamically adjusted and provides a softer, safer interaction for children while maintaining sufficient structural stability for the crafting process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Power

If drive chains are used in traditional devices, then mechanical power transmission is achieved, but reliability deteriorates due to disengagement and stretching

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemechanical power transmissionVSAvoidreliability of mechanical components

Core Design Contradiction:

PowerVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent completely eliminates drive chains and complex mechanical power transmission systems. Instead, it employs direct manual operation of the tensioning mechanism and cutting device, where the user directly controls the crafting process without intermediary mechanical linkages. This substitution of direct manual control for complex mechanical systems eliminates disengagement and stretching problems inherent in chain-driven mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple strands are organized using traditional devices, then strand organization is improved slightly, but the time required to create accessories increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestrand organization capabilityVSAvoidtime required to create accessory

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The holder component is designed to pre-organize multiple strands in a systematic arrangement before the crafting process begins. Strands are fed through guides and positioned in sequence, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual organization during the actual crafting process. This preliminary organization significantly reduces the time required to create accessories while maintaining versatility in strand arrangement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9078479B2Decorative article and apparatus and method for creating the same

Publication Date: 2015.07.14 PLAYMONSTER GROUP LLC

AI summary

A wound textile article comprising: an elongated winding portion having a first end and a second end; a first knot at the first end; and a second knot at the second end; wherein the elongated winding portion has an outer surface having an outer dimension, and each of the knots having an outer dimension; wherein the article can be supported by holding the first knot or the second knot so that the elongated winding portion is resistant to deflection under a weight of the article, but the article is sufficiently flexible that the article is capable of being wrapped around a body without permanently deforming the article; wherein the wound textile is made of a fibrous material having a denier of about 3000 or less; and wherein the elongated winding portion is characterized by one or more helically wound flexible mediums.