FURNITURE DESIGN

ASSIGNMENT - 2

SHRAVANTHI KOPPULA
18011CA044 B.DESIGN
 1. ERGONOMICAL KNIFE

Knife is a tool with a sharp blade and a handle used for cutting or stabbing. Knives can serve
various purposes hunters use a hunting knife, soldier’s use combat knife, hiker’s carry pocket
knives. There are kitchen knives for preparing foods.

PROBLEMS :
We face many problems while cutting things due to

⮚ Poor maintainance
⮚ Lack of proper operator training
⮚ Insufficient knowledge of safety procedures.
Leads to many hand injuries to prevent these knife injuries in kitchen ergonomical knives came
into market.

EXISTING PRODUCTS:
 ➢ They are not affordable for poor.
➢ They are difficult to carry.
➢ They require more storage space.

SOLUTIONS :
This ergonomic knife is more appropriate than the use of regular knives who are recovering
from knife injuries.

⮚ This knife makes food preparation task easier and safer for anyone who finds regular
knives hard to manage, or impossible.
⮚ There are several features and styles of adaptive kitchen knives available to reduce the
risk of a cutting injury.
⮚ This ergonomic knife allows you to keep your hand in a comfortable position for
efficient handling.

THIS A VERY USEFUL SET OF 4 KITCHEN KNIVES, FASHIONABLE CHARACTERISTICS CAN

OVERLAP, LIGHT WEIGHT, SPACE SAVING, EASY TO CARRY.
2. CUP HOLDER UMBRELLA

PROBLEMS:
➢ People usually face difficulties while carrying umbrella and stuff like drinks,
luggage, carry bags, etc..
➢ Some of these umbrellas don’t have a strong grip.
➢ Can easily gets damaged due to heavy rains.
➢ We also get heavy heat stroke in summer season while carrying these
umbrellas.

EXISTING PRODUCTS:
 ➢ They cannot hold different size drinks.
➢ They don’t have a strong grip while holding the umbrella.
➢ These type of umbrellas are hard to close and carry.

SOLUTIONS:
➢ I would like to design an umbrella which has adjustable handle and can be
adjust to fix different size of the drink container, so I want to use the
adjustable and double loop clamp handle.
➢ The handle is made of plastic clamp that can be adjust to help and hold plastic
bag and it also helps to hold the drink in stable position.
➢ And I want to use nylon canopy with thermochromism dyes for different
weather conditions.
➢ And these are convenient and stable to carry and they also are multifunctional,
fashionable and temperature oriented.