diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b744d0529e18c1141706f84fb62536f9ba689af3..2e8f604416ae2ff2b04328a878fa311b1082f0eb 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,17 +2,25 @@ The Covid Isolation Box is a folded clear plastic enclosure designed to protect practitioners from sputum and other bodily fluids emitted by covid-19 patients. The design is lightweight and disposable, and can be stacked at pre-staging locations around an emergency department for quick deployment. The box is roughly 22" tall, 24" wide, and 20" deep when deployed, providing plenty of room around the patient's head and upper torso for intubation and other procedures (note that the first image below is an earlier iteration with less headroom). On-site assembly takes less than five minutes, and the box uses ~$15 in materials for construction. ## status -The Covid Isolation Box is currently undergoing IRB-approved trials at Boston Medical Center with 35 commercially sourced units. Feedback from medical professionals involved in this trial will feed in to future design iterations. +The Covid Isolation Box is currently undergoing IRB-approved trials at Boston Medical Center with 35 commercially sourced units. Feedback from medical professionals involved in this trial will feed in to future design iterations. <img src="img/MIT Box 2-min.jpg" alt="Smiley face" width="800" > <img src="img/rotul.png" alt="Smiley face" width="800" > -DXF file separated by layers (cut in **black** and crease in **green**) can be found in the files folder of the repo. +Thanks to Marty Culpepper and the Project Manus group for design consultations and suggestions, particularly related to the curved/angled design and the snap-fit connection. -<img src="img/foldmap.png" alt="Smiley face" width="800" > +## assembly instructions +The Covid Isolation Box ships flat. In the following diagram, the black lines are cut at the factory, while the green lines are pre-creased: + + + +The machine-made creases are quite accurate but need to be re-folded so the box is square and sturdy after assembly. All of the re-fold operations happen the same direction (i.e., they are all "mountain folds" when viewed from outside the assembled box). Perform these operations by carefully closing the folds between your thumb and forefinger and tightly squeezing the plastic together, as if you were folding a piece of paper or card stock. First, re-fold all of the straight green lines other than those marked with an "X": + + + +Next, fo -Thanks to Marty Culpepper and the Project Manus group for design consultations and suggestions, particularly related to the curved/angled design and the snap-fit connection. # ***Chronological Process*** ## _04/08/20_ @@ -116,7 +124,7 @@ Not because being small has less structural integrity. Triangular folding beams <img src="img/weight.jpeg" alt="Smiley face" height="560" > -The front closing, which as commented before, it was a challenge, has been solved making the front part of the box to work in tension with the commented beams and adding clip joints. +The front closing, which as commented before, it was a challenge, has been solved making the front part of the box to work in tension with the commented beams and adding clip joints. <img src="img/frontdetaill.jpeg" alt="Smiley face" height="560" > diff --git a/img/foldmap_instructions.png b/img/foldmap_instructions.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98808f43446ab29c07a859ea84426de813b1cc66 Binary files /dev/null and b/img/foldmap_instructions.png differ diff --git a/img/foldmap_instructions1.png b/img/foldmap_instructions1.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..040692c18054d21618d8a7114d1f77e71d11b15a Binary files /dev/null and b/img/foldmap_instructions1.png differ diff --git a/img/foldmap_instructions2.png b/img/foldmap_instructions2.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe5bdeb45b84e4d915da09c720bbc0c5ea8d2ced Binary files /dev/null and b/img/foldmap_instructions2.png differ diff --git a/img/foldmap_instructions3.png b/img/foldmap_instructions3.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ebde6d8c098bb0c502c00b4f33a770aceb6b5d2e Binary files /dev/null and b/img/foldmap_instructions3.png differ diff --git a/img/foldmap_instructions4.png b/img/foldmap_instructions4.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78511520bff3bdfb29da0c0599a023d9bac45c4a Binary files /dev/null and b/img/foldmap_instructions4.png differ diff --git a/img/foldmap_instructions5.png b/img/foldmap_instructions5.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4c4d50a2a0d5e7c5830922ea3e1f8804b3be87d Binary files /dev/null and b/img/foldmap_instructions5.png differ diff --git a/img/foldmap_instructions6.png b/img/foldmap_instructions6.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a958350da01b25457a41f01ce5f47d0cd3561a5 Binary files /dev/null and b/img/foldmap_instructions6.png differ diff --git a/img/foldmap_instructions7.png b/img/foldmap_instructions7.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b50d2c83b3c8a4866e582795e8ba6a5a46527555 Binary files /dev/null and b/img/foldmap_instructions7.png differ