Clothes Folder

My dresser where I normally keep all my shirts and pants is beginning to fill up and I am running out of room to put my clothes up. One problem I have is that when I get done doing my laundry and bringing them into my room. I get lazy because I have to fold them properly and to a "t" in order for dresser to be organize and will not get over crowded quickly. So I just take them and toss them into the drawers and just deal with it. Lord and behold my drawers are now full and it is either organize my clothing better are get rid of some clothes that I have not used for a good three weeks.

So I decided to make this clothes folder. The cardboard version is a rough draft of how I somewhat wanted the final prototype to be to fold my clothes. The materials was very affordable, went to Home Depot to find all the necessary items I needed and hope you enjoy reading and/or making one yourself.

CARDBOARD

1. 2 units 1/4" x 10" x 10"

PLYWOOD

1. 2 units of 6mm x 300mm x 300mm (1/4'' x 12'' x 12'')

HINGES AND SCREWS

1. 1 unit of 85.725 mm hinge (3 3/8'')
2. 6 units of 25.4 mm (1'') screws

a. When going through the drilling realized the screws were a bit larger than the board's thickness.

b. Instead 6 units of 6.35 (1/4) screws or can saw off 3/4 of the length of the screws.

Going into this I wanted to make sure that my two plywood or materials would be even in length and somewhat similar to my torso so that it would fold properly and have no loose ends. Measure your torso or size shirt you have, for example I measured my torso to about ten inches and I wear medium size shirts. With this I made the first prototype out of cardboard with the same length as my torso to get a first draft on how things will go. With the cardboard although it had the side panels to help with folding the sides of the shirt better it was a bit short for length when folding it together. So decided to add 1-2 more inches to the lengths and drew a sketch of the final prototype.

For this step just make sure you are working on a hard surface. Learn from my mistakes <3

1. Have the middle opening for the screws for the hinge be place halfway about the board. This is about 150 mm (6'')
2. Drill the center screw follow by the other two.

Repeat the same steps as STEP 1: Screwing/Drilling. First Side of Hinge, but do not drill the screw completely all the way. If you screw about halfway you are able to adjust the two planks so that they are symmetrical, then drill the screws in tightly.

Run a quick trial with the final version. Shirts came out pretty good with little to none loose ends. Although had to cut out the side panels for the final version, folding the sides by hand is not too much of a hassle for me. Maybe one day when I have time I can go back into the design and figure out a way to attach some sort of flexible material that will fold the sides and will not get in the way of the plywood.

Hope you all enjoy reading this post and have a lovely day.