Adaptive beverage container sleeve
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beverage container kits fail to provide stable support for containers of varying heights and sizes, leading to instability and discomfort when handling or pouring.
Innovation Solution
An adaptive beverage container sleeve with an inner and outer shell, a sealed vacuum cavity, a positioning structure, and an adjusting structure that can deform to accommodate containers of different heights, ensuring stability and secure fitting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed positioning piece is used in the insulation kit, then the lid can adapt to various beverage container widths, but the bottom of beverage containers with different heights cannot be supported, leading to instability
Solution Approach 1:
The positioning structure is divided into two independent parts: a fixed positioning piece at the top for width adaptation and a movable adjusting structure at the bottom for height support. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, resolving the contradiction between width adaptability and height stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjusting structure incorporates a movable support rod with adjusting pieces that can change position along the rod. This dynamic adjustment mechanism enables the support height to adapt to different container heights while maintaining stable support, solving the instability problem without compromising the fixed positioning piece's width adaptability.
2Ease of manufacture
If the insulation kit has a fixed internal structure, then manufacturing is simple, but it cannot adapt to beverage containers of different heights and sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The internal structure is segmented into fixed components (insulation shell, positioning piece) for ease of manufacture and movable components (adjusting structure with movable support rod) for adaptability. This segmentation maintains manufacturing simplicity while enabling height adaptation through the adjustable mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjusting structure introduces a dynamic element (movable support rod with adjustable pieces) into an otherwise simple fixed structure. The rod can move to different positions to accommodate various container heights, providing adaptability without significantly complicating the overall manufacturing process.
3Device complexity
If no bottom support structure is provided, then the device is simple, but beverage containers of different heights cannot be stably fitted
Solution Approach 1:
A movable support rod with adjustable pieces is introduced as a simple yet effective dynamic structure. The rod can be positioned at different heights to match various container heights, providing stable support without creating a complex fixed structure. This maintains relative simplicity while achieving the stability goal.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The sleeve provides stable support for containers of varying heights, preventing them from falling and allowing easy drinking or pouring, enhancing user comfort and versatility.
Implementation Method 1
a sealed vacuum cavity, wherein the inner shell has a first inner wall and a first outer wall, the first inner wall of the inner shell forming a placement cavity for accommodating the beverage container, and the sealed vacuum cavity being located between the outer shell and the inner shell such that the sleeve functions to maintain a temperature
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AI summary
The disclosure provides an adaptive beverage container sleeve kit, comprising a sleeve for sleeving a beverage container, a positioning structure, detachably connected to a top of the sleeve and configured to bond the beverage container with different widths, wherein the positioning structure is capable of contacting at least a part of the beverage container such that when the beverage container sleeve kit is inverted. When the positioning structure is connected to the sleeve and contacts the beverage container, the user is capable of drinking a beverage from the beverage container. An adjusting structure is located in the placement cavity and arranged along the bottom end of the inner shell and has a bonding portion connected with the bottom end of the inner shell and a contact portion contacting a bottom end of the beverage container and is deformed.