Adjustable Bin With Telescoping Top And Floor For Liner Fit
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bins are unable to accommodate liners of various sizes due to their rigid structure, causing liners to either not fit around the top portion or be too short to reach the bin's floor, leading to inefficient use and premature disposal.
Innovation Solution
The bin features a slideable top portion and an adjustable lid, along with a vertical moving floor plate mechanism, allowing for liners of different sizes to be securely positioned within the interior chamber.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the bin has a rigid structure with fixed top opening, then the bin maintains structural stability, but liners of various sizes cannot be accommodated properly
Solution Approach 1:
The bin top opening is made dynamically adjustable through a telescoping mechanism that allows the top portion to extend or retract. This enables the bin to adapt to different liner sizes while maintaining structural integrity, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity by making the structure changeable rather than fixed.
Solution Approach 2:
The bin is divided into separable portions, with the top opening consisting of multiple segments that can be independently adjusted. This segmentation allows the top opening to be modified to fit different liner diameters, providing adaptability without requiring a completely different bin structure for each liner size.
2Ease of operation
If the liner is made wide enough to fit the bin top opening, then the liner can be inserted, but it falls into the bin after material is thrown in because it is too short to reach the floor
Solution Approach 1:
The bin bottom is made dynamically adjustable through a telescoping mechanism that can extend or retract vertically. This allows the bin to adapt to different liner lengths, ensuring that liners of various sizes can be properly positioned and secured within the bin, preventing them from falling in while maintaining ease of insertion.
3Device complexity
If the liner is made short to fit within the bin, then the liner can be easily inserted, but it cannot reach the floor of the bin and functions improperly
Solution Approach 1:
The bin bottom telescoping mechanism dynamically adjusts the bin's internal dimensions to match the liner length. This ensures that liners of various lengths can be properly accommodated, maximizing their utility by ensuring they reach the appropriate depth, thereby improving productivity while accommodating size variations.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the bin top opening is made large to accommodate all liner sizes, then all liners can be inserted, but the bin cannot properly contain smaller liners
Solution Approach 1:
The bin top opening is made dynamically adjustable through a telescoping mechanism that can extend or retract. This allows the bin to adapt its opening size to match the liner being inserted, ensuring that liners of various sizes can be properly contained while maintaining reliability through appropriate dimensional matching.
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AI summary
The current invention relates to a bin used in combination with a liner for various purposes, including but not limited to the disposal of trash and the collection of recycled material. The bin having an exterior surface, an interior surface, a body, a closed bottom end, an open top end, and an interior chamber. The bin including at least a slideable top portion allowing for the top opening of the bin to be adjusted in periphery thereby enabling liners of various sizes to be secured in the interior chamber of the bin. In addition, a bin including an adjustable bin lid member within a bin lid enabling liners of various sizes to be secured in the interior chamber of the bin. Furthermore, a bin including a vertical moving floor plate within the interior chamber of the bin for supporting liners of various lengths.