Angled Cellar Shelving for Bottle Identification Without Door Opening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cellar shelving systems make it inconvenient to access and identify bottles, disrupting air flow and temperature distribution, and require wasteful energy consumption when the door is opened for selection, while users can only see bottle necks and bases, making identification difficult.
Innovation Solution
A shelving system with racks that can be mounted on cellar walls and displaced along an operative axis, featuring recesses angled to allow bottle side surfaces to face the front, enabling easy identification and selection without opening the door, and a kit for assembling this system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If bottles are stored in conventional cellar shelving systems, then storage capacity is achieved, but bottle identification becomes difficult as users can only see bottle necks and bases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent angles the shelving racks at approximately 45 degrees relative to the cellar wall, rotating the bottle storage orientation from the conventional horizontal position to a diagonal position. This dimensional change allows bottle labels and side surfaces to face outward toward the front of the cellar, enabling visual identification without opening the door while maintaining storage capacity.
2Ease of operation
If the cellar door is opened to identify and select bottles, then access to bottles is achieved, but air flow and temperature distribution are disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
By angling the racks diagonally, the patent enables bottle information (labels and side surfaces) to be visible from the front of the cellar. This allows users to identify and select bottles without opening the door, thereby maintaining the sealed environment and preserving temperature distribution and air flow patterns within the cellar.
3Ease of operation
If the cellar door is opened for bottle selection, then bottle access is achieved, but energy consumption increases due to cool air losses
Solution Approach 1:
The diagonal rack arrangement rotates bottle orientation so that labels and side surfaces face the front of the cellar. This dimensional reorientation enables visual bottle identification and selection without door opening, preventing cold air escape and the subsequent energy consumption required to replenish and cool the lost air.
4Device complexity
If conventional horizontal shelving is used, then simple structure is maintained, but bottle side surfaces cannot face the front for identification
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a diagonal rack configuration at approximately 45 degrees to the wall, rotating the bottle storage orientation from horizontal to diagonal. This simple geometric change enables bottle labels and side surfaces to face outward toward the front of the cellar, providing visual identification capability while maintaining structural simplicity.
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AI summary
A shelving system for storing and displaying bottles within a cellar. The shelving system includes at least one rack for supporting and displaying bottles, the least one rack being mountable onto a given wall of the cellar and being displaceable with respect to said given wall so as to be displaced in and out of the cellar along an operative directional axis. The shelving system also includes at least one recess provided about the at least one rack, each recess being positioned, shaped and sized for receiving a corresponding bottle, and each recess being disposed about the at least one rack, at an angle with respect to the operative directional axis of the at least one rack, so as to allow peripheral side surfaces of bottles resting on the at least one rack to face a front portion of the cellar.