Aquatic garment care assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aquatic garments, such as wetsuits, retain significant amounts of water after use, leading to unsanitary storage conditions that promote microbial growth and odor development, especially in environments lacking suitable changing facilities.
Innovation Solution
An aquatic garment care assembly comprising a grate with curved profiles and drainage features, along with a receptacle for storing wet garments, which includes anti-slip coatings and support members to elevate the garment, allowing efficient liquid drainage and containment, thereby minimizing spillage and promoting sanitary storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If aquatic garments are stored in a closed receptacle without drainage features, then the garments are contained and protected, but water accumulates creating unsanitary conditions that promote microbial growth and odor development
Solution Approach 1:
The grate structure functions as a porous filtering system where the grate bars create openings that allow water to pass through while retaining the aquatic garment. This porous-like structure enables continuous drainage of accumulated water from the receptacle, preventing the unsanitary conditions that lead to microbial growth and odor development while maintaining garment containment.
Solution Approach 2:
The drainage assembly extracts and removes the harmful element (excess water) from the storage system. By incorporating the grate and drainage assembly that channels water through the grate bars and out of the receptacle, the system continuously removes accumulated water that would otherwise create unsanitary storage conditions, thereby eliminating the medium necessary for microbial growth and odor development.
2Productivity
If a grate structure is added to facilitate drainage, then water removal is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The drainage assembly is merged with the receptacle structure, where the grate integrates directly into the receptacle's drainage opening. The support members are embedded within the receptacle walls, and the drainage assembly combines the grate, support members, and drainage opening into a unified structural element. This merging approach enables effective water removal through the grate structure while minimizing additional complexity by consolidating multiple functions into integrated components rather than separate add-on elements.
3Ease of operation
If support members are used to elevate the garment, then liquid drainage is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The support members serve multiple functions simultaneously: they elevate the aquatic garment above the grate to enable liquid drainage, provides structural support for the grate structure, and are integrated into the receptacle walls as permanent fixtures. This multi-functionality approach enhances drainage capability while minimizing device complexity by having each component perform multiple roles rather than requiring separate elements for each function.
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 assembly effectively manages water expulsion and containment, reducing microbial growth and odor development, enabling comfortable and secure changing and storage of aquatic garments in various environments.
Implementation Method 1
The grate may include an anti-slip coating or additive, such as on a top surface of the grate or like-wise on a bottom surface of the receptacle
Implementation Method 2
a grate with curved profiles and drainage features
Data Source
AI summary
Briefly, apparatuses, assemblies, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be implemented, in whole or in part, for aquatic garment care, such as to facilitate and/or support more effective and/or more efficient liquid removal, aquatic garment drying, and/or aquatic garment storage, for example, among other aspects.