Backpack Sprayer Tank With Integrated Handles for Easier Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing backpack sprayers lack ergonomic design and efficient handling features, leading to potential damage during manufacturing and increased shipping costs due to complex handle structures.
Innovation Solution
A backpack sprayer with a storage container featuring integrated handles and a streamlined design, including a central handle positioned below the top and side handles, along with a frame member and spraying assembly, allowing for efficient actuation and reduced manufacturing and shipping costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If complex handle structures are used to improve ergonomics and handling, then ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing complexity and shipping costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the handle structure directly into the storage container by forming the handle as an integral part of the container body during the same molding process. This merging eliminates separate handle components and their associated attachments, thereby reducing manufacturing complexity and assembly steps while maintaining ergonomic handling capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If complex handle structures are used to improve ergonomics and handling, then ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The handle is formed as an integral part of the storage container in a single molding operation, eliminating the need for separate handle manufacturing and assembly processes. This reduces manufacturing steps, labor costs, and overall production complexity while providing ergonomic handling features.
3Ease of operation
If complex handle structures are used to improve ergonomics and handling, then ease of operation is improved, but shipping costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating the handle into the storage container as a single unit, the patent eliminates multiple separate components that would require individual packaging. This reduces packaging material requirements and shipping volume, thereby lowering shipping costs while maintaining ergonomic handling features.
Data Source
AI summary
A back-mounted spray apparatus includes a storage container shaped to receive therein liquid to be sprayed. The storage container includes a pair of side handles integrally formed therewith and a central handle therebetween and integrally formed therewith. Actuation of a spraying assembly of the apparatus causes the liquid from the storage container to be selectively sprayed outwards therefrom.The storage container has a lower or front peripheral portion that is arc-shaped in a direction extending between sides thereof according to one aspect. The backpack sprayer includes a frame member extending along a rear thereof and to which the storage container couples. The frame member has an aperture extending therethrough which is arc-shaped.A horizontal frame member is cantilevered from a vertical frame member according to another aspect. The storage container has a lower portion within an inwardly-facing channel shaped to receive and couple to the horizontal frame member.