Bar Tool Assembly With Shaker for Organized Display and Transport

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Solution Overview

Problem

Bar tool sets for mixing and serving drinks are difficult to organize and lack visual appeal, often being stored out of sight due to their individual components and lack of novelty design, which hampers their ability to enhance the entertainment value of bars in commercial and residential settings.

Innovation Solution

A bar tool assembly featuring a platform module with a form factor resembling a consumer or industrial product, such as a toy fire truck, that houses and supports a set of bar tools with matching components, allowing for organized storage and display, and easy transport across surfaces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If bar tools are kept as individual components, then they are functional and easy to use, but they are difficult to organize and lack visual appeal

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of useVSAvoidorganization difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple individual bar tools (shaker, bottle opener, corkscrew, jigger, stirrer, ice tongs) into a single integrated bar tool assembly with a common handle, making them easier to organize and store while maintaining full functionality of each tool

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of operation

If bar tools are kept as individual components, then they are functional, but they lack novelty appeal and are stored out of view

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidnovelty appeal

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges individual bar tools into a unified assembly with a common handle and organized storage structure, creating a novel and visually appealing design that encourages display on bar surfaces rather than storage in drawers

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The bar tool assembly incorporates a vertical storage dimension with slots and compartments arranged along the handle, transforming the organization from horizontal scattering to vertical integration, adding visual interest and space efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Device complexity

If bar tools are organized in a structured assembly, then they are easy to store and display, but they may be difficult to transfer between serving positions

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveorganizationVSAvoidtransferability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

By combining all bar tools into a single integrated assembly with a common handle, the patent enables easy gripping and transport of the entire organized set as one unit, simplifying transfer between serving positions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS7686501B2Bar tool assembly with a beverage shaker

Publication Date: 2010.03.30 GODINGER SILVER ART

AI summary

A bar tool set assembly for producing mixed beverages. The assembly includes a platform module adapted for housing and transposing a bar tool set. The housing having a form factor and appearance of a replica of a partially disassembled consumer or industrial product, whereas individual bar tools resemble portions of the product. In one embodiment, the bar tool set assembly resembles a fire truck.