Beverage Container Base Cavity for Secure Secondary Components
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beverage containers do not efficiently integrate and secure secondary components like edible additives or novelty items without interfering with the container's functionality, particularly during storage and handling.
Innovation Solution
A beverage container design featuring a cavity at its second end with an engagement surface and recessed surface, allowing a secondary component to be removably secured coplanar with the engagement surface, using various packaging types and securing mechanisms, ensuring the container's normal operation is not hindered.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a secondary component is integrated into the beverage container, then versatility and convenience are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The beverage container is divided into separate functional components: the container body for holding liquid and the removable cavity for holding secondary components. This segmentation allows the container to maintain simplicity while adding versatility through optional components.
Solution Approach 2:
The cavity structure serves multiple functions: it holds secondary components, provides structural support, and maintains the container's seal integrity. The engagement surface and recessed surface design allows the cavity to accommodate various secondary components while preserving the container's primary function.
2Ease of operation
If a cavity structure is added to secure secondary components, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cavity structure is merged with the container body as an integrated feature rather than a separate attachment. The engagement surface and recessed surface are formed as part of the container body, eliminating the need for additional securing mechanisms and reducing overall complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The cavity structure is designed to be self-securing through its engagement surface and recessed surface geometry. The secondary component is held in place by the cavity's structural design alone, without requiring additional fasteners, adhesives, or complex locking mechanisms.
3Manufacturing precision
If the secondary component is secured coplanar with the engagement surface, then manufacturing precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cavity structure provides localized precision at the engagement surface where the secondary component contacts the container body. The recessed surface and engagement surface are designed with specific dimensional tolerances only where needed for precise coplanar alignment, while the rest of the container body maintains standard manufacturing tolerances.
Data Source
AI summary
A beverage container has a container body defined by a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a sidewall that extends between the first end and the second end. The container body is adapted to contain a fluid. The first end of the container body has an opening that accesses the fluid. The second end defines a cavity and has an engagement surface and a recessed surface that is surrounded by the engagement surface and recessed from the engagement surface toward the first end relative to the second end. A secondary component is removable secured within the cavity such that the secondary component is coplanar with, or recessed from, a plane defined by the engagement surface.