Beverage serving trolley

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Solution Overview

Problem

Beverage serving trolleys often become cluttered and require extensive modifications or multiple units to accommodate different serving needs, lacking versatility and ease of use.

Innovation Solution

A beverage serving trolley with a removable presentation basket and modular accessory attachment system, featuring a supporting structure with adjustable height attachment points and wheels that can be configured for easy movement and adaptation to various uses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If beverage serving trolley is equipped with multiple accessories for different serving needs, then versatility is improved, but device complexity and clutter increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveversatilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The trolley is divided into modular components including a removable presentation basket and interchangeable accessories (ice cube trays, cocktail shakers, etc.) that can be independently attached or detached from the main body, allowing versatility without permanent clutter

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The trolley features dynamically adjustable components with accessories that can be mounted at different height levels and positions on the supporting structure, enabling the configuration to adapt to different serving occasions rather than being fixed in a cluttered state

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Stability of the object's composition

If presentation basket is permanently fixed to trolley, then stability is improved, but ease of operation and adaptability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovestabilityVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The presentation basket is designed as a separate, removable module that can be easily detached from the trolley body through a simple lifting motion, maintaining structural stability when attached while enabling easy operation when removal is needed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The presentation basket can be completely extracted from the trolley by lifting it upward using the integrated basket handle, allowing the user to access or replace the basket without disassembling the entire trolley structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple different beverage serving trolleys are used for different occasions, then adaptability is improved, but loss of time and device complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoidtime for reconstruction
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

A single trolley design incorporates universal mounting features with multiple attachment points at various height levels, allowing one trolley to perform multiple serving functions by simply changing or repositioning accessories rather than requiring multiple specialized trolleys

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The adjustable height levels and reconfigurable accessory mounting system enable the same trolley structure to adapt dynamically to different serving needs, eliminating the time required to reconstruct or swap entire trolley units

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP4041612B1Beverage serving trolley
Publication Date: 2024.05.01 DOMETIC APPLIANCES
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a beverage serving trolley comprising a supporting structure 2, a handle 13 located at a side of the beverage serving trolley 1 for moving the beverage serving trolley 1, at least one wheel 11A, 11B and a presentation basket 40 comprising a basket handle 46 and being configured to receive beverage bottles and ice cubes, wherein the presentation basket 40 is arranged on the top side of the beverage serving trolley 1 and is inserted into the beverage serving trolley 1, and that the presentation basket 40 is removable from the beverage serving trolley 1 by lifting the presentation basket 40 in an upward direction by the basket handle 46.