Bin With Telescopic Top For Variable Liner Fit
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bins are unable to accommodate liners of various sizes due to their rigid structure, causing liners to either not fit around the top portion or not reach the floor, leading to inefficient use and premature disposal.
Innovation Solution
The bin features a slideable telescopic top portion and an adjustable bin lid, allowing for the securement of liners of different sizes within the interior chamber by using guide tracks, rollers, and locking mechanisms, ensuring the liners can be extended or retracted to fit various sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the bin has a rigid structure with fixed top opening, then the bin lid and body are easy to manufacture and maintain, but liners of different sizes cannot be properly accommodated
Solution Approach 1:
The bin incorporates a telescopic top portion that can extend and retract, transforming the rigid structure into a dynamic one. This allows the top opening size to be adjusted to accommodate liners of different diameters while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The bin is divided into a base portion and a telescopic top portion that can move independently. This segmentation allows the top opening to be adjusted without changing the entire bin structure, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and structural complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the bin lid is made fixed and rigid, then the lid is easy to manufacture and secure, but it cannot accommodate liners of varying sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The bin lid is designed to work in conjunction with the telescopic top portion, allowing it to adapt to different liner sizes. The lid remains relatively simple in structure while the telescopic mechanism provides the necessary adaptability.
3Ease of operation
If liners are made to fit standard bin sizes, then the liners can be easily inserted, but they cannot reach the floor of the bin when too short
Solution Approach 1:
The telescopic top portion can be extended to accommodate longer liners that need to reach the bin floor, ensuring proper functionality. The mechanism allows easy insertion while maintaining liner reliability through proper fitting.
Data Source
AI summary
The current invention relates to a bin used in combination with a liner for various purposes, including but not limited to the disposal of trash and the collection of recycled material. The bin having an exterior surface, an interior surface, a body, a closed bottom end, an open top end, and an interior chamber. The bin including at least a slideable top portion allowing for the top opening of the bin to be adjusted in periphery thereby enabling liners of various sizes to be secured in the interior chamber of the bin. In addition, a bin including of a lid with an adjustable member securable within the bin lid enabling liners of various sizes to be secured in the interior chamber of the bin.