Bottle Cap With Nested Label Ring For Universal Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current bottle cap designs fail to conveniently display identification information and achieve universality across different bottles, leading to suboptimal user experience and limited product promotion.

Innovation Solution

A bottle cap mechanism featuring a snap-in label ring with a bottle cap body having an outer and inner wall layer, where the label ring is securely embedded, allowing for easy label replacement and display through a label through-hole, with optional features like limiting grooves, tapered structure, and sealing components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a label is attached on the outside of the bottle, then identification information can be displayed, but it is not convenient to use and difficult to form universality between separate bottling bottles

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveidentification information displayVSAvoidconvenience of use

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The bottle cap is divided into an outer wall layer and an inner wall layer, with the label ring positioned between these layers. This segmentation allows the label to be integrated into the cap structure itself rather than attached externally, enabling easy replacement while maintaining secure attachment and universal applicability across different bottles.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of information

If structural improvements are made on the bottle cap part to distinguish information, then identification can be enhanced, but the effect is not good and the experience is not high

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation distinctionVSAvoiduser experience quality

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The label ring structure with through-holes in the outer wall layer serves multiple functions: it provides clear information distinction through the exposed label content, allows easy replacement of labels, maintains secure attachment via the limiting grooves and blocks, and ensures universal applicability across different bottle types through the standardized cap structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Reliability

If the label ring is snapped into the bottle cap body, then firmness and reliability are improved, but the structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural firmnessVSAvoidstructural complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The label ring is nested between the outer wall layer and inner wall layer of the bottle cap. The outer wall layer contains through-holes that expose the label, while the inner wall layer provides limiting grooves that receive limiting blocks on the label ring. This nested arrangement achieves secure attachment and reliable information display without requiring complex external mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS11286090B2Bottle cap

Publication Date: 2022.03.29 PENG PANDIAN

AI summary

A bottle cap mechanism comprising a bottle cap body and a label ring that is locked inside the bottle cap body, wherein the bottle cap body includes an outer wall layer and an inner wall layer inside the outer wall layer, wherein the label ring card fits into the inner space formed by the outer wall layer and the inner wall layer; at least one label hole for exposing label information is provided on the outer wall layer.