Bottle Carrier With Foldable Handle for Safe Stacking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing bottle carriers pose risks of hand injury from crown caps and hinder stackability due to handle placement, leading to damage when stacked.
Innovation Solution
A bottle carrier with a foldable handle that unfolds for comfortable carrying and folds to allow stacking, featuring a two-layer middle section that transforms into a recess around the bottle necks, ensuring non-destructive bottle removal and enhanced stackability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If the handle is positioned between the bottle necks, then the carrier structure is compact, but the user's hand can be injured by crown caps
Solution Approach 1:
The handle is designed with a folding mechanism that allows it to dynamically change position between a compact state during stacking and an extended state during carrying. This dynamic adjustment enables the handle to move away from the dangerous zone between bottle necks when in use, eliminating the injury risk while maintaining structural compactness when stored.
Solution Approach 2:
The handle is divided into multiple foldable sections that can be independently adjusted. This segmentation allows the handle to be folded flat for compact stacking within trays while extending to a safe distance from bottle caps during carrying operations.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the handle extends beyond the bottle necks, then the user can carry safely, but the handles obstruct stacking or are damaged by trays placed on top
Solution Approach 1:
The folding handle provides dynamic adaptability, extending beyond bottle necks during carrying to ensure safe hand positioning, then folding flat when trays are stacked on top. This eliminates obstruction and damage issues during stacking while maintaining safety during transport.
Solution Approach 2:
The handle transitions between two-dimensional folded state for stacking compatibility and three-dimensional extended state for safe carrying. This dimensional transformation allows the handle to accommodate both stacking requirements and safety requirements at different operational stages.
3Strength
If the handle is made rigid for structural strength, then the carrier is durable, but the handle cannot be folded for compact stacking
Solution Approach 1:
The handle incorporates foldable joints that maintain structural strength in both folded and extended states. The design ensures the handle remains durable and load-bearing capable while enabling compact folding for stacking, thus combining strength with adaptability.
4Stability of the object's composition
If bottles are secured with support tabs that lock onto bottle flanges, then bottles are firmly fixed, but bottles cannot be removed without damage
Solution Approach 1:
The support tabs are designed to be dynamically adjustable, allowing them to flex and release from bottle flanges during removal. This enables bottles to be taken out without damaging either the bottles or the carrier, while maintaining firm fixation during transport.
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AI summary
This provides a bottle carrier (1) made of foldable flat material, as well as a one-piece blank made of foldable flat material for manufacturing the bottle carrier, a carrying system for bottles comprising the bottle carrier, and a method for manufacturing the bottle carrier, wherein the bottle carrier is designed such that a central section (12) of a handle part (10) of the bottle carrier is formed as a two-layer folded structure and has two identical, opposing layers (12a, 12b), each of which is foldably connected at one end along its length to an upper section (13) of the handle part and at the other end along its length to a lower section (11) of the handle part, and each has a fold edge (12c, 12d) centrally along its length over which a hole (14) extends, so that the layers can be folded together along the fold edges in a bellows-like manner.which transforms the hole into a recess that partially surrounds part of a bottle located in the bottle carrier.