Bottle Carrier Lid Openings for Secure Cooling Transport
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing storage and transport devices for bottles and cans are inefficient in cooling the contents during transport, as they require expensive equipment and are cumbersome to use, with previous solutions failing to effectively secure containers and allow for cooling medium placement.
Innovation Solution
A storage and transport device featuring a container with a container cover that has strategically placed openings to securely hold bottles in place, allowing for cooling medium insertion and featuring a rotatable carrying handle for ease of use, constructed from lightweight yet robust plastic for cost-effectiveness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If bottles are held spaced apart in a bucket insert with two levels and 130 spacers, then the bottles are secured during transport, but the design becomes complex and expensive to manufacture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the complex multi-level insert structure with spacers and extracts only the essential function: holding bottles upright and securing them during transport. The simplified design uses a single bucket with a lid that has openings sized to fit bottle necks, eliminating the need for spacers and multiple levels while maintaining bottle security.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using a complex insert structure to hold bottles from below and secure them, the patent inverts the approach by using the lid from above. The lid with appropriately sized openings prevents bottles from falling out while keeping the design simple and easy to manufacture.
2Ease of manufacture
If the lid seals the bucket completely after bottles are placed inside, then the structure is simple, but cooling medium cannot be filled around the bottles
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is designed with local variations in its structure: most of the lid provides sealing, but specific regions have openings that match the bottle neck diameters. This allows the lid to simultaneously seal the bucket while providing access for cooling medium to reach the bottles through the openings.
Solution Approach 2:
The lid serves multiple functions: it seals the bucket to retain cooling medium, provides openings for cooling medium access to bottles, and acts as a carrier component with integrated bottle-holding capability. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate cooling chambers or complex assembly.
3Temperature
If ice is filled in the bucket before placing bottles inside, then the bottles are surrounded by cooling medium, but the ice covers the bottom and bottles have insufficient space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-sizing the lid openings to match the bottle neck diameters before placing bottles in the bucket. This ensures bottles are properly positioned and secured from the start, allowing cooling medium to be added afterward without displacement issues, while maintaining adequate space for both bottles and cooling medium.
4Ease of operation
If openings in the lid correspond to the diameter of the bottle body, then bottles can be easily inserted, but bottles are not secured against slipping out
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the critical parameter of opening diameter from matching the bottle body diameter to matching the bottle neck diameter. This parameter change allows bottles to be easily inserted through the smaller neck opening while the larger body portion remains secured inside the bucket, simultaneously achieving ease of operation and reliable retention.
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AI summary
The present invention comprises a storage and transport device (100) with a cross-section essentially oval, rectangular or circular container (110) with a container bottom (111) and a container opening (112), a container opening matching container cover (130) with a A number of vertical openings (132) embedded in the cover, which have a predetermined opening diameter (DO), the container cover (130) being reversibly and positively connected to the container (110) and the container cover (130) being at a predetermined height (HV) comes to rest above the container floor (111), a carrying device (140) for transporting the storage and transport device, which is rotatably connected to the container (110) about a horizontal axis (AH) and several filled and closed containers (120) with a container height (HFL), wherein the container height (HFL) is greater than the predetermined mte height (HV) of the container cover (130) above the container floor (111) and the vertical openings of the container cover (132) are designed in such a way that the vertical openings enclose the containers (120) with a small opening dimension and thus the containers (120) are positioned substantially fixed to each other in the container (110).