Bottle Crate With Split Flat Tines For Mixed Carrier Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional beverage crates are not suitable for transporting bottle carriers of different sizes and individual bottles, leading to instability and noise during transport due to the inability to securely hold various bottle carrier formats and individual bottles.
Innovation Solution
A beverage crate design featuring a base wall with projecting side walls, storage spaces, flat sleeves, and quills that allow for the optional use of different sized bottle carriers and individual bottles, providing lateral support to prevent tipping and reduce noise through a combination of flat and full quills, half quills, and support walls that stabilize the crate while minimizing material usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional beverage crates with many compartment walls are used to transport individual bottles, then individual bottles can be secured, but the crates cannot accommodate bottle carriers of different sizes
Solution Approach 1:
The invention removes the complex network of compartment walls from the crate design. Instead, it extracts only the essential supporting elements (quills and flat sleeves) needed to secure bottles and bottle carriers, thereby achieving versatility with different formats while reducing structural complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The quills and flat sleeves are designed to serve multiple functions: they support individual bottles, accommodate various bottle carrier formats (6-pack, 8-pack, 10-pack, 12-pack), and provide lateral support to prevent tipping. This multi-functionality achieves adaptability without requiring complex compartment structures
2Stability of the object's composition
If individual bottles are placed in beverage crates without sufficient lateral support, then the crates can accommodate various bottle configurations, but the bottles tip over and generate noise during transport
Solution Approach 1:
The invention provides lateral support only where needed - at the corners and along the longitudinal sides of the crate - rather than using continuous compartment walls. The quills and flat sleeves are strategically positioned to provide local support that prevents bottle tipping and contact noise while maintaining versatility
3Stability of the object's composition
If support walls and stiffening elements are added to stabilize individual bottles, then bottle tipping is prevented, but material usage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts only the minimum necessary support elements (four corner quills and longitudinal flat sleeves) needed to stabilize bottles, removing the need for extensive support walls and stiffening elements. This achieves bottle stability with minimal material usage
Solution Approach 2:
Support is provided locally at critical positions (corners and longitudinal centers) rather than through continuous walls. The quills and flat sleeves are positioned only where needed to prevent tipping, reducing overall material consumption while maintaining stability
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AI summary
Beverage crate for the optional insertion of various-sized bottle carriers containing bottles and individual bottles, with: - a base wall, - side walls rising from the edges of the base wall, - a storage surface on the top of the base wall for placing bottle carriers, - storage positions on the top of the base wall in four parallel rows of five storage positions each, - first flat tines rising from the base wall parallel to the rows of storage positions for the lateral support of bottle carriers and cylindrical bottle bodies of individual bottles between the two central rows of storage positions, in the middle of each set of four adjacent storage positions, - wherein the two central first flat tines between the two central rows of storage positions are half flat tines.which are arranged with their lateral edges facing away from each other in the center of four adjacent parking spaces and with their other lateral edges facing each other; - second flat pins rising perpendicularly from the base wall to the rows of parking spaces, in the middle of the second and third parking spaces of the first and second rows with respect to one long side of the base wall, as well as of the second and third parking spaces of the third and fourth rows with respect to the same long side of the base wall; and - full pins and/or half pins and/or third flat pins rising from the base wall in the middle of the remaining groups of four adjacent parking spaces, between which no first or second flat pins are arranged.