Bottle Grip Device With Adjustable Straps For Child Motor Skills
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Current bottle handling systems do not effectively prevent droppage, spillage, or unsafe handling practices, especially for young children, and fail to promote fine motor skills development while allowing secure control of beverage containers.
Innovation Solution
A bottle handling system comprising a bottle strap and a hand strap that selectively wrap around the bottle and arm/hand, respectively, with adjustable loops and hook-and-loop fasteners, ensuring secure attachment and facilitating muscle control and fine motor skills development.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a typical bottle body with tapered shape or indentations is used, then the connection between the bottle and hand is improved, but the bottle cannot be securely held by young children who lack fine motor skills
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a bottle handling system comprising a bottle strap that wraps around the bottle and a hand strap that wraps around the child's hand or arm, with the two straps coupled together. This intermediary system bridges the gap between the bottle and the child's insufficient grip capability, providing secure holding without requiring advanced fine motor skills.
Solution Approach 2:
The handling system is divided into separate functional components: a bottle strap for securing to the bottle, a hand strap for securing to the hand or arm, and coupling mechanisms joining them. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function and enables easy adjustment and removal.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional bottle designs are used, then manufacturing is simple, but droppage, spillage, and unsafe handling practices occur
Solution Approach 1:
The bottle handling system acts as an intermediary safety mechanism between the traditional bottle design and the user, preventing droppage and spillage through the strap system without requiring changes to the bottle's manufacturing or design.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the bottle strap and hand strap are made with adjustable loops and hook-and-loop fasteners, then secure attachment and fine motor skills development are facilitated, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bottle strap and hand strap incorporate adjustable loops with hook-and-loop fasteners that allow dynamic adjustment of the loop size and fit. This enables the straps to adapt to different bottle sizes, hand sizes, and ages of children, providing secure attachment while maintaining relatively simple construction.
Data Source
AI summary
A bottle handling system including a bottle strap that wraps around a bottle and a hand strap that wraps around an arm or at least a portion of a hand. The bottle strap includes a first end, a second end, a first outer surface, and a first inner surface that engages the bottle when the bottle strap is wrapped around the bottle. The first inner surface overlaps the first outer surface to form a first loop that engages the bottle. The hand strap includes a third end, a fourth end, a second outer surface, and a second inner surface that engages the arm or at least the portion of the hand. The bottle strap and the hand strap are coupled together at an interface. The second inner surface overlaps the second outer surface to form a second loop that engages the arm or at least the portion of the hand.