Collapsible Bottle Cover With Sight Opening For Fullness Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collapsible containers for fluids lack a simple and convenient method to indicate whether they are full or empty, and they do not maintain a self-supporting structure in both uncollapsed and collapsed states, making it difficult to locate them relative to other elements.
Innovation Solution
A collapsible container with a built-in mechanism that includes a bottle cover featuring a sight opening to visually indicate the container's fullness, combined with a pump assembly and a base structure that maintains support in all conditions, ensuring the container can be reliably positioned and used.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a collapsible container is designed to collapse upon itself to indicate emptiness, then the ability to monitor fullness is improved, but the container loses its self-supporting structure and consistent configuration when collapsed
Solution Approach 1:
The container is divided into collapsible sidewalls and a rigid base structure. The base remains rigid and self-supporting while the sidewalls collapse inward, allowing the container to indicate emptiness while maintaining structural stability and consistent configuration for proper positioning.
2Loss of information
If the container collapses completely to indicate emptiness, then the visual indication of fullness is improved, but the container cannot maintain a consistent configuration to locate it relative to other elements
Solution Approach 1:
The container structure is segmented into collapsible sidewalls and a rigid base. The base maintains consistent configuration and self-supporting properties, enabling easy location and positioning, while the sidewalls provide visual indication of fullness through their collapse state.
Solution Approach 2:
The rigid base acts as an intermediary between the collapsible sidewalls and the external environment. It maintains consistent spatial relationships and positioning while allowing the sidewalls to collapse for visual indication of fullness.
3Loss of information
If the container is made collapsible to indicate when to refill, then the monitoring capability is improved, but the structural integrity and support in collapsed condition deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The container is segmented into collapsible sidewalls for refill indication and a rigid base for structural integrity. The base maintains strength and self-supporting capability in both full and collapsed states, while the sidewalls provide refill indication through their collapse.
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AI summary
In combination with a collapsible container with a dimension that varies as the container collapses from a full position to an empty position, the bottle cover with a sight opening for viewing of indicia on the bottle to provide an indication as to the extent the bottle is full or empty.