Collapsible Dish Drying Rack With Pivoting Bays and Drainage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional dish drying racks are often non-adjustable and non-collapsible, occupying excessive kitchen space and failing to accommodate various types of dishes effectively.
Innovation Solution
A dish drying rack design featuring a basin with pivotally connected side bays and a plate rack, allowing for adjustable and collapsible configurations. The side bays can move between extended and collapsed positions, and the plate rack can pivot between upright and flattened positions, optimizing space usage and water drainage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If dish drying racks are made non-adjustable and non-collapsible, then they provide stable structure, but they occupy excessive kitchen space
Solution Approach 1:
The dish drying rack employs pivotally connected side bays and a plate rack that can move between extended and collapsed positions. The side bays pivot about side bay pivot axes, and the plate rack pivots about a plate rack pivot axis, transforming the structure from static to dynamic. This allows the rack to adapt its configuration based on usage needs, reducing storage volume when collapsed while maintaining stability when extended and in use.
2Device complexity
If dish drying racks are made non-adjustable, then they have simple structure, but they fail to accommodate different types of dishes effectively
Solution Approach 1:
The rack includes side bays that can be extended or collapsed and a plate rack that can pivot between upright and flattened positions. This dynamic adjustment capability allows the structure to adapt to different dish types and sizes, providing versatility without requiring completely different rack designs for different purposes.
Solution Approach 2:
The dish drying rack is divided into separate functional modules: a basin, side bays, and a plate rack. Each module can be independently adjusted or collapsed. The side bays can be extended for additional dish storage or collapsed to reduce footprint, while the plate rack can be positioned upright for plates or flattened to clear space, allowing flexible accommodation of various dish types.
3Quantity of substance
If side bays are extended to accommodate more dishes, then dish storage capacity increases, but water drainage path length increases potentially causing leakage
Solution Approach 1:
The side bays are pivotally connected to the basin and can be collapsed alongside it. When not in use or when space is limited, the side bays can be collapsed to reduce the overall footprint and shorten the water drainage path. This extraction of the side bay functionality from the main structure allows the user to have extended storage capacity when needed while minimizing leakage risk when collapsed.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The design allows for efficient use of limited kitchen space, accommodating different dish types while minimizing storage volume, and ensures effective water drainage without leakage.
Implementation Method 1
The side bay moves between a collapsed position and an extended position
Implementation Method 2
side bay pivotally connected with the basin for movement about a side bay pivot axis
Implementation Method 3
The plate rack is movable between an upright position and a flattened position
Implementation Method 4
plate rack pivotally connected with the basin for movement about a plate rack pivot axis
Implementation Method 5
water drains from the side bay floor toward and onto the basin floor
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AI summary
A dish drying rack includes a basin, a side bay pivotally connected with the basin for movement about a side bay pivot axis, and a plate rack pivotally connected with the basin for movement about a plate rack pivot axis. The basin includes a basin floor. The side bay moves between a collapsed position and an extended position. The side bay includes a side bay floor. When the side bay is in the extended position, the side bay floor is positioned with respect to the basin such that water drains from the side bay floor toward and onto the basin floor. The plate rack pivot axis is transverse to the side bay pivot axis. The plate rack is movable between an upright position and a flattened position.