Collapsible Pour Over Beverage Maker for Compact Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pour over beverage makers lack efficient design features for easy storage and transportation, as they typically do not have a compact folding mechanism for the infusion container, leading to space inefficiencies and user inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A pour over beverage maker design featuring an infusion container with a flexible wall portion that can be folded into itself for storage, combined with a liquid tank that can receive and store the container in a folded condition, allowing for easy mounting and dismounting for use and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the infusion container is made with a rigid structure for stability during brewing, then brewing reliability is improved, but storage space efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The container wall is designed to be flexible rather than rigid, allowing it to change shape between a expanded brewing configuration and a collapsed storage configuration. This dynamic structure maintains structural integrity during brewing while enabling compact folding for storage, resolving the contradiction between brewing reliability and storage efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The container employs a flexible wall portion made of thin film material that can bend and fold without compromising its functional integrity during brewing. This flexible shell allows the container to be collapsed into a compact form for storage while maintaining sufficient strength and stability when expanded for use.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the container is designed with a fixed rigid structure, then structural stability is improved, but ease of storage deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The container transitions from a static rigid structure to a dynamic flexible structure that can adapt its shape. During brewing, the container maintains structural stability when expanded, and during storage, it can be easily collapsed and folded, providing ease of storage without compromising structural integrity when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The physical state of the container wall changes between expanded and collapsed configurations. The flexible material allows parameter changes in shape and volume while maintaining structural stability during brewing operations, and enables easy folding for storage when collapsed.
3Volume of moving object
If the container is made compact for storage, then storage efficiency is improved, but brewing functionality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible container wall enables the structure to dynamically transition between a compact folded state for storage and a fully expanded state for brewing. When expanded, the container regains its full brewing functionality with proper shape and volume, ensuring that compact storage does not compromise brewing performance.
Data Source
AI summary
A pour over beverage maker includes an infusion container and a liquid tank. The infusion container includes a base, a rim defining an open end of the container, and a wall portion made of a flexible material. The wall portion is disposed between and interconnects the base and the rim. The container is configured to be positioned in one of a folded condition in which the wall portion is folded into itself and an extended use condition. The liquid tank is configured to mount atop the container when the container is in the extended condition. A lower portion of the liquid tank is received in the container open end and has at least one liquid outlet allowing associated liquid within the tank to flow into the container when mounted atop the container. The liquid tank is configured receive and store therein the container when in the folded condition.