Detachable Flexible Liner Container for Easy Cleaning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Double-layer containers with existing sealing mechanisms are difficult to clean and require complex installation and removal processes, making them inconvenient for multiple uses.
Innovation Solution
A double-layer container design featuring a detachable liner made of flexible material, allowing for easy cleaning and multiple shape configurations, with a housing that can be combined with various liners and a cover that securely seals the container using a pressure ring and locking mechanism.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the inner layer and outer container layer are disassembled to allow the outer container layer to match with inner layers of different shapes, then the container has more shape possibilities and versatility, but it becomes difficult to clean the inner layers
Solution Approach 1:
The container is divided into two separable parts: an outer container layer and an inner layer. The inner layer can be detached from the outer container layer, allowing users to remove the inner layer for easy cleaning while keeping the outer container for storage or display. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by making both shape versatility and cleaning ease achievable through modular design.
2Reliability
If sealings are added between containers and covers for multiple uses, then the container becomes reusable and secure, but the sealing becomes difficult to clean and difficult to remove and install
Solution Approach 1:
The sealing function is merged with the inner layer itself rather than being a separate component. The inner layer is made of flexible material that inherently provides sealing when pressed against the cover by the pressure ring. This eliminates separate sealing rings that are difficult to clean and install, while maintaining reliable sealing through the flexible inner layer's natural deformation.
Solution Approach 2:
The inner layer is designed as a replaceable component that can be easily removed and replaced. Instead of maintaining complex permanent sealing mechanisms, the system uses simple, easily replaceable inner layers that provide sealing through their flexible material properties, making cleaning and replacement straightforward.
3Ease of operation
If the liner is made of flexible material to facilitate easy cleaning, then the liner can be easily removed and cleaned, but the sealing reliability may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The sealing mechanism relies on changing the physical state of the flexible liner through elastic deformation. When the cover is closed, the pressure ring applies force that deforms the flexible liner material, causing it to conform to the cover surface and create a seal. The key parameter change is the deformation of the flexible material under pressure, transforming it from a loose state to a sealed state.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses composite material properties where the flexible liner material combines elasticity with sealing capability. The flexible material (such as silicone rubber or thermoplastic elastomer) provides both the ease of cleaning through flexibility and the sealing reliability through elastic deformation when pressed against the cover.
Data Source
AI summary
The present application discloses a container, having a housing with a housing bottom wall and a housing sidewall, and a liner having a liner bottom wall and a liner sidewall. The liner is detachably connected to the housing sidewall, so that the liner is received in the housing chamber. At least a portion between the housing sidewall and the liner sidewall has a gap therebetween. This application discloses a double-layer container having a liner and a housing detachable with each other, so that the housing can use a combination of different shapes of the liner. At the same time, the liner of the container in the present application is made of a flexible material to facilitate cleaning of the liner. On the other hand, the double-layer container of the present application can directly use the liner as a seal, which is convenient for cleaning.