Divisible Bottle Crate Merging Handles With Connecting Walls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing divisible bottle crates either occupy additional space with their connection mechanisms, limit marketing communication on the connecting walls, or complicate the connection and disconnection process, reducing filling capacity and increasing logistic costs.
Innovation Solution
A divisible bottle crate design where the connection mechanism is integrated into the connecting walls, allowing handles to control both edges simultaneously without increasing the wall thickness, enabling efficient stacking and marketing communication on all sides while maintaining the standard dimensions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If the connection mechanism is integrated into the connecting walls, then the filling capacity increases and logistic costs reduce, but the connection and disconnection process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The connection mechanism is merged with the connecting walls themselves, eliminating the need for separate external mechanisms. The handles are integrated into the wall structure, and the connection function is built into the wall's geometry, allowing the wall to serve both structural and connection purposes simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The connecting walls serve multiple functions: they provide structural support, enable connection between crates, and incorporate the connection mechanism directly into their structure. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional components and maximizes space utilization.
2Area of stationary object
If the connection mechanism is positioned on the edges of connecting walls, then marketing communication space increases, but the connection reliability may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The connection mechanism is positioned at specific local points on the connecting walls (at the edges) rather than distributed across the entire surface. This localized positioning preserves marketing communication space on the wall surfaces while maintaining connection functionality at critical structural points.
3Ease of operation
If handles control both edges of connecting walls simultaneously, then the connection process is simplified, but the handle mechanism must be more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The handle mechanism is merged with the connecting wall structure, using the wall itself as part of the mechanism. The handles are positioned and configured to simultaneously control both edges of the connecting wall through an integrated design that leverages the wall's own structure rather than requiring separate independent mechanisms.
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AI summary
The divisible bottle crate consisting of two identically constructed crates (10, 10') comprising each three walls (11,11'), a bottom (13), a connecting wall (12,12') and a handle (20,20') connected to the connecting wall, where the divisible crate by action of the handles may be optionally disconnected to obtain two independent crates and connected along the connecting walls to form one crate. The lifting of the handles pulls pins (35, 35') into sleeves of the connecting wall and lowering of the handles pulls the pins out of the sleeves. Connection of the two crates is performed by the lowering of the handles which shifts the pins of both handles in order to interlock the sleeves located on the two connecting walls of the divisible crate. The proposed invention enables at the same time a simple and reliable vertical stacking either of the divisible bottle crate or of any of the individual crates (10, 10') forming the divisible bottle crate separately.