Beverage dispensing device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing beverage dispensing devices fail to provide precise dosing and are cumbersome to use, especially when alternating between two beverages with different flavor enhancers, leading to potential mixing.
Innovation Solution
A beverage dispensing device with two movable containers, one of which is equipped with a mechanism to control fluid communication through a ball-and-rod system, ensuring that two drinks can be dispensed successively without mixing, using a straw-type suction nozzle and filling marks for accurate dosing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a device alternates aspiration of two beverages from two containers, then it reduces sugar consumption while maintaining taste sensation, but it fails to provide precise dosing and is cumbersome to use
Solution Approach 1:
The device divides the beverage dispensing system into two separate containers (first container for water, second container for flavored drink) with independent control mechanisms. Each container has its own suction nozzle and closure system, allowing separate control of each beverage stream. This segmentation enables precise dosing by controlling which container dispenses at any given time, while maintaining ease of use through automatic switching mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The device employs dynamic switching between two beverage containers based on liquid level detection. The second container is movable relative to the first, and the system automatically transitions between containers as liquid levels change. This dynamic operation allows precise control over beverage dispensing sequences without requiring manual intervention, resolving the contradiction between precision and ease of operation.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a device alternates aspiration of two beverages from two containers, then it reduces sugar consumption while maintaining taste sensation, but it fails to prevent mixing of the two drinks
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the mixing problem by providing separate suction nozzles for each container. The first suction nozzle is dedicated to the first container (water) and the second suction nozzle is dedicated to the second container (flavored drink). This extraction of the dispensing function into separate, dedicated pathways for each beverage eliminates cross-contamination and mixing, ensuring reliable separation while enabling the health benefit of reduced sugar consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The closure elements act as intermediaries that control the connection between each container and the common suction pathway. When the closure of the second container is open, it allows communication between the second container and the suction nozzle, while the first container remains isolated by its closed closure. This intermediary control mechanism ensures that only one beverage can be dispensed at a time, preventing mixing while maintaining the ability to alternate between beverages for reduced sugar consumption.
3Productivity
If a device uses two containers with alternate aspiration, then it enables successive dispensing of beverages, but it is unfriendly to fill and complex to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the filling operation for both containers through a single common opening. The first and second containers can both be filled through the same access point, eliminating the need for separate filling operations. This merging of the filling function maintains the productivity benefit of having two separate beverage containers while significantly improving ease of operation by simplifying the filling process to a single action.
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
Enables precise and easy dispensing of two beverages without mixing, allowing users to consume a smaller quantity of harmful products while maintaining equivalent taste satisfaction through sequential drinking of water and a flavored drink.
Implementation Method 1
the bottom of the cavity for receiving drinks from the secondary receptacle is inclined in the direction of the hole, the means for placing in communication comprise a ball configured to be received in the secondary receptacle, the ball being dimensioned to close the hole of the secondary container
Implementation Method 2
the means for placing in communication also comprise a rod projecting into the cavity for receiving drinks from the main container up to the open position, the rod being dimensioned from such that, when the secondary receptacle is between the open position and the low position, the rod extends into the hole without closing it and pushes the ball back
Implementation Method 3
a fluid suction nozzle projecting from the upper face of the main container to allow a user to suck, through the suction nozzle, fluid contained in the receiving drinks from the main receptacle
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AI summary
The invention relates to a beverage dispensing device (1; 101), characterized in that it comprises a main container (2; 102), including a beverage receiving cavity (10; 110) and a fluid suction nozzle (5; 105), a secondary container (3; 103) adapted to be movable within the beverage receiving cavity (10; 110), including at least one hole (26; 126), means for connecting (4; 104) the secondary container (3; 103) with the main container (2; 102), configured such that, when the secondary container (3; 103) is in the beverage receiving cavity (10; 110), between a high position and an open position, at least one hole (26; 126) is closed, and between the open position and a low position, at least one hole (26; 126) is not sealed.