Figurine Attachment Device for Beverage Bottles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for attaching figurines to beverage bottles are limited, as commercial cylindrical bases designed for cup covers cannot be easily attached to bottles, leading to aesthetic and sales unit visibility issues, and increased material and labor costs, along with waste, when soft drinks are sold in cups.
Innovation Solution
A device with a body that allows for separable attachment of figurines to most plastic beverage bottles using a screw cap or neck part with a defined recess diameter, accommodating various bottle types and enabling easy removal and reattachment, while maintaining an aesthetic appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If commercial cylindrical bases designed for cup covers are used to attach figurines to beverage bottles, then the figurine attachment function is achieved, but the aesthetic appearance and visibility of the sales unit deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary attachment device that connects the figurine base to the bottle screw cap. This mediator device includes a body with a figurine base receptacle and a screw cap receptacle, allowing the figurine to be attached to the bottle without directly exposing the commercial cylindrical base, thereby improving aesthetic appearance while maintaining the attachment function
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment system is segmented into multiple functional components: the figurine base, the intermediary attachment device with body, the screw cap receptacle, and the bottle screw cap. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently - the commercial cylindrical base can be used for attachment while the intermediary device provides the aesthetic interface with the bottle
2Ease of manufacture
If soft drinks are sold in cups with figurine-attached covers, then figurine attachment is achieved, but material usage, labor, and waste increase
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment device is designed to be universally compatible with standard beverage bottle screw caps. The body includes a screw cap receptacle that can accommodate various bottle types, allowing the same figurine attachment mechanism to be used across different packaging formats (bottles and cups), thereby reducing the need for multiple specialized components and reducing material usage and waste
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables the figurine to be easily detached from the bottle after the beverage is consumed. The separable attachment design allows the figurine to be recovered and reused, while the attachment device can be discarded or reused with another bottle, reducing waste compared to integrated cup cover designs where the entire cover may be discarded
3Device complexity
If a unified attaching device is used for all beverage bottles, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different bottle types deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment device body includes a screw cap receptacle designed to accommodate standard beverage bottle screw caps. This universal design allows the same device structure to be used with different bottle types (narrow-neck and wide-neck) while maintaining compatibility through the standardized screw cap interface
Solution Approach 2:
The device accommodates different bottle types by allowing parameter variations in the screw cap receptacle dimensions while maintaining the overall device structure. The body can be manufactured with different receptacle sizes to fit different screw cap diameters, enabling adaptability across bottle types without fundamentally changing the attachment mechanism
4Manufacturing precision
If figurines are attached to bottles with standardized screw threads, then manufacturing precision is improved, but ease of operation for removal deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment system is segmented into the figurine base, the intermediary attachment device, and the bottle screw cap. This segmentation allows the standardized screw thread connection to be made at the bottle-cap interface while the figurine attachment to the device can be designed for easy manual removal, resolving the conflict between manufacturing precision and ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The intermediary attachment device acts as a mediator between the standardized screw thread bottle cap and the figurine base. It provides a user-friendly interface for figurine attachment and removal while the standardized screw thread ensures precise manufacturing and secure attachment at the bottle interface
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AI summary
The invention concerns a device for the attachment of a figurine with a cylindrical base part onto a beverage bottle. Furthermore, the invention concerns a combination of such a device and a figurine as well as a beverage bottle made of plastic, which forms a sales unit with such a device and such a figurine. In order to enable the figurine to be joined separably to the beverage bottle to form a sales unit in a simple, aesthetical and sales-promoting manner, the device according to the invention comprises a body having means for separable attachment of the figurine and having a recess for holding a screw cap and/or a neck part provided with an outside thread of the beverage bottle.