Interconnected Garbage Bag Set for Trash Receptacle Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Households with large families often face the challenge of frequently changing trash bags, leading to inconvenience and potential forgetfulness in relining garbage cans, and storage space issues for clean bags are also a problem due to oversized packaging.

Innovation Solution

A garbage bag set featuring detachably interconnected bags, where one bag is removably lined with another, ensuring that when one bag is full, the next is already in place, reducing the need for frequent replacements and optimizing storage by combining multiple bags into a single unit.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If multiple garbage bags are stored separately in oversized packaging, then each bag is easily accessible, but storage space is consumed excessively

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveAccessibility of garbage bagsVSAvoidStorage space

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple individual garbage bags are merged into a single compact set that interlocks together, allowing multiple bags to be stored in the space occupied by one bag's packaging, thus reducing storage volume while maintaining accessibility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The garbage bags are nested within each other in a compact arrangement where each bag fits inside the next, creating a space-efficient storage configuration that minimizes the volume required to store multiple bags

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Productivity

If garbage bags are changed frequently in households with large families, then trash is disposed of regularly, but the user may inadvertently forget to reline the can

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveTrash disposal frequencyVSAvoidRemembering to reline

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

A second garbage bag is pre-installed in the trash can before the first bag is removed, ensuring that a fresh bag is always ready for use and eliminating the risk of forgetting to reline the can

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically provides the next bag in the sequence without requiring user intervention to remember or perform the relining action, making the trash disposal process more reliable

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Volume of moving object

If a single garbage bag is used, then storage space is minimized, but the bag must be replaced frequently causing inconvenience

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveStorage spaceVSAvoidConvenience of bag replacement

Core Design Contradiction:

Volume of moving objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The garbage bag system is segmented into multiple individual bags that can be used sequentially, allowing a single compact set to serve multiple disposal cycles rather than requiring one large bag for all uses

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10293983B1Garbage bag set and associated use thereof

Publication Date: 2019.05.21 KAPLAN TRISH

AI summary

A garbage bag set for improving trash maintenance and management. The garbage bag set includes a plurality of detachably interconnected garbage bags configured to be simultaneously seated within an existing trash receptacle. Such detachably interconnected garbage bags include at least a first garbage bag and a second garbage bag wherein the first garbage bag is removably lined with the second garbage bag. In this manner, the detachably interconnected garbage bags are coextensively shaped. The detachably interconnected garbage bags are further configured such that the first garbage bag is detached from the second garbage bag while the second garbage bag remains seated within the existing trash receptacle.