Load Carrier with Segmented Support Elements for Bottle Formats
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional load carriers are inflexible in accommodating bottles and bottle carriers of different formats, limiting their capacity to 20 bottles and only supporting specific formats, which restricts their ability to handle varying bottle sizes and types during transportation.
Innovation Solution
A load carrier design featuring a bottom wall with enclosure walls, a central web, side webs, and half-quills that support bottles and bottle carriers, allowing for a matrix-like arrangement of storage spaces in five rows and eight columns, enabling the transport of up to 40 bottles or bottle carriers of various formats, and providing stability through a rigid structure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If conventional load carriers are designed with fixed compartments for specific bottle formats, then structural stability is improved, but adaptability to different bottle formats deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The load carrier base is segmented into multiple support elements (quills, half-quills, and projections) distributed in a matrix pattern. These segmented support elements can independently adapt to different bottle positions and formats while collectively providing structural stability. The segmentation allows each support element to function autonomously in accommodating various bottle configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The support elements (quills, half-quills, and projections) are designed with multi-functionality to serve multiple purposes: they provide structural support, accommodate different bottle formats, enable stacking, and allow for bottle insertion from multiple directions. This universal design resolves the contradiction by making the same structural elements adaptable to various bottle configurations while maintaining stability.
2Productivity
If load carrier capacity is increased to accommodate more bottles, then productivity is improved, but structural stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The base is divided into multiple small support elements (quills, half-quills, projections) distributed throughout the load carrier rather than using fewer large support structures. This segmentation allows the load carrier to accommodate more bottles (increasing capacity to 40 bottles in 5 rows and 8 columns) while each small support element maintains local structural stability independently.
Solution Approach 2:
The support elements are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix pattern (5 rows and 8 columns) across the base, utilizing spatial distribution in multiple dimensions. This dimensional arrangement allows high bottle capacity while maintaining structural stability through the distributed geometric pattern of support elements.
3Strength
If the load carrier uses a rigid structure for stability, then strength is improved, but adaptability to different bottle formats deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The rigid base is segmented into multiple discrete support elements (quills, half-quills, projections) that can independently adjust to different bottle formats. Each segmented support element maintains the overall structural strength while providing local adaptability through its independent positioning and geometry.
Solution Approach 2:
Different support elements have different local qualities and geometries (full quills, half-quills, projections of varying heights) optimized for specific local requirements. This local quality variation allows the rigid structure to adapt to different bottle formats at different locations while maintaining overall structural strength.
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AI summary
The carrier (1) has supporting elements (33) projected between holes (10) at bottom wall (2), to selectively support bottles and/or bottle carriers in upward direction. A central web (11) is provided in center portion between central columns of holes. Several projections are formed at middle of central columns of holes at each half portion (12,13) of bottom wall. The bottom wall has lower bearing surface to selectively support neck and lid of cylinder, and top of bottle carriers with inserted bottles, while other cylinders and other bottle carrier of same type are arranged on carrier.