Modular Bottle with Arced Segmented Body for Flavor Isolation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional water bottles often retain residual flavors from previous beverages, leading to dissatisfaction and premature disposal when refilled with different drinks.
Innovation Solution
A modular bottle design featuring top and bottom pieces with arced sides that separate into multiple sections, connected via threads and a tongue-and-groove mechanism, allowing for easy disassembly and reassembly, ensuring a waterproof seal and preventing flavor residue.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional water bottle is used to store different beverages, then the bottle can be reused, but residual flavors from previous beverages contaminate subsequent drinks
Solution Approach 1:
The bottle is divided into multiple separable sections including a removable cap, a separable spout, and a main body that can be split into multiple pieces. This segmentation allows each component to be independently cleaned or replaced, preventing flavor residue and enabling the bottle to adapt to different beverage types without contamination.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If a water bottle is designed to be easily disassembled into multiple pieces, then it can be thoroughly cleaned and prevent flavor residue, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bottle components are designed to nest within each other when assembled - the spout fits into the cap, which fits into the main body. This nesting approach allows the bottle to be easily disassembled for cleaning while maintaining a compact form factor, balancing cleanliness requirements with structural simplicity.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If a water bottle is made modular with separable parts, then it can be reused indefinitely by preventing contamination, but the ease of operation decreases due to assembly and disassembly requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The bottle is segmented into major components (cap, spout, main body) that can be quickly separated and reassembled. This segmentation enables thorough cleaning and replacement of specific parts as needed, extending the bottle's usable life while maintaining simple operation through intuitive assembly and disassembly of distinct sections.
Data Source
AI summary
The current invention is a bottle like a water bottle or baby bottle that can be broken up into pieces. It has top and bottom pieces with threads with a middle section separates into two or more sides that separate. The sides are arced and are connected at the edges. When the sides are connected they form a cylinder. The sides have threads on the top and bottom. The bottom screws on the bottom on the cylinder. The top has a spout and screws on the top of the cylinder.