Multi-Chamber Container With Rotating Cap Seal
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional containers are limited in accommodating multiple materials and maintaining a reliable sealing effect, leading to potential mixing during transportation and poor adaptability for mixing more than two kinds of materials, which results in inconvenience and potential deterioration of contents.
Innovation Solution
A container design featuring a body with multiple accommodation areas, a main cap, and an operating set that includes a partition and engagement unit to separate and seal different materials, allowing for independent filling and mixing of multiple materials while ensuring a preferable sealing effect.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional container with one accommodation room is used, then the structure is simple, but it cannot accommodate multiple materials separately leading to mixing and deterioration
Solution Approach 1:
The container body is divided into multiple independent accommodation rooms (first accommodation room, second accommodation room, third accommodation room) that are physically separated by partitions. Each room can independently store different materials without mixing, allowing the container to accommodate multiple materials separately while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
2Reliability
If multiple materials are mixed in advance before filling, then the container structure remains simple, but the materials deteriorate earlier
Solution Approach 1:
The container provides multiple separate accommodation rooms where materials can be filled independently without premature mixing. This segmentation allows materials to be stored in their original states, preserving them until the moment of use when they can be mixed by rotating the cap to communicate the rooms.
3Ease of operation
If a cap with rotation margin is used to allow mixing, then mixing is enabled, but accidental mixing occurs during transportation
Solution Approach 1:
The cap is designed with rotational capability that dynamically changes the communication state between accommodation rooms. When rotated to specific positions, the cap allows communication between rooms for mixing; when in the sealed position, it prevents communication. This dynamic mechanism enables intentional mixing while preventing accidental mixing during transportation.
Solution Approach 2:
The cap acts as an intermediary component that controls the communication between accommodation rooms. By rotating the cap to different positions, the user can selectively open or close the communication channels between rooms, thereby controlling when mixing occurs and preventing unintended mixing during storage and transport.
4Adaptability or versatility
If a container with one hollow space in the cap is used, then the structure is simple, but it can only mix two kinds of materials
Solution Approach 1:
The container body is segmented into multiple independent accommodation rooms (first, second, and third accommodation rooms), each capable of holding different materials. The cap structure includes multiple corresponding hollow spaces that can engage with these rooms. This segmentation allows the container to accommodate and mix three or more different materials by rotating the cap to communicate different combinations of rooms.
Data Source
AI summary
A container includes a body, a main cap, and an operating set movably inserted into the body. The body has two communicating accommodation areas, a top opening communicating with one of the accommodation areas and covered by the main cap, a partition dividing the other accommodation area into accommodation spaces, and an enclosing wall laterally disposed between the accommodation areas and defining an enclosing opening. The operating set includes a shank, two ends of which respectively formed a head protruding from the main cap and an engagement unit having at least one trough which faces the partition through the enclosing opening. When the engagement unit moves to the partition, the partition is lodged into the trough for placing the engagement unit in position. Therefore, the enclosing opening is sealed to prevent the accommodation areas and the accommodation spaces from communicating with each other and attain a preferable sealing effect.