Multi-Dish Feeding Basket Assembly with Elevated Support Legs

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing carrying devices are inefficient for simultaneously transporting multiple feeding dishes for animals, as they do not provide a convenient and stable means to carry and support multiple dishes during handling.

Innovation Solution

A basket with a handle and a panel featuring multiple dish openings, coupled with legs for support, allowing for the secure and efficient carrying of multiple feeding dishes, enabling one-handed transport and support above a surface.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If multiple feeding dishes are carried separately, then each dish can be transported individually, but time and effort are wasted requiring multiple trips

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefeeding efficiencyVSAvoidtime for multiple trips

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple feeding dish carriers into a single integrated basket structure with multiple compartments. Each compartment can hold a feeding dish, allowing the user to carry multiple dishes simultaneously in one trip, thereby eliminating the need for multiple separate trips and improving feeding efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If a simple container is used to carry dishes, then the structure remains simple, but the dishes cannot be securely held or stabilized

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedish holding stabilityVSAvoidbasket structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The basket is divided into multiple separate compartments, each designed to hold a specific feeding dish. This segmentation allows each dish to be securely positioned in its own dedicated space, preventing dishes from shifting or falling during transport, while maintaining an organized and stable structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The feeding dishes are nested within the compartments of the basket structure. Each dish fits into its designated compartment, creating a nested arrangement where the dishes are held securely within the larger basket framework, providing both stability and efficient use of space.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

3Object-affected harmful factors

If the basket is placed directly on the ground, then the structure remains simple, but the dishes are vulnerable to contamination or damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedish contamination riskVSAvoidsupport structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Legs are introduced as an intermediary element between the basket and the ground surface. These legs elevate the basket, creating a physical barrier that prevents direct contact between the dishes and potentially contaminating or damaging ground surfaces, while maintaining structural support.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11140866B2Feeding dish carrying assembly

Publication Date: 2021.10.12 GABALDON RAYMOND

AI summary

A feeding dish carrying assembly for carrying multiple feeding dishes for animals includes a basket for carrying objects. A handle is coupled to the basket for carrying the basket. A panel is coupled to the basket and the panel has a plurality of dish openings therein. Each of the dish openings can insertably receive a respective one of a plurality of feeding dishes for carrying the feeding dishes. A plurality of legs is each coupled to and extends downwardly from the panel. Each of the legs supports the panel and the basket above a support surface when the basket is placed on the support surface.