Multi-use Liquid Container and Smoking Bottle Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a multi-use device that can serve as both a liquid container and a smoking device, allowing users to transition from consuming alcoholic beverages to smoking combustible substances without the need for separate items, and also be easily disassembled for cleaning.
Innovation Solution
A multi-use liquid container and smoking bottle design featuring a hollow bulb with a primary stem for drinking and a removable smoke tube assembly with a bowl for burning substances, which includes a threaded fitting and caps for sealing, allowing the device to be used for both liquid consumption and smoking, and easily disassembled for cleaning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single device is used for both liquid container and smoking functions, then device versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bottle is designed to perform multiple functions: it can be used as a liquid container for drinking and as a smoking device. The hollow bulb serves as both the liquid-holding chamber and the smoking chamber, while the stem serves as both a drinking spout and a smoke passage. This multi-functionality directly addresses the versatility improvement while managing complexity through shared structural elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines two separate devices (a liquid container bottle and a smoking pipe) into a single integrated device. The bowl for holding combustible material is attached to the stem of the bottle, and both the liquid cap and bowl cap seal the same hollow bulb chamber. This merging of functions into a single device structure achieves versatility while the integrated design helps manage overall complexity.
2Ease of operation
If the smoke tube assembly is made removable, then ease of cleaning is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The smoke tube assembly (including the bowl and stem portion) is designed as a separable component that can be removed from the main bottle body. This segmentation allows the smoke tube assembly to be detached for easy cleaning of the interior surfaces that come into contact with combustible material and smoke. The removable design directly improves ease of cleaning while introducing minimal additional complexity through the connection interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection between the smoke tube assembly and the bottle is designed to be dynamic rather than fixed - allowing the assembly to be attached when needed for smoking and removed when cleaning is required. This dynamic configurability enables easy maintenance while the simple attachment mechanism keeps the added complexity minimal.
Data Source
AI summary
A multi-use liquid container and smoking bottle generally includes a hollow, liquid retaining bottle having a bulb defining an inter chamber for retaining liquids and a hollow first stem extending outwardly from the interior chamber. The multi-use bottle further includes a smoke tube assembly passing through an opening in the liquid retaining bottle and including a hollow secondary stem extending inwardly into the interior chamber, and a bowl connected to and in fluid communication with the secondary stem, the bowl including and at least partially defining a burning chamber. The smoke tube assembly is removable from the liquid retaining bottle. Caps are provided over the first stem and the bowl to prevent liquid contained in the interior chamber from flowing therethrough.