Neck Extender Grip for Liquor Bottle Pouring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional liquor bottles pose challenges due to uneven weight distribution, difficult identification in dimly lit environments, and varying sizes and shapes, leading to strain on users' wrists, hands, and backs, as well as inefficiencies in grasping and pouring liquids quickly and accurately in busy settings like bars.
Innovation Solution
A neck extender and grip promoting device that couples with the bottle neck, providing a secure grip and facilitating pouring, with features like ribs and depressions for improved hand grasp and optional extension of the bottle neck to standardize heights, allowing for uniform positioning and easy identification of different liquids.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional bottles are used with uneven weight distribution, then the bottle structure is simple, but strain is placed on users' wrists, hands, and backs
Solution Approach 1:
A neck extender device is introduced as an intermediary component between the bottle and the user's hand. This extender includes a grip portion with ergonomic features that facilitate secure grasping, thereby reducing strain on the user's wrist, hand, and back while maintaining the simplicity of the original bottle structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The bottle system is segmented into two independent components: the original bottle and the separate neck extender device. This allows the bottle to remain simple while the extender provides the ergonomic grip features needed to reduce user strain during pouring operations.
2Productivity
If bottles of varying sizes and shapes are used, then product variety is achieved, but inefficiency occurs in grasping and pouring liquids quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The neck extender device is designed with universal adaptability to fit multiple different bottle sizes and shapes. The extender includes a adaptable interface that can accommodate various bottle configurations, allowing bartenders to efficiently grasp and pour from different bottles without sacrificing the variety of bottle sizes and shapes available.
3Productivity
If bottles are positioned at varying heights, then storage flexibility is maintained, but workflow efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The neck extender device includes an extension portion that raises the pour spout to a standardized height across different bottle sizes. This creates an equipotential working surface, allowing all bottles to be positioned at the same optimal height for pouring, thereby improving workflow efficiency while maintaining storage flexibility.
4Ease of operation
If pour spouts are inserted directly into bottle necks, then the device structure is simple, but secure grip is difficult to achieve
Solution Approach 1:
The pouring device is segmented into two functional parts: the original simple pour spout and a separate neck extender with grip features. This segmentation allows the pour spout to remain simple while the extender provides the ergonomic grip portion with features like ribs and depressions that enable secure hand grasping during pouring operations.
Data Source
AI summary
Devices and systems for facilitating a user's grip around the neck of a bottle such that the contents of the bottle may be poured quickly and efficiently, with minimal stress on the use's body. Furthermore, such systems and methods may be configured to extend the neck of a bottle such that an attached pour spout is positioned at a desired height. Such a device may comprise a body to couple with the neck of the bottle, the body having an exterior surface configured to facilitate a secure grip therearound.