Nested Multi-Container Vessel for Separate Substance Transport
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vessels lack the ability to effectively separate and transport multiple substances while maintaining their integrity and preventing intermixing, especially for liquids and solids with different physical states.
Innovation Solution
A multi-container vessel design featuring a first container with a larger cavity to house a second container, both made from transparent plastic materials, allowing for separate storage and transport of substances with removably connected tops that prevent intermixing, using a straw for access and a specific volume configuration to accommodate standard drink sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single vessel is used to transport multiple substances, then transport convenience is improved, but substance separation and prevention of intermixing deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested container structure where a second container is placed inside the first container. The first container has a first cavity that receives the second container, allowing one container to be nested within another. This nesting arrangement enables multiple substances to be transported in a single vessel assembly while maintaining physical separation between substances in different containers, thus resolving the contradiction between transport convenience and substance separation reliability.
2Illumination intensity
If containers are made transparent for aesthetic appeal, then visual appearance is improved, but material selection and manufacturing options worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different optical properties to different containers: the first container is made with transparent or translucent walls to provide aesthetic appeal and visual attractiveness, while the second container may use different materials with varying transparency characteristics. This local differentiation of material properties allows the system to achieve overall aesthetic appeal through the transparent first container while providing manufacturing flexibility by allowing the second container to use materials optimized for its specific functional requirements.
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AI summary
A vessel including a first container having a bottom portion, a sidewall, and a first cavity access portion, wherein one of the at least one sidewalls includes a first region and a second region opposed to the first region, wherein the second region of the sidewall is contiguously joined to the bottom portion to define at least in part a first cavity, and wherein the first region includes a first cavity access opening that is configured to engage the first cavity access portion; and a second container having a bottom portion, a sidewall, and a second cavity access portion, wherein one of the at least one sidewall includes a first region and a second region opposed to the first region; wherein the first cavity is larger than the second container such that the second container may be completely contained within the first cavity.