Non-Concentric Bottle Design for Stable Stacking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional bottles for fluids like wine and spirits have a concentric neck and body design that prevents efficient stacking, leading to significant gaps and increased shipping costs and waste, and lack a straight lateral surface for contiguous labeling.
Innovation Solution
A bottle design with a non-concentric body and neck structure and a sloping aperture, featuring a straight lateral surface for contiguous labeling, allowing for head-to-toe stacking and reducing turbulence during pouring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional concentric bottle design is used, then manufacturing is simple, but stacking efficiency deteriorates with large gaps between bottles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies asymmetry by designing the bottle with a non-concentric configuration where the neck portion is offset from the body portion's central axis. This asymmetric design allows bottles to nest together like puzzle pieces when stacked, eliminating gaps between adjacent bottles and dramatically improving stacking efficiency while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through standard molding processes.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional sloping shoulder design is used, then bottle shaping is conventional, but contiguous labeling along full height is prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The asymmetric offset between neck and body portions creates a continuous lateral surface area that wraps around the bottle's perimeter. This continuous surface provides an uninterrupted label application area extending from the base to the shoulder region, enabling full-height contiguous labeling while maintaining conventional bottle shaping and manufacturing processes.
3Ease of manufacture
If flat aperture is used, then manufacturing is simple, but fluid flow control during pouring deteriorates with turbulence
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by modifying the aperture geometry from a traditional flat circular opening to an elongated slot-shaped opening. This geometric parameter change creates a more controlled flow pattern during pouring, reducing turbulence and improving fluid discharge control while remaining compatible with standard manufacturing processes for forming the aperture in the bottle's upper end.
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AI summary
A bottle comprising non-concentric body and neck portions is able to stack more closely and more stably than other bottles traditionally used to carry wine or spirits or other fluids. A bottle may include a sloping aperture that enhances pouring of fluids out of the bottle. A bottle may also include a lateral surface that extends substantially the height of the bottle, which may allow a label to be affixed along substantially the height of the bottle.