Paper Cup-Holder With Bendable Walls And Integrated Handles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cup-holders are either too restrictive in size, causing small cups to fall out, or are inflexible, leading to space wastage during transportation and storage due to their fixed structure.
Innovation Solution
A paper cup-holder design featuring a bottom plate, first and second wall plates, a support plate, and a panel with bendable sections and handle forming lines, allowing for adjustable cup placement and reduced space requirements through integrated cup receiving inlets and handles formed from the same panel.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If a conventional cup-holder uses a fixed structure, then the cup position is stable, but the cup-holder cannot be tightly stacked during transportation or storage, wasting space
Solution Approach 1:
The cup-holder incorporates bendable wall plates that can transition between different configurations. During use, the wall plates maintain a rigid structure to stabilize the cup position. During transportation or storage, the wall plates can be bent to allow the cup-holders to be tightly stacked, reducing storage space requirements. This dynamic adaptability resolves the contradiction between stability and storage efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional cup-holder uses a mounting opening structure, then large cups can be positioned, but small cups with small diameters cannot be positioned and will fall out
Solution Approach 1:
The cup-holder features a support plate with openings that provide localized support within the cup-receiving space. This support structure creates multiple contact points that can adapt to different cup diameters, preventing small cups from falling out while still accommodating larger cups. The local support quality varies across the structure to handle different cup sizes reliably.
3Device complexity
If a conventional cup-holder is formed as a fixed structure, then the structure is simple, but it cannot be tightly stacked during transportation, leading to space wastage
Solution Approach 1:
The cup-holder design incorporates bendable wall plates that maintain structural simplicity in their basic configuration while enabling dynamic transformation during storage or transportation. The wall plates can be bent to allow tight stacking, reducing the volume occupied during transportation without requiring a completely complex folded structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The wall plates are designed as flexible elements that can bend to enable tight stacking during transportation. These flexible components maintain the necessary structural integrity during use while allowing compression and reconfiguration during storage, effectively reducing the volume occupied during transportation.
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AI summary
The invention provides a paper cup-holder comprising first and second wall plates respectively bent relative to the bottom plate; a support plate bent relative to the first wall plate and being parallel to the bottom plate; a panel bent relative to the second wall plate and fixed on the support plate. The panel is formed with two sets of handle forming lines and at least two cup receiving inlet forming lines. Each set of handle forming lines comprises an outer cutting line and an inner cutting line, and a starting point and an ending point of the cup receiving inlet forming lines are located on the inner cutting line. Two hollowed areas are formed when the two handles are formed from the panel, and respectively form a cup receiving inlet together with at least one of the cup receiving inlet forming lines.