Resinous Paste Dispensing Device with Scale Markings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Resinous pastes, which are often preferred for their natural and authentic properties, pose challenges due to unfavorable taste, smell, consistency, and difficulty in accurate measurement and consumption, and are prone to counterfeiting with fillers and bulking agents, making them hard to verify for purity.
Innovation Solution
A dispensing device with an elongate member and integral hook for suspending over a container, featuring a metered end portion with scale markings for measuring and collecting a roughly measured bolus of resinous substance, allowing for accurate dosing and dissolution in a liquid, enabling easy consumption and quality monitoring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If resinous paste is used for consumption, then natural and authentic properties are improved, but measurement accuracy and consumption ease deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The device segments the resinous paste into measurable portions using scale markings on the elongate member. The scale divides the paste into discrete measurable units, allowing accurate dosing while maintaining the natural paste form. This segmentation enables precise measurement without requiring complex equipment or altering the paste's natural state.
2Reliability
If resinous paste is used for consumption, then natural and authentic properties are improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The device divides the consumption process into manageable segments: measuring the paste on the elongate member, then dissolving it in liquid. This segmentation makes the consumption of resinous paste easier by breaking down the challenging task of consuming thick, sticky paste into simpler steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The device introduces liquid as an intermediary medium to facilitate consumption. The resinous paste is first measured on the elongate member, then transferred to liquid where it dissolves, creating a more palatable and easier-to-consume solution. This intermediary step eliminates the need to consume the unfavorable-tasting paste directly.
3Reliability
If resinous paste is used, then natural properties are improved, but purity verification deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The device uses liquid as an intermediary to verify purity. By dissolving the resinous paste in liquid, the solution becomes transparent, allowing visual inspection for insoluble fillers or contaminants. Pure resinous paste will fully dissolve, while counterfeit products with fillers will show visible particles or incomplete dissolution.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables accurate measurement and consumption of resinous substances, reduces the impact of unfavorable taste and smell, and allows for verification of purity by dissolving in a liquid, detecting any insoluble fillers, thus ensuring quality and authenticity.
Implementation Method 1
allows for verification of purity by dissolving in a liquid, detecting any insoluble fillers
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AI summary
An elongate device for dispensing a measured quantity of a paste-like resinous nutritional substance for consumption, injection, or topical use has an integral, outwardly directed hook at a first end. In one case, the elongate device is curved along its length from the hook to a second end and has a concave front face and a convex rear face, with a metered end portion on the front face or on both faces extending from the second end and having one or more scale markings for indicating an amount of paste-like substance adhered to the end portion between a scale marking and the second end. The dispensing device may alternatively be used for dissolving a measured quantity of the material in a liquid by engaging the hook over the rim of a container to suspend the device into the container with the metered end portion submerged in liquid in the container.