Reusable Beverage Container with Integrated Bottle and Can Openers

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Solution Overview

Problem

The need for multiple tools to open different types of beverage containers, such as bottles and cans, at social events is inconvenient, as these tools are easily misplaced and undesirable to provide in multiples.

Innovation Solution

A reusable beverage container with integrated bottle and can openers, featuring a recess for bottle caps and a slot for pull tabs, allowing for the opening of various containers without additional tools, along with features like beads for heat retention and grip enhancement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple separate tools are provided for opening different beverage containers, then all container types can be opened, but the tools are easily misplaced and require multiple items to be carried

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to open different container typesVSAvoidnumber of separate tools required

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple opening tools (bottle opener, can opener, pull-tab remover) into a single integrated cup structure. The tools are formed as recesses and features within the cup's base, allowing all functions to be accessed from one unified object rather than carrying multiple separate tools.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The cup is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as a beverage container and simultaneously as a multi-tool opener for various container types including bottles, cans, and containers with pull-tabs. This universal design eliminates the need for separate specialized tools.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If a reusable cup is made sufficiently rigid to serve as a tool, then it can function as an opener, but this may compromise its flexibility for other uses

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to function as opener toolVSAvoidrigidity requirement for tool function

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The cup base incorporates localized rigid features (recesses and structural elements) specifically where tool functionality is needed, while the rest of the cup maintains its overall flexibility and formability for beverage containment. The rigid features are concentrated in the base area where opening tools are required.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The cup is structured with distinct functional zones: the base contains the rigid tool features for opening containers, while the body and rim maintain flexibility for holding and drinking beverages. This segmentation allows different parts of the cup to have optimized properties for their specific functions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20240124212A1Multi-function beverage container

Publication Date: 2024.04.18 LEMONPIG OUTDOORS LLC

AI summary

A reusable beverage container has an inner liner with a cavity that contains a fluid therein, an outer shell attached over an external surface of the inner liner, a base at the bottom of the beverage container, a rim that is formed by the inner liner to define an opening of the beverage container, and, formed in the base of the beverage container, one or more of a bottle opener and a can opener. A method of making a reusable beverage container includes steps of forming an inner liner comprising a cavity for containing a fluid therein, attaching an outer shell over an external surface of the inner liner, and forming one or more of a bottle opener and a can opener.