Segmented Cigarette Urn with Fire Retardant Liner
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cigarette disposal containers either allow litter and unpleasant odors or create fire hazards, and are often bulky and difficult to package and ship.
Innovation Solution
A compact, self-standing cigarette urn with multiple components that can be assembled and disassembled for easy cleaning and shipping, featuring a fire-resistant liner to prevent fires and odors, and a design that allows for easy assembly and disassembly to minimize volume during transport.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional cigarette disposal containers are used, then they can collect cigarette waste, but they allow unpleasant odors to escape and create fire hazards
Solution Approach 1:
The cigarette urn is divided into multiple separable components including a base, body, and lid that can be disassembled. This segmentation allows for thorough cleaning of all surfaces and chambers, ensuring complete removal of odor-causing residues while maintaining fire safety through proper material selection in each component
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a removable liner or insert within the urn that can be easily discarded and replaced. This disposable element captures cigarette waste and odors, allowing users to simply remove and replace it rather than cleaning the entire urn, thereby maintaining fire safety and odor control while reducing maintenance complexity
2Ease of operation
If cigarette urns are designed for easy cleaning, then they allow easy clean-up of cigarette remnants, but they may present other hazards or require complex structures
Solution Approach 1:
The urn is constructed with separable components (base, body, lid, and removable liner) that can be easily detached from one another. This segmentation enables users to access all internal surfaces for thorough cleaning without disassembling complex mechanisms, achieving easy clean-up while maintaining simple overall structure
Solution Approach 2:
A removable liner or waste container is extracted as a separate component from the main urn body. This extracted element can be easily removed for cleaning or replacement, allowing complete clean-up of cigarette remnants without requiring disassembly of the entire urn structure
3Volume of moving object
If cigarette urns are made compact for shipping and storage, then they reduce shipping costs and storage space, but they may be difficult to assemble or access
Solution Approach 1:
The urn is divided into modular components that can be nested within one another for compact shipping and storage. During assembly, these segments are simply connected through straightforward interfaces, reducing both shipping volume and assembly complexity simultaneously
Solution Approach 2:
The urn components are designed to nest within one another when disassembled, with smaller parts fitting inside larger ones. This nesting arrangement minimizes shipping and storage volume while maintaining simple assembly requirements, as components are merely stacked or inserted into one another
4Ease of operation
If cigarette urns have openings at raised height, then they enable smokers to easily dispose of cigarette remnants, but they may increase the overall size and shipping volume
Solution Approach 1:
The opening mechanism is segmented into a removable lid or access panel that can be positioned at optimal height for user convenience. This segmented approach allows the main body to remain compact for shipping while providing easy access at raised height when assembled and installed
Data Source
AI summary
A cigarette urn and method of assembly of same that defines an interior passage for smoking debris to travel when multiple components of the urn are assembled into a self-standing, upright assembly condition. A top one of the multiple components has a sidewall opening. The multiple components may be disassembled from the self-standing, upright assembly condition into an overlapping assembly condition with the multiple components overlapping and taking up less overall volume that in the self-standing, upright assembly condition. A fire retardant or heat resistant material may be lining an interior contour of a base of the multiple components. The top one of the multiple components may be of substantially uniform diameter along a majority of its length.