Tea Brewer With Movable Compression Element And Drip Caddy
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Solution Overview
Problem
The difficulty in conveniently removing brewed tea from tea sachets or bags and loose tea leaves, along with the challenge of managing the staining liquid concentrate, is exacerbated when brewing other beverages, leading to messy and inefficient processes.
Innovation Solution
A tea brewer design featuring a cup with holes, a lid with a movable element and tubes, and a caddy for collecting drips, which allows for easy separation of brewed tea from the sachets or leaves and contains a permeable bag with a drawstring for brewing, enabling efficient fluid drainage and upright standing for drip collection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If tea is brewed using traditional sachets or loose leaves, then the brewing process is simple, but the liquid concentrate stains and is difficult to remove neatly
Solution Approach 1:
The brewing system is divided into separate functional components: a cup for holding the substance, a lid with a movable element for compression, tubes for fluid extraction, and a caddy for drip collection. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function efficiently, containing the brewing process and preventing messiness while maintaining simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intermediary components such as the permeable bag with drawstring to hold the substance, the movable element to compress and express liquid, and the caddy to collect drips. These intermediaries mediate between the brewing substance and the final tea liquid, enabling neat removal of concentrate and preventing staining on surfaces.
2Productivity
If a movable element is added to compress the substance, then liquid expression is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lid incorporates a movable element that can be dynamically adjusted to compress the substance within the cup. This dynamic component allows the user to apply pressure to express liquid from the substance, improving productivity while maintaining relatively simple construction through straightforward mechanical movement rather than complex mechanisms.
3Ease of operation
If tubes are added to express liquid from the brewer, then brewed tea removal is easier, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the brewed tea liquid from the brewing chamber through tubes that extend upward from the lid. This extraction mechanism allows the liquid concentrate to be removed neatly from the wet sachets or loose tea leaves, improving ease of operation by providing a dedicated pathway for liquid removal while keeping the overall structure relatively simple through straightforward tubular components.
4Object-generated harmful factors
If a caddy is used to collect drips, then staining is prevented, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts the harmful effect of dripping liquid concentrate by introducing a caddy to collect the drips. Instead of allowing the stains to occur on surfaces, the caddy captures and contains the drips, transforming the potential harm into a controlled collection process. This prevents staining while adding only a simple receptacle component to the overall system.
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
The solution allows for neat and efficient removal of brewed tea, preventing spills and staining, while facilitating easy cleaning and reuse, making the process more convenient and less messy.
Implementation Method 1
a movable element compresses the substance within the brewer
Implementation Method 2
Holes in the at least one of the walls and the base flow a liquid through substance within the cup
Implementation Method 3
The caddy has a saucer-like shape with a base and raised side edges and holds the brewer to collect drips after the brewer is lifted from a brewing vessel
Data Source
AI summary
Brewing apparatus and methods have a body, a movable member in the body, concentric relatively sliding tubes or a tube and a rod. A first tube or rod is attached to the body. A second tube or rod is attached to the movable member. A substance is placed in the body. The body is lifted and lowered into a brewing vessel using the first tube. After brewing, the second tube lowers the movable member to compress the substance. The first member lifts the body and places it on a caddy stand. Cooperating projections, depressions, detents and receivers align and snap the body on the caddy stand with the body and tubes held vertically.