Tube Squeezing Device with Telescoping Arms for Complete Product Evacuation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in completely evacuating products from collapsible tubes, leading to wastage, especially for children and the elderly, as existing methods require excessive manual effort or tampering with the tube.
Innovation Solution
A tube-squeezing device with telescoping arms and a handle that securely clips the tube, allowing for easy rotation and winding to push the remaining product towards the dispensing end, minimizing wastage and accommodating various tube widths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If users manually squeeze the tube body to evacuate remaining product, then some product can be dispensed, but excessive manual effort is required and product wastage occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a tube squeezing device as an intermediary tool between the user and the tube. The device includes a squeezing element that contacts the tube body and a handle that the user operates. This intermediary mechanism amplifies the user's input force and distributes it effectively along the tube body, enabling complete product evacuation without requiring excessive manual squeezing effort directly on the tube.
Solution Approach 2:
The squeezing element of the device is designed to dynamically adapt to the tube's collapsing shape as product is evacuated. The element can flex, conform, and maintain contact with the tube body throughout the squeezing process, ensuring continuous effective compression even as the tube deforms and shrinks during product dispensing.
2Quantity of substance
If children and the elderly manually squeeze the tube, then they can dispense product when abundant, but they cannot evacuate remaining product when very little is left
Solution Approach 1:
The tube squeezing device serves as an intermediary that compensates for reduced hand strength and dexterity in children and the elderly. The device's mechanical advantage and force amplification features enable these user groups to achieve complete product evacuation without requiring the manual strength or fine motor skills needed to directly squeeze a collapsing tube.
Solution Approach 2:
The device is designed with universal applicability to assist any user group regardless of age or physical capability. The handle design accommodates various hand sizes and strengths, while the squeezing element adapts to different tube types and collapse patterns, making the device equally effective for children, adults, and the elderly.
3Quantity of substance
If users tamper with or cut open the tube body to extract all product, then complete evacuation is achieved, but the device complexity and potential for product contamination increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tube squeezing device provides a controlled intermediary mechanism that achieves complete product evacuation without requiring users to tamper with, cut, or open the tube body. The squeezing element applies external compression forces that systematically push remaining product toward the dispensing end, maintaining tube integrity throughout the process and eliminating the need for complex manual manipulation or cutting operations.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a tube squeezing device for effectively evacuating all the material, paste, or product inside collapsible and flexible tubes. The tube squeezing device comprises a handle and clip end formed from an upper arm and a lower arm for securing the tube body. The clip end includes the upper arm and the lower arm with a slot therebetween. The tube is received in between the slot in order to urge dispensing of the material from the tube by rotating the handle to roll the arms along the tube body to push the material within the tube towards its dispensing end for easy evacuation without any wastage of product and money. The tube squeezing device is adjustable in size to accommodate tubes of different sizes and can be used by children, adults, elderly and others with compromised dexterity and strength.