Wearable Beverage Carrier Motion Block for Spill-Stable Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional beverage holders are often inaccessible or impractical during activities that require both hands, such as occupational and recreational tasks, and fail to maintain easy access to beverages while preventing spillage.
Innovation Solution
A beverage carrier system featuring a sleeve with a splash guard and a motion subsystem that includes a pulley block with static bearings, allowing the beverage holder to be worn on the shoulder and move along a strap, maintaining an upright position and reducing spill risk through a 'two-point' contact system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a conventional beverage holder is used, then the beverage can be held, but both hands are occupied and accessibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The beverage carrier system is divided into separate functional components: a wearable strap portion, a motion subsystem with pulley block, and a beverage holder assembly. This segmentation allows the beverage holder to be worn on the body, freeing both hands for other tasks while maintaining easy accessibility to the beverage through the motion subsystem that allows the holder to move along the strap.
2Ease of operation
If the beverage holder is made movable for accessibility, then hand access is improved, but spillage risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The beverage holder is designed with dynamic movement capability along the strap through the motion subsystem, allowing easy accessibility. However, when the holder is stationary, the splash guard automatically positions to cover the beverage container opening, preventing spills. This dynamic system provides both mobility and spill protection based on the holder's state of motion.
Solution Approach 2:
The splash guard acts as an intermediary element between the beverage container and the external environment. It can move to cover or expose the container opening, serving as a mediator that prevents spills during movement while allowing access when stationary, thus resolving the contradiction between mobility and spill prevention.
3Reliability
If a splash guard is added to prevent spills, then beverage containment is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The splash guard is merged with the beverage holder assembly, integrating the spill prevention function directly into the holder structure rather than adding it as a separate, complex subsystem. This integration achieves reliable spill prevention while minimizing the increase in overall device complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A beverage carrier for personal transport of a contained beverage includes a beverage holder having a sleeve configured to support a beverage container and a splash guard coupled to the sleeve and positionable from a closed to an open position. A motion subsystem includes a motion block having a housing having a wall, at least two spaced apart static bearings protruding from the wall, and a strap extension protruding from the wall. A first strap is configured to couple the sleeve to the motion subsystem via the strap extension. A second strap is wearable by a user and configured to cooperate with the at least two static spaced apart bearings such that the motion subsystem is operable to travel along a portion of the second strap.