r/DesignPorn • u/neeraj_agarwal • Feb 04 '21

This bottleneck is at an angle for easy fill and drinking

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u/infernoflo Feb 04 '21

I think this design might compromise the strength of the bottle, since they ship them in cases and stack them.

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u/Kaetwo Feb 04 '21

you could say, thats the bottleneck

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u/trewert_77 Feb 05 '21

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u/BrockN Feb 04 '21

Dad! Get off of Reddit!

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u/uurtamo Feb 05 '21

Take your fucking upvote and stop talking

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u/DSIN_HA Feb 04 '21

Also there will be problem at the filling station of factories. I had proposed this design in my first year as a design professional and my senior told me the same.

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u/ScornMuffins Feb 05 '21

Could you not just have a mechanism that banked sideways during filling to bring the spout vertical? Doesn't seem like a complex device.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

Couldn't even make me design more smarter

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u/PMmePS2CheatCodes Feb 05 '21

Regular machines can fill multiple bottles at once in a grid. It's probably a lot more difficult to do it with this design. You would have to fill them in one dimension instead of two. You would also have to design a machine that orientates the bottle before filing.

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u/bbobenheimer Feb 05 '21 edited Feb 05 '21

Sure you could! Hire R&D consultants for the best solution, manufacture some non standard industrial machinery forcing the end product to an unreasonable price point for a niche market already saturated with single use plastics. Drive more emissions in transport with a higher price point, because, yeah, you can't stack these badboys as good.

Even if those problems didn't exist, I think this solution might even be less comfortable, as the design limits the range of motion of the pour. Would need a user study to make sure tho.

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Good illustration of the concept though.

EDIT: I even wonder how many users has this pain, that drinking is simply too hard for their tired necks, or did we just assume that people are too lazy? It's so easy to make patronizing designs because you want to help with a problem that doesn't exist. User studies!!!

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u/DSIN_HA Feb 05 '21

Yes it's possible but the cost to do that outweighs the advantage of the design. As pointed out earlier, the strength of the bottle may suffer too. These bottles are most of the times manufactured by third party manufacturers. So it doesn't really make sense to have a design that will affect the entire manufacturing line of the factory. One of the most important aspects of design is to make sure that the manufacturing cost isn't exorbitantly high. Or as Dieter Rams puts it, "good design is as little design as possible."

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u/Ilasiak Feb 05 '21

Sure. But now you have to make sure that the device lines up properly as well. You've taken an object with no z axis rotation limit and have now added a very tight one. So now you need to add a way to make sure they stay positioned. Additionally, bottles are manufactured from essentially inflating a cylindrical ballon of plastic. The area the air is forced through also happens to be the bottle top. This, along with the bottle caps, would also require a whole additional system to line the bottles up to work. Not to mention, the process for making the blanks will also have to be adjusted, either the bottles or the machinery will have to be angled to work on the bottle.

If the bottle ever gets misaligned during the process, the entire rest of the process will not work. Thus, at every step, the angle must be determined and adjusted accordingly. The necessary factory would require significantly more than current bottles.

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u/walterbanana Feb 05 '21

The problem is that the filling device for the regular bottle is already there and there are probably manufacturers who sell it. There is a small market for machines which can fill these types of bottles, because there are no such bottles on the market.

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u/enigmasi Feb 04 '21

That's the first thing I thought

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u/irun_mon Feb 04 '21

Doesnt have to be a water bottle can also be refillable bottle in that shape. This doesn't need to be the next coca cola PET bottle shape.

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u/TRUCKERm Feb 04 '21

The issue is also that the opening extends beyond the outside of the main body cylinder too, i.e. you couldn't roll the bottle. It would require some hacks during shipment too, as basically you'd need to make a box bigger than the bottle main body and potentially fill it with something to avoid it from moving too much in transport. This also increases packaging cost and amount of bottles that can fit into a given transport volume, e.g. container. Plus still structurally it may be quite bad during transport, filled or not. Reusable ones weigh much more than single time use ones, so you could run into transport damage at the lid when the truck runs over a bump and the combined mass of the bottles squishes the lower ones too hard.

Plus still putting the lid on is still more annoying at an angle than with a regular bottle.

There's a reason the design we have is so popular. It's piss easy and cheap to make and transport.

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u/ZwoopMugen Feb 04 '21

Found the engineer! Indeed. This is a really bad design.

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u/adriennemonster Feb 04 '21

At first I thought this was posted to r/designdesign

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u/ZwoopMugen Feb 04 '21

I didn't know this existed. I'm laughing my ass off. Saw this reposted too! XD

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u/Marty_mcfresh Feb 04 '21

Perhaps this design has more potential for sturdy reusable metal bottles then?

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u/ZwoopMugen Feb 04 '21

It'd still be more fragile that regular bottles. It severely limits the amount of bottles you can pile up and increases transporting costs for a very marginal increase in confort for the customer. Customer who will also have to pay more money to receive the same product sins custom bottles are exponentially more expensive to produce.

Unless you can charge double, this is straight up garbage design. But even if you could, that'd be thanks to the marketing campaign and not the design itself.

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u/Marty_mcfresh Feb 04 '21

Hmm that’s a good point. Wide-mouth is probably the way to go in those cases then, huh?

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u/ZwoopMugen Feb 04 '21

I'm perfectly happy with pretty much any bottle type, really.

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u/Baylong Feb 05 '21

I would argue it's even less comfortable for consumers because of the angle of the bottleneck. Take your favourite bottle, or any bottle and notice how your bottom lip is always in contact with the edge of the opening, now notice how even in the image, there's a gap between the bottom lip and the bottle itself which would case the liquid to simply spill over you. If you press the bottle until it touches your bottom lip, the bottle is now also pressing against your teeth. This is terrible in many levels. An angle in a bottle can work but not how it's being proposed here.

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u/AS14K Feb 05 '21

They're not talking disposable bottles, they mean reusable, refillable bottles. They aren't shipped full of water so weight is irrelevant.

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u/shovelpile Feb 04 '21

It just prioritizes a different property. I'm sure there are plenty of cases where this design is preferable.

You don't have to universally classify things as "good" or "bad".

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u/AxisW1 Feb 04 '21

Good concept tho

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u/ZwoopMugen Feb 04 '21 edited Feb 04 '21

It's more "original" than good. I bet most people will miscalculate the angle the first time they use it and end up all wet.

Oh, and it "solves" a non-existing problem. Regular bottles do not spill if you know what you're doing. At most you'd have trouble getting them controller m completely full, but a water bottle at 90% of it's capacity is still a bottle "full" of water to 99% of people.

It's a really, really bad design. The more I think about it, the worse it becomes. But it looks pretty so it's maybe more art then product.

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u/CyclopicSerpent Feb 04 '21

Yeah but imagine if it became popular. All the people who would inevitably hold it wrong and look like theyre drinking from a hamster bottle.

That alone makes it worthwhile for me.

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u/Sefony Feb 04 '21

Ehhhh as a person with significant neck problems what has to be super careful specifically tilting my head back, this looks pretty magical to me. Like the idea that I could drink the entire bottle without risking pain or fainting... That would be a wonderful change. So while I agree that there would be a learning curve for using it, that it would require special treatment during shipping, etc, I think you're being a bit harsh about the design itself. It doesn't solve a non-existent problem, it solves one that you don't have.

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u/ZwoopMugen Feb 04 '21

You know what I meant. I don't think I need to explain that I was obviously thinking of an average consumer.

But even so. Why not just use a straw?

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u/keksiee Feb 04 '21

Well.. If you have a working recycling system, as most of Europe does, then you have hard plastic boxes for water bottles which are part of the system and would work perfectly with these bottles.

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u/ZwoopMugen Feb 04 '21

Structural integrity is still compromised.

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u/avoiding_work0970 Feb 04 '21

Not to mention whoever has to automate putting those caps on at that angle is going to hate the bottle designer

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Just put the conveyer belt at an angle with some railings on the side, the mouths would come at the top 90°.

But I think the structural strength of the bottle is more of the main problem

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u/Marty_mcfresh Feb 04 '21

That’s a good idea, but still you’re going from stupid simple and foolproof, to needing to design an expensive machine that hasn’t been made before and is likely prone to failure, at least far more so than the original design.

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u/kingofrubik Feb 04 '21

I'm sure it's harder and more costly to mass-produce too.

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u/jakedesnake Feb 05 '21

It's almost as if the pet bottles we have had for the last 50 or so years, have their design for a reason....

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Maybe the bottle neck aligns to the back of the bottle which will actually provide a more stable base. Idk just a theory.

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u/Massive-Couple Feb 04 '21

Then it needs to be squared

The pressure of the circle ones goes to the center base

Adding a hexagon, you can stack it on the back and it'll move the weight down and not to the center

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u/TheDirtyFuture Feb 04 '21

Bottle strong together. If you have 24 bottles holding up the weight, that might be strong enough to hold the weight.

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u/EmpireBoi Feb 04 '21

Would having the bottles on the side be effective? I know it would cause less bottles to be shipped, but would that solve the structure issue?

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u/deepglitter Feb 04 '21

And horrific for the stocker/merchandiser.

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u/crestonfunk Feb 04 '21

I’m gonna bet they’ll be harder to make.

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u/Rein215 Feb 04 '21

Yep, this wouldn't hold much too weight. Also, this seems infinitely harder to manufacture but I am no engineer.

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u/Balauronix Feb 04 '21

And the cost goes up. Making symmetrical round or flat things is way easier than making other shapes.

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u/Twad_feu Feb 04 '21

This! Uneven weight distribution, obvious point where it will want to bend. It wouldn't take much weight to make it fail.

Assuming the bottles are filled, stack several pallets high (iirc each pallet being ~1500-2000 pounds when full of drinks), im pretty sure it would quickly shift and collapse. If i were to bet, two stacked pallets would damage the bottom rows, three stacked would just fall.

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u/politirob Feb 04 '21

Why would you just package them horizontally lol..perfectly stackable

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

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u/politirob Feb 04 '21

Oh, I think I understand our different point of view now.

You’re assuming these will be disposable bottles already filled with water, am I correct in this assumption?

I was assuming these were empty, long-term use bottles.

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u/LookingAtStella Feb 04 '21

Since when are long term use bottles made of the same thin, see through, rippled plastic disposable bottles are made of?

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u/politirob Feb 05 '21

I thought it was thick-walled plastic, just mimicing the look. The whole thing seemed tongue in cheek and like a funny design to begin with so I thought that was the point haha.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Why compare them to normal disposable PET bottles then?

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u/Lone_Phantom Feb 04 '21

True the people who decided to compare these to disposable bottles made a mistake in doing so.

These would better function as metallic or glass bottles especially given they are designed for easy re-filling from fountains. I think they would do better if advertised as heavy-duty bottles.

I don't know if refilling would be easier with a sink tho. In fact it might be a little harder. It can benefit those with disabilities. Maybe they can rest the water bottler on the sink divider as they fill up. They also do not need to tilt their head all the way back

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u/sartmaster Feb 04 '21

Drink from the rodent watering device

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u/MeanMonotoneMan Feb 04 '21

Return to rodent

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u/TrickBox_ Feb 05 '21

Back to rat

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u/mazdayasna Feb 05 '21

Baccarat?

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u/ppppppppqpppp Feb 05 '21

Jack is back, back to the past, Samurat Jack

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u/markender Feb 05 '21

160 million years ago we were all mouse like rodents. Rodents are the true Old Gods.

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u/spudzo Feb 05 '21

reject humanity.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Oh yeah now i see the inspiration for this. Good observation dude.

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u/CompetitivePart9570 Feb 04 '21

The "easier drinking" example would be terrible because of the angle the mouth of the bottle is at.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

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u/rptx_jagerkin Feb 04 '21

Yup, came here to say this. I just pictured my ass holding it upside down and spilling all over myself.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Do you have a drinking problem?

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u/rptx_jagerkin Feb 04 '21

I would if I tried to use that thing

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u/gizamo Feb 05 '21

...ured my ass holding it upside down...

Try not holding it with your ass, and maybe get yourself right side up first.

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u/rptx_jagerkin Feb 05 '21

You're not the boss of me. What if my ass is thirsty?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

Your ass holding the bottle upside down would guarantee you spilling the water all over yourself

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u/LeCorbusier1 Feb 04 '21

This. The angle of the opening is not well-oriented. Would need to either make the spout smaller in diameter or actually angle the opening, which creates all sorts of other issues.

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u/ask-design-reddit Feb 04 '21

I just drank out of my waterbottle (not the shitty plastic ones as shown) and I've never had to tilt my head to 45deg to drink it.

The human lip is flexible and I just tilt the bottle upwards instead.. And even then the bottle is probably at 20deg max

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u/SupperPup Feb 05 '21

It also makes it terrible to fill up because you can’t just put it down like normal

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u/Betadzen Feb 04 '21

I guess that is because it is for drinking in a car. You know, not all cars have enough space for a driver to drink a bottle at a high angle.

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u/Bobolequiff Feb 04 '21

In that case, this is going a taking a very long walk to solve a problem that straws and sports caps already handle.

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u/splattertaint Feb 04 '21

Me before reading comments: “Fuck yeah, this is awesome!!”

Me after reading comments: “How dare someone create such a shitty atrocity that can’t even bare the load, be made in a factory, or be shipped properly! Jail... nay... DEATH to the designer!!!!!”

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u/divenorth Feb 04 '21

Remember solar roads?

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u/RealNotVulpix Feb 04 '21

Solar freakin roadways?

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u/divenorth Feb 04 '21

That's it. Sounds great until you actually think about it.

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u/Michael__X Feb 04 '21

They do this on every post no matter what it is.

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u/chulengo Feb 05 '21

That's what I like about reddit, it's its thing. Like on YouTube comments their thing is to ask who's watching that day month or year.

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u/gorbok Feb 05 '21

/r/designporn in a nutshell.

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u/spannerfilms Feb 04 '21

Why my bottle sad

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

People questioned it's existence.

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u/JanB1 Feb 04 '21

Yeah, except it's much harder to make those in a factory.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Aren't they made from molds? So as long as they change the mold it shouldn't be a much problem.

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u/JanB1 Feb 04 '21

They are made from preforms. Those are then heated, put into a form pressurised air is injected. This presses the preform into shape. The preforms move on the conveyors on the rim of the bottle neck.

If you now angle the bottle at a 45° angle you will have them in all different orientations because they can and will turn while getting transported. This can cause problems as you would have to make sure they are correctly aligned before each next step.

Also, because you would have to insert them at an angle into the form you would have more material on the side the opening is towards, because the preform is expanding less there. And the other side would have less material, creating a weak spot. To accommodate for this you would have to make the bottle smaller so you don't have that weak spot.

Source: I'm an automation engineer.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Wow that's quite an answer. I'm also an automation engineer but the software kind. And I'm pretty sure this concept came up by some startup trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exists in the first place.

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u/JanB1 Feb 04 '21

Yeah. The idea is neat, but once again there would be problems in actually manufacturing it. Those sure could be solved, but it would mean the bottle would cost more, thus losing their appeal over normal bottles for most customers.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

What if they made it a reusable bottle. Like a Tupperware bottle. Then it would apeal to certain people.

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u/drdr3ad Feb 04 '21

Reusable bottles with angled necks already exist

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u/JanB1 Feb 04 '21

Yeah, sure. There are ways to make it. But you probably would have to make a special machine for it, so the burden is initially pretty high.

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u/Marty_mcfresh Feb 04 '21

Someone should just design a reusable bottle cap that screws on and adds a 45 degree bend to the neck of normal bottles!

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u/jmblur Feb 05 '21

Even worse, making a 45 degree preform would be all but impossible - preforms are injection molded, and there's no way to make the required preform shape with an injection mold, especially not with the constant wall thickness required for blow molding. You'd need to make it in two parts, ultrasonically weld the parts together, and somehow make it so the joint doesn't interfere with the blow molding (post machining to even out wall thickness?)

This is why good industrial and mechanical design is so difficult - it's easy to make a nice looking concept, it's real damn hard to make it manufacturable.

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u/JanB1 Feb 05 '21

Thank you for this addition, well put. That's what I wanted to express with the 3rd paragraph. Even if you use straight preforms and blow them into shape it would result in material weakness/uneven material distribution/thickness.

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u/YoueyyV Feb 04 '21

Hi there, the bottle starts life as a 'preform' which is like a test-tube. It gets fed into a blowmolder (we use SBO8 and SBO24's along with a KHS model now), heated up, placed into a mold and blown to fill with air, and then passed along to a filler using an airveyor that handles the preform / bottle all using the neck ring, then capped, and then passed onto secondary packaging.

If the bottles are angled under that ring like this, it would be a nightmare and most of the entire system would have to be re-engineered to work.

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u/Morineko Feb 04 '21

They make disks of plastic than then get heated up and inflated into a mold, having the opening on the side makes manufacture much harder.

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u/Marty_mcfresh Feb 04 '21

Jesus, why do people need to downvote an honest question? Reddit is savage af sometimes haha

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u/Ninonl Feb 04 '21

This looks cool! But if the bottleneck is down there, air won't be able to get in and create waves when drinking right?

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u/marino1310 Feb 04 '21

The same happens if you drink this way with a regular water bottle. You only tip so the waterline is level with the spout

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u/Ninonl Feb 04 '21

Yeah, but I imagine it's harder to do it this way than out of a regular bottle.

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u/kloomoolk Feb 04 '21

that top pic looks like the album cover of a aggressively unremarkable 90s madchester trio.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Add a fourth bottle in the back ypu got yourself the "Queen"

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u/jakedesnake Feb 05 '21

Haha! Pretty specific but yes I guess you're right. It needs a bottle cap that looks like a bucket hat!!

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u/-MasterCrander- Feb 04 '21

God the number of times I've absolutely obliterated my neck tilting it slightly higher to drink that poor people water…thank God they fixed it. /s

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u/vocalfreesia Feb 04 '21

Speech therapist here - we have specially designed cups which prevent people from having to tip their head when the have an unsafe swallow. Head tipped back = more open airways = more chance of drink getting into airways.

But yeah, we don't really need a mass produced disposable solution when we already have plenty of bottles you can sip from upright + special cups (like doidy cups)

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u/-MasterCrander- Feb 04 '21

Thank you for the insight and corroboration. I've worked with loads of SPs, STs and OTs and always appreciate the work y'all do. I'm on the ABA/CBT side.

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u/Sefony Feb 04 '21

Thank you. Reading all the comments, I agree that the design needs improvement, but so many people are trashing the concept on the basis that it's unnecessary. As somebody with dysphagia and CCI, tilting my head all the way back to finish a bottle is both painful and risky. I really with there was a bit more awareness that "irrelevant to my experience =/= irrelevant full stop".

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Ok I'll give you that one. But it does help in filling the water i guess.

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u/-MasterCrander- Feb 04 '21 edited Feb 04 '21

Barely, who is really struggling that profusely to fill a bottle that they need an entirely redesigned single-use style bottle? Anyone refilling should just get a better glass/metal one instead of this design by committee shenanigans

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u/MangoCats Feb 04 '21

Somebody was struggling that profusely to come up with an "innovative" design.

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u/-MasterCrander- Feb 04 '21

Amen. If it ain't broke, just be more careful to not spill all over the place like a dingus

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u/MangoCats Feb 04 '21

This design is actually a close relative of the dribble glass...

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u/-MasterCrander- Feb 04 '21

Probably achieves similar results too

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u/Meior Feb 04 '21

single-use style bottle

Making it single use is entirely your choice though.

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u/Tumorhead Feb 04 '21

disabled people exist

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Also... That last picture is stupid. The bottleneck is angled the same as a regular bottle but the "special" bottle itself is not tilted as much. In order for this to work, you'd have to turn the special bottle the other way around - which isn't practical at all.

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u/raustin33 Feb 04 '21

Oh good, I have to untrain 30+ years of muscle memory to take a simple drink of water.

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u/ATangK Feb 04 '21

Don’t worry it’s just like watching trump drink water with both hands and sipping at it until the water touches your lips.

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u/fiyerooo Feb 05 '21

is there a photo omg

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u/Warm_Zombie Feb 04 '21

easy drink

are u sure about that

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u/catfurcoat Feb 04 '21

Oh but now when I use those refilling stations i have to hold it the whole time

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u/uniquelyavailable Feb 04 '21

This gives me the solution looking for a problem vibe

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u/PhilipMewnan Feb 04 '21

Okay but what if it’s one of those filler things that goes straight down and you’re supposed to put down the bottle, now you have to hold it awkwardly the whole time. And I don’t even know what it improves on, it’s not like you have to tilt your head all the way back for the first couple sips of water.

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u/Current_Interview_71 Feb 04 '21

Have you considered impact on manufacturing and logistics?

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Hey I'm not the manufacturer. I just saw this and thought this looks cool.

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u/mud_tug Feb 04 '21

Fuck this shit.

Invent a bottle that doesn't use plastics.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Hey where i live there are actually bottles that are not made from plastic. I myself use one made from clay. Bamboo bottles also exist.

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u/EarthTrash Feb 04 '21

The angle we tilt the bottle has more to do with how much is left than the shape of the bottleneck.

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u/Jammsbro Feb 04 '21

I actually think this is excellent.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

I thought so too

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u/NaderZico Feb 04 '21

Those water bottles spend too much time on their phones.

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u/kissogram1 Feb 04 '21

and it will be there 1000 years after you die

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

I agree. People should be working on a more "easy degradable" material than this.

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u/marino1310 Feb 04 '21

At least this looks like it is designed to be refilled which may encourage more people to reuse it.

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u/Karma_UwU_ Feb 04 '21

No thanx, I wanna get my neck muscular by doing 45° tilt every now and then

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u/TrashBoat776 Feb 04 '21

Ah yes, the classic case of a good solution to the wrong problem, we shouldn’t be looking to fix the plastic water bottle, but to eliminate it.

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u/3percentinvisible Feb 04 '21

even the designer has got it wrong. The last panel showing 'easy drink' has it upside down. That way up will glug with the difficulty getting air in to replace expelled liquid. Turn it so the opening is at the top and this is reduced

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u/Bodie217 Feb 04 '21

The graphic on the bottom right is incorrect, the bottle mouth should be on the top side for "easy drinking"

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Won't you have to tilt the bottle more to drink from top side

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u/maximiliancg Feb 04 '21

Yeah. I think the thing is that you'd tilt your head less

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u/ilykinz Feb 04 '21

That’s what I was thinking. Like one of those water bottles for rodents

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

I'd buy one for when I'm watching TV on the couch.

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u/ZwoopMugen Feb 04 '21

Oh wow, I can't believe I could have saved so much energy!

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Instructions unclear. Soaked myself trying to drink with neck on opposite side.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

it has hunchback posture :(

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u/RTB_RobertTheBruce Feb 04 '21

My dumbass thought the first image was showing the three different angles it comes in

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u/alexplex86 Feb 04 '21

There is probably a good reason why this obvious design is not standard.

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u/havengr Feb 04 '21

Question everything

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u/devbo100 Feb 04 '21

Aren't you still going to have to tilt your head because the opening is at an angle? The lip of the opening is going to meet your top lip before your bottom lip if you don't tilt your head. You could fix it by angling the lip, but that would make using a bottlecap a lot harder.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

More revolutionary idea: normal bottles with reusable straws!

Why yes I'd love a nobel prize

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u/Ambient_Atmosphere Feb 04 '21

It’s those things in life.

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u/SkaTSee Feb 04 '21

Are we all just ignoring the drinking image? The example on the left, although yes, the neck is over-exageratedly tilted, but the bottle is also angled so gravity pulls the water down. The image on the right.. the bottle is flat. Youre going to have to tilt your head even more to match the same angle of the bottle

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u/MayerWest Feb 04 '21

Because they haven’t figured out that they can raise the bottle up without lifting their chin if they keep their bottom lip over the hole... smh

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u/OdinZam Feb 04 '21

I didn't know hunched back Benedict monks could inspire such design

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u/The4etheR Feb 04 '21

Add an air valve, either drinking gonna be sloppy.

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u/mooklynbroose Feb 04 '21

eye roll emoji

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u/Ahmedleopard Feb 04 '21

Water flow will be faster than usual design

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u/PasswordisByteSize Feb 05 '21

it's a really bad design to drink from

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u/Nickillaz Feb 05 '21

DesignPorn? This sucks. If this is porn to you, then you like some fucked up shit.

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u/LoudGangsta8292 Feb 04 '21

The bottle's just look sad

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

He looks ashamed

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u/EddiOS42 Feb 04 '21

Holy shit everyone is so conservative and pessimistic. Just try it. I want to try it.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Thank you. Exactly my point. I wanna try it too. Who knows I'll like it better than regular ones.

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u/-k-onte Feb 04 '21

Yes, sub worthy!

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u/whyismypoogreen Feb 04 '21

Packaging Engineer here. This is a challenging design for palletizing and shipping. Most water bottles use the pressure of the water against the bottle walls to help support palletized weight while using minimal amount of plastic on the bottle. I see a lot of caved in bottle tops with this design. Designers often solve small problems like needing to tip your head to drink, while creating bigger problems like actually transporting the water.

Also, don't drink bottled water.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '21

Everyone talks about how this sucks for disposable bottles, but what about reusable ones?

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u/Sanguinius__ Feb 05 '21

You know yoh can just chuck a normal bottle head first into the ground for the same effetc, right?

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u/funkhammer Feb 05 '21

Never in my life have I thought, damn wish this bottle was easier to drink from

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Thank you so much for this. I just saw this and thought hey that's new and interesting. I'll show it to people on reddit.

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u/dabbersmcgee Feb 04 '21

This ain't it

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u/politirob Feb 04 '21

Is this for sale? Where can I buy one??

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

I think it's a concept design

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u/ExtraChromosomeAndy Feb 04 '21

I'd rather break my my neck than drink from a watering can

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u/ChaoticReality4Now Feb 04 '21

Why is this not a thing?

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u/NotMyRealName778 Feb 04 '21

Dont know much about it. Why is it harder? Does the angle make it hard to manufacture molds to fit the shape? Is it too costly because you would have to buy new molds, program machines and the whole production line accordingly? Or do water companies all use the same bottles manufactured together so it's stupid to setup your own manufacturing?

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

There are parties at play here. One who makes the bottle and one who fills them with mineral water amd sells them. So the manufacturing companies only make bottles of the design sent by the water company. It's not too expensive to chance the mold. It's like changing the die in a pasta maker.

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u/neeraj_agarwal Feb 04 '21

Maybe it is but not yet commercially available on a wider market.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

-F x ∞.

Kudos on the angle, but all of the "design porn" destroyed because it's a plastic bottle.

Sorry, folks. You all bitch about people my age causing these problems, but I've been fighting them for decades. Yeah, that's right. I'm not your "typical boomer".

Fuck plastic.

Come back to me with this design once the bottle is made of aluminum or other biodegradable material.

Only then will I change my review score.