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! Ideas that are not a Wine bottle opener !! Restaurants/Bars !! Wineries !! High Volume Users !! Low Volume Users !! Elderly ("Health" Problems)
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*Cork with ringed notch for putting corkscrew on
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*Printed ring on cork
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*Corkscrew guide on bottle neck
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*Conic cork
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*Corkscrew guide on bottle neck that also holds the bottle by bottle neck
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*Conical corkscrew held by champagne cap
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*Notched cork that releases at angle like a key (screw in cork)
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*Keurig like wine pourer with cartridges of wine
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*Keurig machine that holds and cools different wines
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*Porous plastic bag to hold wine
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*Keg of wine
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*PET wine bottle
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*PET cap on glass bottle
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*Screw path outside wine bottleneck
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*Wine chiller that uncorks wine, push button, uncorks in chiller
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*Wine chiller with lever arm opener
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*Sealed plastic wine glasses
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*Electric pourer for barrel, keeps track of # of wine bottles poured
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*Bottle design where you can sabre the cork off
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*Cylinder device on apron/belt for waiters to hold bottle
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*Wine dispensing/chiller device that keeps certain wine at certain temperatures
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*Temperature controlled racks
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*Automatic rotating racks for wine storage (prevents tannin)
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*Automatic drip control and pours correct serving size
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*Drip avoidance system
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*Aerated pouring system
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*Clamping Lever arm
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*Build in fridge lever arm
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*Microwave mounted lever arm
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*Keychain cork pincher
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*Combo cork pincher and foil cutter
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*Laser foil cutter
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*Push pin wine cork
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*Android case wine opener
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*2 part cork (plastic cap that pushes cork into bottle)
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*Champagne style cork that goes around bottleneck
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*Lever arm to open multiple bottles
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*Twisting wine bottle opener
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*Lever opener with arm stand/support
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*Handheld electric openers
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*Lever arm system that grips bottleneck and use lever to open wine bottle
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*Built in table/chair wine opener
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*Opener that mounts on a pourer that avoids drip
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*Barbed wine punch opener
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*Barbed wine punch opener with button that pushes straight in but when pulling out hooks the cork
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*Simple device that pushes wine cork in
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*Something that cuts cork and lifts it out
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*Corkscrew on end of handle that you push instead of twist when screwing into cork, no spin when pulling cork out
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*Vacuum opener
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*Two points enter cork at angle, then lift
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*Device that increases pressure inside of wine bottle to push cork out
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*Screwing bottle into a tap system (like beer)
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*Tap system to each table
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*Magnetic tables, put bottle on table and tap using quarter on neck
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*Handheld vacuum opener
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*Hand held pump opener
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*Swiss army knife opener
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*iPhone beer and wine bottle opener case
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*Ergonomic hand grip w/ lever arm
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*Lever arm that contours to thigh
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*Lever arm that contours to belt/apron
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*Manual Rotating Push Pin
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*Automatic rotating push pin
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*Pushpin with string at the end
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*Wall Corkscrew
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*Elegant lever arm
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*Table lever arm
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*Spring hinge that touches lip of bottle on the wine key
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*Rubber at end of wine key that touches bottleneck
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*Corkscrew on wine key that doesn't hinge (simple corkscrew)
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*Device that holds bottles for personal preference during tasting events
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*Foil cutter on lever arm wine opener
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*Foil cutter on electric wine opener
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*Blade on wine key
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*2 bladed wine key to cut foil
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*Lever arm with a hook at end
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*Huge vacuum chamber to pop corks out
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*Vibration/shock system to pop corks out
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*Pourer from barrel
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*Electric wine tap system that monitors amount of wine left
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*Shoe opening method but with cushion at end
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*Rubber mallet opener
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*Flask that hits bottom of wine bottle to pop cork out
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*Automatic flask that hits bottom of wine bottle to pop cork out
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*Using a foot pedal that hits bottom of wine bottle to pop cork out
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*Use rotating wheel in place of lever arm
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*Lever arm that pulls out cork and can put back in (Gautam)
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*Spring loaded hook to put in wine
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*Grabs top of bottle and pushes cork back
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*Magnet into cork
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*Corkscrew that goes between bottle and cork
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*Bottle shaped device that pushes pin between cork and bottle
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*Rotating L shaped push pin
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*Screw in Deck mount
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*Corkscrew fridge magnet
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*Wall mounted cork pincher
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*Put bottle into device, uses lever arm and tips to pour wine
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*Uncork, drop straw, and dispenses wine while bottle is held at angle
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*Drill hole and put straw in
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*Put bottle into device, uses lever arm and tips to pour wine but battery powered
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=Team member roles=
=Team member roles=

Revision as of 15:20, 24 February 2014

Contents

Executive summary

Market Review

Anthropological Observations and Interview at wine bars

To see how the corkscrews are used in a professional environment we went to a wine bar on Walnut Street in Shadyside. We’ve stayed there to watch the waiter work, how she opens the bottles and then asked her and the tenant some questions. They told us some interesting information.

First of all they had to types of corkscrew. The first type was a wing corkscrew. They said that they don’t use it that much compared to the connoisseurs’ one (wine key). According the tenant the key has the advantage to be really easy to use and light. It’s easy for the waiter to carry it with her which is an important feature because most of the bottles are opened at the tables. Despite these advantages the wine key it need some practice to be used correctly and quickly (the waitress told us that when she started to work she practiced at home). Moreover sometimes the lever doesn’t stand correctly on the bottle lip, especially if this one is round, which is really inconvenient and could leads in the worst case to spill the wine on the customer. The last problem that the waitress had with this type of corkscrew is that after having opened some bottles the hinge that hold the lever get a bit loose which leads to a bad alignment of the screw.

The problem that the waitress encounters is that to open properly a wine bottle she should have three hands. One to hold the bottle, one to clamps the corkscrew on the bottleneck and one to give the motion to the screw.

Another point that we see during our observation is that when the waitress cut the foil she doesn’t cut it from the side of the bottle but from top. She sticks the blade on the top of the bottleneck and then cut the upper part with a circular motion. See next picture :

Way foil is cut in restaurants
Way foil is cut in restaurants

She also told us that the knife from the wine key gets blunt pretty fast.

Concerning the bottles themselves, 30 percent of the ones drunk in the bar were closed with caps. What is more when they open a bottle just for a glass they reclose it by putting the cork back in. Usually a bottle doesn’t stay open more than a day.

The last subject that we approach was electrical corkscrew. The waitress told us that her mother has one because it didn’t require any force to open the bottle, which is what elderly people are looking for. However she said that this type of corkscrew seems really complicated and that it takes way too long to pull the cork out.

We carried on our market study by going to a couple of other restaurants. We asked them the following questions:

  1. What type of corkscrew do you use?
  2. Why?
  3. Have you ever encountered any trouble with the type of corkscrew?
  4. Do you see any way of improving the corkscrew you use?
  5. Have you ever tried this type of corkscrew? (picture of our product)

Here are the answers we obtained:

  1. simple one (foldable screw + handle), “the 2 handles one is definitely the worst”
  2. 2 inches we can use to open the bottle so we don’t have to screw in a little bit, lift it up and then screw all the way down to finally being able to take the cork out. On top of that it’s very easy to carry around
  3. The back knife is not sharp enough and sometimes it’s tough to open bottles closed with “dry cork”
  4. Sharper knife
  5. “NO! It looks complicated”

And:

  1. Simple one (foldable screw + handle)
  2. Cheapest one and easy to carry around
  3. No trouble on plastic cork but it can be more difficult with dry cork (break the cork)
  4. No real improvement
  5. “Yes, my parents have one of those. I hate it because I broke it (laugh). Probably because the lever arm was made out of plastic”

We can easily conclude that the wine key is the most used bottle opener in that market (Bars and Restaurants). The main reasons for that is that this item is very reliable and easy to carry around. On top of that, its price is very low compared to other bottle opener. Therefore, if we want to focus on this market, we should definitely thing about those criteria while designing our product.

Survey

In order to gain more insight into the types of wine openers consumers currently use, we designed and distributed an online survey on www.freeonlinesurvey.com. The link for our survey (now closed) is:

http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s.asp?sid=94ftwck6l19ukem416844

We asked consumers to share how many bottles they open, which type of opener they currently use, how long they usually take to open a bottle, and some of the problems that irk them. In order to gauge what kind of product they desire, we asked them to identify some of the features they look for in an ideal opener, how much money they are willing to spend on a new product, and what they think is the type of opener that is easiest to operate. The survey mainly focused on 5 different types of openers: The basic twist and pull corkscrew, the winged corkscrew, the sommelier knife or waiter’s friend, the twin prong cork puller, and the lever arm corkscrew. We received a total of 61 responses, of which only 3 consumers identified themselves as servers/bartenders who are required to open wine bottles as part of their job description. Since the survey is aimed at individual users or low volume users, we can say that 95% of the responses are fair while 5% of the responses represent high volume users, who may have more experience opening wine bottles, and therefore encounter fewer problems.

A majority of the consumers surveyed open between 1 and 2 bottles of wine per week and 23 of the 61 consumers use a Wing Corkscrew. The Sommelier Knife (Waiter’s Friend) and Basic Corkscrew are next in terms of their popularity while only 1 consumer indicated that they own a Twin Prong Cork Puller. Only about 16% of the people surveyed indicated that they take longer than 30 seconds to open a bottle of wine. The most common problem people encounter is having the cork break when opening a bottle. Some users complained that they have to be extremely careful while opening bottles so as not to spill wine everywhere, or damage/break the cork. This in turn increases the amount of time they take to open wine bottles and generally makes for a more frustrating experience. Another area of difficulty consumers identified was opening the foil off the top of the cork, which they say takes very long to accomplish. Therefore it wasn’t surprising when the most desired feature in an opener was found to be its ease of use. 55 of the 61 people surveyed chose ease of use as one of the features they look for in a wine opener. The next popular response was that the opener must be durable and not break easily.

Figure 3 shows us that most consumers are willing to pay between $5 and $20 for a new opener. This seems appropriate to us since consumers would like an opener to be durable, and you probably can’t buy a good opener for less than $5. Finally, when consumers were asked how easy they thought some openers were to operate, 40% of them chose the Lever Arm Corkscrew as the easiest while 36% chose the Twin Prong Cork Puller to be the hardest to operate. The results shown in figure 5, which depicts a stacked bar graph that relates the type of opener owned to how long it takes to open a bottle, are particularly interesting to us. They tell us that using a sommelier knife can be a hit-or-miss situation. Most of the consumers who took less than 10 seconds to open a bottle own a sommelier knife.

The survey we conducted tells us that consumers do not want an opener that breaks easily and they are willing to pay a little extra in order to get the right product. While only a few consumers actually use lever arm corkscrews, most of them perceive it to be the easiest to operate from the given options.

Figure 1 – Responses to “What kind of bottle opener do you use?”
Figure 1 – Responses to “What kind of bottle opener do you use?”
Figure 2 – Responses to “Please estimate how long (in seconds) it takes you to open a bottle of wine, using the type of opener you have just listed.”
Figure 2 – Responses to “Please estimate how long (in seconds) it takes you to open a bottle of wine, using the type of opener you have just listed.”
Figure 3 – Responses to “How much money ($) are you willing to pay for a new wine opener?”
Figure 3 – Responses to “How much money ($) are you willing to pay for a new wine opener?”
Figure 4 – Responses to “What are some of the features you look for in a wine opener? (You may choose more than one option)."
Figure 4 – Responses to “What are some of the features you look for in a wine opener? (You may choose more than one option)."
Figure 5 – Correlation between how long people take to open a bottle of wine and what type of wine opener they use
Figure 5 – Correlation between how long people take to open a bottle of wine and what type of wine opener they use

Expert Interviews

Competitor Products

User reviews on internet

The main problems that the users encounter with the lever arm corkscrew is that after several use the screw don’t work properly. Most of the time it turns on the way back up which doesn’t pull the cork out of the bottle, the corkscrew become useless. What also appear in the reviews is that this kind of corkscrew is heavy and not easy to operate.

'Heavy, awkward to handle and broke after twenty uses.'

What also came out of the reviews is that the motion is not really smooth. This type of corkscrew is mainly designed for the high-end market and that is why bad tolerences are not acceptable for this type of bottle opener.

'In my opinion, this is a very poorly made opener. The manufacturing/assembly tolerances are very sloppy and the action of the opener is not smooth.'

On the other hand some reviews are quite positive about the corkscrew saying that it is easy to use and require less force than a usual corkscrew. This may be an important criteria for eldrely people or disabled. However its complexity may prevent this type of customers to use it.

About the wine key, the comments were that it is light, easy to use and quick. However one of the main problem that the user encounter is that after some time the hinge get loose and the alignment of the screw is not perfect anymore. That makes it tougher to open the bottle and stresses more the corks, which can even leads to break it. But all in all the review were really positive

Concerning the prong cork the reviews say it is difficult to use but once you got used to it, it is easy. On top of that some review were saying that it may be really useful to open broken corks or old bottles,. However many reviews point out that because of the prongs thickness it is very likely to push the cork in the bottle.

'It may be a little difficult for new beginner to use. After a while, you will enjoy the fun. It is especially good for open the older bottles'
'...the prongs are so thick that it has pushed in many a cork. Aaargh. Don't buy this. Not worth the aggravation.'

Brainstorming

Methods & Thought Process

In order to brainstorm various ideas, we needed to understand our wine opener's functionality. By doing so, we can identify problems in various consumer audiences and generate ideas that address those problems. Using various techniques such as market iteration and random word generation, we brainstormed over 100 diverse ideas that focused on solving problems identified previously.

  1. Identify wine opener functionality and underlying needs.
  2. Establish markets base on opportunities for product improvement and stakeholder needs.
  3. Generate ideas by iterating through markets and randomization processes.
  4. Evaluate ideas and select top 5 ideas that withing the class' scope.

Product Objectives

Ability to open a bottle of wine

Underlying Need: Pouring wine into a glass and drinking it

Underlying Need: Easier to open a bottle of wine with a corkscrew.

Underlying Need: "Delivering" wine to customer(s) at a restaurant or bar

Allows for bottle to be resealed with cork

Underlying Need: Consumer can replace cork and store wine

Establishing Potential Problems

  • The wine bottle could have been sealed with a dry or broken cork
  • The consumer's struggle of pulling the cork out of the bottle after screwing in the corkscrew
  • Not having enough "limbs" to operate wine bottle opener without using a surface to place the bottle
  • Ensuring the corkscrew's central axis is aligned to the cork's center
  • Easy to store and/or carry around
  • Drip that comes down the inside of the wine bottle while pouring wine
  • Avoid spilling and pouring wine on customer at a bar or restaurant

Market Identification & Stakeholder Needs

Restaurants/bars

Wineries

High Volume users

Low Volume users

Elderly people

Ideas that are not the wine opener

Top 3 Designs

  • Grappling Hook
  • Handheld Lever Arm
  • Clamp and Twist

Design Concepts

Grappling Mechanism

What came out of the anthropological observation and the interviews at the wine bars is that the wine key has several problems. The important points are the following :

  • The hinge get loose and the corkscrew doesn't work properly anymore
  • The lever is not steady on the bottle lip and may slip
  • The quicker it is to open the bottle the better

From these two observations we came up with the idea to redesign the wine key. The part that takes most of the time during the opening process is to screw the cork in. That's why we came up with the idea to design a wine bottle openener that doesn't use a srcew. We came up with a technique which main principle is to insert a thin piece of metal between the cork and the bottleneck. The thin bar has a hinge with a spring-loaded foldable part at the end. Once the bar is deep enough the small part fold at 90 degrees. When the user pull the bar back up using a simple handle. The spring-loaded part take the cork with on the way up.

With this technique the cork is not damaged. This also means that it is really unlikely to break the cork while opening the bottle. Moreover this technique is quick because it doesn't require a spinning motion. Which could be very useful for the bar and restaurant market.

This technique as three main problems :

  • It may be tough to insert the whole mechanism between the cork and the bottle neck.
  • As the mechanism as to be thin, the hinge that links the spring-loaded part must be small. On the other hand ith as to be resistant because it will undergo an important force.
  • The force to apply is quite important because there is no lever arm that reduce the rquired force to take the cork out.
Concept 1 - Grapple Mechanism
Concept 1 - Grapple Mechanism

Spring Loaded Arrow Corkscrew

We thought about another way of opening a bottle without using a screw. This design involves kind of an arrow that has foldable parts which could be spring loaded. The shape has been designed to penetrate the cork easily without punching a huge hole. Once it has been all the way through the cork, the spring will make 2 metal pieces pop out so that the item won't be able to fit in the hole anymore. The user can now pull the cork out vertically. Finally, the user just has to unscrew the head of the device in order to detach the cork from the bottle opener.

This item is very adapted to the market "Bars and Restaurant" because it matches the needs of the waiters. It is light, small and easy to carry around. On top of that, by adding detachable parts (the arrow and the handle), it's easy to replace or change those components. We could design handles that match a man's hand or woman's hand. We could also think about adding a beer opener on the top. It is important to precise that the head of the arrow should be protected in order to avoid the user to get injured while carrying it around. That's why we were thinking about designing a cover for this item.

Concept 1 - Spring Loaded Arrow (Hook)
Concept 1 - Spring Loaded Arrow (Hook)

Handheld Lever Arm Corkscrew

Concept 3 - Handheld Lever Arm Corkscrew
Concept 3 - Handheld Lever Arm Corkscrew

Gripping Bottleneck Lever Arm

Concept 1 - Grapple Mechanism
Concept 1 - Grapple Mechanism

Clamp and Twist Corkscrew

Figure 1 – Responses to “What kind of bottle opener do you use?”
Figure 1 – Responses to “What kind of bottle opener do you use?”

Pugh Chart

A pugh chart is a chart that is used to compare different options. In engineering conception, we use it in order to compare and choose different design possibilities. We first have to choose a "standard" product (used as a reference) depending on our design orientation. Then we set criteria that are important for our final product and assign weights to every criteria to judge their importance according to the market we are seeking. Then we compare every aspects of our design to the reference with the following notation:

++: if our product is way better than the reference on this criteria

+: if our product is slightly better than the reference on this criteria

0: if our product is equivalent to the reference on this criteria

-: if our product is slightly worse than the reference on this criteria

--: if our product is way worse than the reference on this criteria

Then we count the score for each design we were envisaging and calculate the final score by doing the difference between "+" and "-".

For this pugh chart we decided to compare our design ideas to the standard wine key used in bars and restaurants because it is the market we are interesting in. Since we are seeking for this market, we want our item to match the waiters and restaurants' costumers expectations. The most important aspect of our final product according to this market are:

-size

-durability

-transportability

-reliability

-efficiency

Pugh Chart - Wine Bottle Opener
Description Standard Wine key Arrow Twist + bottle holder Extendable lever arm Glove lever arm Spring loaded hook
Sketch
Criteria Weight Datum Design 1 Design 2 Design 3 Design 4 Design 5
Price 1 0 + - -- -- ++
Size 3 0 0 - -- - +
Durable 3 0 - + 0 + --
Complements opportunity 1 0 ++ 0 0 0 0
Transportable 3 0 0 - - - +
Weight 2 0 0 0 - - +
Reliable 3 0 - + ++ ++ --
Safe 1 0 -- ++ + ++ 0
Efficient 3 0 - ++ ++ ++ -
Easy to use 2 0 + ++ ++ ++ 0
Classy 2 0 - 0 0 0 -
+ 0 5 18 17 21 10
0 24 8 5 6 3 4
- 0 13 7 13 10 17
Net score 0 -8 11 4 11 -7

We can see that some of our design ideas have negative scores and some others have positive scores. This pugh chart definitely helps us to know on what to focus the scope of our future design ambition. From now on, we are going to continue with only the spring loaded arrow, the twist+bottle holder and the extendable lever arm. Even if the design 1 has a negative score, we still thing that the idea is good and that we can take something out of it. We will then decide which of this 3 ideas is the best to keep to accomplish our design experience.

Gantt Chart

Below is the Gantt chart that specifies the continuation of our project. It has three main periods which correspond to the realization of the three prototypes. Each main period is subdivied in smaller part such as design, ordering part and analysis. The chart also includes the three review that are due with each prototype. School break is included in the chart because the group won't work on the project during this time. The chart will help us to stay on time with the deadlines and to plan our work efficently.

Gantt chart for our project
Gantt chart for our project

Appendix: 100 Ideas

100 Ideas

100 "Wild" Ideas by Market
Ideas that are not a Wine bottle opener Restaurants/Bars Wineries High Volume Users Low Volume Users Elderly ("Health" Problems)
  • Cork with ringed notch for putting corkscrew on
  • Printed ring on cork
  • Corkscrew guide on bottle neck
  • Conic cork
  • Corkscrew guide on bottle neck that also holds the bottle by bottle neck
  • Conical corkscrew held by champagne cap
  • Notched cork that releases at angle like a key (screw in cork)
  • Keurig like wine pourer with cartridges of wine
  • Keurig machine that holds and cools different wines
  • Porous plastic bag to hold wine
  • Keg of wine
  • PET wine bottle
  • PET cap on glass bottle
  • Screw path outside wine bottleneck
  • Wine chiller that uncorks wine, push button, uncorks in chiller
  • Wine chiller with lever arm opener
  • Sealed plastic wine glasses
  • Electric pourer for barrel, keeps track of # of wine bottles poured
  • Bottle design where you can sabre the cork off
  • Cylinder device on apron/belt for waiters to hold bottle
  • Wine dispensing/chiller device that keeps certain wine at certain temperatures
  • Temperature controlled racks
  • Automatic rotating racks for wine storage (prevents tannin)
  • Automatic drip control and pours correct serving size
  • Drip avoidance system
  • Aerated pouring system
  • Clamping Lever arm
  • Build in fridge lever arm
  • Microwave mounted lever arm
  • Keychain cork pincher
  • Combo cork pincher and foil cutter
  • Laser foil cutter
  • Push pin wine cork
  • Android case wine opener
  • 2 part cork (plastic cap that pushes cork into bottle)
  • Champagne style cork that goes around bottleneck
  • Lever arm to open multiple bottles
  • Twisting wine bottle opener
  • Lever opener with arm stand/support
  • Handheld electric openers
  • Lever arm system that grips bottleneck and use lever to open wine bottle
  • Built in table/chair wine opener
  • Opener that mounts on a pourer that avoids drip
  • Barbed wine punch opener
  • Barbed wine punch opener with button that pushes straight in but when pulling out hooks the cork
  • Simple device that pushes wine cork in
  • Something that cuts cork and lifts it out
  • Corkscrew on end of handle that you push instead of twist when screwing into cork, no spin when pulling cork out
  • Vacuum opener
  • Two points enter cork at angle, then lift
  • Device that increases pressure inside of wine bottle to push cork out
  • Screwing bottle into a tap system (like beer)
  • Tap system to each table
  • Magnetic tables, put bottle on table and tap using quarter on neck
  • Handheld vacuum opener
  • Hand held pump opener
  • Swiss army knife opener
  • iPhone beer and wine bottle opener case
  • Ergonomic hand grip w/ lever arm
  • Lever arm that contours to thigh
  • Lever arm that contours to belt/apron
  • Manual Rotating Push Pin
  • Automatic rotating push pin
  • Pushpin with string at the end
  • Wall Corkscrew
  • Elegant lever arm
  • Table lever arm
  • Spring hinge that touches lip of bottle on the wine key
  • Rubber at end of wine key that touches bottleneck
  • Corkscrew on wine key that doesn't hinge (simple corkscrew)
  • Device that holds bottles for personal preference during tasting events
  • Foil cutter on lever arm wine opener
  • Foil cutter on electric wine opener
  • Blade on wine key
  • 2 bladed wine key to cut foil
  • Lever arm with a hook at end
  • Huge vacuum chamber to pop corks out
  • Vibration/shock system to pop corks out
  • Pourer from barrel
  • Electric wine tap system that monitors amount of wine left
  • Shoe opening method but with cushion at end
  • Rubber mallet opener
  • Flask that hits bottom of wine bottle to pop cork out
  • Automatic flask that hits bottom of wine bottle to pop cork out
  • Using a foot pedal that hits bottom of wine bottle to pop cork out
  • Use rotating wheel in place of lever arm
  • Lever arm that pulls out cork and can put back in (Gautam)
  • Spring loaded hook to put in wine
  • Grabs top of bottle and pushes cork back
  • Magnet into cork
  • Corkscrew that goes between bottle and cork
  • Bottle shaped device that pushes pin between cork and bottle
  • Rotating L shaped push pin
  • Screw in Deck mount
  • Corkscrew fridge magnet
  • Wall mounted cork pincher
  • Put bottle into device, uses lever arm and tips to pour wine
  • Uncork, drop straw, and dispenses wine while bottle is held at angle
  • Drill hole and put straw in
  • Put bottle into device, uses lever arm and tips to pour wine but battery powered

Team member roles

  • Alex Clement : Brain Storming
  • César Daguet : Pugh Chart
  • Gautam Poddar : Sketches
  • Ross Farquharson : Stakeholders, Scenarios
  • Claude Muller : Market study

References

User review

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