Steel Two Top Water Bottle
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The Two Top bottle aimed to enhance a fashionable product functionally. People loved drinking from small openings, but hated not being able to put ice cubes in it.
I created tooling CAD from industrial design surfaces using top-down modeling. Cost management was critical since the product essentially combined two water bottles while maintaining single-bottle pricing. I analyzed manufacturing processes and negotiated with the contract manufacturer to reduce per-unit costs.
Design Challenges
- Designing two leak-proof seals
- Maintaining competitive insulation performance
- Paint color and logo selection
- Design for Manufacturability (DFM)
Gasket
The middle gasket required repeated deformation across a difficult-to-control surface profile while remaining connected to the upper section.
Cap
To balance manufacturability with aesthetic vision, I split the plastic into two components, overmolding the yellow section onto blue SPI threads.
