Vessel, and systems and methods of design, manufacturing, storage, transportation, use, disposal, form and/or function of a vessel, and reversible/revisable/renewable/transformable materials and companion products and packaging cycles

Abstract

A product, such as a vessel and methods related to product/vessel design, use, transportation and/or storage are provided. An improved product/vessel form, and methods related thereto, provide significant functional advantages with respect to the manufacturing, storage, transportation, use and/or disposal of the product/vessel. Improved systems and methods of design, manufacturing, storage, transportation, use, disposal, form and/or function of a product/vessel are provided.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for optimizing space and/or resource allocation for, and utilization requirements of material, packaging, storage, transport, use, reuse and/or disposal and/or collectively a product of same, said method comprising the steps of:
 determining materialization of the product to minimize wasted space and/or optimize product conveyance(s); and   designing the product with the materialization based upon said determining step.   
     
     
         2 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  wherein the product comprises a group of vessels, wherein said determining step comprises determining groupings of vessels to minimize wasted space and/or optimize vessel conveyance(s); and wherein said designing step comprises designing individual vessels within the group based upon said determining step. 
     
     
         3 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises the step of optimizing vessel conveyance(s), and wherein said vessel conveyance(s) comprises a vessel shape. 
     
     
         4 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises the step of optimizing vessel conveyance(s), and wherein said vessel conveyance(s) comprises a vessel purpose. 
     
     
         5 . The method as claimed in  claim 4 , wherein said vessel purpose comprises the delivery of a conveyable substance. 
     
     
         6 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises the step of optimizing vessel conveyance(s), and wherein said vessel conveyance(s) comprises a vessel life cycle and/or shelf life for a vessel. 
     
     
         7 . The method as claimed in  claim 6  wherein in said optimizing step recycling, repurposing and/or disposal of the vessel is determined. 
     
     
         8 . The method as claimed in  claim 7  wherein in said optimizing step a preferred material for optimizing recycling, repurposing and/or disposal of said vessel is determined. 
     
     
         9 . The method as claimed in  claim 8  wherein in said optimizing step a preferred trigger for initiating said recycling, repurposing and/or disposal of said vessel is determined in coordination with said vessel material. 
     
     
         10 . The method as claimed in  claim 9  wherein said trigger is an agent that decomposes said vessel material. 
     
     
         11 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises the step of optimizing vessel conveyance(s), and wherein said vessel conveyance(s) comprises a vessel contents. 
     
     
         12 . The method as claimed in  claim 11  wherein in said optimizing step vessel contents are enhanced, modified, contributed to and or amplified by said vessel. 
     
     
         13 . The method as claimed in  claim 12  wherein said optimizing of vessel contents is performed on demand. 
     
     
         14 . The method as claimed in  claim 12  wherein said optimizing of vessel contents is performed in a progressive manner. 
     
     
         15 . The method as claimed in  claim 12  wherein said optimizing of vessel contents is performed in a controlled and/or triggered manner. 
     
     
         16 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein contents of at least one vessel contribute to the determining step and wherein said determining step includes determining of form, function, and/or purpose of vessels, groupings of vessels, vessel packaging, and/or packaging systems. 
     
     
         17 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises defining preferred adjacency(s) of adjacent vessels within the group of vessels. 
     
     
         18 . The method as claimed in  claim 17  wherein said preferred adjacency(s) comprises one or more symbiotic surface(s) of adjoining vessels' walls. 
     
     
         19 . The method as claimed in  claim 18  wherein said one or more symbiotic surface(s) includes inter-relating elements of reciprocating form(s) and/or function(s). 
     
     
         20 . The method as claimed in  claim 19  wherein said inter-relating elements comprise a male element on the surface of a first vessel and a female element on the surface of a second vessel for receiving said male element of the first vessel. 
     
     
         21 . The method as claimed in  claim 19  wherein said inter-relating elements comprise a strategically placed planar surface, portion of a planar surface, or feature of a planar surface. 
     
     
         22 . The method as claimed in  claim 21  comprising a feature of a planar surface, wherein said feature is a vessel base, portion of a vessel base, sidewall, and/or top of a vessel. 
     
     
         23 . The method as claimed in  claim 17  wherein said preferred adjacency(s) are an accommodation of or for an otherwise usual and customary functional element of the vessel. 
     
     
         24 . The method as claimed in  claim 23  wherein said usual and customary functional element of the vessel is a vessel cap or a portion of a vessel portal covering. 
     
     
         25 . The method as claimed in  claim 17  wherein said preferred adjacency(s) function as an element to optimize an individual vessel and/or contributes to optimization of a grouping of vessels. 
     
     
         26 . The method as claimed in  claim 25  wherein said preferred adjacency(s) comprising adjacent sidewalls, or portions of sidewalls of adjacent vessels. 
     
     
         27 . The method as claimed in  claim 17  where said determining step further comprises determining concomitantly adjacencies of one or more vessels for purposes of minimizing space between vessels and/or containers of multiple vessels, minimizing and/or optimizing packaging, and/or minimizing and/or optimizing packaging systems. 
     
     
         28 . The method as claimed in  claim 27  wherein groups of vessels, or containers of multiple vessels are positioned horizontal to one another and/or vertical to one another. 
     
     
         29 . The method as claimed in  claim 17  wherein said preferred adjacency(s) comprises one or more surface features on a surface of adjacency for enhancing the vessel, packaging of the vessel, storage of the vessel, and/or transport of the vessel. 
     
     
         30 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises the step of determining space requirements in terms of volume, mass and/or entropy of internal containment(s) and/or external adjacency(s) of one or more of said individual vessels. 
     
     
         31 . The method as claimed in  claim 30  wherein internal containment(s) comprise the contents of the vessels. 
     
     
         32 . The method as claimed in  claim 30  wherein internal containment(s) comprise one or more surface feature(s) on an internal surface of one or more of said individual vessels. 
     
     
         33 . The method as claimed in  claim 23  wherein external adjacency(s) comprise one or more surface feature(s) on an external surface of one or more of said individual vessels. 
     
     
         34 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises the step of advantaging concomitantly form and function of individual vessels through coordinated adjacency(s) of one or more vessels and/or containers of vessels. 
     
     
         35 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises the step of advantaging concomitantly form and function of individual vessels through coordinated adjacency(s) of one or more planar surface, portion of a planar surface, or functional element of a planar surface, of one or more vessels. 
     
     
         36 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein said determining step comprises the step of designing and/or modeling packaging systems, groupings of packaging for vessels and individual vessels with preferred adjacency(s) and/or symbiotic interrelationships, for purposes of a collective gestalt of form, function and materiality of and for more than one vessel. 
     
     
         37 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  wherein the vessel(s) are individually sized single-use potable water bottles. 
     
     
         38 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  wherein the vessel(s) are of any size and purpose [box, car, bike, etc]. 
     
     
         39 . The method as claimed in  claim 2  further comprising the step of determining a material for manufacturing the vessels based upon the contents, intended purposes of contents, and/or vessel purpose. 
     
     
         40 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  wherein the product comprises a group of vessels, wherein said determining step comprises determining material characteristics to minimize wasted space and/or optimize vessel conveyance(s); and wherein said designing step comprises designing individual vessels within the group based upon said determining step.