Claire Puginier: Week 4: Deterg-aid

This Deterg-aid bottle is designed as a re-usable detergent dispenser, for people that necessitate a bottle that is easier and more accurate to use. The tubing around the main handle is soft-touch and voluptuous enough for a two-hand hold. The extension on the top of the bottle is a thin, compressible rubber bubble, and in conjunction with the tilted nossle, allows the bottle to be inserted below toilet seat rims for example and then squirted. The compressor at the top is also fitted with an additional hand-hold that facilitates the pouring motion by allowing for a palm divet and a finger grip. Additionally, there is a second grip extrusion at the base of the bottle. Finally, I chose to make the front of the bottle narrow, so that the liquid trajectory is more linear and easier to anticipate. Ideally, this product could help people of old age or others with difficulties (Parkinson, arthritis..) lifting heavy containers.

For the body of the bottle I primarily used the sweep, loft and offset commands. The base is constructed with a lofted planar curve. I piped the handle after extruding the curve I projected in the shape of the opening and the split it. I then filleted the surfaces. The top is threaded based on the methods in the tutorial (helix, boolean difference, boolean union, sweep etc..) and are then boolean differenced out of the cap. The cap itself was made of cylinders and extruded cylinders that were arraypolared for the ribbing.