Pullstring Reheating Travel Mug

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Pullstring Reheating Travel Mug

Senior Design Showcase project, Wentworth Institute of Technology, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2020

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title: Pullstring Reheating Travel Mug

creator: Sean Lyons, Sarah Byron

subject: mechanically-generated heat pulley system, Disk, double-walled, uniformly distributed

description: The purpose of this capstone project is to design a reheating coffee mug that will heat room temperature liquid, particularly coffee, to 140°F. Though other designs of this product already exist in the market, we wanted to design a mug in a different aspect. We wanted to lower the cost of purchase of a reheating coffee mug and to design it in a different way than other existing products. Products that are already on the market reheat coffee through an electrical means, usually with a battery. We took this idea and wanted to apply it to a mechanical process. The way we did this was through mechanically generated heat. This heat is generated through friction from two rotating disks. The disks are given energy through a yo-yo like pulley system. A pulley system is pulled by the user to rotate a ball-bearing which is attached to the bottom disk which will contact the top disk to introduce heat through friction. The exterior of the mug is double walled with aluminum to retain the generated heat. The heat will be uniformly distributed through a rod which is attached to the rotating disks. Overall, the project in theory takes less than $100 to make, will only take a few minutes to reheat the coffee, and offers a distinct alternative to reheating coffee compared to existing products that already exist in the market.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2020

type: Presentation

format: video recording

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language: eng

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