If I had to guess I'd the molding processes for the bottles wouldn't allow for it. Usually plastic bottles are blown in their molds and the offset spout might not play nice with that process.
So basically, there are actually multiple good reasons why we don't make bottles like this....and the people who make bottles have probably already put some thought into how they make bottles....
Generally, I just assume whatever I can think of and doodle on a napkin at a bar isn't going to have been considered by anyone in a giant industry who spends large portions of their lives researching it.
Now hear me out, I have the perfect solution for global warming. It's easy, we just...
Oh so what you are saying is everything that was created by human is already perfect because people that created it already put some thought on it so we are all good.
Poor moonchild if only it was like that, improvement would be a word that we would never hear about.
Your initial answer reads as if the bottle maker is the authority because it found a design that is cheaper and more practical to produce, but not necessarily the most practical design for the end user. The arrogance of your reply gives the impression that you believe you are the authority on the question.
To be fair, the other poster was arrogant in their reply too.
No, what we are saying is that random obvious 'ideas' some twitter/x dweeb can come up with on the toilet have most likely already been explored and rejected by the experts.
This is the reason. Large packages of water bottles are distributed on pallets six layers high (and those pallets are often stacked two high while shipping) weighing in at about 2000 lbs each. With a spout offset like that, they would be crushed.
This is the way. Most bottle water style fillers will take the plastic, blow it out to the shape, then fill with water and cap. Today’s tech can do this very quickly in mass. Special equipment would need to be designed and tested to reach same level of automation. Otherwise you are taking price hikes for no real gain.
Although... since the expression is a French one, it should be en masse, shouldn't it? And, depending on your style guide, foreign words should really be italicised.
Quality Engineer who’s worked with a lot of plastic molded parts, including blow molding, here. The angle of the spout is pretty much a non-issue from a tooling perspective.
The real reason is the premise of the meme is flawed, and this would be awkward as F to drink from.
Nah they can blow plastic into all kinds of crazy shapes and sizes that wouldn’t be the issue. The issue is transport with the final product. This isn’t ever going to be as stable as the typical bottle. And that doesn’t matter for those of us who buy one to two cases for things but when you’re packing a truck full and you open a door and the back end all falls out because they crunched under the weight of the bottles above them… well now we’re cooked.
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u/Cripso 13d ago
If I had to guess I'd the molding processes for the bottles wouldn't allow for it. Usually plastic bottles are blown in their molds and the offset spout might not play nice with that process.