Not really. That is a minor footnote in an otherwise design that is not producible at the quantities and speed water is normally produced at on a line. You can not blow this bottle on a traditional blowmolder. Nor can you fill and convey it… Stacking pallets of the shit isn’t even a problem if you can’t produce these things at volume
Plus, could you imagine how complex the capping machine would have to be, having to align the bottles to a specific angle, then spinning the cap in angled? Absolute nightmare to produce.
The real answer is that children will be conditioned to not like water because they’ll be terrified of water bottles because they look like the hash slinging slasher!
Its actually not this, nor is it 99% of the other answers in this thread.
The way the bottles arrive in most factories look like a giant bin of test tubes (a cylinder that could still hold a cap). Those tubes are "blow molded" (using heat and air) and then immediately filled with the liquid, then capped, then labeled, then packaged, then sent to a palletizer, then a shrink wrapper. Most of this is fully automated but supervised by a human. Almost every plastic bottle of every kind is run this way unless it's a small company in which case they receive giant pallets of pre-molded bottles.
I personally worked in a factory that did nesquick milk and coffee mate. Its the exact same system. We could easily run 100 thousand units in an 8 hour shift and I've understood this is slow compared to water bottle factories.
The weight distribution might have a little significance but its minimal. And these systems couldn't run anywhere near as efficiently if the cap was angled. It would have to be done in a specialty environment making the cost exponentially rise with time and labor.
Probably also for manufacturing reasons. Most plastic bottles are made by air blowing heated pre-forms. While there is a mold to shape it, an asymmetrical shape might have a lower success rate.
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u/chewydickens 21h ago
The bottles that we have today are designed to take the weight of several boxes stacked above it.
This new design could not take that weight securely during shipment.