Bench Shipping Tray With Reinforced Holders for Protected Stacking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing shipping trays lack a structure and pattern of reinforcement tailored to specific goods, leading to inadequate support, protection, and inefficient storage and transport, especially for benches, which can result in damage and increased costs.

Innovation Solution

A shipping tray designed for benches with a specific structure and reinforcement pattern, featuring supports, holders, X-supports, and ribbing, that securely holds and stacks benches, reducing damage and optimizing storage and transport efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a general shipping tray structure is used to accommodate various goods, then versatility is improved, but the ability to adequately support and protect specific goods like benches deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveversatilityVSAvoidsupport capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The shipping tray is segmented into multiple functional components including front supports, rear supports, side supports, holders with recesses for bench legs, X-supports for diagonal reinforcement, and ribbing on the underside. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function while collectively providing specialized support for benches.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different parts of the shipping tray have different structural properties tailored to their specific functions. The holders have recesses specifically shaped to receive bench legs, the X-supports provide diagonal reinforcement at critical points, and the ribbing on the underside adds localized strength where needed. This local quality ensures adequate support for bench-specific requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If a specialized shipping tray structure is designed for specific goods like benches, then support and protection capability is improved, but the ability to accommodate other goods deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection capabilityVSAvoidaccommodation capability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The shipping tray design incorporates universal features such as a perimeter formed by supports that can contain various goods, holders with recesses that can accommodate different leg configurations, and reinforcement structures that provide general strength. While optimized for benches, the tray can still accommodate other goods with similar structural requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Strength

If reinforcement patterns are added to shipping trays to support specific goods, then structural strength is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidstructure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The reinforcement structures including X-supports and ribbing are pre-integrated into the shipping tray design before goods are loaded. This preliminary action ensures that the strength reinforcement is already in place and does not require additional complexity during the shipping process or assembly of goods onto the tray.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple reinforcement functions are merged into integrated structures. The X-supports serve both as diagonal bracing and as connection points for holders, while the ribbing on the underside is combined with the overall tray structure. This merging reduces the number of separate components and simplifies the overall device complexity while maintaining structural strength.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Ease of manufacture

If general shipping trays are used without specific reinforcement patterns, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but storage and transport efficiency deteriorates due to inadequate support

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidtransport efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The shipping tray design allows for nesting of benches within the tray structure during transport. The holders with recesses are positioned to accommodate bench legs in a nested configuration, enabling multiple benches to be transported in a compact arrangement. This nesting capability improves transport efficiency while the overall tray structure remains relatively simple to manufacture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS20250236435A1Shipping tray for bench system and method

Publication Date: 2025.07.24 AGNA LLC

AI summary

A shipping tray for a bench system and method of use are provided. The shipping tray may include a front support, rear support, first side support, and second side support. The shipping tray may further include a first front holder, a second front holder, a third front holder, a first rear holder, a second rear holder, and a third rear holder, all configured to receive one of a plurality of legs of a bench. The shipping tray may further include a central brace, a first X-brace, and a second X-brace. There may be a network of ribbing on the underside of the shipping tray. The shipping tray may be used for stacking a bench, or multiple benches, onto the shipping tray. The shipping tray may also be stacked on top of another shipping tray.