Bundled Goods Overwrap With Grasp Handle and Partial Opening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Prior art overwraps are difficult to remove before consumption, lack a grasp handle for easy transport, and require complete removal, leaving unconsumed goods unsecured.
Innovation Solution
An overwrap with a grasp handle and a partially intact design after opening, allowing easy separation from packaged goods without damaging them, using a thermoplastic film with an overlapped and unattached zone to form a handle and maintain security for unused items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the overwrap entirely surrounds the goods for protection and security, then the goods are well protected in transit and on shelf, but the overwrap becomes difficult to remove and requires complete removal leaving unconsumed goods unsecured
Solution Approach 1:
The overwrap is divided into two functional zones: a sealed attached zone that provides protection and security, and an unattached zone that enables easy opening while leaving the overwrap partially intact to secure unconsumed goods. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by allowing the overwrap to both protect completely and open easily.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring complete removal of the overwrap, the invention applies partial action by maintaining the overwrap in an intact state after opening. The unattached zone allows the user to open the package without removing the entire overwrap, thus securing unconsumed goods while enabling easy access.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the overwrap is designed to secure and protect goods, then the goods remain stable in transit, but the overwrap provides no grasp handle making transport difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The overwrap is segmented into an attached zone for stability and an unattached zone forming a grasp handle for ease of handling. This allows the overwrap to simultaneously provide stable containment and ergonomic transport capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The unattached zone acts as an intermediary element between the user and the bundled goods, providing a grasp handle that facilitates easy transport without compromising the stability provided by the sealed attached zone.
3Reliability
If the overwrap is made difficult to remove for security, then unconsumed goods remain secure, but the opening process damages or diminishes the usefulness of the packaged goods
Solution Approach 1:
The overwrap is divided into sealed and unsealed zones, allowing the opening action to occur in the unattached zone without affecting the sealed portions. This ensures unconsumed goods remain secure while the opening process does not damage the goods or their packaging.
Solution Approach 2:
The opening function is extracted from the sealed attached zone and relocated to the unattached zone. This allows the opening action to occur in a designated area that does not compromise the integrity of the goods or the sealed packaging of unconsumed items.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables easy transportation and opening of packaged goods while securing unused items, ensuring the overwrap remains intact to protect unconsumed goods.
Implementation Method 1
heating and sealing the overlapped portions of the packaging film together to form an attached zone
Implementation Method 2
melt and seal the overlapped portions together
Implementation Method 3
shrunk around the bundle of packaged goods
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AI summary
The invention provides an easy to grasp handle and opening for packaging of individual packaged products that are sold in multi-packs, also referred to herein as bundles. The multi-pack is a plurality of individually packaged products that are over-wrapped together by a wrapper, such as a plastic film. In certain embodiments the packaged products comprise a package and a consumer good, such as facial tissue. The bundle of individually packaged products comprising a plurality of packages, wherein each of the plurality of packages contains at least one product and a film wrapper surrounding at least a portion of the plurality of packages, wherein the film wrapper comprises an overlapped portion having a first film wrapper layer and a second film wrapper layer, the overlapped portion having an attached zone and an unattached zone.