Candy Packaging with Transparent Wrap and Glaze Image
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing confectionery packaging methods are complex, misalign candy shapes and colors with package images, leading to increased ink consumption and poor hygiene during consumption.
Innovation Solution
A transparent wrap with two layers, where the candy body's glaze coating color contributes to the image, and lower joint strength at end faces allows for easy candy removal without touching, reducing printing operations and ensuring hygiene.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If traditional printing and painting operations are used to create images on food packages, then the desired decorative effect is achieved, but manufacturing complexity and ink consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the candy object with the packaging decoration by making the candy itself serve as the base for the image. The transparent wrap allows the candy's shape and color to form part of the stylized image, eliminating the need for separate printing and painting operations on the package surface.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of creating a complete image through printing, the patent uses the candy's inherent shape and color as a template or base that is then enhanced with minimal printing on the transparent wrap. The candy effectively copies or provides the foundational elements of the desired image.
2Manufacturing precision
If the candy is placed freely inside the package, then the package structure is simple, but alignment between candy and package image is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating different structural characteristics at different locations of the wrap. The side faces have stronger sealing (heat sealing) to maintain alignment, while the end faces have weaker sealing to allow easy opening. This localized differentiation enables both precise alignment and easy opening.
Solution Approach 2:
The sealing strength of the wrap is made dynamic rather than uniform. The side faces maintain strong sealing during storage and transport to ensure alignment, while the end faces are designed with weaker sealing that allows the wrap to be easily opened by applying pressure, transforming the static structure into a dynamic one that adapts to different operational states.
3Ease of operation
If the wrap is sealed tightly at all faces, then the candy is securely held, but the candy cannot be easily removed without touching
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of opening the wrap from the side faces where the candy would be exposed to fingers, the patent inverts the opening mechanism to work from the end faces. The weaker sealing at the end faces allows the wrap to be opened by pushing the candy out through the end, enabling finger-free removal and maintaining hygiene.
Solution Approach 2:
The wrap sealing is segmented into two distinct types: strong heat sealing at the side faces to secure the candy during storage, and weak sealing at the end faces to enable easy opening. This segmentation allows the wrap to provide both secure containment and hygienic access.
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
Simplifies manufacturing, reduces ink consumption, and enhances the alignment and hygiene of candy consumption by using the candy's shape and color in the packaging design.
Implementation Method 1
a ball-shaped candy body made from a candy mass and covered with a sugar glaze coating with the thickness of 0.5-2.5mm
Implementation Method 2
connect the side faces and the end faces of the wrap
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AI summary
The present invention relates to food industry, in particular to confectionery industry and can be used for the production of confectionery products, namely candies having various fillings, preferably chocolate, caramel, jelly, other fillings. The invention is intended to simplify the manufacturing technology by reducing the number of wrap decoration operations and by using shapes and colors of the wrapped candy as a base for shapes and colors of the image on the wrap, and consequently to reduce technological material consumption to create an image on the wrap, and also to improve the quality of the final stylized composite image by means of more exact alignment of the candy and the image fragments depicted on the wrap, thus, increasing consumer activity and improving hygienic properties of candy consumption. The said technical result is achieved by that a candy comprises a body covered with a glaze coating and a wrap made of a transparent material having a stylized image on it in which the candy body is wrapped by connecting the side face and the end faces of the wrap. The wrap consists of two layers, namely an inner layer and an outer layer. The inside of the outer layer and/or the outside of the inner layer comprises image fragments colored at least in one color and having the shape and dimensions corresponding to the respective fragments of the stylized image on the wrap. At least one candy body is used which is ball-shaped and is intended to create a three-dimensional configuration of the stylized image on the wrap. The color of the candy body glaze coating forms a part of the color of the stylized image on the wrap. The joint strength of the wrap ends is lower than that of its side face so as the wrap can be opened from its end face by applying pressure to the wrap and removing the candy body from the end face by holding the outer surface of the wrap.