Playing Card Packing Box with Removable Side Panels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional card shuffling and packing methods often result in misalignment of playing cards, making it difficult to house them neatly in a card shooter, and there is a risk of cheating through card manipulation.
Innovation Solution
A packing box with zippers or cutoff units in two locations, allowing the side faces to be removed, which houses shuffled playing cards in a sealed and organized manner, preventing misalignment and cheating.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional card shuffling and packing methods are used, then the cards can be handled traditionally, but the cards become misaligned and difficult to house neatly in a card shooter
Solution Approach 1:
The packing box is divided into multiple compartments separated by partitions, creating organized sections for different card stacks. This segmentation maintains card alignment and prevents misalignment during handling, directly resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and manufacturing precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The cards are pre-shuffled and pre-aligned within the packing box before being transferred to the card shooter. This preliminary organization ensures that cards are ready for immediate use without requiring realignment during the game, improving both ease of operation and alignment precision.
2Reliability
If cards are housed in a card shooter without a packing box, then the card shooter can be accessed freely, but cheating through card manipulation becomes possible
Solution Approach 1:
The packing box serves as an intermediary container between the card stock and the card shooter. It provides a secure holding area that prevents direct manipulation of cards while maintaining organized access, thereby ensuring reliability against cheating while preserving ease of operation through structured entry points.
Solution Approach 2:
The packing box can be removed or opened in a controlled manner to access the cards, separating the secure storage function from the access function. This extraction allows the system to maintain security when closed while enabling easy operation when opened, resolving the contradiction between reliability and ease of operation.
3Ease of operation
If a sealed packing box is used for shuffled cards, then cheating is prevented, but the cards cannot be easily accessed for setting in card shooter
Solution Approach 1:
The packing box incorporates dynamic opening mechanisms such as zippers or snap closures that allow controlled access while maintaining security when closed. This dynamic design enables easy operation for accessing cards during setup while preserving reliability against cheating during storage and transport.
Solution Approach 2:
The packing box is designed with segmented compartments and controlled access points that allow selective opening. This segmentation enables cards to be accessed for setting in the card shooter while maintaining sealed protection against cheating, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
A packing box for packaging of playing cards has, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces. The packing box includes cut lines in two locations at a predetermined interval in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped, and a central band in a portion defined by the cut lines provided in the two locations. The right and left side faces of the packing box can be removed along the cut lines such that side edges of the playing cards within the packing box are exposed.