Cardboard Container With Segmented Panels And Handles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing cardboard containers lack improved portability and interior accessibility, particularly for carrying and accessing multiple rolls of products like trash bags and contractor bags.

Innovation Solution

A container design featuring a box with perforated primary and secondary panels, handles, and foldable flaps that allow for easy detachment and folding, enhancing access and portability for twin rolls of products.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If the box has a solid front panel, then the structural strength is improved, but the accessibility to interior contents deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidaccessibility to interior contents

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The front panel is segmented into multiple detachable portions (first portion and second portion) connected by hinge joints, allowing the panel to be divided into separate sections that can be opened independently while maintaining overall structural integrity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The front panel transitions from a static solid structure to a dynamic one with hinge joints that enable rotation and detachment, allowing the panel to adapt between closed (providing strength) and open (providing accessibility) states

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of manufacture

If the box has no handles, then the manufacturing simplicity is improved, but the portability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidportability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The handle system is segmented into multiple handles positioned at different locations on the box (front, back, sides), allowing users to carry the box in different orientations and positions based on their needs, while each individual handle remains simple to manufacture

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The handles serve multiple functions: they provide carrying points for portability, and some handles are integrated with the detachable front panel mechanism to also serve as access points, combining structural and operational functions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Ease of operation

If the box has a single large opening, then the accessibility to interior contents is improved, but the structural integrity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility to interior contentsVSAvoidstructural integrity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The opening is segmented into multiple smaller sections corresponding to the detachable portions of the front panel, allowing selective access to different interior compartments while maintaining structural integrity in the closed portions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The hinge joints are pre-positioned and the panel portions are pre-configured to detach in specific sequences, allowing controlled access that maintains structural support from adjacent panel sections during the opening process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10351293B2Container

Publication Date: 2019.07.16 BADER SCOTT DOUGLAS

AI summary

An improved container is provided and comprises a box having a front, back, right side, left side, top, and bottom; three handles, one each in the back, right side, and left side; a pair of primary panels; and a pair of secondary panels, the primary and secondary panels being located in the front of the box and defined by sets of perforations that facilitate the detachment of the secondary and primary panels, thereby allowing improved access to the interior of the box.