Container Booklet Attachment Device for Multilingual Building Material Packaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing container manufacturing processes for pourable building materials face challenges in accommodating multiple languages' worth of product information, often requiring multiple container designs and increasing production complexity and costs.
Innovation Solution
A device that attaches a booklet to the container using a hot-melt adhesive station, allowing for the inclusion of product information in numerous languages, utilizing an infeed and outfeed conveyor system with a carriage for booklet feeding and gluing, enabling efficient and cost-effective production of containers with multilingual information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If product information is printed directly on the container cover, then the information is permanently visible, but the space available is insufficient to accommodate all 30+ languages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the information content into two parts: essential information remains printed on the container cover, while extended multilingual information is transferred to a separate booklet. This segmentation allows the cover to maintain its standard size while the booklet provides comprehensive multilingual content, resolving the space limitation without compromising information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a two-dimensional cover surface to a three-dimensional booklet structure. By attaching a detachable booklet to the container, the system expands the information carrier from the limited cover area to a separate volumetric element, enabling accommodation of extensive multilingual content without increasing the cover's footprint.
2Loss of information
If different sacks are produced for different groups of countries to accommodate language requirements, then all languages can be provided, but production complexity and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal container design with a standardized cover that can be used across all countries. The multilingual information is provided through a separate booklet that can be attached to any container, making the container system universally applicable regardless of language requirements. This eliminates the need for producing different sack variants for different countries.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the language-specific information from the container cover itself and places it in a separate booklet. This extraction allows the main container design to remain uniform and simple, while the language variations are handled in the detachable booklet, significantly reducing production complexity.
3Loss of information
If a booklet is attached to the container cover, then all multilingual information can be provided, but the attachment process adds manufacturing steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical attachment methods (such as stitching, stapling, or complex fastening systems) with adhesive bonding. The booklet is attached to the container cover using glue applied to the back of the booklet, which simplifies the attachment process and can be easily integrated into existing manufacturing lines without adding significant complexity.
4Ease of operation
If manual attachment of booklets is used, then flexibility is maintained, but productivity and speed of production decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the booklet and container cover with self-aligning features that enable automatic attachment. The booklet's dimensions and attachment surface are configured to automatically align with the designated area on the cover during the gluing process, eliminating the need for manual positioning while maintaining attachment quality and production speed.
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 the production of containers with information in 30 or more languages on a single container design, simplifying production and reducing costs by allowing automatic, quick, and large-scale manufacturing with detachable booklets.
Implementation Method 1
the attachment station being assigned a hot-melt adhesive station in which the side of the booklets intended for attachment to the container or hot glue is applied to the booklet covers, in particular sprayed on
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AI summary
The invention relates to a container (1), in particular a sack or bucket, for building materials, with a covering (2) enclosing the building materials. The invention is characterized in that a booklet (3) is attached to the outside of the covering.The invention further relates to a device for manufacturing these containers, comprising: a) an infeed conveyor (8) for containers (1a) filled with building materials, in which the building materials are enclosed by a covering (2) to which, however, no booklet has yet been attached; a1) wherein the containers (1a) rest on the infeed conveyor (8) such that an underside (6) of the covering (2) rests on the infeed conveyor (8); b) an application station (10) for booklets (3) following the infeed conveyor (8), in which a booklet (3) is attached to the underside (6) of the covering (2) of the containers (1a) transported by the infeed conveyor (8); c) an outfeed conveyor (11) following the application station (10) for the containers (1) which are fitted with a booklet (3) in the application station (10). were provided, c1) wherein the underside (6) of the covering (2) of the containers (1) containing the booklet (3) rests on the outfeed conveyor.