Container for providing aromatic sampling and visualization of contents
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current display containers fail to adequately store, preserve, and present botanical samples such as tea and cannabis, lacking features for visualization and aroma sampling.
Innovation Solution
A container design that includes a body with a mounting projection for stabilizing samples, a lid with adjustable scent openings and a magnification lens for visualization, allowing for airtight storage and sampling while providing information about the sample.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a display container is designed for storage and preservation, then storage capacity and preservation effectiveness are improved, but visualization and aroma sampling capabilities deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is segmented into multiple functional regions: a first region with a viewing port for visualization, a second region with an aroma opening for aroma sampling, and a third region for sealing. This segmentation allows each region to perform its specific function independently while maintaining the overall integrity of the container for storage and preservation.
Solution Approach 2:
The lid serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides a viewing port for visual inspection, an aroma opening for olfactory sampling, and maintains an airtight seal for preservation. The container body also provides both storage capacity and preservation through its sealed design, demonstrating multi-functionality that resolves the contradiction between preservation effectiveness and sampling capabilities.
2Reliability
If a container provides airtight storage for preservation, then preservation effectiveness is improved, but aroma sampling capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is divided into distinct regions where the aroma opening is separated from the sealing mechanism. The aroma opening is positioned in the second region of the lid, allowing users to sample aroma without compromising the airtight seal formed by the engagement between the lid and container body flange.
Solution Approach 2:
The container design allows dynamic operation where the airtight seal can be maintained during storage, and aroma sampling can be performed when needed by accessing the aroma opening. The seal integrity is preserved until the container is opened for sampling or removal of contents.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a container includes visualization features like magnification lens, then visualization capability is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The magnification lens is integrated into the viewing port of the lid, combining the visualization function with the existing lid structure. This merging approach allows the container to provide magnification capability without adding separate, complex visualization devices, thus improving visualization while minimizing increased device complexity.
4Adaptability or versatility
If a container provides both storage and sampling features, then versatility is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is designed as a multi-functional component that simultaneously provides viewing port for visualization, aroma opening for olfactory sampling, and sealing function for preservation. This universal design allows a single component to perform multiple functions, improving versatility without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The lid is segmented into multiple functional regions (first region with viewing port, second region with aroma opening, third region for sealing), allowing each function to be independently optimized while maintaining overall simplicity. This segmentation enables the container to provide storage, visualization, and aroma sampling capabilities through a relatively simple integrated design.
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 effective storage, preservation, and presentation of botanical samples with enhanced visualization and aroma sampling capabilities, meeting the needs of customers and prospective purchasers.
Implementation Method 1
a mounting projection to hold a sample
Implementation Method 2
a magnification lens for visualization
Implementation Method 3
adjustable scent openings and a magnification lens for visualization, allowing for airtight storage and sampling
Data Source
AI summary
A display container for a botanical sample includes (a) an enclosure having an interior chamber for storing the botanical sample; (b) a plurality of scent ports extending through a wall of the enclosure between the interior chamber and environment; (c) a plug mounted to the enclosure and sealing the scent ports, the plug movable away from the enclosure to expose the scent ports for facilitating sampling of an aroma of the botanical sample when in the enclosure; and (d) an elongate mounting projection in the chamber for retaining the botanical sample thereon.