Container Label Device with Internal Compartment and Viewing Window

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional container labels often fade, tear, or detach from the container, and they are not easily viewable from all orientations, leading to illegibility and loss of information.

Innovation Solution

A container with integrated label devices on multiple sides, featuring compartments accessible only from the interior, allowing labels to be placed and removed internally, with windows for external viewing, and designed for use in plastic storage bins to prevent label detachment and provide permanent, re-usable labeling solutions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If labels are placed on the outside of containers, then they can be easily viewed, but they fade, tear, and detach from the container

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelabel attachment reliabilityVSAvoidlabel durability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDuration of action of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The label is placed inside a compartment that is integrated into the container wall, effectively nesting the label within the container structure. This protects the label from external damage while allowing it to be viewed through a window in the compartment

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

A compartment with a window acts as an intermediary between the label and the external environment. The window allows visual access to the label while the compartment structure protects the label from physical damage and detachment

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If labels are placed on the outside of containers, then they are easily accessible, but they are not viewable from all orientations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelabel accessibilityVSAvoidlabel viewability from different orientations

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The compartment is positioned on the container wall with a window that can be oriented to face multiple directions. This adds a spatial dimension to label viewing, allowing labels to be seen from different angles and orientations depending on where the compartment is located on the container

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Reliability

If labels are made permanent on containers, then they remain legible, but they cannot be reused when container contents change

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelabel legibilityVSAvoidcontainer reusability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The label system is made dynamic by allowing the label to be removed from and reinserted into the compartment. The compartment structure remains fixed on the container, but the label itself can be changed, enabling the container to be reused for different purposes while maintaining permanent, legible labeling

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS10793318B1Container label device, a container with a label device, and methods of making and using same

Publication Date: 2020.10.06 LYNCH LORI ANN

AI summary

A container with a label device for enabling the user to label the contents of the container. The label device is in a side of the container, and has a compartment into which the user can place a label indicating the contents of the container, and from which the user can remove the label. The compartment includes a window through which the label can be viewed from outside of the container. The container and label device are constructed so that the label can be placed in and removed from the compartment only from the interior of the container.