Cosmetic Sample Scoop-and-Container Packaging for Hygienic Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cosmetic product packaging for samples is not hygienic, cumbersome to handle, and limited in availability, making it difficult for customers to test products thoroughly and safely outside the point of sale.
Innovation Solution
A device comprising a sampling spoon with a U-shaped edge and a hollow body that allows for contactless transfer of cosmetic products into a detachable container, ensuring hygienic handling and storage, compatible with various textures and packaging types.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If cosmetic products are dispensed in small pump atomizers or sealed sachets, then product samples can be distributed to customers, but the products become difficult to handle or contaminate during use
Solution Approach 1:
The device separates the product storage function (hollow body) from the dispensing function (sampling spoon with U-shaped edge), allowing hygienic transfer without direct hand contact with the product. The sampling spoon acts as an intermediary tool that divides the contamination risk from the product itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The sampling spoon serves as an intermediary device between the product container and the customer's hand. It enables product transfer while maintaining a barrier that prevents contamination, solving the contradiction between ease of handling and contamination prevention.
2Adaptability or versatility
If product samples are made available in retail stores, then customers can test products, but the availability is limited due to logistical and shelf life constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The device enables customers to fill their own product samples at home or in-store using the sampling spoon and hollow body combination. This preliminary action of self-filling allows customers to obtain product samples of any quantity without relying on pre-packaged samples, thereby increasing availability while maintaining flexibility in quantity.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If cosmetic products are packaged in sealed containers, then product hygiene is maintained, but the products cannot be tested over multiple applications outside the point of service
Solution Approach 1:
The device segments the product into a transportable sample quantity using the sampling spoon and hollow body. This allows the product to be divided into smaller, manageable portions that can be stored and used over multiple applications while maintaining hygiene through the closed-system transfer method.
Solution Approach 2:
The device enables preliminary filling of product samples in hygienic conditions, allowing customers to prepare their own test quantities. This preliminary action extends the testing duration by enabling multiple applications at home while maintaining the hygiene benefits of sealed packaging through the controlled transfer process.
4Ease of operation
If small pump atomizers are used for liquid samples, then product distribution is enabled, but operation becomes cumbersome for customers with poor fine motor skills
Solution Approach 1:
The device extracts the complex pump mechanism from the product sample container and replaces it with a simple open-top hollow body. The sampling spoon provides a straightforward scoop-and-transfer operation that eliminates the need for fine motor skills required by pump atomizers, thereby simplifying operation while reducing device complexity.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a device for hygienically packaging, for transporting and for storing a cosmetic product, wherein the device comprises a removal scoop and a hollow body, which can be detachably interconnected. The removal scoop comprises a head region having a U-shaped edge and an indentation for receiving the cosmetic product, and a handle. The hollow body comprises an outer wall, an inner wall, and an opening, through which the removal scoop can be inserted into the hollow body. The U-shaped edge of the head region of the removal scoop is designed such that, when the hollow body and the removal scoop are connected, the U-shaped edge of the removal scoop rests along the inner wall of the hollow body. The present invention also relates to a method for identifying and hygienically packaging a cosmetic product using this device.