Sample Dispensing Device Internal Separators for Single Detachment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Fully mechanical sample-dispensing devices often result in the removal of multiple samples instead of one due to inadequate mechanisms for breaking the connecting points, leading to waste and compromised hygiene, as users apply varying tensile forces to detach samples from the coil.
Innovation Solution
A sample-dispensing device with a body containing a passage channel and internal separators that break the connecting contours of the samples as they are pulled, ensuring each sample is detached individually from the continuous strip without excessive force.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a fully mechanical sample-dispensing device is used, then the device structure is simple, but multiple samples are removed instead of one due to inadequate mechanism for breaking connecting points
Solution Approach 1:
The device divides the sample strip into individual samples using cutting blades that segment the continuous strip at predetermined intervals. This segmentation ensures that only one sample is detached at a time, resolving the issue of multiple samples being removed simultaneously while maintaining a relatively simple mechanical structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The device introduces an intermediary mechanism (cutting blades and connecting point breaking mechanism) between the user's pulling action and the sample detachment. This intermediary ensures precise control over the detachment process, breaking connecting points and cutting samples at the right moment to prevent removal of multiple samples, thereby improving detachment precision without significantly complicating the overall device structure.
2Ease of operation
If a fully mechanical sample-dispensing device is used, then the device is easy to operate, but hygiene is compromised as users apply varying tensile forces to detach samples
Solution Approach 1:
The device performs preliminary actions by pre-positioning cutting blades and connecting point breaking mechanisms at specific locations along the sample strip. When the user pulls the sample, these pre-positioned mechanisms automatically activate at the correct moment to break connecting points and cut the sample, ensuring hygienic detachment without requiring the user to control the force precisely. This maintains ease of operation while eliminating hygiene concerns.
Solution Approach 2:
The device enables self-service by allowing the user to simply pull the sample without needing to control the force or coordinate multiple actions. The internal mechanisms automatically perform the complex tasks of breaking connecting points and cutting the sample, ensuring hygienic detachment. This simplifies the user's role to a single pulling motion while the device handles the precision tasks, maintaining ease of operation and ensuring hygiene simultaneously.
3Ease of operation
If a mechanical device with retaining section is used, then the device assists in breaking detachable connecting parts, but the retaining section cannot fit with the sample format to retain it efficiently
Solution Approach 1:
The device applies local quality by positioning cutting blades and connecting point breaking mechanisms at specific local locations along the sample strip where needed. Rather than relying on a general retaining section that doesn't fit the sample format, the cutting and breaking actions are localized to precise positions, ensuring reliable sample detachment and retention throughout the dispensing process.
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AI summary
This invention concerns a sample-dispensing device (10), particularly for single, personalized samples of products such as fragrances, makeup and cosmetics, providing them in a safe and hygienic manner at different sale or exhibition outlets, said samples (30) being arranged on continuous strip coils (31). The sample-dispensing device (10) comprises a body (11) containing an inlet area (12) for the continuous strip (32) and an outlet area (13) for the sample (30) forming a passage channel (14) for the sample inside the body (11); the passage channel (14) for the sample comprises at least one separator (15) positioned inside the body (11) acting with a connecting contour (301) of the sample (30) in order to detach it, one by one, from the continuous strip (32).