Product Display Box with Lift Bars for Lower-Layer Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional boxes for transporting and presenting goods, such as food, often hide lower layers of products when emptied, leading to unsold items due to poor visibility and a misleading appearance of emptiness, especially when inclined or stacked.
Innovation Solution
The box design features a floor with strategically placed openings for supporting bars to lift a carrier, allowing the bars to adjust their penetration depth based on the number of product layers, ensuring products are visible and presented optimally by positioning them closer to the upper edge when layers are removed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the box is arranged in an inclined way to present products advantageously, then product presentation is improved, but lower layers of products become invisible when many layers are removed
Solution Approach 1:
The supporting bars are designed to be movable between different positions (first position and second position) to dynamically adjust the carrier elevation. This allows the system to adapt to different product layer conditions, maintaining optimal visibility and presentation regardless of how many layers remain in the box.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects when product layers are removed and self-adjusts by moving the supporting bars to the appropriate position. The carrier is automatically elevated when needed, without requiring manual intervention to maintain proper product visibility and presentation.
2Loss of information
If supporting bars are inserted deep into the box to lift the carrier, then product visibility is improved, but the structural integrity of the box floor may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The floor is segmented by providing multiple openings distributed across its surface rather than a single large opening. This allows the supporting bars to be positioned strategically while maintaining the structural integrity of the remaining floor material. The floor is divided into multiple load-bearing sections around the openings.
Solution Approach 2:
The floor has different properties in different locations: areas with openings allow bar insertion for visibility, while surrounding areas maintain full structural strength. The openings are strategically positioned to provide necessary functionality only where needed, preserving the overall structural integrity of the floor.
3Loss of information
If the box is made with openings in the floor for supporting bars, then product visibility and presentation are improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The openings in the floor serve multiple functions: they allow supporting bars to pass through for carrier elevation, enable adjustable positioning for different product layer configurations, and maintain structural integrity through strategic placement. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components.
4Device complexity
If the carrier remains on the floor when products are removed, then the box structure is simple, but products appear to be unfairly impaired or contaminated
Solution Approach 1:
The supporting bars provide dynamic adjustment capability, allowing the carrier to be elevated from the floor when product layers are removed. This creates a visually appealing presentation that prevents customers from perceiving remaining products as impaired or contaminated by contact with the floor.
Data Source
AI summary
A box includes a floor, two end walls and two side walls. In the floor, a plurality of openings are provided, which are dimensioned to each receive a supporting bar. The openings are arranged to evenly lift a carrier introduced into the box with supporting bars introduced into the openings and position the same at a position above the floor. A rack for receiving such a box includes a supporting frame and the plurality of supporting bars which are mountable to the supporting frame. Further, a system and a method for the presentation of products are described.