Corrugated Fiberboard Urn with Integrated Photo Window
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current urn designs for cremated humans and pets are costly due to material and manufacturing expenses, while also lacking affordability and ease of personalization.
Innovation Solution
A foldable corrugated fiberboard urn with a photograph mounting and protection arrangement, utilizing adhesive and alignment markings for easy image placement, allowing for decorative designs through straightforward printing processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional wood or wood-composite urns with photograph holders are used, then durability and aesthetic quality are maintained, but manufacturing cost and material cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the material parameter from traditional wood/wood-composite to corrugated fiberboard, which provides comparable structural integrity and durability at significantly reduced material and manufacturing costs. The fiberboard can be directly printed on, eliminating complex assembly of photograph holders while maintaining the ability to display images.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the photograph display function from a separate holder component and integrates it directly into the urn body through printing. This eliminates the need for additional photograph holder assemblies, reducing manufacturing steps and material costs while maintaining the commemorative function.
2Reliability
If traditional urns with separate photograph holders are used, then image protection is provided, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the image protection function with the urn structure itself. The corrugated fiberboard provides inherent protection, and the printed image is integrated directly onto the urn surface, eliminating separate photograph holders and their associated complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The corrugated fiberboard material serves multiple functions: it provides structural integrity for the urn, offers protection for the printed image, and serves as the substrate for direct printing. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate protective components.
3Reliability
If traditional urns are used, then durability is maintained, but ease of personalization and customization is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the surface parameter of the urn to be directly printable, allowing images and text to be printed directly onto the corrugated fiberboard. This enables easy personalization with names, dates, and photographs without requiring separate attachment components.
Solution Approach 2:
The urn structure itself provides the personalization capability through direct printing on the fiberboard surface. The material is prepared in advance with printing capabilities, allowing customers to easily customize their urns with commemorative images and text during the manufacturing process.
Data Source
AI summary
An urn is configured to receive cremation remains includes a folded corrugated fiberboard box. The folded corrugated fiberboard box has a bottom, a front panel, a rear panel, and first and second sides, and a lid configured to extend over a top opening and over the front panel in a closed position. The lid has a first flap inserted between the front panel and the first side in the closed position. The lid includes a window defined therethrough, and a transparent window cover, The front panel includes adhesive disposed adjacent to or aligned with the window, the adhesive configured to support a paper substrate having at least one image such that, when the lid is in the closed position, at least a portion of the at least one image is visible through the window.