Rolling Filter Insert With Flavor Pod Retention Slot

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing handmade smoking articles face difficulties in securely incorporating flavor releasing mechanisms, such as click balls, due to the lack of effective holding mechanisms in conventional filters, leading to their displacement during use.

Innovation Solution

A sheet-like insert with inwardly extending leg members forming a slot to securely hold a flavor pod, which is rolled to form a scroll structure that retains the flavor pod within the insert, allowing it to be crushed for on-demand flavor release.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional filters are used without holding mechanisms, then the filter structure remains simple, but the flavor releasing mechanism (click ball) cannot be securely retained and falls out during use

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveretention of flavor releasing mechanismVSAvoidfilter structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The filter is divided into distinct functional components: the filter body and the holding mechanism (legs). The legs are separate elements that can be independently formed and positioned to create a slot, allowing the flavor releasing mechanism to be securely retained without complicating the entire filter structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The holding mechanism is localized to specific areas of the filter where the legs are positioned. This localized approach allows the flavor releasing mechanism to be retained at the appropriate location without requiring the entire filter structure to be complex. The legs are strategically placed to create a slot that secures the click ball.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If holding mechanisms are added to secure the click ball, then the flavor releasing mechanism is retained securely, but the manufacturing process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity of flavor releasing mechanismVSAvoidmanufacturing process

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The holding mechanism is integrated into the filter structure by combining the legs with the filter body. The legs are formed as part of the filter assembly process, allowing the holding mechanism to be incorporated without requiring separate, complex manufacturing steps. This merging of components simplifies the overall manufacturing process while maintaining secure retention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of manufacture

If the filter is made with a simple structure, then manufacturing is easy, but the flavor releasing mechanism cannot be held securely and displaces during smoking

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefilter constructionVSAvoidposition of flavor releasing mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The legs are pre-formed and positioned within the filter structure before the flavor releasing mechanism is inserted. This preliminary arrangement of the holding mechanism ensures that the slot is ready to securely receive and retain the click ball, preventing displacement during smoking while maintaining a simple overall filter construction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250366511A1Rolling paper filter tip having a flavor pod holder

Publication Date: 2025.12.04 ABELLIO

AI summary

An insert for use in a smokable item has a sheet of material having a front side, a rear side, a top edge, a bottom edge, and a pair of opposing side edges. A pair of leg members is formed within one of the pair of opposing side edges and extending inwards towards an interior of the sheet of material, wherein the pair of leg members are rolled inwards. A slot is formed between the pair of leg members. A flavor pod is positioned within the slot and held within the slot by the pair of leg members rolled inwards.