Flower Bucket Filler Piece Design to Prevent Stack Meshing and Tilting
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing packaging for cut flowers, with outwardly projecting channels at the top, risks tilting and falling when stacks are positioned adjacent to each other due to meshing channels, which can be mitigated by increasing channel height but results in reduced nesting and transport capacity, and altering the design to inwardly projecting channels is not feasible as it may harm the flowers.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating filler pieces underneath the peripheral channel that connect to both the channel and the bucket's standing wall, preventing the top side of one bucket's channel from meshing with another, thus preventing tilting, while allowing deeper nesting and maintaining transport efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If the channel height is increased to prevent meshing between adjacent buckets, then stack stability is improved, but the nesting capacity and transport efficiency are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The invention divides the channel structure into two separate functional parts: the outer channel wall that provides structural support and stability, and the inner filler piece that prevents meshing between adjacent buckets. This segmentation allows each part to optimize its specific function without compromising the other, resolving the contradiction between stack stability and transport efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The filler piece acts as an intermediary element between the channel and the bucket wall, preventing direct contact and meshing between adjacent buckets while maintaining the channel's structural integrity. This intermediary structure enables stable stacking without requiring increased channel height, thus preserving nesting capacity and transport efficiency.
2Strength
If the channel projects outwardly to support the top part, then the structural function is improved, but the risk of meshing with adjacent buckets increases
Solution Approach 1:
The channel structure is segmented into the outer channel wall that maintains structural support function and the inner filler piece that provides meshing prevention. This segmentation allows the channel to project outwardly for structural support while the filler piece prevents harmful interactions with adjacent buckets.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention converts the potential harmful effect of the channel projecting outward (which causes meshing) into a beneficial structure by adding the filler piece. The filler piece transforms the vulnerable protruding channel into a protected structure that maintains its support function while preventing meshing, thus converting a potential harm into a benefit.
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AI summary
A device for packing cut flowers incorporating a bucket for use as a bottom part, and further incorporating a sleeve-shaped top part. The bucket incorporates a peripheral channel that is open at a top side for receiving and retaining a bottom portion of the top part, wherein the peripheral channel projects outwardly with respect to a standing wall of the bucket, and wherein the bucket incorporates a filler piece arranged underneath the peripheral channel and connecting up to both a bottom of the peripheral channel and a portion of the standing wall as present underneath the peripheral channel. Due to the presence of the filler piece on the bucket, channels of adjacent buckets being part of stacks containing buckets positioned alongside each other are prevented from meshing together.