Foldable Cigarette Packaging with Triangular Support Bulges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smokers face challenges in finding an ergonomically adequate and hygienic space to prepare and roll cigarettes, as existing accessories lack functionality for manual rolling and often result in tobacco spills.
Innovation Solution
A foldable packaging design with a base line divided into two sides and a narrow band terminated by triangular parts, allowing conversion into a handy table or stand-alone support for rolling cigarettes, ensuring tobacco containment and hygiene.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a packaging for smoker's articles is designed, then storage function is provided, but it lacks functionality for manual rolling of cigarettes
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging is designed to serve multiple functions: storing smoker's articles and providing a support surface for manual cigarette rolling. The base line with its specific geometric configuration enables the packaging to function as both a container and a rolling support, eliminating the need for separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The base line is divided into two small sides with a narrow band terminated by triangular parts. This segmentation creates a geometric configuration that forms a stable support surface when the packaging is opened, enabling the rolling function while maintaining storage capability.
2Ease of operation
If a smoker looks for an area to place cigarette paper and prepare tobacco, then preparation space is needed, but ergonomically adequate space is not always available
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging utilizes the third dimension (height) by opening the container to create a vertical support surface. The base line configuration allows the packaging to stand upright and provide a stable rolling surface, effectively adding vertical preparation space rather than requiring additional horizontal area.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If preparation is done on a table or floor, then space is available, but hygiene issues arise due to inadequate environment
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging serves itself by providing a dedicated, clean preparation surface integrated into the container structure. The geometric configuration of the base line creates a stable, hygienic surface that is inherently designed for the purpose, eliminating the need to use external surfaces like tables or floors that may be contaminated.
4Loss of substance
If cigarette rolling is performed on a flat surface, then preparation is possible, but superfluous tobacco ends on the table or floor
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging merges the storage function with the preparation function. The narrow band and triangular parts of the base line configuration create a contained space that holds both the tobacco and the rolling paper, preventing tobacco from spilling onto external surfaces while maintaining ease of operation.
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AI summary
A packaging for manual rolling of cigarettes comprising smoker's accessories like cigarette sheets, filters, sheets, matches, lighters, tobacco and an article usable as an advertising material is characterized in that the base line is foldably divided into two small sides with a narrow band therebetween. The intermediate band is terminated at both sides each time with two triangular parts, providing for creating a handy table for rolling cigarettes. The narrow band is foldably divided in a way that the external parts are embraced by triangular folded corners of smaller sides. While the device is in use, the packaging is opened and put onto a support in a way that small sides are lifted upwards. The triangular sides on both sides of the narrow band are then pushed upwards to create bulges. The two bulges each from its side stop the narrow side and prevent the content from falling from the support.