Foldable Disposable Pipe Assembly via Score Lines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing disposable smoking pipes require complex assembly and perforations, making them difficult to use and assemble.
Innovation Solution
A foldable smoking pipe design featuring a substrate tube with score lines for easy folding, a heat-resistant foil-laminated bowl, and adhesive flaps for secure positioning, allowing for quick assembly and use without the need for external objects or perforations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the bowl requires insertion of a finger or object to expand and requires perforations in the foil, then the bowl can be formed from a flat blank, but the assembly becomes complex and difficult to use
Solution Approach 1:
The flat blank is divided into distinct segments: a tube portion that forms the pipe body and a bowl portion that forms the smoking chamber. Score lines create natural fold lines that guide the user through simple sequential folding actions to transform the flat blank into a three-dimensional pipe with a pre-formed bowl, eliminating the need for finger insertion or perforations.
Solution Approach 2:
The bowl is pre-formed during the folding assembly process itself. As the tube portion is folded into a cylinder and the bowl portion is folded into place, the bowl chamber is automatically created and positioned within the tube structure. This preliminary formation of the bowl during assembly eliminates the need for separate expansion actions or perforation steps that would otherwise be required.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the pipe is made portable and disposable, then it can be easily carried and discarded after use, but assembly complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tube and bowl are merged into a single integrated flat blank structure. The score lines create predetermined fold lines that guide the transformation from a two-dimensional blank to a three-dimensional assembled pipe. This integration allows the entire pipe structure to be collapsed into a compact flat form for portability while maintaining a simple single-piece assembly process that does not require multiple components or complex assembly steps.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The pipe is easy to assemble and use, portable, and inexpensive, with a compact design that can be stored like a credit card, ensuring convenience and durability for a limited number of uses before disposal.
Implementation Method 1
the adhesive layer adheres the outer surface to the at least one flap
Data Source
AI summary
A foldable disposable smoking pipe having a bowl and elongated body that is formed from a substrate blank having a laminated layer of foil and an adhesive strip, so that the pipe is easily constructed from the substrate blank into an elongated body walled portion having a trapezoidal cross section and a bowl constructed from the substrate blank into a shape of a frustum, where the bowl is inserted into an opening in the walled body portion and an adhesive holds the bowl in place on the body portion and the smoking pipe can be used for a limited number of times until it degrades due to the heat generated from a burning substance.