Foldable Paper Meal Box with Integrated Beverage Cup Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional meal boxes are rigid and lack flexibility in design, making it difficult to stack and store due to fixed food accommodating grooves and inability to combine with beverage cups efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A simple paper food-beverage box design featuring a box-body and box-bottom-body combination with folding lines and a through-hole for engaging a beverage cup, allowing the cup to be securely attached and the box to be folded for storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional mold pressurization is used to create food accommodating grooves, then the meal box structure is fixed and simple to manufacture, but the box cannot be folded for storage and cannot combine with beverage cups
Solution Approach 1:
The box is divided into a box body and a box bottom body that can be separated and folded independently. The food accommodating grooves are formed by folding the box bottom body along predetermined folding lines, allowing the structure to be compact when folded and functional when assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
The box bottom body is designed with folding lines that allow it to transition between a folded state for storage and an unfolded state for forming food accommodating grooves. This dynamic structure enables the box to adapt between different functional states.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the box bottom is positioned close to the box body bottom surface, then the structure is compact, but beverage cups cannot be securely engaged
Solution Approach 1:
The box bottom body extends downward from the box body bottom surface in the vertical dimension, creating a recessed space. This allows beverage cups to be engaged in the vertical dimension without compromising the horizontal compactness of the overall box structure.
3Ease of manufacture
If food accommodating grooves are created by mold pressurization, then manufacturing is simple, but the structure cannot be folded for storage
Solution Approach 1:
The folding lines and incisions are pre-formed in the box bottom body during manufacturing. This preliminary action allows the box to be easily folded into a compact state for storage while maintaining the ability to form functional food accommodating grooves when assembled.
4Ease of manufacture
If the box structure is fixed and rigid, then manufacturing is straightforward, but stacking and storage become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The box bottom body is designed with folding lines that enable it to transition between a rigid unfolded state for holding food and a folded compact state for storage. This dynamic design maintains manufacturing simplicity while enabling easy stacking and storage.
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AI summary
A simple paper food-beverage box comprises a box-body and a box-bottom-body combined in the box-body; wherein the box-body is provided for placing the food, which the box-body and the box-bottom-body respectively set a plurality of first folding-lines to provide folding storage; wherein the box-bottom-body has a predetermined distance from the bottom surface of the periphery of the box-body, and the bottom of each of the first folding-line is set with a first incision; wherein the box-bottom-body is set with a first through-hole, thereby providing for sticking and engaging a beverage cup on the bottom surface of the box-bottom-body; wherein the periphery of the cup-mouth of the beverage cup is stuck and engaged by the periphery of the box-body, and the straw of the beverage cup can extend out through the first through-hole.