Packaging Container Grip Support via Localized Crease Lines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing packaging containers for foodstuffs lack effective grip support during pouring, leading to accidental slipping and aesthetically unappealing designs that compromise shelf stability.
Innovation Solution
A packaging container design featuring a top part with a recessed portion and crease lines that form a single surface for improved grip support, combined with a manufacturing method using a blank with parallel and non-parallel crease lines to create a tubular body and top portion, enhancing both functionality and aesthetics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a standard smooth surface is used on the packaging container, then the manufacturing process is simple and aesthetically clean, but the grip support during pouring is insufficient leading to accidental slipping
Solution Approach 1:
The invention applies a tactile pattern only to specific areas of the container where grip is needed, rather than modifying the entire surface. This localized application provides enhanced finger grip support during pouring while maintaining the simplicity and aesthetic appeal of the smooth container surface in other areas.
2Ease of operation
If a tactile pattern is added to the container surface, then grip support during pouring is improved, but the aesthetic appearance and shelf stability are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The tactile pattern is applied locally to specific grip zones rather than across the entire container surface. This allows the container to maintain its clean, smooth aesthetic appearance and stable shelf presence while providing enhanced grip support exactly where fingers contact the container during pouring.
3Ease of operation
If a gripping arrangement extending over side and back panel parts is added, then grip support is improved, but bulging is introduced making it difficult to stand on shelf
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of adding extensive gripping arrangements that cover large portions of the container surface, the invention applies tactile patterns only to localized areas where grip is actually needed. This minimal intervention provides sufficient grip support without introducing bulging or compromising the container's ability to stand stably on shelves alongside other packages.
Data Source
AI summary
A packaging container may include a top part with a pouring spout for pouring the contents of the container. The packaging container may further include a tubular body part with an upper end and a lower end, the upper end being joined together with the top part along a circumferential edge of the upper end of the body part. The body part may further include a first group of crease lines extending from a lower end of the body part towards its upper end. The top part may include a recessed portion, the recessed portion and the first group visually forming one surface. A surface near the interface area between the first group of crease lines and the recessed portion of the top part may provide gripping support for one or more fingers of a hand when the packaging container is held by the hand and the remaining fingers while pouring the contents from the packaging container.