Planogram Sheet Binding via Divot Board Slots

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional product labels for stores often fail to maintain order during shipment and placement, as fasteners used to hold them together can break, leading to unintended alterations in the label order, causing inefficiencies in store displays.

Innovation Solution

An ordered stack of bound sheets comprising printed product information sheets, where each sheet is bound to the stack and ordered based on planogram data, allowing for easy detachment and reattachment according to specific locations in the store, using methods like glue binding, spiral binding, or tearable edges, ensuring accurate placement and order maintenance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If fasteners are used to hold product labels together during shipment, then the labels can be transported and handled, but the fasteners may break causing the labels to lose their intended order

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveorder maintenanceVSAvoidfastener reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the fastener component entirely from the system. Instead of using separate fasteners to hold labels together, the labels are directly bound to a divot board through slots and divots, creating an integrated structure where the binding function is inherent to the board-label assembly rather than relying on separate fastening elements that can fail

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines the labeling function with the organizational function by integrating multiple labels onto a single divot board. The divot board serves as both the structural support and the organizational mechanism, with slots and divots that directly engage with label features to maintain order without requiring additional fasteners

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of operation

If product labels are provided on separate sheets with fasteners, then they can be delivered to stores, but the order of labels may be unintentionally altered during handling

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelabel placementVSAvoidlabel order

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary ordering and binding of labels to the divot board before shipment. The labels are pre-positioned in their correct sequence and physically bound to the board structure, so that when the board arrives at the store, the labels are already in their intended order and simply need to be transferred to the shelf, eliminating the risk of order alteration during handling

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The divot board acts as an intermediary carrier that maintains label order during transport and transfer. The board's slots and divots provide a mechanical interface that holds labels in their correct sequence, serving as a temporary but reliable organizational structure between the labeling system and the final shelf placement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Strength

If conventional fasteners are used to bind sheets, then sheets can be held together, but the binding may fail during shipment and placement

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebinding strengthVSAvoidbinding reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the conventional mechanical fastener system (ties, rubber bands, clips) with a direct mechanical engagement system where label features (such as perforations, tabs, or adhesive strips) interact with divot board features (slots and divots). This creates a more reliable binding that is integral to the structure rather than relying on separate mechanical fasteners that can break or slip

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS8970893B1Method of producing an ordered stack of bound product information sheets for a store from planogram or ordered data

Publication Date: 2015.03.03 ELECTRONIC IMAGING SERVICES INC

AI summary

An ordered stack of bound sheets may comprise a set of printed product information sheets. An individual bound sheet may comprise a single printed product information sheet or may comprise a plurality of printed product information sheets. Each of the individual printed product information sheets may be detached from the ordered stack of bound sheets in the order in which the printed product information sheets are presented. The individual printed product information sheets (which are detached from the ordered stack in order) may be connected to structures in the stores based on a planogram for a set of products for display in the store. The order of the printed product information sheets may match an order in which the sheets are positioned based on the planogram.