Modular Plant Packaging Box with Folding Lips
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing packaging solutions for potted plants lack versatility, as they are designed for either vertical or horizontal use but not both efficiently, and they often fail to securely hold plants during transportation.
Innovation Solution
A modular packaging box configuration made of sheet material, preferably cardboard, that can be used in both vertical and horizontal positions. This configuration includes a basic box with folding lips, a first bearing platform, and a first support platform for vertical use, and a second bearing platform and second support platforms for horizontal use, ensuring secure and adaptable packaging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If packaging boxes are designed for vertical position only, then secure packaging of single large potted plant is achieved, but versatility for horizontal packaging of multiple small plants is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The basic box is designed with universal functionality to operate in both vertical and horizontal positions. The folding lips mechanism enables the same box structure to securely hold plants in either orientation, eliminating the need for separate packaging designs for different plant arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The packaging system incorporates dynamic elements through folding lips that can be pushed in from the outside to transform the box between vertical and horizontal configurations. This dynamic transformation capability allows adaptability without requiring completely different box structures.
2Adaptability or versatility
If packaging box uses fixed structure, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to different plant sizes and arrangements is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The box structure is segmented into modular components with folding lips that can be independently manipulated. This segmentation allows the box to be reconfigured between vertical and horizontal positions while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure that is easy to manufacture.
Solution Approach 2:
The folding lips provide dynamic reconfiguration capability without requiring complex mechanisms. The lips can be pushed in from the outside to transform the box orientation, maintaining manufacturing simplicity while enabling adaptability to different plant sizes and arrangements.
3Reliability
If folding lips are made long for secure locking, then plant security during transport is improved, but ease of pushing in from outside deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The folding lips are designed with sufficient length to provide reliable locking when pushed in, but not excessively long to make installation difficult. The lips engage partially with the bearing platforms to achieve secure locking while remaining manageable for manual operation from the outside.
Data Source
AI summary
Packaging box configuration for packaging potted plants, comprising a basic box having a fixed wall, four side walls and an open side which can be closed off by a lid or door. The basic box is configured to be able to be used either vertically (“wardrobe mode”), wherein one of the side walls then serves as a bottom wall and the fixed wall as a rear wall, or horizontally (“chest mode”), wherein the fixed wall then serves as a bottom wall. To this end, the basic box comprises two mutually opposite side walls which are provided with folding lips which can be pushed in. The basic box can be used vertically using a first bearing platform and support platform which engage with the folding lips of the basic box. The basic box can also be used horizontally using a second bearing platform and support platform.