Folding Box with Porous Fold Surface for Product Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional three-dimensional structures and folding boxes made of paper, cardboard, or plastic lack visibility into their contents and design integration of packaging materials, limiting sales-promoting designs and product presentation.
Innovation Solution
A blank with fold edges designed as fold surfaces featuring spaced geometric openings allows for product visibility and design integration, enabling sales-promoting designs by incorporating patterns, graphics, and materials within the packaging structure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a closed folding box structure is used, then the structural integrity and protection of contents is improved, but the visibility into packaging contents and design integration is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The folding box incorporates a fold surface with a pattern of openings (geometric shapes) that creates a porous structure. This allows visual penetration through the packaging material while maintaining the structural integrity of the box. The openings are strategically positioned and sized to provide visibility without compromising the protective function of the closed folding box structure.
2Ease of manufacture
If conventional folding box structures are used, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but design options and sales-promoting capabilities are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The fold surface is segmented into multiple geometric openings (circles, squares, triangles, etc.) arranged in specific patterns. This segmentation allows for versatile design options while maintaining the basic folding box manufacturing process. The segmented pattern can be easily integrated into conventional manufacturing workflows.
Solution Approach 2:
The fold surface incorporates asymmetric geometric patterns and varied opening shapes (different sizes and types of geometric shapes). This asymmetry provides unique design options and visual interest that enhance sales-promoting capabilities while still being manufacturable using standard techniques.
3Reliability
If packaging material is placed inside the folding box, then the packaging function is improved, but the ability to integrate material design into the overall packaging structure is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The fold surface with its geometric opening pattern serves as a merging point between the external packaging structure and the internal packaging material. The pattern allows the design of the packaging material to be visually integrated with the folding box structure, creating a unified aesthetic while maintaining separate functional elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The fold surface creates localized visual access points through its pattern of openings. These localized areas allow the packaging material inside to be visible and integrated into the overall design, while the rest of the packaging structure maintains its protective function. The geometric patterns can be strategically positioned to highlight specific areas of the packaging material.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a blank (10) for producing a three-dimensional structure made of paper, cardboard, or plastic, in particular packaging, a display, or the like, comprising several folding edges (50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78), wherein at least one folding edge (50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60) is designed as a folding surface consisting of an arrangement of a plurality of openings (94) passing through and formed in the blank (10), the openings (94) being designed as spaced-apart geometric shapes. The invention further relates to a three-dimensional structure produced from the blank and a folding box for storing goods, in particular a folding box made of cardboard, paper, or the like.