Pouch Dispenser Shelf Geometry for Stable Rail Placement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing dispensers for pouches, particularly for liquid products, face challenges in efficient and stable placement in transport guides during the welding and filling processes, leading to inefficiencies and increased costs.

Innovation Solution

The dispenser design features inversely symmetrical bevel cuts and undulating side edges on upper and lower shelves, allowing for improved serial placement in transport rails, enhancing the smoothness of these processes and reducing production and transport costs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional dispenser designs are used, then manufacturing and transport are simpler, but placement stability and efficiency in transport guides deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplacement efficiencyVSAvoidshelf structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies asymmetry by designing the shelves with non-symmetric bevel cuts and undulating side edges. The bevel cuts are positioned at specific angles on one side of each shelf, and the side edges feature asymmetric undulations, creating an uneven contact surface that interlocks with corresponding features in the transport guide. This asymmetric geometry prevents slipping and ensures stable serial placement of multiple pouches during transport and processing operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #4Asymmetry

2Reliability

If pouches are placed in transport guides for welding and filling, then production efficiency improves, but placement stability deteriorates due to improper shelf geometry

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplacement stabilityVSAvoidserial placement efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies curvature through the undulating side edges of the shelves. Instead of straight edges, the shelves feature wave-like curved profiles that create multiple contact points with the transport guide. This curved geometry distributes the load across several points and creates a mechanically interlocking arrangement that prevents pouches from shifting or becoming misaligned during the welding and filling processes, thereby ensuring reliable serial placement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

3Reliability

If bevel cuts are added to shelves, then placement stability improves, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveserial placement stabilityVSAvoidshelf manufacturing ease
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by specifying precise geometric parameters for the bevel cuts, including the angle of inclination and the position relative to the shelf center. These controlled parameter variations create the necessary asymmetric contact surfaces for stable placement while maintaining compatibility with standard manufacturing processes. The bevel cuts are designed with specific angular parameters that can be achieved through conventional cutting and molding techniques, balancing stability requirements with manufacturing feasibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4486663B1Dispenser for pouches
Publication Date: 2026.03.25 KRAJEWSKI KAMIL
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AI summary

The invention solves the problem of shaping the bevel cuts of the upper and lower shelves of dispensers, allowing for increasing the quantity of their serial and stable placement in the transport guides of transport rails for carrying out the technological process, such as welding dispensers with pouches or filling them with liquid products. The dispenser for pouches, especially for liquid products, is characterized in that the upper shelf (7) and the lower shelf (6) have bevel cuts (10) inversely symmetrical to each other and have bevel cuts (10) of the right segment (8) of the body (1) inversely symmetrical with respect to the bevel cuts of the left segment (9) of the body (1), the bevel cuts (10) constitute oblique surfaces with respect to the surface of the upper shelf (7) and the lower shelf (6) in the front segment (4) and the rear segment (5) and are obliquely positioned in relation to the outer surface of the body (1) of the dispenser. In a variant of the invention, the upper shelf (7) and the lower shelf (6) have an undulated outline of the side edges (13) in the right segment (8) and in the left segment (9), and the undulated outline of the side edges (13) of the upper shelf (7) is reversed symmetrically shaped in relation to the undulated contour of the side edges (13) of the lower shelf (6).