Roof Window Installation Packaging With Deployable Flanges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing packaging for roof window installation products is difficult to handle on inclining roof structures, leading to potential errors, safety risks, and reduced accessibility due to its rectangular shape and lack of effective engagement with the roof surface.
Innovation Solution
The packaging features movable flanges that can extend beyond its original dimensions to engage with the roof structure, providing stability and handles that facilitate carrying and positioning, allowing for secure placement and easy maneuverability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the packaging is made with a rectangular shape and optimized for storage, then storage efficiency is improved, but handleability on inclining roof structures deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging incorporates movable flanges that can transition between a first position (parallel with sections, adjacent to them) and a second position (extending beyond outer dimensions). This dynamic configuration allows the packaging to adapt from a compact rectangular storage form to an extended form with engagement means for roof structures, resolving the contradiction between storage efficiency and handleability on inclined roofs.
2Ease of operation
If the packaging outer dimensions are reduced for easy handling, then carryability is improved, but storage capacity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging maintains a compact rectangular configuration during storage and transport, then dynamically extends flanges during installation to provide engagement means. This allows the packaging to carry full storage capacity while achieving easy handling through the extended configuration with handles and roof engagement capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The packaging extends beyond its original outer dimensions by deploying flanges in a different spatial configuration. This dimensional transformation allows the packaging to maintain compact storage volume while providing extended handleability and roof engagement capabilities during installation.
3Reliability
If the packaging is made stable on the roof through engagement means, then displacement risk is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flanges serve multiple functions: they form part of the packaging structure during storage, provide engagement means with roof structures during installation, and serve as handles for carrying. This multi-functionality reduces device complexity while achieving stability on the roof through engagement means.
Solution Approach 2:
The flanges are movable between a first position (parallel with sections, adjacent to them) and a second position (extending beyond outer dimensions for engagement). This dynamic design allows the same structural element to provide both compact storage configuration and stable roof engagement, avoiding the need for separate complex components.
4Reliability
If the packaging dimensions are extended for roof engagement, then stability is improved, but ease of transport deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The flanges are configured to be movable between a first position (parallel with sections, adjacent to them) for compact transport and a second position (extending beyond outer dimensions) for roof engagement. This dynamic transformation allows the packaging to be easily transported in its compact form while achieving stability on the roof when the flanges are extended.
Data Source
AI summary
A packaging for roof window installation products it disclosed. It packaging comprises a folded sheet member having a bottom section defining a first plane, four side sections and a top section, said sections together defining an inner room and first outer dimensions of the packaging, in the assembled state. The packaging comprises at least one flange and at least one handle, each being movable between a first position, where it extends substantially in parallel with at least one of said sections and adjacent to said at least one section, and a second position, where it extends beyond the first outer dimensions. Said at least one flange is configured for engagement with the roof structure when in the second position, and said handle is configured for carrying the packaging when in the second position. A use of a packaging for window installation products is also disclosed.