Rotatable Label With Transparent Window For Information Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumer product containers have limited outer surface area for labeling, making it difficult for manufacturers to convey required information effectively.
Innovation Solution
A rotatable top label with a transparent window is applied over a base label on the container, allowing machine-readable indicia to be visible through the window, thereby increasing the surface area for information delivery and enabling additional functionality such as scanning and interactive content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a rotatable top label with transparent window is added to the container, then the information delivery capability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The label system is divided into two separate components: a base label that remains stationary and provides initial information, and a rotatable top label with transparent windows that reveals additional information layers. This segmentation allows each label to serve specific functions independently, resolving the contradiction by enabling comprehensive information delivery without creating a single complex integrated structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a rotational dimension to the label system. The top label can rotate around the container, providing multiple viewing angles and revealing different information through its transparent windows at different positions. This dimensional change transforms a static 2D surface into a dynamic multi-layered information system, effectively increasing information capacity without proportionally increasing structural complexity.
2Loss of information
If the label surface area is increased to deliver more information, then the information delivery capability is improved, but the container surface area requirement increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable top label is nested over the base label, creating a compact multi-layered structure. The transparent windows in the top label allow selective viewing of the base label information underneath, while the top label itself provides additional information layers. This nesting approach enables comprehensive information delivery within the footprint of a single label area, avoiding the need to expand the container surface area.
Solution Approach 2:
The label system transitions from a static configuration to a dynamic one where the top label can rotate. This dynamic element allows a single physical label structure to present multiple information sets sequentially, effectively increasing the information delivery capability without requiring proportionally more surface area on the container.
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AI summary
The present application is directed to systems and methods for an information delivery system for a container. At least one machine readable indicia may be printed on an outer surface of the container. A top label may cover at least a portion of the outer surface of the container. The top label may be rotatable about the outer surface of the container. The top label may have a transparent window allowing at least one of the machine readable indicia to be visible through the transparent window.