Rotating Ornament Container with Nested Carriage and Aperture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional personal ornament boxes fail to effectively draw attention to their contents during presentation, often being bulky, unreliable, expensive, unattractive, and overly complex.
Innovation Solution
A container with a rotatable shell and base, featuring an actuatable member and carriage that translates between presentation and storage positions, allowing for the object to be visible through an aperture, driven by the rotation of the base relative to the shell.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional personal ornament boxes use a simple clam-shell design with hinge and biasing means, then the device complexity is low and ease of manufacture is high, but the presentation effect is poor and the device does not draw attention to contents
Solution Approach 1:
The carriage is nested within the shell interior, and the aperture blades are nested within the carriage structure. This nesting arrangement allows multiple functional elements to be integrated in a compact configuration without significantly increasing device complexity or manufacturing difficulty, while enabling sophisticated presentation effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic elements including the rotatable base relative to the shell, the translatable carriage between storage and presentation positions, and the actuatable aperture blades. These dynamic components transform the static clam-shell box into an active presentation system that draws attention to contents during opening.
2Device complexity
If mechanical arrangements are added to present contents in sophisticated manners, then the presentation effect is improved and attention is drawn to contents, but the device becomes bulky, unreliable, expensive, unattractive, and overly complex
Solution Approach 1:
The biasing means automatically returns the base and carriage to their initial positions after rotation, and the aperture blades self-actuate based on carriage position. This self-service mechanism reduces the need for additional actuators and control systems, thereby improving reliability while maintaining sophisticated presentation effects.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple functions are merged into single components: the base rotation simultaneously drives carriage translation and aperture blade actuation; the biasing means serves both to close the clam-shell and to reset the carriage position. This functional merging reduces the number of separate mechanical elements, improving reliability and reducing complexity.
3Volume of moving object
If the shell is made rotatable relative to the base about a central axis, then the presentation experience is enhanced and the design becomes more compact, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The base rotation introduces a rotational dimension to the traditional linear opening motion. This rotational degree of freedom allows the carriage to be driven along a curved path within the shell, enabling compact integration of the presentation mechanism while achieving sophisticated presentation effects through multi-dimensional motion.
4Ease of operation
If the carriage translates between presentation and storage positions, then the object visibility is improved and presentation is enhanced, but the device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The aperture blades serve as an intermediary element between the carriage and the exterior environment. As the carriage translates to the presentation position, the aperture blades automatically open to reveal the object. This intermediary mechanism enhances presentation effectiveness while using simple mechanical coupling that is relatively easy to manufacture.
Data Source
AI summary
A container for presenting and storing an object comprises a base and a shell with a first end and second end. The first end is operatively coupled to the base so the shell is rotatable relative thereto. The second end defines an aperture opposite to the base. The container includes a carriage that is received within the shell and that is configured to translate between a presentation position proximal to the aperture and a storage position distal to the aperture. The container includes an actuatable member, which is adjacent to the aperture, and which is configurable between an open position and a closed position. Rotation of the base relative to the shell, in a first direction, opens the actuatable member and the carriage moves towards the presentation position. Rotation in a second direction closes the actuatable member and moves the carriage towards the storage position.