Separable Retail Packaging Container for Pegboard Loading
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of unpacking and loading display packages onto display peg hooks in retail facilities is time-consuming, as employees need to individually remove each package from primary and secondary containers.
Innovation Solution
A container design with a separable top and base portion along a pre-weakened line, allowing the top portion to be removed to align hanging apertures of packages for simultaneous sliding onto a pegboard hook, reducing the need for individual handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If packages are individually unpacked from containers and loaded onto peg hooks, then each package can be properly displayed, but the process is time-consuming and labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple individual packages are merged into a single container unit, allowing them to be handled and loaded as one group rather than individually. The container holds multiple packages with aligned hanging apertures, enabling simultaneous loading onto a peg hook.
Solution Approach 2:
The packages are pre-positioned within the container with their hanging apertures aligned before reaching the display area. The container structure itself pre-aligns the packages, so no additional alignment action is needed during the loading process.
2Ease of operation
If the container structure is made separable into top and base portions, then loading efficiency is improved, but the container design becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The container is segmented into a top portion and a base portion that can be separated from each other. This segmentation allows the top portion to be removed to access and load the packages while keeping the base portion as a stable support structure during the loading operation.
Data Source
AI summary
A packaged set of articles that are easily mounted to a pegboard hook. The packaged set of articles includes a container having a base portion and a top portion that are separable from one another along a pre-weakened line. The top portion includes a portion of a front wall of the container and a portion of a rear wall of the container. The top portion may include at least 50%, or at least 75%, or the entirety of the rear wall of the container. A plurality of packages, each of which contains an article, is arranged in an internal cavity of the container in single file. The packages may include an aperture so that the packages can be hung from a pegboard hook in a retail display. The hanging apertures may be aligned so that an employee can use the container to slide the packages onto the pegboard hook.