Shallow Food Package Structure With Reservoir for Toddler Self-Feeding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumable product packages often fail to balance preservation and marketing needs, particularly for self-feeding applications, as they may be too deep for toddlers or lack ideal shapes for advertising, and existing designs do not effectively differentiate products or facilitate easy handling and use.
Innovation Solution
A package design featuring a body with a shallow interior compartment and a separate reservoir, separated by a semicircular protrusion, allowing for optimal self-feeding and marketing, with customizable shapes and materials to accommodate various consumable products and provide a grip for easy handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If packages are made deep to cover consumable products with sauces and preservatives, then product preservation is improved, but the packages become too deep for toddlers to self-feed
Solution Approach 1:
The package is divided into two distinct compartments: a shallow interior compartment for consumable products that enables self-feeding, and a separate reservoir compartment for sauces and preservatives that ensures product preservation. The protrusion structure creates this segmentation, allowing each compartment to fulfill its specific function independently.
2Ease of operation
If packages use shallow trays suitable for self-feeding, then ease of use is improved, but they lack ideal surfaces and shapes for marketing and advertising
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extends the package structure vertically by adding a protrusion with a reservoir compartment above the main body. This dimensional extension creates additional surface area on the package exterior that can be used for marketing graphics and advertising, while the main shallow compartment remains optimized for self-feeding.
3Shape
If packages have specific shapes and depths for marketing purposes, then marketability is improved, but they may not provide complete coverage of consumable products with sauces
Solution Approach 1:
The package is divided into two distinct compartments: a shallow interior compartment for consumable products that enables self-feeding, and a separate reservoir compartment for sauces and preservatives that ensures product preservation. The protrusion structure creates this segmentation, allowing each compartment to fulfill its specific function independently.
Solution Approach 2:
The package design changes the depth parameter of the interior compartment to be shallow for self-feeding, while adding a separate reservoir compartment with its own depth characteristics for holding sauces. This parameter differentiation allows the package to simultaneously achieve marketing appeal through optimized shape and complete product coverage through adequate sauce volume.
4Reliability
If packages are designed with optimal depth for preservation, then product quality is maintained, but they do not provide ideal gripping portions for toddlers
Solution Approach 1:
The protrusion structure incorporates curved surfaces that form natural gripping portions for toddler hands. The rounded contours of the protrusion provide ergonomic contact points that are easy for small hands to grasp, while the overall package depth is maintained to ensure proper product coverage and quality.
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AI summary
Packages (10) for storing, displaying and housing consumable products (18) without loss of product quality and methods of using same are provided. The packages (10) may be shallow enough to promote self-feeding while still allowing for upright display of the package (10). In a general embodiment, the packages (10) of the present disclosure include specific shapes, sizes and/or depths that provide complete coverage of consumable products (18) with sauces, preservatives, juices etc. (20) while still providing functional advantages to a consumer and/or user of such packages (10) who is learning to self-feed. In addition, the consumer product packages (10) having specific shapes, sizes and/or depths also provides for marketing and aesthetic advantages.