Smokable Sheet with Detachable Form Mandrel for Custom Rolling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Cigar smokers prefer to use custom tobacco filler materials but existing cigar products are often pre-filled, limiting the ability to add personal tobacco or smokable materials after purchase.

Innovation Solution

A kit comprising a pre-rolled smokable sheet connected to a form mandrel, packaged together for sale, allowing users to add custom filler and roll into a custom-made cigar or smoking article, with the mandrel supporting the sheet during rolling and detachable after filling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If cigars are pre-filled with tobacco, then manufacturing efficiency is improved, but user ability to add custom tobacco filler is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanufacturing efficiencyVSAvoiduser ability to add custom tobacco filler

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The cigar manufacturing process is segmented into separate components: an empty shell (wrapper and binder) and separate filler material. The shell is pre-manufactured and packaged empty, allowing users to separately add their own custom filler material, thus resolving the contradiction between manufacturing efficiency and user customization capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The shell is pre-prepared and packaged in an empty state before the user adds the filler. This preliminary action of creating the shell structure in advance allows for efficient manufacturing while preserving the user's ability to customize the filler content later.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If users add custom tobacco filler after purchase, then customization is improved, but packaging complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidpackaging complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The packaging is segmented to contain only the empty shell, separating it from the filler material. This simplifies the packaging structure compared to packaging pre-filled cigars, while still enabling user customization. The shell is packaged in a simple container that allows easy access for users to add their own filler.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Manufacturing precision

If the sheet is pre-rolled, then rolling precision is improved, but difficulty in adding filler increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverolling precisionVSAvoiddifficulty in adding filler

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The sheet is pre-rolled to establish a precise cylindrical shape and structure, but it is designed to be dynamically adjustable by the user. The pre-rolled sheet can be opened and modified to accommodate custom filler material, combining the benefits of manufacturing precision with user ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The sheet is pre-rolled to the correct dimensions and shape before the user adds the filler. This preliminary rolling action ensures precision in the final product structure while allowing the user to easily add their own filler material without needing to perform the complex rolling operation themselves.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10806173B2Method and apparatus for custom rolling a smokable product

Publication Date: 2020.10.20 NORTH ATLANTIC WRAP CO LLC

AI summary

A product and method of making thereof for the consumption of smokable substances such as tobacco or herbs. The product is comprised of smokable materials such as tobacco, homogenized tobacco, natural leaf materials, vegetable materials, herbal materials, paper, cellulose, and other smokable materials and has a connected form mandrel which is used during the rolling process and disconnected after substantial completion of the rolling process.