Smoking Article Package With Folding Walls for Hygienic Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing smoking article packages face challenges in easy extraction, particularly for smaller articles like traditional cigarettes or cartridges, often leading to damage and hygiene issues, and existing solutions for singularization result in large package dimensions.
Innovation Solution
A package design with folding side walls and support walls featuring seats for smoking articles, allowing easy extraction and maintaining compact dimensions, with hygienic access through removable covering portions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If smoking articles are arranged side by side in close contact within the package, then the package dimensions are reduced, but the extraction of articles becomes difficult and may cause damage
Solution Approach 1:
The package is divided into multiple compartments, each capable of holding one or more smoking articles. This segmentation allows articles to be stored in an organized manner while facilitating easy extraction of individual articles without affecting others, resolving the contradiction between compact storage and ease of extraction.
Solution Approach 2:
A removable cover or partition acts as an intermediary element that can be selectively removed to access specific compartments. This intermediary mechanism enables users to extract articles without needing to handle or touch other articles, maintaining both compact dimensions and hygienic extraction.
2Ease of operation
If solutions are designed to enable singularization of smoking articles for easy extraction, then extraction becomes easier, but the package dimensions increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The package employs a segmented compartment structure where each compartment is designed to hold individual articles or small groups. This segmentation enables easy access to single articles without requiring the entire package to be opened or articles to be handled in bulk, thus avoiding increased dimensions while maintaining ease of extraction.
Solution Approach 2:
The package utilizes a three-dimensional compartmental arrangement that optimizes space utilization. By arranging compartments in multiple layers or configurations, the design achieves easy article access without increasing the overall footprint or volume of the package significantly.
3Ease of operation
If users must touch smoking articles with fingers for extraction, then extraction is possible, but hygiene is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The package incorporates removable covers, partitions, or dispensing mechanisms that act as intermediaries between the user's fingers and the smoking articles. Users can open covers or activate mechanisms to extract articles without direct finger contact, maintaining hygiene while preserving ease of extraction.
Solution Approach 2:
The design allows the cover or protective element to be completely removed or opened before extraction, enabling users to take out articles without touching them with fingers. This extraction of the protective barrier maintains hygiene while facilitating easy article removal.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a package (1) of smoking articles (2) comprising: a front wall (3); a rear wall (4); a bottom (10); two side walls (11); and at least a first support wall (5), which has a first group of seats (50) for receiving, each one, a smoking article (2) and is arranged in proximity to the front wall (3) so as to be transversal to the front wall (3) and to the rear wall (4). Each side wall (11) has: a first portion (12) proximal to the front wall (3); a second portion (13) proximal to the rear wall (4); and a folding line (14) arranged between the first portion (12) and the second portion (13) so as to allow the folding of the first portion (12) on the second portion (13), or vice versa, causing the mutual distancing and approach of the front wall (3) and of the rear wall (4).