Reusable Storage Calendar With Modular Day Boxes for Dessert Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current calendars, especially tear-off paper calendars, are not reusable and cannot be customized to accommodate various desserts like wrapped chocolates, mints, and candies, and traditional calendars do not allow for a daily spiritual or devotional ritual before dessert.
Innovation Solution
A reusable Customizable Storage Calendar with dual-sided day boxes and a month box system that can be configured as a devotional calendar, allowing for the display of positive subject matter and storage of desserts, featuring a backboard, month box, week face plate, and horizontal support member, with removable dual-sided day boxes and month sliders for customizable display and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional tear-off paper calendars are used, then they are simple and inexpensive to manufacture, but they are not reusable and cannot be customized for various desserts
Solution Approach 1:
The calendar is divided into individual day boxes that can be separately removed, customized, and replaced. Each day box functions as an independent unit that can hold different desserts, allowing the calendar to be adapted to various dessert types while maintaining a manageable overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The calendar structure serves multiple functions: it acts as a countdown timer, a storage container for various types of desserts (chocolates, mints, candies), and a customizable display system. The universal design allows the same structure to accommodate different dessert types and customization options without requiring separate systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional Advent calendars with fixed compartments are used, then they provide structured storage, but they cannot be customized to accommodate a variety of desserts such as wrapped chocolates, mints, and candies
Solution Approach 1:
The calendar transitions from a static fixed-compartment design to a dynamic system where day boxes can be removed, customized with different desserts, and reconfigured. This dynamic approach allows the calendar to adapt to various dessert types while maintaining ease of operation through simple removal and replacement of individual day boxes.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If reusable calendar systems are created, then they can be customized and used multiple times, but they become more complex in structure and manufacturing
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the calendar into modular day boxes within a frame structure, the system achieves reusability through easy replacement and reconfiguration of individual components, while the overall construction remains relatively simple and manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The day boxes are nested within the calendar frame structure, allowing the compact organization of multiple components in a space-efficient manner. This nesting approach enables reusability and customization while keeping the overall construction compact and relatively simple.
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AI summary
A Customized Storage Calendar including a backboard, calendar frame, partitions, configured as rows and columns, to define storage compartments, day boxes displaying the day number and positive subject indicia on a removable insert secured by tabs or on a removable top wall slider which are refillable, month box configured as left or right side insert which provides storage for remaining sliders displaying the current month slider, optional year sliders, and optional academia subject or positive subject indicia, horizontal support member, and a week face plate. The Customized Storage Calendar is shown configured with 31 dual-sided day boxes and 7 six wall day boxes displaying positive subject indicia on a removable insert, and 7 five wall cube day boxes displaying positive subject indicia on a removable top wall slider. Each day box is adapted to receive and store an object therein.