Suppository Mold with Malleable Dome for Shape Retention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for producing suppositories are prone to melting, leaking, deformation, and deterioration in warm climates, and are costly and time-consuming to produce varying sizes and ingredient-to-base ratios without altering machine processes.
Innovation Solution
A suppository mold with a malleable dome-shaped end and flexible tab member that cooperatively urges a solidified suppository compound into an applicator, featuring a sealable main reservoir with a hinged cap and ring locking mechanism, allowing for easy filling, sealing, and extraction, and accommodating different sizes and volumes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional compression molding or fusion molding methods are used, then suppositories can be produced, but they melt, leak, deform and deteriorate in warm climates during storage and transport
Solution Approach 1:
The suppository production process is segmented into separate steps: forming the suppository base in a mold, allowing it to solidify, then releasing it intact into a protective container. This segmentation prevents premature exposure to warm conditions that cause melting and deformation.
Solution Approach 2:
The suppository base is formed and solidified completely before being transferred to the final container. This preliminary action ensures the suppository maintains its structural integrity and resists melting, leaking, and deformation during subsequent storage and transport in warm climates.
2Adaptability or versatility
If different sized suppositories or different ingredient-to-base ratios are required, then product variety is achieved, but machine processes must be altered which is costly and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The mold cavity volume can be dynamically adjusted or changed to produce different sized suppositories. The system allows for flexible modification of production parameters without requiring complete machine reconfiguration, enabling easy adaptation to different product specifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention allows changing physical parameters such as mold cavity volume and ingredient-to-base ratios without altering the fundamental machine process. This enables production of different sized suppositories with varying compositions while maintaining the same basic molding mechanism, reducing the cost and time of process alterations.
3Ease of manufacture
If suppositories are produced without special heat sealing equipment, then production is simpler, but they cannot withstand warm climates during storage and transport
Solution Approach 1:
The system separates the suppository formation process from the protection process. The suppository is formed using simple molding without complex heat sealing equipment, then placed into a protective container that prevents melting and deformation during storage and transport, maintaining both manufacturing simplicity and product reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
A protective container or packaging system acts as an intermediary between the suppository and the warm environment. This intermediary protects the suppository from heat-induced melting, leaking, and deformation without requiring complex heat sealing equipment during the manufacturing process itself.
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AI summary
A suppository mold includes an elongate reservoir having a shape of a suppository, a cap member hingedly connected to the reservoir on a first end portion of the reservoir and a flexible flat blade member disposed on a second end portion of the reservoir, opposite the first end portion. The reservoir comprises a malleable dome-shaped end portion adjacent said flexible flat blade member.