Tapered Storage Container for Easier Smokable Product Packing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing smokable products lack structure for filling pre-formed sheets of material and do not provide a means to assist users in handling the product during use.
Innovation Solution
A storage container with moveable ends and tapered width, allowing access to a chamber for inserting smokable material and a smokable product with a wire member for handling, along with a method of packing that involves separating container portions to access the chamber and inserting the material.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a pre-formed sheet of material is used for customizing smokable products, then the user can fill the sheet with personal smokable materials, but the product lacks structure for assisting the user in filling and handling
Solution Approach 1:
The storage container is divided into multiple separable portions with defined opening locations that allow the container to be opened at specific points. This segmentation provides structured access points for filling the smokable material while maintaining the pre-formed sheet structure, thus resolving the contradiction between customization capability and ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If the storage container has multiple separable portions for accessing the chamber, then the user can easily fill the smokable product, but the container structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The container is segmented into portions that can be separated at defined locations, providing easy access to the chamber for filling. This segmentation achieves ease of operation while maintaining relatively simple container structure by using defined separation points rather than complex mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
Storage containers, products, and methods of packing a smoking product are described. An example storage container has a main body that has a first end, a second end, a lengthwise axis, a width, and defines a chamber and an indicium. The lengthwise axis has a midpoint. Each of the first end and second end is moveable from a sealed configuration to an unsealed configuration. The width of the main body tapers from the second end toward the first end. The indicium is defined at a location between the midpoint of the lengthwise axis and the first end and extends along a portion of the width of the main body. The main body has a first width at the location between the midpoint of the lengthwise axis and the first end and a second width at the second end. The first width is less than the second width.