Trapezoidal Cardboard Display Arch with Self-Adjusting Coupling Flaps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cardboard displays are not designed to effectively showcase products at great heights without additional support, lacking the structural integrity to hold large media displays above corridors in supermarkets and shopping centers.
Innovation Solution
A trapezoidal cardboard display box design with adjustable flaps and cutouts allows for self-supported arched structures when assembled, enabling the display of large media at high heights between shelves without additional support, utilizing a cutting and creasing pattern that allows for locking and adjustment to form a stable communication arch.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If traditional cardboard displays are used, then they are easy to manufacture and assemble, but they lack the structural integrity to support large media at great heights
Solution Approach 1:
The display is divided into multiple modular units that can be assembled together to form a stable arch structure. Each unit contains standardized coupling elements (flaps and cutouts) that enable reliable connection between segments, distributing structural loads effectively while maintaining manufacturing simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The display units are configured to form an arched shape when assembled, utilizing the inherent strength of curved structures to support weight at great heights. The arch geometry naturally distributes vertical loads along the curve, providing structural integrity without requiring additional support elements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If displays are positioned at great heights between shelves, then advertising appeal is enhanced, but additional support structures are required
Solution Approach 1:
The display units incorporate adjustable flaps and cutouts that allow for dynamic configuration and adaptation to different installation locations. The coupling mechanism enables the structure to self-adjust during assembly, accommodating variations in shelf spacing and positioning requirements without additional support structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The arch structure is designed to be self-supported through its own geometric configuration and interlocking units, eliminating the need for external support structures. The coupling flaps and cutouts enable the units to self-assemble into a stable configuration that supports itself at great heights.
3Strength
If adjustable flaps and cutouts are added to enable arch formation, then self-supported high-height displays are achieved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The complex cutting and creasing patterns are standardized and repeated across multiple identical units, allowing for efficient manufacturing through replication. Each unit contains the same flap and cutout configurations, enabling batch production while maintaining structural integrity when assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple functional elements (coupling flaps, structural ribs, media attachment points) are integrated into a single cardboard piece through precise cutting and creasing. This consolidation reduces the number of separate components needed while achieving the required load-bearing capacity through the unified structure.
Data Source
AI summary
Formation of a communication arch (A) over a consumer corridor, such as in large sales points, displaying at a height, a media (M) related to a certain product. For such, after mounting a display box (35) using the cutting and creasing design, its units are mounted to one another by coupling through the coupling flaps (29) of one unit to the cutouts (4) corresponding to the subsequent unit. After mounting the assembly, when it is raised and has its peripheral units settled over two opposite shelves, such as in a supermarket corridor, through the trapezoidal geometry of the display boxes (35) combined to slide coupling flaps (29) and cutouts ( ) between the units (35), there is a radial movement and positioning for its tops (16) while its bottoms (6) meet, providing the structuring of the assembly, in an arch shape, supporting the resulting stresses imposed vertically from top to bottom of the arch formed. Therefore, the communication arch (A) formed can receive a large media at its highest point.