V-Shaped End Supports for Stackable Container Stability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional stackable containers face issues with product shifting during shipping and display, require complex assembly, and have increased dimensions and weight due to auxiliary supports, necessitating a design that reduces material usage and assembly complexity while maintaining stability.

Innovation Solution

The design features a container with V-shaped end supports formed by supplementary blanks adhered to a primary blank, reducing the median interior width and requiring fewer assembly steps, thus enhancing stackability and stability without increasing weight or dimensions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If auxiliary supports are added to conventional containers to prevent product shifting and improve stackability, then stability and stackability are improved, but device complexity, weight, and dimensions increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovestackabilityVSAvoidassembly complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The end support structure is merged with the container walls by forming integrally from the side panels through folding and adhering operations. The supplementary blank is adhered to the primary blank to create V-shaped end supports that are structurally integrated with the container walls, eliminating the need for separate auxiliary support components and reducing assembly complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The end support structures are pre-formed as part of the container blank before final assembly. The supplementary blank is adhered to the primary blank in advance, so that when the container is assembled, the V-shaped end supports are already in place, reducing the number of assembly steps required at the final assembly stage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovestackabilityVSAvoidcontainer weight

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The end support structure is merged with the container walls by forming integrally from the side panels through folding and adhering operations. This integration eliminates the need for separate auxiliary support components, reducing the overall material usage and container weight while maintaining stackability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Stability of the object's composition

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovestackabilityVSAvoidcontainer weight

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSWeight of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Device complexity

If conventional containers are designed without end supports, then material usage and assembly complexity are reduced, but product movement during shipping and display occurs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveassembly complexityVSAvoidproduct stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The container blank is segmented into functional regions: the primary blank forms the main container structure, while the supplementary blank forms the V-shaped end support structures. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function efficiently, with the end supports preventing product movement while keeping the overall design simple.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The V-shaped end supports provide localized structural reinforcement at the container ends where product stability is most needed. The supplementary blank is adhered to create this localized support structure, maintaining simplicity in other areas of the container while providing targeted stability where required.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

5Stability of the object's composition

If V-shaped end supports are formed by adhering supplementary blanks to primary blanks, then product movement is prevented and stackability is improved, but manufacturing process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct stabilityVSAvoidmanufacturing process simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The supplementary blanks are adhered to the primary blanks in advance during the blank preparation stage, so that when the container is assembled, the V-shaped end supports are already formed and in place. This preliminary action simplifies the final assembly process while ensuring product stability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS7810707B2Materials for and method for manufacturing container with end supports and resulting container

Publication Date: 2010.10.12 GYRE INNOVATIONS LLC

AI summary

In accordance with the invention, a method of manufacturing containers such as shipping, display and display ready packaging, for example, and resulting containers and associated preassemblies and blanks are provided, which, when utilized, result in preassemblies that include end supports that provide increased stacking strength and are easily and quickly assembled into fully assembled containers.