ES1240624U - MULTIFUNCTION PACKAGING ACCORDING TO GRADE 6 HEAT (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Multifunction container according to grade 6 kaleidocycle, characterized by being formed from the flat development of a grade 6 kaleidocycle when its internal volume is accessible, once the container is formed, by means of six opening and closing mechanisms grouped into three, composed of two adjacent triangular faces each. Said mechanisms are based on the possibility of movement of the pairs of adjacent triangular faces (1) and (2), (5) and (6), (9) and (10), the closure being made up of tabs (13) protruding on the outer edges of the triangular faces (1), (2), (5), (6), (9) and (10). This flange (13) is embedded in the cut (13') located on the outer edges of the triangular faces (3), (4), (7), (8), (11) and (12), thus limiting the movement. The opening of the multifunction container consists in retracting the tabs (13) introduced in the openings (13'), releasing the movement of the three pairs of triangular faces (1) and (2), (5) and (6), (9) and (10). (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

D E S C R I P C I Ó N

MULTIFUNCTION PACKAGING ACCORDING TO GRADE 6 HEAT

SECTOR OF THE TECHNIQUE

In a globalized world like today, where marketing has an enormous significance in all the products that are marketed and where almost all sectors of the market are highly developed, it is very difficult to find a new system, or a new method for Packaging and presentation of a product and even more difficult is to find a new and original format.

The invention presented herein can be included in the field of packaging and product presentation, and more specifically, in the packaging of products intended for children or young people. The sector of the packaging of products for children or young people has, in addition to the difficulties of any industrial sector, to be aimed at an audience that is governed by very specific patterns and what is more transcendent, very easily changing, where tastes and consumption patterns are extremely ephemeral.

The invention presented herein is intended to record a novel packaging format, assuming a novel product presentation from a three-dimensional geometric figure such as the kaleidocyclic.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Since the existence of commerce and from almost the origin of our civilization there are containers. The packaging industry begins to develop as a means of improving transport logistics and improving product conservation. It can be considered that it is at the beginning of the twentieth century when the Industrial Revolution, and the appearance of machines, entailed the development of means of transport, and when the packaging industry begins to develop. The products until that moment, almost mostly, are consumed near their place of production and although the trade is as old as the human being itself, it is not until the appearance of mechanized means of transport such as the train, the motorized boat , the truck or the plane, when the transport of consumer products is generalized.

When packaging is generalized, the consumer considers the package as part of the product so that the characteristics of the package become part of the characteristics of the product. As a consequence of this fact, the characteristics of the package begin to generate differentiations in products that have the same base. Two equal products, they become two different products because their packaging differentiates them.

It is the marketing boom who has just enthroned packaging. When the industry, or rather the manufacturing industry, achieves that the intrinsic quality of many of the products is very similar and in all of them very high, how we get to attract the attention of the customers, because through the packaging. In this way, the packaging is another characteristic of the product and therefore a means of differentiation with enormous development possibilities.

The improvement in the use of materials in the industry begins to bear fruit with the packaging systems, plastic and all petroleum-derived materials appear. Next, composite materials and molding methods and the generation of 3D designs appear, so the marketing departments have at their disposal the possibilities of creating the most disparate and original forms. Almost anything can be built, almost any form can be achieved today, either with a certain material or with another, either through a manufacturing technique or another, such as 3D printing of any object in different materials

It is at this moment where we are, and where the proposed invention is an innovation. Thus, the "multifunction container according to kaleidocyclic grade 6" is an innovation because from a three-dimensional geometric figure, a container is achieved, and a package is achieved that also attracts the attention of the customer to which it is directed by having a use as an object entertainment, also being able to fulfill some additional functions, such as "centerpiece", due to its construction characteristics.

No history of a utility model was found where a kaleidocycle and a container are related. The only antecedents of inventions, where a kaleidocycle appears, which have been found refer to the geometric part thereof and the characteristics of the kaleidocycle as an object intended for entertainment, due to the showyness of its rotational movement and the capacity that the kaleidocycle presents from constitute regular geometric volumes by interlacing several of them. Thus we find references WO2019063781A1, US2003058258A1, WO2014151599A1, WO2019167941A1 and RU2670691C1.

EXPLANATION OF THE INVENTION

The invention proposed herein is constituted from a grade 6 kaleidocycle. A kaleidocycle is a ring of generally non-regular tetrahedra, which can rotate on its center by acting as hinges the edges that join the tetrahedra together. That composes. The kaleidocycles owe their order number to the number of tetrahedra that join to form the circular ring and were invented in 1977 by the Americans Doris Schattschneider and Wallace Walker, owing their name to the union of three Greek words: kalos = beautiful, eidos = figure and kiclos = ring.

The kaleidocycle is an object that generates a great curiosity when its turn is observed, apparently impossible, and very colorful. It is said ability to generate attention on whether, which is intended to be used as a mechanism of "emotional engagement" with the consumer.

The invention proposed herein is novel for forming a container from a kaleidoscope of grade 6. To form a kaleidocycle of grade 6, it is based on the development in plane of the outer surface thereof where the 24 faces are appreciated triangular of the 6 tetrahedra, Figure 1. Next, a circular folding is carried out, according to the indications that appear in Figure 1, until the turn (A) meets the (A '). We already have the ring, to form the kaleidocycle we have to form the tetrahedra. For this we have 3 pairs of 2 tetrahedra (14), (15) and (16) which, when folded in a circular way, the turn (B) meets the (B '), the turn (C) with the (C ') and turn (D) with (D'). In order to make the inner volume of the tetrahedra accessible, there are projections (13) located in the upper edges of the upper triangular faces of the flat development of the kaleidocycle and which are adjacent in three pairs of two faces, (1) and ( 2), (5) and (6), (9) and (10). These projections (13) are embedded in the cuts (13 ') made on the three lower edges of the pairs of two adjacent faces that are on the lower triangular faces of the flat development of the kaleidocycle, (3) and (4), ( 7) and (8), (11) and (12).

In this way we obtain a set of mini containers, a total of 6, which are joined by an edge and, being closed, have the characteristic of turning on themselves by means of a movement that generates a very bright cyclic image.

In this way a container is obtained that, in addition to assuming a container for all types of products, is a toy, an object with which to be able to get an entertainment. In principle it is intended for a child audience, although it is not a limiting feature, as it could go to any age group.

As previously seen, to make two adjacent faces of the three pairs of tetrahedra (14), (15) and (16) accessible, it is required that the tabs (13) and the cut (13) be generated in the initial die cut ') so that when faces (1) and (2) close on (3) and (4), faces (5) and (6) on (7) and (8) and faces (9 ) and (10) on (11) and (12) being this reversible closing operation, we have formed the container.

Another feature of the invention proposed herein is that the opening of the inner volume by folding two adjacent faces of the three pairs of tetrahedra is arranged so that they can be opened together and when they do so the volume is accessible total interior of the 6 tetrahedra, Figure 3. Thus we find another of the functions of the invention presented, if we open together all the faces prepared for it of all adjacent tetrahedra we find a closed container in all its contour and With an opening in its upper plane, what could be a decorative element or an exhibitor of the product that has been introduced in the mini containers, becomes what is called a “centerpiece”.

The invention proposed herein is intended to be shaped from a flat development, therefore, it must be shaped from any type of cardboard or material that retains the characteristic of being flexible while supporting repetitive folds. . In this way, it can be formed from a flat material on which cuts and creases are executed until a flat development is achieved that will later be shaped as a three-dimensional geometric figure.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

As a complement to the descriptions described, some drawings accompany the characteristics of the object to be registered. Thus, the following has been represented:

Figure 1: It shows a development in a plane of the surface that when folded will end up forming the kaleidoscope of grade 6. In the image they appear with continuous lines the places of the plane where a cut occurs and with dashed lines the places where a crease is produced that will serve as a folding guide.

Figure 2: It shows a three-dimensional image of the grade 6 kaleidocycle where it is clearly seen how it is formed from 6 tetrahedra joined by a common edge and how is the direction of rotation of this.

Figure 3: It shows an image of the kaleidocyclic where it is observed that all three pairs of open adjacent faces of the tetrahedra are in the same plane, so that it becomes a decorative container as a "centerpiece."

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

For the realization of the proposed invention, it is based on a flat piece in the material that is chosen, which can be cardboard or another of similar characteristics, to which, once cut from an initial coil, it is printed and given the corresponding finishes. These finishes can be found both on the external face of the container, which is the visible one and where all the color elements, images, logos or any marketing element required by the manufacturer appear, as well as the internal one of the container where the product is located and where, according to its characteristics and its requirements, we can find different surface treatments.

Once the development of the surface of the container is obtained, with the corresponding cuts and creases, it is folded until it constitutes the geometric figure formed by the 6 tetrahedra. At this point we have the kaleidocyclic formed and open, it would only be necessary to fill it with the product you want to market and close it. This process of forming the container and filling it can be done manually, or from a machine with an automated process.

As previously mentioned, the process of realization of the proposed invention does not present any complications and is not far from the conformation of an ordinary package, which is an advantage for its implementation and commercial exploitation.

Claims (2)

1. Multifunction container according to grade 6 kaleidocycle, characterized by being formed from the flat development of a grade 6 kaleidocycle when its internal volume is accessible, once the container is formed, by means of six opening and closing mechanisms grouped into three, composed of two adjacent triangular faces each. Said mechanisms are based on the possibility of movement of the pairs of adjacent triangular faces (1) and (2), (5) and (6), (9) and (10), the closure being made up of tabs ( 13) protruding on the outer edges of the triangular faces (1), (2), (5), (6), (9) and (10). This flange (13) is embedded in the cut (13 ') located on the outer edges of the triangular faces (3), (4), (7), (8), (11) and (12), thus limiting the movement. The opening of the multifunction container consists in retracting the tabs (13) introduced in the openings (13 '), releasing the movement of the three pairs of triangular faces (1) and (2), (5) and (6), (9) and (10). 2. Multifunction container according to degree 6 kaleidocycle, and according to claim 1, characterized in that the three pairs of adjacent triangular faces (1) and (2), (5) and (6), (9) and (10), when opened simultaneously as opening mechanisms, they leave the entire internal volume of the container open.