How many of the rapid packing box can you cut out of an arbitrarily large piece of cardboard? It doesnât look like a shape that will tile easily with minimal waste.
Pops open by pressing down on the top. That ought to work just fine in transit.
Looks to me like they studied marketing more than engineering. Gee. that clumsy dude on the right is having a lot of intentional trouble with his regular box. I am totally convinced.
Why didnât the box-making industry think of this 50 years ago?
Because I couldnât drop kick it across my yard without it falling apart.
Big cardboard ainât gonna stand for this.
Four straight haters, right out of the gate. I think itâs a cool idea, innovative, perhaps in need of some maturity before it rolls to market, but you know, instead of inventing a box I just watch old movies on Netflix all summerâŚ
- Visible tape that canât easily be removed or replaced without damaging box is a security feature that makes tampered with boxes obvious. Hidden tape where the box can be opened, contents swapped with a rock, superglued closed arenât.
- The template box used to quickly form the box is one size. A template per person per box maybe expensive.
- Does the design scale to larger boxes?
- How much packaging is currently done by robots that would have to be completely redone to use these?
- How much shipping vs. receiving do you do that reusing the boxes is a significant resource reduction?
Why didnât the cardboard box magnate Michael Feterik think of this? I will put two words here. Adhesive kickbacks.
I think itâs a good idea for small companies that do a lot of mail order business. I doubt itâll replace all packaging.
A ) itâs way faster to assemble a traditional box (assuming youâre not an infomercial reject)
B ) Traditional boxes wonât fucking explode in the back of a van when you ship them.
âjust press downâ⌠which is what every single package on top of it will be doing.
i love the idea of âbetter boxesâ and i hope for these guys that their concept works in the real world.
if it were a kickstarter i might throw twenty bucks in⌠but nothing more.
With over 400,000 google patent results for âcardboard boxâ what are the chances that itâs been done before?
I think youâre missing the point of the invention. Much like Gutenbergâs innovation wasnât the printing press, which was just a repurposed olive press, but metal type that could be standardized and reused, the innovation here isnât the box, itâs the jig. And youâd need a jig for every size box. I have to think that outfits such as Amazon have a machine that creates boxes to go with orders so they can just be packed. Which suggests the economics of the projects arenât strong. The small business person who would buy a standard box, say, a jewelry maker on Etsy or a used record store with an online presence, probably doesnât need a special jig and special boxes to save him or her time because they donât have huge volume.
In addition that jig wouldnât work for odder boxes, such as a pizza box, of which I have assembled hundreds and hundreds while working at a pizza place. Thereâs no glue and it all locks together with tabs, but itâs not an unfolded cube: itâs a tray with sides and a lid. Besides, after doing a few dozen pizza boxes, you can whip a couple out every minute at least.
And I agree that the engineering genius on the right has been watching too many of those infomercials for devices that do things even a child can figure out. Fold the bottom and top and then tap them, moron.
Prior art and patents hasnât stopped people from lodging their own patent anyway.
Oh how all my life I have wished for a box that would pop open and lie flat in front of me. The dark days of having to peer into the box and lift the item are now gone.
Umm wait what about the packing peanuts?
Fellowes made a no-tape, fold into shape boxes back in at least 2009. Amazon promoted them back then, and I got some medium and large sizes. Wonderful. Really does work well. So, itâs not really a groundbreaking idea, though they are going about it in a different way.
I think this is a great start, and I hope they keep developing their design.
It seems like a stack of these boxes wouldnât be stable, since the top appears not to be flat. Also, Iâm curious how this box stands up to crushing forces. Specifically, the side walls may actually be weaker because of the tab design. And if the side walls crush outward, the contents of the package may be exposed and fall out. Usually a box with tabs like this includes some way to lock those tabs in place.
Also, there are a lot of scenarios where it isnât desirable to have a box pop open like this. For instance, if Iâve carefully packed multiple small fragile items, wouldnât they all spill out all over the counter when the box pops open?
Well thank god that they are going to patent it. Could you imagine, cardboard cubes without intellectual property rights? How would the box industry ever make money then? How would we ever monetize packaging, creating an incentive for artists to make new, better packaging?
Hereâs the thing. I can go to any Staples right now and buy no-tape boxes that ship in a flat pack. Or if someone wanted to get enterprising fast, they can mostly copy the USPS priority mail box design and scale it to any size without much fuss. So one thing that has me scratching my head is the claim that someone didnât think of this idea yet.
Having actually worked for over a year on a packing line, around the age these 2 gentlemen are now, I can say it looks like they wasted a lot of time in school. Canât say I blame them, what were their instructors doing? The first thing I thought was what in gods name can you actually ship in a box that size, then the whole idea of just pushing in the top to open it, oy, oy vey, then the idea that I think the post office has a ez-peel strip on some, though not all, of their Priority Mail boxes, then I just thought these 2 lads ought to get real jobs in the real world & see what problems actually need solving before they spend so much time & effort & expose themselves to the less than merciful criticism that the world is apt to provide them. Having worked in shipping, in receiving, & being the recipient of many cardboard boxes over the years I canât help but think that maybe boxes are the way they are because they are as cheap & as effective as they need to be to do the job.
And as for the peanuts, theyâll be ALL over the place as soon as the box pops open. Inside the truck that picks up the box from the shipper.
