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How to contain a square.
To make this video we examined all of the interesting hinged containers in our office: an airpods case, a pack of 馃毈, an old toolbox, and of course our own Summit Card Case. Each of them has its own way of overcoming the problem of lids crossing the interior volume.
And so, we encourage you to take a closer look at the hinged things in your life: are they utilizing a higher hinge, dead space, or a swooped lid to make it work?
Not all containers are the same.
Not all cheese is round.
Transcript
If your baby best was a square, you would not be able to open it. You cannot open it. This is because the path of the hinged lid on a square container is interfering with the top corner of that square block of cheese. You don't have this problem with a circular hinged container, and that's because the arc that the hinged lid follows basically avoids that circular interior volume entirely. Good for you, No. The reason that we care about this problem is because we have been designing cases to hold cards, and rectangles are gonna be even worse than squares. Even if you, like, butt it all the way up against the spine, you're still gonna bang into that card. The obvious first solution, I think, is moving this seam all the way to the top. Basically, it completely avoids the problem. The main drawback here, your cards end up fully seated within the container. It requires you to turn it over and dump out all your cards. So we rolled that one out. The next most common solution, you go back to that lower seam line, but you add more width no that you kind of, like, work around the limitations of that dead space that the rank creates. But, like, the idea that you're carrying around dead space in your pocket. I'm, like, neurotic. I'm, like, a crazy person. Makes me nuts. This is what I consider a perfect hinged container. There's essentially no dead space, and when you open it, you have full access to the contents inside. And there is a way to achieve this for rectangular objects. So I'll give you a second thing about how to solve that problem because I do think it's pretty satisfying and simple, and here is a at least small end. You keep the lip side of the lid exactly where it is, but you move the hinge up to that top corner. The lip now traces an arc that is fully outside of the contents of your container. But because you lowered that lip, you now can easily access cards from inside the container. While we have refined this idea to work for our Summit rank case, there's no interference in the open, easy access for adding and removing cards. The question still remains, will it work for cheese?
