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This section inn the full version
Design and Resistant Materials Technology package contains notes about various forms of packaging
that are used for
transporting, storing and displaying products. The notes
below are a short extract from the text.
After
all the stages of manufacturing a product have been completed,
the product needs to be moved from where it has been made to
where it will be sold. Care
has to be taken so that the product will not be damaged and
that all the parts that belong with the product stay with it.
For this reason, most products are packaged.
The package has to protect the product, keep all the
parts together and has to give people information about the
product. The
package has to be easily lifted, easily stacked, easily
transported and easily stored.
The
three photographs below illustrate how a Canon printer is
packaged to ensure that it does not get damaged and that all
the parts stay together.
1.
Canon Printer with information on the package.
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The
photographs above show a printer packaged in polythene and
supported between polystyrene brackets that isolates the
printer from the sides of the package.
The package contains smaller packages of inks,
electrical leads, installation software and instructions.
This section, on the full
version CD, contains exercises about resistant material
packages, including:
| A clear plastic
box for a corkscrew is shown opposite.
The box is in two parts.
The clear top lifts off the black plastic base.
The corkscrew components are fixed onto the base
but can easily be lifted off.
The User Information leaflet has been removed
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Research
how hard, clear plastic mouldings may be produced and
the types of plastics that are suitable for making
mouldings of this type.
a) Use
notes and sketches to illustrate how the clear plastic
top of the box may be produced.
b) Name
suitable plastic materials for making mouldings of this
type.
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