CA2326988A1

CA2326988A1 - Lollypop display container

Info

Publication number: CA2326988A1
Application number: CA002326988A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Rafael Calonge Clavell
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1999-02-02
Filing date: 2000-01-28
Publication date: 2000-08-10
Also published as: ES1041961U; ES1041961Y; AU2294500A; EP1075811A1; WO2000045679A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a lollypop display container comprised of a body having an outer surface with a series of lollypop supports and fitted inside with an opaque box having a lamp lighting a bundle of optical fiber cables.
The opposite ends of each cable are lodged inside the hollow stick of a candy while the other ends of the cables are assembled into a parallel, tight, flushed and adjusted bundle by a clamp that is screwed to the interior of the opaque box. The free ends of the optical fiber cables lodged inside the candy extend above the support in such a way that the ends thereof are located close to the candy mass. The opaque box additionally has a transversal partition glass, a fan and an electrical transformer being placed inside the body of the display container.

Description

LOLLYBOP Dt8&LAY CONTAINER
D E 8 C R I p T I O a1 OBJECT OF THE INVENTTON
The present PCT application has as its object to file a lollypop display container having important innovations and advantages when compared with the up to-date lollypop display containers.
More precisely, it refers to a lollypop display container which comprises a l~.ghtning system for the candies, that provides them with an evocative and ap pealing look.
BACKGRUOND OF THE INVENTION
Nowadays, there are several kinds of containers for displaying and yelling lollypops in the retailing shops, Most of them consist of a transparent container or its principle is based on providing the candies and container assembly with a static geometric configura-tion that makes them appealing.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTTON
The loliypop display container which is the ob-ject of the present application is characterised in that it comprises a support which holds the candies on its top in an appealing and singular fashion by having a system that, in addition, lightens the said candies provided on top of the display container.
In this way, the display container comprises a lamp or lightning point which lightens the interior of each lollypop providing the latter with luminosity thanks to the glassy nature of the candy. This effect is achieved by using an optical fibre inserted in each lollypop trough the hole of its stick. One end of each ..__ ____ ____ ______.__ __ _.____ _ _ __~_ optical fibre cable is joined in a parallel fashion to ., a bundle and directed towards the lightning lamp. The said lamp is located within an opaque box that prevents light from being transmitted to the exterior, except for the optical fibre bundle, as desired.
Thus, each lollypop being inserted in the orifice provided to this end en the support is lightened, show-ing different colours, according to the colour of the candy and the protecting wrapping covering them.
In such a manner, the lollypops are rendered highly attractive elements on the upper part of the support, thus achieving the desired appeal effect.
In the hole devised to hold the lollypop the free end of the optical fibre is located, protruding there from to form a thin filament that eases for the inser tion of the stick.
The opaque box where the lamp is provided.has in its interior a glass that divides the said chamber in to halves, spacing the sheet apart from the optical cable bundle. This glass prevents the lamp-generated heat from being transmitted to the optical fibre ca-bles, thus preventing on its turn the overheating of such cables.
The display container body has, in addition, a fan linked to a box orifice which is adapted for the removal of the hot air generated in its interior. An electrical transformer is provided for the feeding of the lamp and of the fan.
In order to make up the following description, and wzth the aim of helping in better understanding its characteristics, the present description is completed with a set of drawings, wherein, in an illustrative and non limiting fashion, the most important features have been represented.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig. 1 shows a sectional view of the lollypop display container.
Fig. 2 shows a perspective view of the lollypop S display container.
DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
In the aforesaid drawings, and according to the related numbering, it can be seen a preferred, though no limiting, embodiment of the invention, consisting of a display container body (1) having, preferably on its upper part, a plurality of supports (10) for receiving the hollow stick of a lollypop (9). The display con-tainer body (1) has in its interior an opaque box (3) held by supports and including in its interior an elec-trical lamp (2). The said lamp (2) is focused through a glass (4) onto a bundle of optical fibre cables (8) located on the opposite side of the box (3). The bundle of optical fibre cables (8) is coupled tv the opaque box (3) by means of a threaded bracket (7) which holds all of the optical. fibre cables (8) parallel with each other and flush in a plane which is perpendicular to their axes. In the interior of the opaque box (3) and above the lamp (2) there is a glass sheet (4) which divides the said chamber into two halves, and spacing the Lamp (2) from the bundl~ of optical fibre cables (8) .
The free end of each optical fibre cable (8) is inserted at the lower part of the support (10) of the lollypop, protruding therefrom to the exterior to a great extent. The said end of the optical fibre cable (8) is suited to be housed within the longitudinal hole of the lollypop stick (9).
The interior of the display container body (1) is also provided with a fan (6) fox cooling the interior and the lamp (2) , and with an electrical transformer (5) for their feeding, T. _

Claims

1.- Lollypop display container, of the type consisting of a body (1) that has on its outer surface a series of lollypop (9) supports (10), characterised in that in the interior of the body (1) there is provided an opaque box (3) comprising an electrical lamp (2) focused onto a bundle of optical fibre cables (8), the opposite ends of each cable (8) being housed in the interior of the hollow suck of a lollypop (9); in that the optical fibre cables (8) are joined together, at the proximal end of the opaque box (3), in a parallel, compact bundle, which is flush and adjusted by means of a bracket (7) held threaded to the interior of the opaque box (3); and in that the free end of the optical fibre cable (8) hosed within the stick of the lollypop (9) extends above the support, in such a that its is located close to the candy mass.
2.- Lollypop display container according to claim

1, characterised in that the opaque box (3) has its interior a glass (4) transversely arranged and spacing the lamp (2) from the bundle of optical fibre cables (8); and in that, in the interior of the display container body there is a fan (6) for removing the hot air through an orifice located in the wall of the said display container body (1), and an electrical transformer (5) for feeding the said fan (6) and the lamp (2).