JP2011246127A - Transportation box for pot-grown plant - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transportation box repeatedly used in home delivery service.SOLUTION: The transportation box for a pot-grown plant uses a plastic solid fiberboard. The transportation box includes: a front face part 3, both side face parts 4a, 4b and a back face part 5 which form four peripheral faces of a box body 1; and an upper face part 6 and a bottom face part 7 which form an upper bottom and a bottom of the box. The front face of the box body 1 is openable/closable, and hinge lines 8 are attached on plate faces of the side face parts 4a, 4b. The hinge line 8 is a line serving as a bending guide formed on the plate face and crossing the side face part 4a, 4b diagonally from an upper edge on the back face side of the box toward an opening on the front face side. When the pot-grown plant G is stored inside the box body 1 or taken out from the box body 1, by bending the side face parts 4a, 4b toward outside of the box body 1 along the hinge lines 8, the box body 1 can be opened largely also to the both lateral sides.

Description

  The present invention relates to a transport box for potted plants, and particularly to a transport box suitable for home delivery of potted plants.

  Most of the work to deliver potted plants such as phalaenopsis orchid from the dealer to the buyer's house is outsourced to a courier. Among potted plants, when transporting high-grade delivery items such as phalaenopsis, not only protect the delivery items from shocks and vibrations during transportation, but also put them in and out of the shipping box. In some cases, careful handling is required. For transporting potted plants, not limited to phalaenopsis orchid, boxes made of corrugated paper (so-called cardboard boxes) have been mainly used. The cardboard box can be folded, folded flat when stored, assembled into a three-dimensional shape when used, shaped into a fixed shape, covered with a delivery product in the box, covered, and transported.

  Although the use of cardboard boxes may seem simple at first glance, in order for courier companies to actually use cardboard boxes for their work, several problems must be solved. First, when a customer visits a requestee entrusted with delivery to receive a delivery product and store it in a transport box at the customer's site, speed of work is required. In addition, in order to save resources, in cases where the transport box is used repeatedly after delivery, not only the delivery item picked up by the customer is placed in the box, but also the delivery item is secured in the box and transported safely. However, it is necessary to open the transport box at the delivery destination, take out the delivery product, fold it, and collect it.

  However, it is not always easy to fix the delivery item in the box, and in order to collect the box, it is necessary to open the box at the delivery destination and take out the delivery item. You must touch the delivery directly. In the unlikely event that the delivery item is damaged by directly touching the delivery item, for example, when the delivery item is Phalaenopsis orchid, the petal has fallen because the courier staff touched it. The value of goods can be significantly reduced and damage compensation can occur. In this case, it is difficult to realize the concept of recycling the transport box, although it is for resource saving.

  By the way, as a packaging box for potted plants such as orchids, Patent Document 1 proposes a packaging box for potted plants that can prevent the potted plant from being inclined in the packaging box during transportation. The potting packaging box described in Patent Document 1 uses an upper and front open box, and then a part of the wall is bent to the inner side of the packaging box at a substantially right angle so as to face the bottom surface, A pot holder for holding a pot is provided, and a potted pot is inserted into the opening of the pot receiver to prevent the potted plant from tilting.

  Certainly, when transporting for a long time on a truck or the like, it is important to take measures to prevent damage to flower parts that may occur in potted plants due to vibrations during traveling. However, the upper and front open boxes as described in Patent Document 1 are not suitable for a delivery box for home delivery. It is a delivery box for home delivery, and it needs a certain level of strength as a transport box that is used repeatedly, and it is desirable to use a plastic cardboard box that is much stronger than corrugated paper. For example, as in Patent Document 2, there is an example in which a used transport box can be repeatedly used by returning it as an e-mail service. However, a structure effective as a transport box with respect to a plastic cardboard box has been known so far. The fact is not.

Utility model registration No. 3081513 JP2010-13169

  The problem to be solved is that there is no transport box that can be used repeatedly for ensuring the workability and safety of packing and unpacking, especially the potted plant transport box that makes it easy to take out the delivery from the box. It is that.

  In order to solve the above problems, the transport box for potted plants according to the present invention has a structure that can be folded flat, has excellent workability, and is easy to take out a delivery from the box. And

  The potted plant carrying box according to the present invention can be carried in a flat folded state, assembled into a square box by a simple operation when necessary, and then held in a fixed shape using a hook-and-loop fastener. When transporting an expensive potted plant such as phalaenopsis orchid as a delivery product, the potted plant is stored in the interior pad together with the interior pad.

  At the delivery destination, with the upper surface of the box open, the front door plate is opened and the upper edge of the side portion is bent outward along the hinge line attached to the plate surface. With the line as the axis, the side part can fall outward together with the front door plate, and the front can be opened widely. The interior pad containing the potted plant is taken out from the front of the opened box, and the potted plant is touched. The box can be collected by handing over the delivery item to the customer without delivery.

It is a figure which shows the combination of the box of the conveyance box by this invention, and an interior pad. (A) is the expanded view of a box, (b) is the figure which expanded the B section of (a) and bent the board surface with the hinge line. It is a figure which shows the state in the middle of the assembly of a box. It is a figure which shows the state which stored the potted plant held by the interior pad in the box. It is a figure which shows the point which opens the door plate and upper surface part of a box, and takes out the interior pad which hold | maintained the potted plant from a box. It is a figure which shows the example which provided the hinge line only in the side part of the one side of a box.

  The present invention is a potted plant carrying box using a plastic corrugated board having a hinge line on the side surface of the box. Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail.

(Structure of box)
In FIG. 1, a potted plant transport box according to the present invention is a plastic corrugated foldable rectangular box 1, and when used for transporting potted plants such as phalaenopsis, cardboard paper is used as necessary. Used in combination with the assembled interior pad 2.

  The box 1 is a vertically long rectangular box having a door plate 3b that can be opened and closed on the front. It consists of a front part 3 that forms the four peripheral surfaces of the box, both side parts 4a and 4b and a back part 5, and an upper face part 6 and a bottom face part 7 that form the upper and lower bottoms of the box. The front part 3 rises at a certain height from the bottom part 7 as a receiving part 3a of a potted plant whose delivery area is a delivery article, and is connected to both side parts 4a and 4b. In the example, the door plate 3b is connected to the right side surface portion 4b to open and close the front opening.

  Both side surface portions 4a and 4b have hinge lines 8 on their plate surfaces. The hinge line 8 is formed on the plate surface so as to cross the side portions 4a and 4b obliquely from the upper edge of the back side of the box toward the opening on the front side, and the side portions 4a and 4b of the box body 1 are formed. It is a line that serves as a guide that bends outward. The side portions 4a and 4b are hinged in a state where the front and upper bottom of the box are opened when the potted plant G that is delivered to the box 1 is accommodated or the potted plant G is taken out from the box 1. The box 1 is opened laterally by being bent along the line 8 toward the outside of the box. In the figure, reference numeral 12 denotes a transport handle opened on the plate surfaces of the side surface portions 4 a and 4 b of the box 1.

  FIG. 2A shows a developed shape of the box 1. In FIG. 2, the four peripheral surfaces of the box are formed by a left side surface portion 4a, a back surface portion 5, a right side surface portion 4b, a front surface portion 3 and a protruding ear portion 4c attached to the left side surface portion 4a. 6 is formed by combining upper surface forming pieces 6a to 6d attached to the upper edge of the door plate 3b of the front surface portion 3, both side surface portions 4a and 4b, and the back surface portion 5, and the bottom surface portion 7 is formed from the front surface. It is formed by a combination of lower surface forming pieces 7a to 7d attached to the lower edge of the receiving portion 3a of the portion 3, the side surface portions 4a and 4b, and the lower edge of the back surface portion 5, respectively.

  In this embodiment, double-sided cardboard is used as the plastic cardboard (so-called plastic cardboard) forming the box body 1. The double-sided corrugated cardboard used in this example is formed by a combination of an inner layer liner 9a and an outer layer liner 9b and a core 10 as shown in FIG. The so-called flute direction) is set in the vertical direction of the box 1 as indicated by parallel lines in the circle C in FIG. Accordingly, the flute is directed in the longitudinal direction of the front surface portion 3, both side surface portions 4 a and 4 b and the back surface portion 5.

  The hinge line 8 starts from the upper end edge on one side of the right side surface portion 4b and the left side surface portion 4a, which is the boundary between the back surface portion 5 and the right side surface portion 4b, and the back surface portion 5 and the left side surface portion 4a, and has a curved curve that protrudes downward. It is a cut line given to the plate surface that crosses the plate surface in an oblique direction and reaches the height position of the receiving portion 3a.

  When the hinge line 8 is attached to the surface of the corrugated board, the outer liner 9b is left as shown in FIG. 2B, and the inner liner 9a and the core 10 are separated from each other on the line of the hinge line 8. To do. In this embodiment, the hinge line 8 of the left side surface portion 4a of the box body 1 obliquely crosses the plate surface of the left side surface portion 4a and reaches the lower edge of the front opening from the one side upper edge of the back surface portion 5, and the right side surface portion 4b. The hinge line 8 is formed by a cut line that obliquely crosses the plate surface of the right side surface portion 4b, cuts the flute, and reaches the lower edge of the door plate 3b from one side upper edge of the back surface portion 5.

  In the above-described embodiments, an example in which double-sided cardboard is used as the plastic cardboard (so-called plastic cardboard) forming the box 1 has been described. In short, the hinge line 8 is formed by leaving only the outer layer liner and cutting off the inner constituent members including the inner layer liner and the inner core on the cut line.

  Further, the hinge line 8 is formed as an oblique cut line that starts from the upper edge of one side of the side portions 4a and 4b and reaches the rising portion of the delivery receiving portion 3a across the plate surface in an oblique direction. The reason for this is that when the box 1 is opened, it opens largely to the left and right sides, and is not necessarily limited to the downwardly convex curved shape, but the hinge line should be a smooth curved curve. Is desirable.

  When assembling one plastic corrugated board shown in FIG. 2 (a) into a box, first, the front part 3, the side parts 4a, 4b, and the back part 5 are bent sequentially at right angles along the respective dividing lines, and further to the left The protruding ears 4c of the surface part 4a are bent at right angles in order and assembled into a rectangular tube shape as shown in FIG. 3, and the edge of the front rising part 4a is joined to the plate surface of the ear part 4c with a rivet 11 strike. Then, the bottom surface forming pieces 7a to 7d attached to the lower edges of the respective parts are assembled to each other to close the bottom surface of the box and to be assembled into a box having an open top surface.

  When using the transport box according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a potted plant G entrusted by a customer as a delivery product is placed in an interior pad 2 made of bottomed cylindrical corrugated paper whose front and upper surfaces are open. As shown in FIG. 4, this is stored in the front door plate 3b and the receiving part 3a of the delivery product of the box 1 with the upper surface opened, and the upper surface forming pieces 6a to 6d are assembled to assemble the upper surface of the box 1 The hook and loop fastener F1 shown in FIG. 4 attached to the back surface of the front door plate 3b is closed and joined to the hook and loop fastener F2 attached to the ear portion 4c of the left side surface portion 4a, which is the counterpart, and the front is closed. Transport to the ground.

  When the potted plant G is taken out from the box 1 at the destination, the upper surface forming pieces 6a to 6d on the upper surface of the box 1 and the front door plate 3b are opened, and the potted plant G together with the interior pad 2 from the box 1 is opened. The box body 1 is recovered and taken back to the customer at the delivery destination. In the present invention, when opening the box body 1, the upper surface and the front surface of the box body 1 are opened, and both side portions as shown in FIG. By folding the side surface portions 4a, 4b outward along the hinge line 8 attached to 4a, 4b, the box body 1 can be opened substantially in three directions. In this state, by inserting a hand from above the box body 1, grasping both side walls of the interior pad 2 and lifting it upward, it can be taken out from the box body without directly touching the potted plant G as a delivery product. .

  Of course, when storing the delivery goods deposited from the customer in the box 1, if necessary, the side surfaces 4 a, 4 b are folded outward along the notches of the hinge lines 8 attached to the side surfaces 4 a, 4 b, if necessary. The potted plant G can be stored in the box 1 with the box 1 wide open.

  In the present invention, the side surfaces 4a and 4b only need to bend outward along the hinge line and open the box body only when the interior pad 2 containing the potted plant is taken out from the box body 1. When no force is applied to the side surfaces 4a and 4b, it is important that a force to return to the vertical posture is working. When the restoring force against bending is weak, in particular, the weight of the door plate 3b is added to the right side surface portion 4b, and if the weight cannot be supported, the door plate 3b falls down rearward. The operation | work which returns the door plate 3b requires a big operation | movement, and the work efficiency of an assembly worsens.

  The hinge line 8 is formed as an oblique cut line that starts from the upper edge of one side of the side portions 4a and 4b and crosses the plate surface in an oblique direction and reaches the rising portion of the receiving portion 3a. In order to retain the restoring force, it is possible to apply a stronger restoring force against bending to the plate surface as the curved line is larger than the straight line in the oblique direction and the curvature is larger.

  The collected box 1 is folded with the left side surface portion 4a on the back surface portion 5 and the right side surface portion 4b is overlapped with the front surface portion 3, and the surface fastener F4 of the left side surface portion 4a is attached to the surface fastener F3 attached to the top and bottom of the back surface portion 5. Are stored and folded in a strip shape.

  In the above embodiment, the hinge lines 8 are attached to the plate surfaces of the side surfaces 4a and 4b of the box 1, and the boxes 1 are opened by bending the side surfaces 4a and 4b to the left and right along the hinge line 8. An example is shown. By forming the hinge line 8 on the plate surfaces of the side surface portions 4a and 4b, the front opening of the box can be opened to the left and right, but it is not necessarily provided on the plate surface of the both side surface portions, as shown in FIG. The original opening formed in the front surface of the box 1 by cutting the plate surface of the plastic plate in the manner described above as the hinge line 8 only on the plate surface of at least one side surface portion 4b of the box. The area can be opened only on one side.

  The potted plant transport box according to the present invention can be widely used in combination with an interior pad as a transport box for phalaenopsis orchids and other various potted plants, a transport box for general delivery products, particularly a transport box used repeatedly in home delivery.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Box body, 2 Interior pad, 3 Front part, 3a Receiving part, 3b Door board, 4a, Left side part, 4b Right side part, 5 Back part, 6 Upper part, 6a-6d Upper surface formation piece, 7 Bottom part, 7a 7d bottom surface forming piece, 8 hinge line, 9 liner, 10 core, 11 rivets, 12 handles, F1, F2, F3, F4 hook-and-loop fastener, G potted plant

Claims (5)

A potted plant carrying box using a plastic corrugated board having a hinge line on the side of the box,
The box body is a vertically long rectangular box having a door plate that can be opened and closed on the front side, and forms a front part, both side parts and a back part forming the four peripheral surfaces of the box, and an upper bottom and a bottom of the box. It consists of a top surface and a bottom surface, the front of the box can be opened and closed, the side surface has a hinge line,
The hinge line is formed on the plate surface in an oblique direction across the plate surface of the side surface from the upper edge on the back side of the box toward the opening on the front side. A potted plant transportation box characterized in that it is a line that serves as a guide for folding a side part to the outside of the box when accommodating the potted plant in the body or taking out the potted plant from the box.   The hinge line crossed the side plate surface from the upper edge of the back side of the box toward the opening on the front side, leaving the liner of the outer layer of the corrugated board, and attached to the plate surface of the side plate from the inside of the box The box for transporting potted plants according to claim 1, wherein the box is a cut.   The hinge line is a cut line that forms a curved curve that protrudes downwardly across the plate surface of the side surface in an oblique direction from the upper edge on the back side of the box toward the opening on the front side. The transport box for potted plants according to any one of 1 and 2. A door plate that opens and closes the front of the box is attached to one of the side surfaces,
The hinge line is asymmetrically attached to the plate surface of the both side surfaces,
One hinge line is formed from the upper edge on the back side of the box to the lower edge of the opening on the front side,
The other hinge line is formed from the upper edge of the back side of the box to the lower edge of the front door plate, for potted plants according to any one of claims 1 and 2 Shipping box. The front part of the box consists of a door plate and a potted plant receiving part,
The door plate opens and closes the front opening of the box, and is attached to one side surface portion.
5. The receiving portion is connected to both side portions below the door plate, closes the front opening of the box, and forms a holding space for an interior pad that supports potted plants in the box. Carrying box for potted plants described in 1.

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