JP2013009619A - Label for horticulture - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a label for horticulture not only having an information displaying function but also allowing to have designability such that a flower blooms.SOLUTION: The label for horticulture for attaching to a garden tree is made of an imitation of a flower by a shape and pattern of the flower or combinations thereof.

Description

  The present invention relates to a gardening label attached to a plant.

  The horticultural label is, for example, installed on a plant such as an ornamental flower or a foliage plant, a flower pot, soil, etc., and its varieties, growing methods, and other information are written on paper, resin sheets, and the like. Various types of horticultural labels are used in accordance with the information described. Also, as an installation method, various horticultural labels such as a type suspended from a plant and a type inserted into soil are known.

  Conventional horticultural labels have been proposed in which various ingenuities have been added to the structure and structure from the standpoint of ease of use or visibility. For example, in a gardening label in which a display part and an insertion part are connected, one end is a display part, the other end is an insertion part, and there is a connection part between them, and the insertion part is reversed to the insertion part side of the connection part. There is known a gardening label in which a bent portion is formed with a insertion portion insertion slit having a width slightly larger than the width of the insertion portion on the display portion side (Patent Document 1).

  Further, for example, the label main body is filled with information intended for the label, and is used by being attached to the attachment target by the attachment function unit, and the attachment function unit is formed in a band shape from one end of the label main body. It has a stopper function for maintaining a state in which the leading end portion of the winding portion is inserted into the insertion port, and includes a winding portion that is wound around the attachment target and an insertion port into which the leading end portion of the winding portion is inserted. There has been proposed a horticultural label characterized in that the label main body and the attachment function portion are integrally formed (Patent Document 2).

Japanese Patent No. 4485493 JP2007-155873A

  However, the horticultural labels according to the above prior art mainly serve as information display, and design characteristics are not considered much. For this reason, even if it is an appreciation flower, in the state which is not flowering, only a branch and a gardening label will be visually recognized, and it will be in a state where design nature is scarce. For example, hibiscus, morning glory and other so-called daily flowers are mainly bloomed during the daytime, but the flowers are often closed at night, so the time when the flowers are closed is an ornamental flower. Can not fulfill the role of. For this reason, if an impression (gorgeousness, brightness, etc.) close to a flowering state can be given to a planted plant even in a non-flowering state, the role as a viewing flower can be further enhanced.

  Accordingly, a main object of the present invention is to provide a horticultural label that can have not only an information display function but also a design as if it is flowering.

  As a result of intensive studies in view of the problems of the prior art, the present inventor has found that the above object can be achieved by employing a label having a specific configuration, and has completed the present invention.

That is, the present invention relates to the following horticultural labels.
1. A horticultural label to be attached to a planted plant, wherein the label is made of an imitation of a flower having a shape of a flower, a pattern, or a combination thereof.
2. Item 1. The imitation product of a flower is a molded product in which a sheet-like product having a contour of a flower is formed in a substantially conical shape, and a design of a floral design is applied to the inner surface of the molded product. Label for gardening as described in.
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3. Item 3. The horticultural label according to Item 1 or 2, which has a slit-like attachment part for attaching directly to a plant.

  In the horticultural label of the present invention, the label itself is made up of imitations of flowers and is directly attached to a plant (branches, leaves, stems, etc.), so that even if the flower is not in bloom, Gives the impression of blooming (design). For this reason, even if it is a day flower, such as a hibiscus and a morning glory, it can give the same gorgeousness, brightness, etc. as the case where it always blooms.

  Further, as the imitation product of the flower, it is a molded product in which a sheet-like product having a flower outline is formed in a substantially conical shape, and the design of the floral design is applied to the inner surface of the molded product When is used, a three-dimensional shape can be easily produced from a sheet-like material, and a horticultural label having both design and simplicity can be obtained. In particular, it can be handled in a flat state before use (for example, a plurality of horticultural labels can be carried over), and can be easily constructed (assembled) at the site or the like at the time of use and attached to a plant. This is also advantageous.

  Furthermore, in the horticultural label of the present invention, when providing a slit-like attachment port for attaching a horticultural label to a branch, leaf or the like of a plant, the horticultural label can be easily used without using a fixing member such as a wire or a string. It becomes possible to attach to the plant.

The schematic (perspective view) of the external shape of the imitation of the flower in the Example of this invention is shown. The expanded view before shape | molding the imitation product of the flower in the Example of this invention (the inner surface side of a substantially cone-shaped molding) is shown.

  The horticultural label of the present invention is a horticultural label to be attached to a plant, and is characterized by comprising a flower imitation by a shape of a flower, a pattern, or a combination thereof. The planting is not limited as long as it is a flowering plant (a planting of ornamental flowers). Examples thereof include hibiscus and morning glory. In particular, as the horticultural label according to the present invention, the imitation of the flower is a molded product in which a sheet-like product having a contour of the flower is formed in a substantially conical shape, and the flower is formed on the inner surface of the molded product. It is a preferred embodiment that the design (in particular, one (single wheel) flower design) is applied.

  It does not specifically limit as a material which comprises the horticultural label of this invention, It can select from a well-known or commercially available material suitably, and can be used. For example, a gardening label can be formed using a sheet-like material or the like. As the sheet-like material, for example, paper, resin-coated paper (synthetic paper), plastic sheet, metal foil, or one or a combination of two or more of these composite materials can be employed. These may be appropriately selected from known or commercially available ones according to, for example, the type (variety) of planting, installation location, printing method, and the like. For example, in the case of a seedling placed in a place exposed to wind and rain, a water-resistant sheet-like material (for example, resin-coated paper, plastic sheet, etc.) may be used. In addition, a known granular material, linear material, or the like may be used alone or in combination for decoration or the like, if necessary.

  There are no particular restrictions on the shape of the flower, the pattern, or the imitation of the flower due to a combination thereof. For example, a sheet-like material that has been subjected to color photo printing of flowers, artificial flowers, molded articles with flowers as motifs, etc. Either may be sufficient. In FIG. 1, the perspective view (figure seen from the bottom face direction (downward)) of the imitation 1 of the flower which is embodiment of this invention is shown. This is a resin-coated paper subjected to color photographic printing of flowers as a sheet-like material, which is molded into a substantially conical (or umbrella-shaped) molded product 2. A flower pattern (preferably a flower pattern having a size close to the actual size) is applied to the inner surface 3 of the substantially conical shaped product 2. Accordingly, in FIG. 1, when viewed from the direction A, the substantially conical shaped product 2 is visually recognized as a flower pattern. The bottom edge 5 of the substantially conical shaped product 2 can be formed in the shape of a petal, but the shape is not shown in FIG.

  In the case of imitations of flowers, a predetermined printing may be applied to a flat sheet-like material so that the inner surface (back side) can be seen as a flower (especially one flower) when a substantially conical shaped product is formed. it can. That is, a flower that can be visually recognized at the stage when the substantially conical shaped product 2 is completed if a corresponding pattern, photo, or image is applied in anticipation of deformation when processing from a flat sheet-like product to a molded product. The design can be closer to the real thing. The outer surface 4 of the substantially conical shaped product can be used for information display (display of product name, breeding method, precautions, etc.).

  In the horticultural label of the present invention, a slit-like attachment portion can be formed as necessary. By providing the slit-like attachment portion, it becomes easy to attach the gardening label directly to the planting tree. When directly attaching a gardening label to a planting plant, 1) the distance between the planting plant and the gardening label can be shortened, and 2) a fixing member such as a wire or a string that may hinder the design is not necessary. Therefore, it is possible to give a design feeling (impression as if flowering) with a more natural feeling. Moreover, as mentioned above, since it is not necessary to use fixing members, such as a wire and a string, the gardening label of this invention can be directly attached to a planted tree simply. The slit-shaped attachment portion is not limited in its shape, size, and the like as long as the horticultural label can be directly fixed to a target plant (branch, trunk, leaf, etc.). For example, any of a linear shape, a curved shape (circular shape, spiral shape), a staircase shape, and the like may be used.

  Moreover, in this invention, in order to form a substantially cone-shaped molded product, a molding anchor portion and a molding slit portion into which the molding anchor portion is fitted can be provided as necessary. When forming a substantially conical shaped product from a sheet-like material, for example, the end of the sheet-like material can be adhered using an adhesive means such as an adhesive or an adhesive tape. By providing the sheet-like material with the molding slit portion into which it is fitted, the use of the adhesive means can be omitted, and a molded product can be easily produced. Thereby, workability | operativity etc. at the time of labeling for gardening can be improved.

  The features of the present invention will be described more specifically with reference to examples. However, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the examples.

Example 1
A horticultural label consisting of a fake flower with a hibiscus flower was made. In FIG. 2, the top view (development drawing) of the sheet-like object before shape | molding to a flower imitation is shown. This development view corresponds to the development part of the conical slope, and is substantially fan-shaped. The sheet-like material 20 is obtained by color-printing one hibiscus flower pattern on synthetic paper (Yupo (registered trademark)) and cutting out along the outline of the petal. The sheet-like object 20 is formed with a slit-like attachment portion 21 at a position where it hits the petal. The slit (cut portion) of the slit-shaped attachment portion is linear, but may be any of, for example, a curved shape and a spiral shape. Further, the sheet-like material 20 is provided with a molding anchor portion 23 and a molding slit 22 into which the molding anchor portion 23 is fitted so as to be molded into a substantially conical shape.

  Next, the substantially anchor-shaped molded product 2 is produced by fitting and fixing the molding anchor portion 23 into the molding slit 22. At this time, the above floral pattern printing is performed so that a natural hibiscus floral pattern is completed only by fitting the molding anchor portion 23 into the molding slit 22. This can be designed using ordinary photographic techniques, printing techniques, and the like. In this way, a gardening label was completed in which a single red hibiscus flower design was applied to the inner surface (reference numeral 3 in FIG. 1) of a substantially conical shape (outer diameter: about 14 cm × height: about 4 cm).

  When this horticultural label is directly attached to a branch or leaf of a hibiscus through its slit-shaped attachment portion 21, a horticultural label with a red flower mixed with the actual dark green leaf of the hibiscus is clearly shown. It was visible. Thereby, even in the state where the hibiscus was not flowering, it was possible to give a gorgeous impression as if it was flowering.

Claims (3)

A horticultural label to be attached to a planted plant, wherein the label is made of an imitation of a flower having a shape of a flower, a pattern, or a combination thereof. The imitation product of a flower is a molded product in which a sheet-like product having a contour of a flower is formed in a substantially conical shape, and a design of a floral design is applied to the inner surface of the molded product. Label for gardening as described in. The horticultural label according to claim 1, comprising a slit-like attachment portion for attaching directly to a plant.