JP2014217665A - Container - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a container that is excellent in accommodating property of flowers even if the flowers are inserted into and taken out from it, and that can compactly accommodate many flowers.SOLUTION: A container 100 according to the present invention accommodates a plurality of cut flowers, branches, or leaves and stems of plants, and comprises a bottom part 20 and side wall parts 10 provided upward from a periphery of the bottom part. Inclined parts 30 are provided toward a center part of the bottom part from the side wall parts on the inner side of the container, and an upper part gradient is equal to or larger than a lower part gradient at an arbitrary place of the inclined parts.

Description

  The present invention relates to a container, and more particularly to a container that accommodates a plurality of cut flowers, branches, or plant stems.

  At the florist, the cut flowers and branches to be sold are placed in the cylindrical container 200 shown in FIG. 5 for each type, arranged at the storefront, and the flowers are taken out from the container according to the customer's request, arranged, and wrapped in PP film. I sell it. A plurality of flowers are put in the container 200, but the store clerk handles the flowers with care so that the flowers do not come into contact with each other when they are put in and out of the container 200, and are not damaged. ing.

  In recent years, there is no salesperson at the place where the products are lined up, such as a direct sale place for agricultural products or a sales office such as a roadside station, etc., and the purchaser himself gets the product and goes to the salesperson at the register The sales format to bring is increasing. In such a sales format, a plurality of cut flowers are put in a cylindrical container 200 in the same manner as a florist shop, and a buyer pulls out the flowers himself. At this time, since only the upper end portion of the flower is visible in the state of entering the container 200, the buyer often does not like the extracted flower when it is viewed as a whole, and it is often exchanged for another flower. When exchanging, the flower which the buyer did not like is returned to the container 200.

JP 2007-68860 A JP 2006-198288 A

  However, when the flower is returned to the container 200, the ends 2, 2,... Of the flowers 1, 1,... Are scattered at various locations on the bottom surface 220 of the container 200 as shown in FIG. Flowers 1 and 1 cross each other in the middle of the stem. In particular, if the flower 1 is put in and out many times, several crossing points will occur. In addition, in FIG. 6, the flower 1 is represented by the conical packaging by PP film. When this happens, a number of problems arise. First of all, there is a problem that the capacity is deteriorated such that even if the crossed stems get in the way and only a small number of flowers 1 are contained in the container 200, no more flowers 1 can be placed in the container. If you try to force it, the flower 1 will be damaged. Conversely, when the flower 1 is taken out from the container 200, the stem is entangled, so that the flower 1 is damaged, or a plurality of the flowers 1 come out and fall to the floor and the commercial value is lowered. In addition, even if the flower 1 is inserted into the container 200, the case where the end 2 of the flower 1 does not reach the water due to being disturbed by the intersection occurs, and the quality of the flower 1 is deteriorated.

  Such a problem can occur in a florist, but it occurs remarkably in a self-service sales office. Because florists handle flowers at florists, they pay attention to the loss of quality, and pay attention not to return them to the container when selecting flowers for the first time. However, in the sales office, the buyer is interested in the products he / she purchases, but rarely deals with the products with an interest in the state of the products remaining after the purchase. In the first place, once the stems are in a crossed state, it is very labor-intensive to return it to the original state, so the buyer does not try to return to the original state.

  Patent Documents 1 and 2 disclose containers that individually accommodate a plurality of flowers. However, these containers can be taken in and out without damaging each flower, but the area occupied by one flower becomes large, the entire container becomes large, and the production cost of the container font increases.

  The present invention has been made in view of such points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a container that can store flowers in a compact manner with good flower storage even when the flowers are taken in and out. is there.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the container of the present application is a container that accommodates a plurality of cut flowers, branches, or plant stems, and has a bottom portion and a side wall portion provided upward from the periphery of the bottom portion. In addition, an inclined portion is provided from the side wall portion toward the center portion of the bottom portion on the inside of the container, and the upper slope is equal to or greater than the lower slope at any location of the slope portion. Yes. Here, the leaf stems of plants include vegetables and tree seedlings.

  With the above configuration, the lower ends of the cut flowers and the like put in the container move to the central portion of the bottom along the inclined portion, so that all the cut flowers put in the container gather at the central portion of the bottom, As a result, all the cut flowers spread radially upward from the center of the bottom, so that the stem does not get tangled in the middle.

  It is preferable that the opening which is the upper end of the side wall portion has a horizontally long planar shape having a ratio of 0.8 to 0.8.

  With the configuration described above, by pushing the cut flower placed in the container in the horizontal direction, the cut flower in the container is shifted in the horizontal direction as it is, and a new cut flower input space can be easily formed.

  The inclined portion is preferably formed by a curved surface.

  By the said structure, the lower end of the cut flower put into the container can move to a bottom center more reliably.

  It is preferable that the inclined portion and the side wall portion are smoothly connected, and the inclined portion and the central portion of the bottom portion are smoothly connected. The term “smooth” as used herein means that the side wall portion of the connecting portion is circumscribed with respect to the curved surface of the inclined portion. When the central portion of the bottom portion is a plane, the plane is circumscribed with respect to the curved surface of the inclined portion. It means that it is a surface. When the central portion of the bottom is a curved surface, it means that the curved surface and the curved surface of the inclined portion are continuously connected as a curved surface.

  With the above configuration, it is possible to prevent the lower end portion of the cut flower from being caught by the connecting portion between the inclined portion and the side wall portion, and the connecting portion between the inclined portion and the central portion of the bottom portion, and to accumulate dirt on these portions. Can be prevented.

  It is preferable that the side wall portion on the vertical side of the opening portion has an inclination that opens outward as it goes upward at an angle of 3 degrees to 30 degrees with respect to the vertical.

  With the above configuration, it becomes possible to add a large amount of cut flowers.

  The opening is preferably formed with a pair of handles facing the vertical side and the horizontal side, respectively.

  With the above configuration, when a large number of flowers are contained, they can be held with the handle on the side and can withstand the weight without being damaged. An empty container is easy to carry if there is a handle on the vertical side with little inclination of the container.

  The planar shape of the opening is preferably rectangular. Here, the rectangle is not a rectangle in the mathematical sense, but includes a rectangular shape acceptable as a general container, for example, a rounded corner or a slightly inflated side. .

  The inclined part may be formed as a separate member from the bottom part and the side wall part, and may be formed by combining both.

  By the said structure, the container of this application can be easily formed by combining the member of an inclination part with the conventional container.

  In the container of the present invention, an inclined portion is provided from the side wall portion toward the central portion of the bottom portion, and the upper slope is equal to or greater than the lower slope at an arbitrary position of the slope portion, so that a plurality of cut flowers are inserted. However, all the bottom ends gather at the center of the bottom, do not cross each other in the middle of the stem, and there is little pain in the flower and you can keep many flowers even if you put in and out of the flower repeatedly .

It is a typical perspective view of the container concerning an embodiment. It is the sectional view on the AA 'line of FIG. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line BB ′ in FIG. 1. It is a typical perspective view of the state which put the flower in the container which concerns on embodiment. It is a typical perspective view of the container concerning a comparison form. It is a typical perspective view of the state which put the flower in the container which concerns on a comparison form. It is a typical perspective view of another container which concerns on a comparison form. It is a typical perspective view of another container concerning an embodiment.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the following drawings, components having substantially the same function are denoted by the same reference numerals for the sake of brevity.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 shows a container 100 according to the first embodiment. The container 100 includes a side wall portion 10 having four flat plates, a bottom portion 20, and an inclined portion 30 that connects the side wall portion 10 and the bottom portion 20. The inclined portion 30 is a portion that is inclined downward from the side wall portion 10 toward the center portion of the bottom portion 20. The opening 40 at the upper end of the side wall 10 has a rectangular planar shape and rounded corners. A bent portion 90 for reinforcement is formed around the opening 40. The container 100 of this embodiment is manufactured by injection molding using a thermoplastic resin as a raw material.

  The opening 40 has a horizontally long shape, and the vertical length is ½ of the horizontal length.

  The internal shape of the container 100 is shown in FIGS. As can be seen from FIG. 2 showing a cross section parallel to the long side of the opening 40, the side wall 11 on the short side (vertical side) of the rectangle is inclined so as to spread outward as it goes upward. The side wall portion 11 is open 15 degrees with respect to the vertical line. On the other hand, as can be seen from FIG. 3 showing a cross section parallel to the short side of the opening 40, the long side (lateral) side wall 12 of the rectangle is substantially perpendicular to the horizontal. In addition, the inclined portions 31 and 32 and the bottom portion 20 form a smooth curved surface as a whole and have a mortar shape. In the present embodiment, since the bottom portion 20 is a curved surface and is continuously connected to the inclined portions 31 and 32 smoothly, the boundary between the bottom portion 20 and the inclined portions 31 and 32 is not clear.

  The slopes 31 and 32 have a relationship in which the upper slope is equal to or greater than the lower slope when the slope on the upper side and the slope on the lower side are compared at any given place. . The inclined portion 31 and the side wall portion 11 and the inclined portion 32 and the side wall portion 12 are smoothly connected to each other, and the boundary portion 35 and the boundary portion 36 have no corners. That is, the inclined portions 31 and 32 are surfaces that circumscribe the side wall portions 11 and 12 that are curved surfaces.

  FIG. 4 shows a state where a plurality of flowers 1, 1,... Are inserted into the container 100 of the present embodiment. The flower 1 is expressed by a conical package made of PP film. When the flower 1 is inserted into the container 100, the end 2 of the flower contacts the inclined part 30 and moves to the bottom part 20. Since the slope on the upper side of the inclined portion 30 is equal to or higher than the slope on the lower side, when the end 2 hits the upper portion of the inclined portion 30, the inclined portion 30 tends to move toward the bottom portion 20. And even if many flowers 1, 1,... Are inserted into the container 100, their ends 2, 2,.

  Therefore, the stem portion of the flower 1 does not cross. The crossing of the stem part hinders the insertion of the flower 1 and cannot insert a large number of flowers 1, 1,... Although it hurts or drops another flower 1, it does not occur when the container 100 of this embodiment is used. That is, if the container 100 of this embodiment is used, many flowers 1, 1,... Can be inserted, and when the flower 1 is taken out from the container 100, it can be easily pulled out one by one. Further, the ends 2, 2,... Of all the inserted flowers 1, 1,... Are always immersed in fresh water (not shown) in the container 100.

  On the other hand, in the container 200 of the comparative form shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the bottom part 220 is a circular plane, the side wall part 210 rises substantially perpendicularly from the periphery of the bottom part 220, and the opening part is also circular. In such a container 200, when the flower 1 is inserted, the bottom 220 is flat, so that the end 2 slides on the bottom 220 and often settles on the boundary 222 between the bottom 220 and the side wall 210. For this reason, the stem portions of the flower 1 cross each other and get caught. When this happens, it becomes an obstacle when inserting the flower 1, and a large number of flowers 1, 1,... When it comes out, it gets in the way, hurting the flower 1 or catching another flower 1 and dropping it outside.

  Moreover, in the container 200 of the comparative form, since the boundary 222 between the bottom part 220 and the side wall part 210 is a corner, dirt easily remains even when the inside of the container 200 is washed. Since there are no corners, there is no place to collect dirt and it is easy to clean. After actually using the container 100 of the present embodiment and the container 200 of the comparative form with water and flowers 1 used, it was simply washed with a sponge and water and flowers 1 were put again. The number of viable bacteria in water was about 250 times that of the container 100 of the comparative form compared to the container 100 of the embodiment.

  Since the opening 40 has a horizontally long shape in the container 100 of this embodiment, when the number of inserted flowers 1, 1,... When the flower 1, 1,... Inserted laterally from one side of the part 11 to the other is pressed, the flowers 1, 1,. The space for inserting 1 can be easily and widely secured. However, even if the flower inserted in the container 200 is pushed to one side in the container 200 of the comparative form, the flowers 1, 1,. Furthermore, if the stem portions intersect, the flowers 1, 1,... Do not move and a space cannot be made. In the present embodiment, a space for adding such a flower 1 can be created because the ratio of the ratio of the horizontally long vertical to the horizontal is 0.8 or less, that is, the width is 1.25 or more times the vertical. This is the case of the length. If the ratio is larger than 0.8, the flower 1 spreads and a large space cannot be secured. The ratio of vertical to horizontal is preferably 0.2 or more in view of ease of use of the container.

  FIG. 7 shows another comparative example of the container 300, which is a rectangular opening, the bottom 320 is also a rectangular plane, and the side wall 310 rises substantially vertically from the periphery thereof. When a large number of flowers 1, 1,... Are inserted into the container 300 of the comparative form, the end 2 is scattered at the boundary 322 between the bottom portion 320 and the side wall portion 310, and the stem portions intersect. Therefore, the flower 1 is easy to hurt and cannot put many flowers 1, 1,. Even if the flower 1, 1,... Inserted from one side of the side wall portion 310 on the short side is pressed, the stem part intersects, so the flower 1, 1,. Therefore, a space for adding the flower 1 cannot be secured.

  Since the container 100 of this embodiment is inclined so that the rectangular side wall 11 on the short side (vertical side) of the opening 40 extends outward as it goes upward, the flower 1 is put in as much as the inclination. be able to. If the inclination of the side wall portion 11 with respect to the vertical is 3 degrees or more, the effect of adding more flowers 1 appears clearly. On the other hand, if the angle exceeds 30 degrees, the upper part of the flower 1 protrudes too far and touches the buyer. On the contrary, since the side wall 12 on the long side is substantially vertical, the upper part of the flower 1 does not protrude greatly to the outside of the side wall 12. The flower 1 can be prevented from hitting, and the flower 1 is not damaged. Moreover, because of such a shape, a plurality of containers 100 can be stacked and stored with a reduced overall volume.

(Embodiment 2)
The container 110 according to the second embodiment shown in FIG. 8 is different from the first embodiment in that the handles 51 and 52 are formed at the upper end of the side wall 10, and the other points are the same as in the first embodiment. Therefore, differences from the first embodiment will be described below. The effects described in the first embodiment are also exhibited in the container 110 of the present embodiment.

  A total of four handles 51, 52 are formed at the center of the rectangular short side portion of the opening and a pair at the center of the long side portion, and are formed in the bent portion 90. A hole 60 is made in the upper portion of the side wall portion 10 so that a finger can be inserted, and the bent portion 90 of that portion is partially removed so that it can be easily grasped. Further, the bottom 61 of the handles 51 and 52 has a waveform corresponding to the shape of the finger, improving the ease of gripping. A stepped portion 92 is formed inside the opening of the bent portion 90, and when the length of the flower is long, the height of the side wall portion 10 can be extended by placing a corrugated cardboard box with a bottom in the stepped portion 92. I am doing so. At this time, since the support portions 62 that support the cardboard boxes are formed on the inner wall surfaces of the handles 51 and 52, the cardboard boxes are prevented from falling down.

  Since a pair of handles 52 are formed in the center of the rectangular short side of the opening, if the handle 52 is held when water and flowers are heavy, the short side direction is short and the rotational moment is small. In addition to being able to hold it stably, the side wall that hits the person's body is almost vertical, making it difficult for the flower to hit the person's body. On the other hand, when holding the empty container 110 with one hand, if the handle 52 on the short side is held, the rotational moment is large and the container 110 is inclined, but if the handle 51 on the long side is held, the rotational moment is increased. The container 110 is small and can be held without tilting.

(Other embodiments)
The above-described embodiment is an exemplification of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these examples, and these examples may be combined or partially replaced with known techniques, common techniques, and known techniques. Also, modified inventions easily conceived by those skilled in the art are included in the present invention.

  Only an inclined part is produced as a separate member, and it is good also as a flower container by incorporating in the inside of a container which has a flat bottom face and does not have an inclined part as shown in FIGS.

  The shape of the opening at the upper end of the side wall is not limited to a rectangle, and may be an ellipse, a shape with a rounded corner, a straight drop, or a curved shape in which each side of the rectangle extends outward. That is, the shape is not particularly limited as long as the shape is horizontally long and the width is 1.25 times the length of the length.

  The center part of the bottom may be a flat surface. In this case, it is preferable that the area of the plane is as small as possible, and it is preferably 1/4 or less of the area of the bottom surface when there is no inclined portion and the bottom is all flat.

  The inclined portion does not need to be a curved surface, and may be a surface having a shape in which a plurality of planes having different inclinations are connected, or a surface having a shape in which a plane and a curved surface are connected.

  As described above, the container according to the present invention is excellent in the insertability of cut flowers and is useful as a cut flower container or the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Flower 10 Side wall part 11,12 Side wall part 20 Bottom part 30 Inclination part 31,32 Inclination part 40 Opening part 51,52 Handle 100,110 Container

Claims (8)

A container containing a plurality of cut flowers, branches or plant stems,
A bottom portion and a side wall portion provided above from the periphery of the bottom portion;
An inclined portion is provided from the side wall portion toward the center portion of the bottom portion on the container inner side,
The container in which an upper slope is equal to or greater than a lower slope at an arbitrary position of the inclined portion.   2. The container according to claim 1, wherein the opening that is the upper end of the side wall has a horizontally long planar shape having a ratio of a ratio of vertical to horizontal of 0.8 or less.   The container according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the inclined portion is formed by a curved surface.   The container according to claim 3, wherein the inclined portion and the side wall portion are smoothly connected, and the inclined portion and the central portion of the bottom portion are smoothly connected.   The side wall portion on the vertical side of the opening portion has an inclination that opens outward as it goes upward at an angle of 3 degrees to 30 degrees with respect to the vertical. Container described in 1.   The container according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein a pair of handles facing the vertical side and the horizontal side are formed in the opening.   The container as described in any one of Claim 2 to 6 whose planar shape of the said opening part is a rectangle.   The container according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the inclined portion is formed as a separate member from the bottom portion and the side wall portion, and is formed by combining both.

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