JP2019005060A - Luncheon mat - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a luncheon mat capable of guaranteeing from a functional aspect that not only infants but also the aged, non-healthy people or the like can have enjoyable meals, preventing tableware from easily moving even when touching the tableware during meal by placing the tableware in accordance with a special outer shape, and preventing a relation with a related illustration around the tableware from being deviated.SOLUTION: A luncheon mat is formed by printing an illustration 20 by slip-resistant printing in accordance with a specific shape contour of tableware, and an illustration 23 capable of cutting/folding the illustration 20 or the periphery thereof related to the tableware shape.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

  The present invention relates to a place mat to which, for example, a pattern or an illustration (hereinafter abbreviated as “illustration”) that matches the shape of the tableware to be used is added.

  In recent years, as part of developing self-reliance from an early age, curriculums have been conducted during early childhood education that allow students to learn various lifestyles and practices through practice from a relatively young age. Among them is a curriculum that allows you to learn about dietary practices.

  When eating, it is important to be able to learn how to eat the food that is the ingestion object on the specific tableware and information related to that food. Doing (sometimes called "food education") is becoming widespread.

  On the other hand, various kinds of tableware for infants have been devised, and a lot of dishes in the shape of automobiles, airplanes, cartoons and anime characters that infants like have come to be seen. In particular, in the tableware for infants as shown in Patent Document 1, bamboo products are adopted as the material instead of pottery. For materials that can be freely processed, such as bamboo, it is possible to freely create tableware that infants are likely to like.

  As described above, education that makes it possible to give knowledge about eating habits and foods happily by drawing illustrations and food knowledge related to the shape of the dishes on a placemat as a rug on which dishes are placed, taking advantage of the characteristics of tableware preferred by infants. It is desirable to do.

  Patent Document 2 discloses a technical idea in which food contained in a material is expressed by a picture or characters on a placemat on which tableware containing food is placed. However, the technical idea in the document is intended to make it easy to understand what kind of food is included in the food to be eaten. It is not intended for that.

  Patent Document 3 discloses a technical idea related to a place mat on which a marker including an illustration of tableware is printed. However, the technical idea in this document is to make the position of the tableware correctly recognized, and to improve the communication of eating habits between the care recipient such as a patient with dementia and the caregiver or administrator, It is not intended to make an illustration of the surroundings of a tableware or to make an infant enjoy a meal. Moreover, even if the tableware is placed in accordance with the illustration of the outer shape of the tableware, the position may be shifted just by touching the tableware, and the correspondence relationship with the food information illustration may be confused.

JP 2015-47237 A JP 2003-135243 A Utility Model Registration No. 3182558

  As described above, there is a problem that there is substantially no food education method or food education equipment suitable for the shape of tableware preferred by infants. An object of the present application is to provide a placemat that can guarantee from a functional aspect that not only young children but also elderly people and non-healthy people can enjoy eating happily in order to overcome the above problems. In addition, taking advantage of the excellent properties and shapes of bamboo as described above, it has become possible to easily create tableware with free shapes such as automobiles or airplanes that will please children. Another challenge is to create a place mat that makes use of unique shape applications, and to make it useful for infant food education and fun eating.

  In addition, place mats can be placed in accordance with the special tableware outline so that the tableware does not move easily even if you touch the tableware during meals, and it does not deviate from the correlation with related illustrations around the tableware. Providing is also an important issue. Furthermore, when using tableware with a unique design as described above, a placemat that ensures that the effective way of assorting dishes and recipes that match the design of the tableware can be obtained from the placemat in terms of functionality. Providing is also an object of the present application.

  Consider tableware to overcome the above problems. In recent years, as in Patent Document 1, a technique for processing cylindrical bamboo on a flat plate has been established. This technique takes advantage of the high hardness, rigidity and water resistance of bamboo, and bamboo is a furniture material. Widely used in construction materials. The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems by combining with a place mat suitable for tableware shape, taking advantage of the ability to create tableware of free shape that is difficult to create with ceramic tableware. is there.

  As a place mat suitable for the shape of tableware, for example, illustrations relating to automobiles such as traffic lights are arranged around the tableware for automobile-shaped tableware.

  Further, a cut or perforation is made around the tableware shape illustration so that the illustration can stand up three-dimensionally. In addition, even if tableware is placed on an illustration tailored to a special tableware outline, the tableware outline illustration is printed with a material with a high coefficient of friction, such as polyethylene, so that the tableware will not be touched during meals. Let it be printed.

  An identifier such as a QR code (registered trademark) corresponding to the illustration is printed in or near the outer shape of the tableware. The identifier includes information on access to the Internet site where the dish is arranged on the tableware and recipe information can be obtained.

  As described above, in the placemat according to the present invention, for example, when the tableware is placed on a mark suitable for the tableware of the placemat used for the tableware of the car like the reference image 1, A traffic light is drawn in front of the car-shaped tableware, and it is possible to educate infants about traffic rules using traffic lights while eating.

  The above describes only a part of the effects of the present invention. As will be described later, the illustration on the place mat combined with the shape of the tableware makes it possible to enjoy education while eating, so-called food education. In particular, since the illustrations stand up three-dimensionally with cuts or perforations around the illustrations, you can make the impression more interesting and vivid.

  The tableware outline illustration on the placemat does not slip because of the non-slip printing, and the illustration related to the tableware is not hidden or the position related to the tableware is not shifted. In addition, if an identifier such as a QR code in the illustration of the tableware shape of the place mat is read with a smartphone or the like, information such as dish arrangement examples and recipes can be obtained from the related information of the tableware, making the meal more enjoyable. Can be increased.

It is an example of the actual tableware used in combination with the present place mat. It is an example of the actual tableware used in combination with the present place mat. It is the schematic of the placemat which concerns on one Embodiment of this application. It is the schematic of the starting illustration of the place mat which concerns on one Embodiment of this application. It is the schematic of the starting illustration of the place mat which concerns on one Embodiment of this application. It is the schematic of the placemat which concerns on another one Embodiment of this application. It is an explanatory schematic diagram made into the table which puts tableware, such as a spoon, using the cutting and starting of an illustration. It is an explanatory schematic diagram made into the table which puts tableware, such as a spoon, using the cutting and starting of an illustration. It is explanatory drawing of the illustration change of the placemat which concerns on another one Embodiment of this application.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following, the range necessary for the description for achieving the object of the present invention is schematically shown, and the range necessary for the description of the relevant part of the present invention will be mainly described. According to a known technique.

  1A and 1B are images showing an example of actual tableware combined with the place mat of the present application. Although it has been difficult to make a tableware that an infant prefers with ceramics that have been used as conventional tableware, as disclosed in Patent Document 1, a tableware that an infant prefers can be freely created according to bamboo tableware.

  FIG. 2 is an overall view of a paper placemat according to an embodiment of the present invention that takes advantage of the tableware characteristics as described above. Tableware placed on the placemat 1 is an example of an automobile type, and an illustration 20 of an automobile shape corresponding to the placemat 1 is drawn by non-slip printing described later. When tableware is placed on this illustration 20, an illustration with a traffic light 21 and a crossing pedestrian 22 raising their hands is drawn just in front of it. This scene makes it possible to educate how to see traffic lights and how to crosswalk while having a meal.

  You may also draw illustrations about cars and traffic, or cityscapes seen from the window. As an example to make it more enjoyable, as a scene that can be seen in the car window when riding in a car, in the post box 24, the mechanism of the post, in the gas station 26 talk of the power and fuel of the car, in the exhaust smoke 28 of the car You can enjoy teaching while eating, such as talking about air pollution.

  Further, in order to prevent the tableware placed on the placemat 1 from being displaced, it is preferable that the tableware outline 29 or the hatched portion 30 on the placemat 1 or the entire interior of the tabletop outline 29, such as urethane resin printing, is used. Non-slip printing using technology. In particular, since bamboo or wooden tableware described above has many flat portions on the bottom surface, such anti-slip printing is highly effective, and the tableware can be hardly displaced from the printing position. Further, it is desirable to perform non-slip printing on the bottom surface of the place mat so that the place mat itself does not slide on the table.

  In order to further enhance the effectiveness of the above education, the tower illustration 23 is taken as an example. 3A and 3B are partial enlarged views of the illustration 23 of the tower. The dotted line portion 310 of FIG. 3A is cut or perforated, and the tower can be cut and raised as shown in FIG. 3B. Similarly, it is possible to adopt a configuration in which a cut is made in a portion other than the base portion of the previous traffic light 21 so that the signal can be started up. As a result, the illustrations surrounding the car-type tableware become three-dimensional, making it more impressive for young children, learning various things while having fun eating, and improving the educational effect.

  The above is only a part of the application example of the place mat according to the present invention. In addition, illustrations of various cars according to the preferences of infants, illustrations collecting types of road signs related to car driving, etc. The application range of the present invention is wide, and they are all included in the technical idea of the present invention.

  FIG. 4 is an overall view of another paper placemat according to an embodiment of the present application (however, the outer edge boundary line of the mat is omitted). The plane type 40 shown in FIG. 1B is taken as an example of tableware placed on the placemat, and illustrations of other planes 42, 44, clouds 43, rainbow 45, thunder 46, clouds 47, Mt. Fuji, etc. are shown as scenes surrounding the plane. A mode in which is drawn is shown.

  As examples of application of the illustration of FIG. 4, various types of airplanes, scenery seen from above such as the airfield 41 and Mt. Fuji 49, natural phenomena such as rainbow 45, thunder 46 and clouds 47, space scenes, etc. are drawn. In addition, each of them can be viewed three-dimensionally by performing a cutting / starting operation with a cut line or a perforation, thereby producing an effect of making a clear impression.

  5A and 5B are perspective views conceptually showing an example of a table on which tableware such as a spoon 51 is placed by using illustration cutting and starting. FIG. 5A shows an example of a tableware by cutting and raising the corresponding part of the cloud illustration 47 in FIG. 4, and FIG. 5B shows an example of a tableware table that is further woven into the support 52 after the illustration is cut and started up. It is. Various methods for cutting and starting up the illustration drawn on the place mat as described above to make a tableware can be considered, but these are all included in the technical idea of the present invention.

  In addition, although illustration is omitted, the name and English of the illustration written on the cover of the lower mat paper after cutting and starting up the upper mat paper with the upper mat paper and lower mat paper doubled Names and explanations can be written, and you can enjoy teaching while eating. Furthermore, if you place a fortune-telling or lottery ticket on the bottom mat paper on a placemat used in restaurants, etc., you will be pleased as a service to visitors.

  The above-mentioned various illustrations may be set as line drawings, and an infant may be colored as a coloring book. Placing the illustration of the traffic light shown in FIG. 2 as a line drawing and coloring it for coloring will help to educate children about traffic rules. In addition, you may want to make a blank paper illustration with only contour cutting lines and let the infant draw a favorite picture. In this case, a color coating example or illustration as a model may be attached to the back of the placemat.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 2, a QR code 32 is attached to the placemat, and the QR code is read by a mobile terminal with a photographing device such as a smartphone, whereby a cooking method or dish that matches the dish shape via the Internet is read. It is good also as a structure which can obtain a recipe.

  FIG. 6 shows another application example of the present invention, where place mat paper is multiplexed (in FIG. 6, double cover and mount), and an illustration of the traffic light 61 and the like as shown in FIG. 2 is drawn on the cover. In addition, a cut 63 is provided on the cover before and after the mount 60 on which an anti-slip illustration on which automobile type tableware (not shown) is placed is drawn. In addition, the three signal light portions of the traffic signal illustration 61 have a round hole 64 cut out, and the mount can be seen through the round hole. In the state of FIG. 6A, a red signal drawn on the mount 65 can be seen through the left round hole of the three round holes 64.

  The mounts 60, 65, 66 of FIG. 6 are integrated, and the traffic lights 67 and 68 are printed on the portion of the mount 65, and the non-slip automobile so as to place automobile-type tableware on the portion of the mount 60. The mold is printed, and exhaust smoke 62 is printed on the mount 66. The mounts 60, 65, and 66 can be moved to the left and right through a cover cut 63.

  FIG. 6B shows an example in which the signal of the traffic light 61 changes from red to blue and the exhaust smoke 62 appears from the rear of the automobile when the automobile tableware placed on the tableware anti-slip printing is shifted forward. FIG. According to this aspect, it is possible to educate about traffic while enjoying a meal.

  FIG. 6 shows only a part of application examples of the method for changing the illustration of the place mat according to the present invention. A wide application example such as a gimmick in which the illustration of the place mat changes on the mat or the illustration rises in three dimensions. Are all included in the technical idea of the present invention.

  As described above, FIGS. 2 and 4 have described the place mats of the present invention on which tableware in the form of a vehicle is mounted. However, illustrations and illustration gimmicks suitable for each tableware having different shapes such as animals and houses are incorporated. A place mat can be considered.

  The luncheon mat according to the present invention can be used to print illustrations and illustration gimmicks suitable for various types of dishes preferred by infants. Great effect can be expected for so-called food education. Furthermore, the anti-slip printing of the portion on which the tableware is placed prevents the tableware from shifting, making it easier to understand the relationship with the surrounding illustrations.

  In addition to infants, it is possible to obtain knowledge related to meals while enjoying meals regardless of age using illustrations related to tableware, or to increase the advertising effect by illustration gimmicks at restaurants and the like. As described above, the place mat according to the present invention has a wide range of uses in the field related to meals.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Placemat, 20 ... Illustration of car shape, 21 ... Traffic light, 22 ... Crossing pedestrian, 23 ... Tower, 24 ... Mailbox, 25 ... Station, 26 ... Gas station, 27 ... Bicycle, 28 ... Exhaust smoke, 29 ... tableware outline, 30 ... shaded part, 31 ... dotted line part, 40 ... airplane type, 41 ... airfield, 43, 47 ... cloud, 42, 44 ... airplane, 45 ... rainbow, 46 ... thunder, 51 ... spoon, 52 ... Support, 60, 65, 66 ... Mount, 61 ... Traffic light, 62 ... Exhaust smoke, 63 ... Cut, 64 ... Round hole

Claims (7)

  A first portion on which illustrations by non-slip printing in accordance with the shape outline of the tableware are arranged, and a second portion on which illustrations representing objects related to the shape of the tableware are printed. Placemat mat.   A contour line or a perforation is given to a contour line representing the second portion or a part around the contour line, and the contour line can be cut and / or bent along the cut line or the perforation line. The place mat according to claim 1.   3. The place mat according to claim 1, wherein the illustration relating to the shape of the tableware is in the form of a coloring book.   The place mat is formed by a double structure of an upper mat and a lower mat, and a contour line or a part of the periphery of the first mat or the second portion of the upper mat is provided with a cut or a perforation. The display may be cut and bent along the cut or perforation, and the lower mat appearing after the folding is provided with an indication related to the illustration of the upper mat. The place mat according to any one of Items 1 to 3.   An identifier, which may be a QR code corresponding to the illustration, is printed in the illustration matching the shape outline of the tableware outline or in the vicinity of the portion of the first part. The place mat according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising access information to an Internet site where table-related information including examples and recipe information can be obtained.   6. The illustration related information including a paint color example and an illustration example of the illustration attached to the back surface of the place mat is attached to the back surface of the place mat. Place mat.   The placemat according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the backside of the placemat is provided with non-slip printing.