JP2019051964A - Container suspension tool and method for manufacturing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a simply-structured inexpensive container suspension tool capable of holding and carrying containers of various sizes (including a tapered cup container and a container having a uniform diameter in a vertical direction) in a stable state, and a method for manufacturing the same.SOLUTION: This container suspension tool is configured such that a film tube 6 is formed flat and cross-cut, the upper and lower ends of the film tube are bonded to form a flat body 7, a trunk 2 is set in the middle part of the flat body 7 in a vertical direction, left and right sides above the trunk 2 are cut leaving a part 9 of the upper end to open the left and right side surfaces of the flat body 7, a center above the trunk 2 is cut to form vertically long windows 5 on front and back films, and left and right sides below the trunk 2 are cut leaving a part 11 of the lower end to open the side surface of the flat body 7.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to a container hanging tool for a take-out container (hereinafter simply referred to as a container) used for carrying a beverage in a cup container purchased at a fast food store or a convenience store, or a beverage in a plastic bottle, and its manufacture. Regarding the method.

When a beverage such as coffee or juice is purchased at a fast food store or a convenience store, the beverage is often handed over in a disposable paper or plastic cup container.
However, it is difficult to carry such a cup container for a long time because both hands are blocked when carrying baggage.
In particular, in the case of rain, it is difficult to carry a beverage in a cup container with baggage while holding an umbrella. In addition, since both hands are not free, when opening or closing the door of a room or car, or when stumbling, the cup container is tilted or spilled unexpectedly and spilled, resulting in dirty clothes There is a risk of burns.

Then, in order to put a drink in a cup container and take it home, a cup holder with a handle and a plastic bag or a paper bag made for cup storage have been proposed.
For example, Patent Document 1 has a bottom plate portion having a through hole, and a plurality of hands formed by providing a window hole in a central portion extending from an edge of the bottom plate portion, and cupcakes or the like are provided in the above-described transparent plate. There is disclosed a holding device that can be carried so as not to be tilted by dropping into a hole, engaging a notch provided at the end by raising a hand and engaging a notch provided at the end.
In Patent Document 2, a flat holder body is provided with a plurality of holding holes for fitting and holding the taper cup, a semi-annular main hand portion, and an auxiliary hand portion branched from the main hand portion. A cup holder is described.

  Patent Document 3 discloses a drink holder in which two handles are provided on the upper end of a tapered cylindrical body having a large upper surface. Furthermore, in Patent Document 4, a pair of through holes for passing a hand or an arm are provided in one plastic film sheet at intervals in the length direction, and in the central portion between the two through holes, A container suspending tool provided with an insertion hole for inserting and suspending a container is disclosed.

  Patent Document 5 is made of a synthetic resin film, and includes a folded portion that forms a bottom gusset, and a pair of left and right side belt-like welded seal portions that are inclined inwardly downward from the left and right side portions to reach the folded portion, A handbag plastic bag for a cup beverage is described in which a space between a pair of left and right lateral belt-like welded seal portions is a container for one cup beverage.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No.59-168342 JP 2001-61631 A Registered Utility Model No. 3199190 JP 2005-82228 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-98039

Since the suspending tool disclosed in Patent Documents 1 to 4 cannot support the bottom surface of the container, the diameter extends in the vertical direction like a cup container or a plastic bottle smaller than the corresponding size. A uniform container could not be held.
In addition to this, the one described in Patent Document 4 supports the upper end of the cup container at the periphery of the circular insertion hole formed in the plastic film sheet. The peripheral edge may be deformed by heat and the holding force of the container may be incomplete.

Moreover, the thing of patent document 5 is a plastic bag which accommodates a cup drink, A structure is complicated and manufacture takes time. For this reason, there is a drawback that the cost is increased.
The problem to be solved by the present invention is that a container having various dimensions (including a tapered cup container and a container having a uniform diameter in the vertical direction) can be stably held and carried, and the structure is simple. Another object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive container suspending tool and a method for manufacturing the same.

[Container hanging tool]
It shall have the following structure formed by cutting out from the flat body which transversely cut | disconnected the film tube and was made flat.
When the flat body is opened in a three-dimensional shape, an annular body is formed by the material being a film tube in the middle in the up-down direction, and a support portion is formed below and a support portion below.
The heel part opens the left and right side surfaces by excising the left and right sides above the flat part of the body leaving a part of the upper end, and by removing the central part in the vertical direction on the front and back films. A long window is formed.

That is, four extenders are formed above the trunk. The upper ends of the four handles are bonded together.
The left and right side surfaces of the support part are opened by cutting away the left and right sides below the body part while leaving a part of the lower end.
Front and back films are bonded to part of the lower end.
Thereby, the bottom band of the direction which crosses the annular | circular shape of a trunk | drum is integrally formed in the lower end of a support part.

The body portion is suitable in terms of versatility in that containers having different sizes can be stably carried at approximately one third of the lower end of the overall vertical dimension, but this is not particular.
The hedging portion has a substantially trapezoidal shape that spreads downward as a whole with a part of the upper end left uncut, and the support part has an arcuate cut line by cutting, and a part of the lower end left uncut Although it is preferable from the viewpoint of versatility and design that the shape is wide as a whole with the top as the top, it is not particular to this.

〔Production method〕
The container hanging tool is manufactured based on the following process.
1. The film tube is flattened, transversely cut, and two flat films that overlap at the upper end and two upper and lower films that overlap at the lower end are bonded to form a flat body.
The upper end and the lower end may be bonded by means capable of being processed simultaneously when the film tube is transversely cut.
Moreover, you may process the adhesion | attachment of an upper end and a lower end in the following process.
2. A body part is set in the middle of the flat body in the vertical direction, a hook part is set on the upper part, and a support part is set on the lower part.
3. The left and right sides of the flat body on the left and right sides are opened by cutting away the upper left and right sides of the torso, leaving part of the upper end.
A window that is long in the vertical direction is formed on the front and back films by cutting the center above the body.
The left and right sides of the lower part of the torso are excised leaving a part of the lower end to open the side of the flat body.
Only one of the upper end and the lower end may be bonded in Step 1, and the other end may be bonded as Step 4.

[Container hanging tool]
When the flat body after molding is opened in a three-dimensional shape, a ring-shaped body part, a slidable part consisting of four extenders extending upward from the body part, and a direction crossing the ring of the body part below the body part A support with an extended bottom strip is created.
The container can be carried with the hand by a simple operation of inserting the container from the bottom side into the body through the space between the hands and supporting the bottom part on the bottom belt. At this time, when the container is lifted by holding the handle, the bottom surface of the container is supported by the bottom belt, and the upper edge (often circular) of the container is partially stretched between the four suspension hands. put out.

  That is, the lower part of the container is supported by the body part and the bottom band, and at the same time, the upper part is supported at substantially equal intervals at four locations in the circumferential direction of the upper edge of the container. For this reason, the position of the container in the container suspending tool is not shifted or the posture is not changed during carrying. Therefore, as long as the container is suspended, the positional relationship between the container suspension and the container does not change, so that the container does not tilt or fall off during carrying. In addition, since the material of the container hanging tool is a commercially available film tube, it can be supplied at a low cost and in large quantities.

Since the container is supported by an annular body and bottom band, if the lower half is large enough to be inserted into the body, it can be a small cup container or a PET bottle with a uniform diameter in the vertical direction. Even a container can be accommodated and carried without falling out.
In the case of a paper cup-type container whose side surface is inclined so that its diameter increases toward the top, the position supported by the barrel fluctuates up and down, but since the bottom is always supported by the bottom belt, it is stable even if the container is small Can be carried around. The length of the bottom strip that supports the bottom surface of the container is the diameter of the bottom surface of the container. Therefore, if the bottom surface of the container is large, the portion of the bottom strip that supports the bottom surface of the container becomes long. On the other hand, the dimension in which the support portion protrudes downward from the trunk portion is reduced.

Since the window formed in the ledge is vertically long, even if the height of the container changes, the upper edge (circumference) of the container partially protrudes outward from the window, so it is always stable even if the height of the container varies You can carry it in the same state.
In the case of a container with a slanted side surface, the larger the size, the shorter the part supported by the trunk and the shorter the part supported by the trunk and bottom band. Although it tends to be a tendency, the upper edge of the container is supported by the extender so as to protrude between the four extenders, so that it can be stably carried even if the container is large.
Since both sides of the suspending portion and both sides of the support portion are widely opened, the container can be easily taken in and out of the container hanging tool.

〔Production method〕
Since a film tube is used, a three-dimensional container suspending tool can be formed simply by bonding the upper and lower ends of a horizontally cut film tube to form a flat body and cutting off unnecessary portions from the flat body.
The film tube is inexpensive and can be manufactured at a lower cost because the unnecessary portion can be cut into a flat body in which a large number of sheets are stacked.
With respect to a structure in which the upper ends of the four handers are combined into one by bonding, the upper end of the film tube is bonded in advance, so that troubles such as combining the upper ends of the four handers into one place do not occur. The same applies to the bottom belt.

The top view of a container hanging tool. Schematic which shows the manufacturing process of a container hanging tool. The perspective view shown in the state which expanded the container hanging tool in the solid shape. The perspective view seen from the upper side which shows the use condition of a container hanging tool. The perspective view seen from the lower part which shows the use condition of a container hanging tool.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a container suspending tool 1, and shows a flat state immediately after molding and before it is expanded into a three-dimensional shape when used.
The container suspending tool 1 has a body portion 2 in the middle in the vertical direction, a support portion 3 in the upper portion thereof, and a support portion 4 in the lower portion thereof, and an elliptical or oval-shaped window 5 passes through the center of the support portion 3. Is formed.
Since the trunk | drum 2 is provided below the center of the up-down direction of the container suspending tool 1, the vertical dimension of the hanger 3 is larger than the vertical dimension of the support part 4. FIG.
In this embodiment, the width of the container suspension 1 (width of the body part 2) W1 is about 110 mm, the vertical dimension L1 is about 290 mm, the vertical dimension L2 of the body part 2 is about 20 mm, and the vertical dimension of the hanger 3. L3 is about 190 mm, and the vertical dimension L4 of the support portion 4 is about 80 mm.

Moreover, the width W2 of the upper end of the holding part 3 is about 30 mm, and the width W3 of the lower end of the support part 5 is about 25 mm.
Although the dimension of the window 5 changes according to the dimension of the hanger 4, the major axis D1 is about 110 mm and the minor axis D2 is about 40 mm in this embodiment.
The container hanging tool 1 is made of a commercially available film tube 6 as shown in FIGS. The film tube 6 is formed by molding a synthetic resin film such as flexible thin polyethylene or polypropylene which is frequently used in so-called plastic bags into a cylindrical cross section.

From the film tube 6, the container hanging tool 1 is formed through the following steps.
The film tube 6 is flattened and transversely cut to form a flat body 7 (FIG. 2B). At this time, in this embodiment, the upper and lower ends of the flat body 7 are heat-sealed (heat-sealed portions 8a and 8b) simultaneously with the transverse cutting (FIG. 2C). Bonded is the film on the front and back that overlaps when the tube is flattened.
At this stage, only one of the upper end and the lower end can be bonded, and the other end can be bonded later. With this procedure, the number of steps increases, but air can easily escape from the flat body 7 during processing, and accurate processing can be performed.

A large number of flat bodies 7 are stacked, and as shown by a broken line in FIG. 2 [C], the body part 2 is set in the middle of the flat body 7 in the vertical direction, the support part 3 is set on the upper part, and the support part 4 is set on the lower part. To do.
Then, the left and right sides above the body part 2 are cut away along the cutting lines s1 and s2 (FIG. 2D) leaving a part 9 at the upper end, and the left and right side surfaces of the flat body 7 are opened.
The cut lines s1 and s2 are curved slightly inwardly symmetric with respect to the center of the flat body 7 in the vertical direction. This is to make the side opening as wide as possible when inserting the container from the side of the design and the container suspension 1. However, the cut lines s1 and s2 may be straight lines.

  Next, a window 5 that can be said to be substantially elliptical or oval is formed between the cut lines s1 and s2 by cutting. As a result, the hedging portion 3 having a trapezoidal shape with a downwardly extending trapezoidal shape with the top portion 9 at the top is formed (FIG. 2E). The window 5 is formed through the front and back films. Further, the window 5 forms a handle 10 having a substantially uniform width between the edge of the window 5 and the cut lines s1 and s2.

Further, the left and right sides below the body 2 are cut away by cutting lines s3 and s4, leaving a part 11 at the lower end to open the side surface of the flat body 7 (FIG. 2D). The cut lines s3 and s4 have an arc shape recessed inward so that an opening formed by cutting is as large as possible. However, it may be a straight line.
As a result, the support portion 4 having the bottom band 12 (FIGS. 1 and 2E) is formed at the lower portion of the body portion 2.
The left and right cuts by the cut lines s1 and s2 for forming the holding part 3, the cuts for forming the window 5 and the right and left cuts by the cut lines s3 and s4 for forming the support part 4 are performed by a press machine or a laser. It can carry out at once with respect to the flat body 7 laminated | stacked many by cutting.

When the completed container suspending tool 1 is used, a flat piece is taken out and developed into a three-dimensional shape as shown in FIG. 3 by peeling off the overlapped front and back films. Then, the upper part 3 which has the four hand 10 in the upper part of the annular | circular shaped trunk | drum 2 derived from the original form of a film tube, and the bottom band 12 of the direction which crosses the ring of the trunk | drum 2 in the lower part of the trunk | drum 2. Appears.
That is, the cutting line s1 when forming the holding portion 3 creates the right hand opening 13 between the two right hand tenors, and the cutting line s2 forms the left hand opening 14 between the two left hand hands 10. . Further, the cut lines s3 and s4 when forming the support portion 4 form the right support opening 15 and the left support opening 16, respectively. The film remaining between the left and right openings 15 and 16 becomes the bottom strip 12.
Note that the upper ends of the four hand 10 and the central portion of the bottom band 12 are bonded simultaneously when the film tube 6 is transversely cut as described above (FIG. 2C).
The timing of this bonding may be that the upper end 9 of the hanger 3 and the lower end 11 of the support 4 may be bonded after the container suspension 1 has been planarized, but the efficiency is not good.

When putting the container A into the container hanging tool 1, the container is inserted into the trunk portion 2 from the bottom side through the right hand opening 13 or the left hand opening 14. Then, the bottom portion of the container A passes through the body portion 2 and the bottom surface reaches the bottom band 12. When the hanger 3 is lifted, the container A is supported by the bottom band 12 and the middle part of the container A is supported by the trunk 2. At this time, the upper edge of the container A partially protrudes from between the four suspension hands, and the upper part of the container A is supported at substantially equal intervals at four locations in the circumferential direction of the upper edge. For this reason, the shift | offset | difference and rotation of the container A are suppressed and the container A is carried in the container hanging tool 1 maintaining the stable state.
That is, as long as the container A is suspended, the positional relationship between the container suspension 1 and the container A does not change, and the container A does not tilt or fall off during carrying.

Since the container A is supported by the annular body 2 and the bottom belt 12, if the lower half is large enough to be inserted into the body 2, a small cup container or a pet having a uniform diameter in the vertical direction can be used. Even a container such as a bottle can be stored and carried without falling off.
In the case of a paper cup type container whose side surface is inclined so that its diameter increases toward the upper part, the position supported by the body part 2 fluctuates up and down. However, since the bottom surface is always supported by the bottom belt 12, it can be stably carried even if the container A is small. At this time, the length of the bottom strip 12 that supports the bottom surface of the container A depends on the diameter of the bottom surface of the container. Therefore, if the bottom surface of the container is large, the portion of the bottom strip 12 that supports the bottom surface of the container becomes long. The dimension which protrudes from the part 2 becomes small.
Since the window 5 formed in the holding portion 3 is vertically long, even if the height of the container changes, the upper edge (circumference) of the container partially protrudes outward from the window, and the container A inside the container suspension 1 Is always stable. Thereby, it can respond to the container of various height, and its versatility is high.

When carrying it, it is lifted through the finger or arm of the hand to the opening of the ledge 3. Container A is stable inside container hanger 1 and can be carried without spilling beverage.
Since the bottom surface of the container A is supported from below by the support part 4, not only a tapered cup container having a capacity of 400 ml to 520 ml but also a small tapered cup container having a capacity of 205 ml, a plastic bottle having a uniform diameter in the vertical direction, etc. Even if it is a container, it can be accommodated in the container suspension 1 and carried stably.

The embodiment has been described above.
Although the synthetic resin film tube is taken up as a material of the container suspending tool 1, flexible thin paper can be used as the material.
The position and size (diameter) of the trunk portion 2 in the container suspension 1, the length of the hanger 3, the vertical dimension of the support portion 4, and the like are determined mainly depending on what kind of container is accommodated.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Container suspending tool 2 trunk | drum 3 support part 4 support part 5 window 6 film tube 7 flat body 8a, 8b heat fusion part 9 part of upper end 10 extender 11 part of lower end 12 bottom belt 13 right extension opening 14 Left hand opening 15 Right support opening 16 Left support opening

A container

Claims (7)

It is a form cut out from a flat body obtained by transversely cutting the film tube, and has a body portion in the middle in the vertical direction, a tie portion above and a support portion below,
The heel part opens the left and right side surfaces by cutting the left and right sides above the flat body part, leaving a part of the upper end, and by cutting the center part, long windows in the vertical direction are formed on the front and back. Formed,
The support part has left and right side surfaces opened by excising the left and right sides below the body part while leaving a part of the lower end.
A container hanger, wherein a film on the front and back is adhered to a part of the upper end and a part of the lower end.   The container suspending tool according to claim 1, wherein the trunk portion is located at approximately one third of the lower end of the overall vertical dimension.   The hedging portion has a substantially trapezoidal shape that spreads downward as a whole with a part of the upper end left uncut, and the support part has an arcuate cut line by cutting, and a part of the lower end left uncut The container hanging tool according to claim 1, wherein the container hanging tool has a shape of spreading upward as a whole. The manufacturing method of the container hanging tool of Claim 1 by the next process.
1. The film tube is flattened, transversely cut, and two flat films that overlap at the upper end and two upper and lower films that overlap at the lower end are bonded to form a flat body.
2. A body part is set in the middle of the flat body in the vertical direction, a hook part is set on the upper part, and a support part is set on the lower part.
3. The left and right sides of the upper part of the body are cut away, leaving part of the upper end to open the sides of the left and right flat bodies, and the center of the upper part of the body is cut away to form long windows in the front and back films. At the same time, the left and right sides of the lower part of the body part are excised leaving a part of the lower end to open the side surface of the flat body.   The method for producing a container hanging tool according to claim 4, wherein the bonding between the upper end and the lower end in step 1 is performed simultaneously during transverse cutting.   The method for manufacturing a container suspension tool according to claim 4, wherein only one of the upper end and the lower end is bonded in step 1 and the other end is bonded in step 4.   The method for producing a container suspension tool according to claim 4, wherein the opening of the side surface above the body portion and the formation of the window and the opening of the side surface below the body portion in Step 3 are processed at once.