JP3246699U - Display and sales equipment for compressed fabric products - Google Patents

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a display and sales device for compressed fabric products, which allows customers to enjoyably select and purchase compressed fabric products designed with cartoon characters or the like, in a lottery-like manner. [Solution] The device is composed of a compressed fabric product 2 made by compressing and solidifying a fabric product into a predetermined shape, and a box 5 for storing a plurality of compressed fabric products 2, and the box 5 is formed with a product removal opening 6 for selecting and removing a desired compressed fabric product 2 from the plurality of stored compressed fabric products 2. The compressed fabric products 2 are composed of a plurality of types of fabric products designed based on a specific theme, and each fabric product is compressed and solidified into the same shape, individually wrapped so that the contents cannot be seen from the outside, and stored in the box 5. A product purchaser can enjoyably select and remove the desired compressed fabric product 2 from the box 5, in a lottery-like manner, and purchase it. [Selected Figure] Figure 1

Description

This invention relates to a display and sales device for compressed fabric products, and more specifically, to a display and sales device for promoting compressed fabric products made by compressing and solidifying fabric products with designs of characters, etc.

Conventionally, cloth products such as towels, socks, and underwear have been provided by compressing and solidifying them (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

This type of compressed cloth product is produced by placing an upper opening enclosing cylinder over a lower mold having a recess of the desired shape (e.g., hemispherical), introducing a folded cloth product (e.g., socks) through the upper opening of the enclosing cylinder, and fitting and pressing a plunger-shaped upper mold having a recess of the desired shape (e.g., hemispherical) into the enclosing cylinder, thereby compressing and solidifying the folded cloth product into the desired shape (in this case, a sphere formed by the recesses of the lower and upper molds).

Utility Model Registration No. 3045355 JP 2001-48131 A

Since these compressed fabric products are compact in volume through compression, they are highly portable and useful as travel accessories. However, because the fabric products are sold in a compressed state, it is not possible to check the pre-compression condition of the fabric product (for example, its overall shape, applied pattern, color, etc.) at the time of purchase.

In particular, in the case of cloth products that emphasize design (for example, cloth products with character designs), if customers cannot pick up the product and check the design, their desire to buy is diminished, so there was a demand for a new sales format that could stimulate consumers' desire to buy compressed cloth products that are made with an emphasis on design.

This invention was made in consideration of these problems, and its purpose is to provide a display and sales device for compressed fabric products that allows customers to enjoy selecting and purchasing compressed fabric products with designs of cartoon characters and the like, just like drawing lots.

To achieve the above object, the display and sales device for compressed fabric products according to the present invention comprises a compressed fabric product made by compressing and solidifying a fabric product into a predetermined shape, and a box for storing a plurality of the compressed fabric products, the box having a product removal opening for selecting and removing a desired compressed fabric product from the plurality of compressed fabric products stored therein, the compressed fabric products being made up of a plurality of types of fabric products designed based on a specific theme, each of which is compressed and solidified into the same shape, and each of which is individually packaged so that the contents cannot be seen from the outside.

As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the following configuration is adopted.
(1) The individual packaging is constructed by covering a compressed and solidified fabric product with an opaque film material.

(2) The film material has a background pattern printed on its surface that is designed based on the specific theme.

(3) The product removal opening is configured to be large enough to allow the compressed fabric product to be removed from the box while being held at least in the container.

(4) The box is printed with a pattern that is one-to-one associated with the design of the compressed cloth product contained in the box.

According to the display and sales device for compressed fabric products of the present invention, the fabric products constituting the compressed fabric products are composed of multiple types of fabric products designed based on a specific theme, each fabric product is compressed and solidified into the same shape, and is contained in a box in a state where each is individually wrapped so that the contents cannot be seen from the outside, and the box containing the compressed fabric products is provided with a product removal opening that allows the purchaser to select and remove a desired compressed fabric product from the multiple compressed fabric products contained in the box, so that the purchaser can remove and purchase a single compressed fabric product from the multiple compressed fabric products contained in the box as if drawing lots. At this time, the design of the compressed fabric products contained in the box cannot be determined from the appearance or shape of the products, so it is not known which design of the product has been selected until the product packaging is opened. Therefore, the purchaser can purchase the compressed fabric product while enjoying the sense of expectation until opening the package, as if drawing lots.

1 is a perspective view showing an example of a display and sales device for compressed fabric products according to the present invention; FIG. 2(a) is a front view showing an example of a compressed cloth product stored in the display and sales device for compressed cloth products, with a portion of the packaging of the compressed cloth product cut away and FIG. 2(b) showing a compressed cloth product compressed and solidified into a tablet shape. FIG. 2 is a front view showing an example of a fabric product constituting a compressed fabric product housed in the display and sales device for compressed fabric products.

The following describes in detail an embodiment of the present invention with reference to the drawings. Note that the same reference numerals throughout the drawings indicate the same components or elements.

Figure 1 shows a display and sales device 1 for compressed fabric products according to the present invention. This display and sales device 1 is a sales device for displaying and selling compressed fabric products 2, and is used, for example, by placing it on a display shelf where products are sold.

First, the compressed cloth product 2 will be described.
The compressed cloth product 2 is a product obtained by compressing and solidifying a cloth product 3 such as a towel or socks into a predetermined shape. In this embodiment, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2(a), the product is obtained by compressing and solidifying a cloth product 3 (see Fig. 3) into a spherical shape.

Specifically, the compressed cloth product 2 shown in this embodiment is composed of socks designed based on a specific theme. In the illustrated example, the theme is "animal faces," and the socks are composed of multiple types (six types in the illustrated example) of socks with "animal faces" designed as patterns. That is, in this embodiment, the compressed cloth product 2 is composed of socks with a total of six designs: five types of "dog," "cat," "rabbit," "mouse," and "panda," and one secret type (e.g., "monkey") whose design has not been revealed.

In this embodiment, socks are used as the fabric product 3, but other fabric products such as towels, underwear (shorts, T-shirts), and handkerchiefs can also be used as the fabric product 3 to be compressed and solidified.

In the illustrated example, a common "pattern" (a pattern of an animal's face) based on a specific theme is used as the design of the fabric product 3, but as long as the design is based on a specific theme, the design may be composed of, for example, the "shape" or "color" of the fabric product 3, or a combination of patterns, shapes, and colors. As a specific theme used in the design of the fabric product 3, for example, a character from a manga or animation may be used.

In addition, in this embodiment, the compressed fabric product 2 is a fabric product 3 compressed and solidified into a spherical shape, but the shape of the compressed fabric product 2 can be changed as appropriate.

As described above, the compressed fabric product 2 is produced by placing a lower mold having a recess of a desired shape in a surrounding tube that opens upward, introducing a folded fabric product through the upper opening of the surrounding tube, and fitting and pressing a plunger-shaped upper mold having a recess of a desired shape into the surrounding tube, thereby compressing and solidifying the folded fabric product into the desired shape formed by the recesses of the lower and upper molds. By appropriately changing the shape of the recesses of the lower and upper molds, the fabric product 3 can be compressed and solidified into the desired shape. Therefore, for example, by making the recesses of the lower and upper molds shallow cylindrical with the same diameter, it is also possible to mold the compressed fabric product 2 into a tablet shape as shown in FIG. 2(b).

In addition, when producing the compressed fabric products 2, each fabric product 3 is compressed and solidified into the same shape, regardless of the design of the fabric product 3. This is to ensure that the design of the fabric product 3 cannot be identified from the shape of the compressed fabric product 2 when the compressed fabric products 2 are stored in the display and sales device 1, as described below.

The compressed fabric products 2 thus constructed are individually packaged so that the contents (compressed and solidified fabric products 3) cannot be seen from the outside.

In this embodiment, this individual packaging is performed by covering the compressed and solidified fabric product 3 with an opaque film material 4. That is, in this embodiment, when individually packaging the fabric product 3, an opaque film material 4 is used so that the contents cannot be seen from the outside. Then, by tightly covering the compressed and solidified fabric product 3 with such a film material 4, the compressed and solidified fabric product 3 is provided as a compressed fabric product 2 while maintaining its shape. That is, the compressed fabric product 2 shown in this embodiment is individually packaged with the film material 4 while maintaining the external shape of the compressed and solidified fabric product 3.

In addition, in this embodiment, a pattern related to the design of the fabric product 3, specifically a pattern designed based on the same specific theme as that used in the design of the fabric product 3, is printed on the surface of the film material 4, so that when one looks at the packaged compressed fabric product 2, one can understand what kind of design of the fabric product 3 is included in the compressed fabric product 2. That is, in the illustrated example, the faces of each of the animals, excluding the secret ones, "dog", "cat", "rabbit", "mouse" and "panda", are printed as a pattern design on the surface of the film material 4 as patterns corresponding to the patterns used on the socks (see FIG. 2(a)).

Next, the display and sales device 1 for the compressed cloth products 2 will be described.
The display and sales device 1 according to the present invention is composed of a box 5 capable of housing a plurality of compressed cloth products 2, 2, .... The box 5 is composed of cardboard that can be processed into a desired shape, and in the illustrated example, the cardboard is processed into a box shape having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape to form the box 5. That is, the box 5 is composed of a front panel 5a, a back panel 5b, a left side panel 5c, a right side panel 5d, a top panel 5e, and a bottom panel 5f.

The box 5 is provided with a product removal opening 6 that allows a desired compressed cloth product 2 to be selected and removed from among the multiple compressed cloth products 2, 2, ... stored therein. In this embodiment, the product removal opening 6 is formed by cutting out a portion of the top panel 5e of the box 5, and this product removal opening 6 allows some or all of the multiple compressed cloth products 2, 2, ... stored in the box 5 to be stored in the box 5 with exposed to the outside.

In this embodiment, the product removal opening 6 is configured as an opening large enough to allow the compressed fabric product 2 to be removed from the box 5 while at least holding the compressed fabric product 2. In other words, a person who purchases a compressed fabric product 2 can insert their hand into the box 5 through the product removal opening 6 and remove a desired compressed fabric product 2 from among the compressed fabric products 2, 2, ... contained in the box 5.

In this embodiment, the rear side of the top panel 5e (the rear panel 5b side) is cut out to form the product removal opening 6, and the rear piece 5g of the cut-out top panel 5e is raised and used as an advertising panel 7 for advertising the product. By adopting this type of structure, for example, by providing perforations for forming a product removal opening in the top panel of a shipping box used when packaging and shipping compressed cloth products 2, the paper box for shipping the products can be used as a display and sales device 1.

Information about the compressed cloth product 2 contained in the display and sales device 1 is displayed on at least one surface of the display and sales device 1.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the front panel 5a of the box 5 displays information on the subject of the design (in the illustrated example, it displays "Animal Socks Lottery") and information on the design of the cloth products 3 that make up the cloth compressed product 2 (in the illustrated example, the designs of the socks have the faces of each animal, "Dog", "Cat", "Rabbit", "Mouse", and "Panda", as patterns, excluding the secret design). In other words, in this embodiment, information (patterns) that is one-to-one associated with the designs (excluding the secret design) of the cloth compressed products 2 housed in the display and sales device 1 is printed on at least one side of the box 5, and the purchaser of the product can visually check this print to understand the design of the cloth products 3 provided as the cloth compressed products 2 housed in the display and sales device 1.

On the other hand, the advertising panel section 7 formed by raising the rear piece 5g of the top panel 5e displays information about the subject of the design and information about the number of different designs of the fabric product 3 (in the illustrated example, it displays "6 types in total"). In the illustrated example, it is not clearly indicated that the design of the fabric product 3 includes one secret design, but it is also possible to clearly indicate, for example, on the front panel 5a, that the design of the fabric product 3 includes one secret design (a design that is not displayed on the film material 4 or box 5).

In this way, the display and sales device 1 for compressed fabric products 2 according to the present invention is constructed by compressing and solidifying multiple types of fabric products 3 designed based on a specific theme, and each fabric product 3 is compressed and solidified into the same shape and stored in a box 5 in an individually wrapped state so that the contents cannot be seen from the outside. The box 5 storing the compressed fabric products 2 is provided with a product removal opening 6 that allows the user to select and remove a desired compressed fabric product 2 from the multiple compressed fabric products 2, 2, ... stored in the box 5, so that a product purchaser can remove and purchase one compressed fabric product 2 from the multiple compressed fabric products 2, 2, ... stored in the box 5 in a lottery-like manner.

At this time, the compressed fabric products 2 contained in the box 5 are all molded to the same shape and are packaged so that the contents cannot be seen from the outside, so the design of the fabric product 3 cannot be identified from the appearance or shape of the product. Therefore, the product purchaser cannot know which design of fabric product 3 the compressed fabric product 2 he or she has selected is until opening the individual package, so the excitement of anticipation can be maintained until opening. As a result, the product purchaser's desire to purchase is stimulated and increased.

The above-mentioned embodiments are merely preferred implementations of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and various design modifications are possible within the scope of the present invention.

For example, in the above embodiment, the fabric product 3 has six different designs including a secret design, but the number of different designs of the fabric product 3 can be increased or decreased as appropriate. Also, in the above embodiment, a case has been shown in which the design of the fabric product 3 includes a secret design that is not disclosed, but it is also possible to configure the design so that all designs are disclosed and do not include a secret design.

In the above embodiment, the compressed and solidified fabric product 3 is individually packaged by covering the fabric product 3 with an opaque film material 4, but the fabric product 3 may be individually packaged in other ways, such as by enclosing the fabric product 3 in a plastic bag. The point is that the compressed and solidified fabric product 3 should be individually packaged so that the design cannot be seen from the outside.

In the above embodiment, the box 5 constituting the display and sales apparatus 1 is made of cardboard, but the box 5 can be made of materials other than cardboard, such as corrugated cardboard or plastic board. In the above embodiment, the box 5 is made in a roughly rectangular parallelepiped shape, but the box 5 can have other shapes, such as a polygonal prism or a cylinder, as long as it is a container-like shape capable of housing multiple compressed cloth products 2, 2, ....

In addition, in the above-described embodiment, the product removal opening 6 is formed on the top surface of the box 5, but the product removal opening 6 can be formed in other positions, such as on the front surface of the box 5, or by cutting out a portion of the top surface and the front surface of the box 5, as long as the position allows one compressed cloth product 2 to be selected and removed from the multiple compressed cloth products 2, 2, ... stored in the box 5.

1 Display and sales device for compressed cloth products 2 Compressed cloth products 3 Cloth products 4 Film material 5 Box body 5a Front panel 5b Rear panel 5c Left side panel 5d Right side panel 5e Top panel 5f Bottom panel 5
5g rear piece,
6 Product removal opening 7 Advertising panel section

Claims (5)

A compressed cloth product obtained by compressing and solidifying a cloth product into a predetermined shape;
a box for storing a plurality of the compressed fabric products;
the box has a product removal opening through which a desired compressed fabric product can be selected and removed from among the plurality of compressed fabric products stored therein;
The compressed cloth product is composed of a plurality of types of cloth products designed based on a specific theme, each of which is compressed and solidified into the same shape and individually packaged so that the contents cannot be seen from the outside. 2. The display and sales device for compressed fabric products according to claim 1, wherein the individual packaging is constructed by covering the compressed and solidified fabric product with an opaque film material. 3. The display and sales device for compressed cloth products according to claim 2, wherein the film material has a pattern printed on its surface, the pattern being designed based on the specific theme. 3. A display and sales device for compressed fabric products as described in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the product removal opening is configured to be at least large enough to allow the compressed fabric product to be removed from the box while being held. 3. The display and sales device for compressed fabric products according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that a pattern that is one-to-one associated with the design of the compressed fabric product contained in the box is printed on the box.

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