JPH0833547A - Foldable flower arranging container - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a container which enables the forming thereof foldable by a non-water-permeable sheet material and the holding of flowers therein stably with excellence in carrying property and appearance. CONSTITUTION:A valley folding line 2 is provided spiral on side walls 7 of a bottomed regular polygonal cylinder 6 made of a non-water soluble sheet material rising askew at an angle half as much as the apex of the regular polygon thereof from the apexes 1 of the bottom part thereof and a ridge folding line 5 is provided parallel with the bottom surface of the container passing an intersection 4 between the valley folding line 2 and the edge line 3 of the polygonal cylinder. The valley folding line 2 and the ridge folding line 5 are bent to be folded being twisted vertically. A circular arc flap 8 is provided on the periphery of an opening of the container and is bent inward to fix the stem of flowers. A cut flower activator is applied on the internal surface of the container 6 to allow flowers live longer. In a flower arranging container 6 obtained, the bottom part and the upper rim of the container are held with both hands to be squeezed being twisted to be folded and stretched being twisted to assemble.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a flower arrangement container formed in a tubular shape from an impermeable sheet material such as polyethylene-coated paper, and more particularly to the container which can be folded so as to be easily carried. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A flower arrangement container is required for arranging fresh flowers, such as when visiting fresh flowers for visiting a grave or visiting a disease.
The commonly used flower arrangement container is made of glass, pottery, metal, bamboo, etc., which is heavy and inconvenient to carry, and there is a risk that it will be dropped and damaged when carried. Therefore, flower arrangement containers of various structures that are foldable for the convenience of carrying have been proposed. Among these conventional structures, those made of paper disclosed in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. Sho 63-85163, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 1-43763, and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 3-37949 are excellent in portability and inexpensive. Therefore, it is convenient as a flower arrangement container to bring when visiting the above-mentioned grave.

[0003]

However, the conventional foldable paper flower arrangement container is made up of a container having a flexible impermeable film container attached to the inside of a cylindrical cardboard or a container having a bottomed cylinder. Although it can be folded and flattened because the bottom is folded and the side is flattened, the size when folded is quite large, and it is not suitable for women to carry in a handbag etc. It was too big. In addition, since the conventional ikebana container with the folding structure as described above tends to have a lazy cross-section, the appearance is bad and the flowers in the container are fixed or the container itself is fixed so as not to tip over. It wasn't done.

[0004] Therefore, the first object of the present invention is to obtain a folding flower arrangement container which is superior in portability and is also excellent in aesthetics. Further, it is possible to fix the flower stem in the container. A second problem is to obtain a folding flower arrangement container that can prevent itself from falling.

[0005]

The folding flower arrangement container according to the present invention has a regular polygonal shape starting from each vertex 1 on the bottom of each side wall 7 of a bottomed regular polygonal cylinder 6 formed of an impermeable sheet material. Valley fold line 2 that rises diagonally at an angle of half the apex angle of
Is provided in a spiral shape, and a mountain fold line 5 that is parallel to the bottom surface of the container is provided through the intersection 4 between the valley fold line 2 and the ridgeline 3 of the polygonal cylinder. It is characterized in that it can be twisted and folded in the vertical direction by bending 5.

As the water-impermeable resin sheet material, there can be used resin-coated paperboard such as polyethylene-coated paper used in cartons of milk packs, or synthetic resin sheet having a certain degree of rigidity. A regular triangular shape, a square shape, a regular hexagonal shape or the like is suitable as the cross-sectional shape of the tubular body 6. When the regular triangular shape is used, the folded shape becomes a regular hexagonal shape, and in the case of a square shape and a regular hexagonal shape, the shape when folded is also the same shape. Becomes It is aesthetically superior that the flap 8 provided in the opening of the container has an arc shape or the like. Further, it is convenient to use a double-sided adhesive tape for the adhesive layer 9 provided on the bottom surface of the container, and an adhesive layer of a double-sided adhesive tape having one surface as an adhesive layer and the other surface as an adhesive layer is attached to the bottom surface of the container. It is preferable to provide release paper on the adhesive layer.

If the cut flower activator is applied to the inner surface of the container 6 manufactured in this way, the flower arrangement can be maintained for a long time. Examples of the cut flower activator include those containing a copper ion or iron ion-containing substance having an action of preventing water spoilage, acetic acid and its compound, and phytonutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

This flap 8 has a shape having a portion which overlaps with an adjacent flap, and has a height in the upper edge 1 of the container.
The height is equal to the distance from 2 to the center of the container. The most preferable shape of this flap is a shape in which both ends of the side on which the flap is provided and its apex are connected by a smooth continuous convex curve. It is preferable to provide perforations at the connecting portion between the flap 8 and the upper edge 12 of each side wall so that the flap can be removed when not in use.

Instead of providing such a flap, the upper surface of the container is previously closed by a top surface 16 which is connected to the upper edge of the side wall, and the center of this top surface and each vertex 17 of a regular polygon.
It is also possible to adopt a structure in which a perforation 18 for connecting to and is provided.

[0010]

In the flower arrangement container 6 of the present invention, the bottom portion and the upper edge of the container are grasped by both hands, and crushed while twisting in the direction opposite to the spiral of the valley fold line 2 so as to move in the axial direction of the tubular body. Be folded. In addition, the folded product holds the bottom and top ends with both hands and stretches in the axial direction of the cylinder by twisting and stretching it in the direction opposite to the spiral of the valley fold line to expand it into a container with a bottom. Becomes Here, the direction opposite to the spiral of the valley fold line 2 means that when the valley fold line 2 is provided in the left-hand screw direction, it is in the right-hand screw direction, that is, while pushing in while twisting clockwise, while twisting counterclockwise. By pulling, folding and assembling are performed. For a right-handed person, the valley fold line 2 provided with a left-hand screw spiral can be folded and assembled by a natural operation.

Since the flower arrangement container 6 having the above-mentioned structure is folded while maintaining the cross-sectional shape of the container, the cross-section does not have a dull shape, and the cross-section when folded and assembled is a regular polygon, which is aesthetically pleasing. It is also preferable in terms. Further, since the container is folded to have a cross-sectional size, the folded shape is small and the portability is excellent. When folded, all the side walls 7 of the container are folded inward, so it is surprising that a message, a pattern, etc. are written on the side wall 7 of the container so that they can be seen when assembled. You can also use it.

The flaps 8 provided on the peripheral edge 12 of the upper opening of the container are bent inward so that those adjacent to each other are in a vertical relationship with each other, and the stem of the flower arranged in the container is held at the center of the container. To use. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 9 provided on the bottom surface of the container fixes the container and prevents the container from falling down by peeling off the release paper and adhering the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer to the table surface or the like. Not only is the appearance of the flap 8 arcuate, but also the operability is excellent when the adjacent flaps are bent alternately.

The flap 8 provided with perforations 15 on the base end side (upper edge 12 of the side wall) is used when the flap 8 is in the way such as when the mouth of a container is to be deformed for use. The flap 8 can be cut off from the eye 15 and used. Further, the structure in which the container is provided with the top surface 16 and the perforations 18 extending from the center to each apex are provided on the top surface, the perforations 18 are torn from the central portion according to the amount of flowers to be planted, and the flowers are inserted there. Keep the flower stem in the center of the container.

[0014]

1 to 4 show a first embodiment of the present invention in which the container has a square cross section. The height H of the container is three times the length A of the bottom side. Each vertex on the bottom 1
A valley fold line 2 is provided in the left-hand screw spiral direction at an angle of ½ of the apex angle of the square, that is, an angle of 45 degrees from the position. It is desirable that the rising angle α of the valley fold line 2 is actually slightly larger than 45 degrees. When the container is folded, the side (ridge line) 3 that is folded by the thickness of the paper is slanted, so that the vertices of the folded square (ridge line) must match in order to make the vertices of the squares coincide.
This is because it is better that the length of 3 is slightly longer than the length of the side of the polygon. This valley fold line 2 crosses the intersection 4 with the ridge line 3,
It goes around the container three quarters. If the height H of the container is twice the side length A of the bottom surface, the valley fold line is half the circumference of the container, and if the height H is four times the side length A, the valley fold line 2 is the container. It will make one lap.

From the point where the valley fold line 2 and the ridge line 3 intersect (the height of this point is equal to the side length A of the bottom face), a mountain fold line 5 is provided parallel to the bottom face to make one round of the container. A semicircular flap 8 is provided on the upper edge of each side wall 7 of the container 6.
The height of the flap 8 is half the side length A of the bottom surface.

When the container shown in FIG. 1 is crushed while gripping the bottom surface and the upper edge 10 and twisting clockwise, the container 6
Are folded as shown in FIG. That is, the container side wall 7
One section divided by the mountain fold line 5 (one side of the bottom surface is also a mountain fold line) is folded like a square origami folded diagonally. The container 6 folded in the state of FIG.
The bottom portion and the upper edge portion are grasped by both hands, and twisted counterclockwise and extended to assemble the state shown in FIG. During folding or unfolding, the side wall of the container is bent in a direction perpendicular to the surface, and this bending is released when the container is assembled in the state of FIG. 1 and folded in the state of FIG. Therefore, due to the elasticity of the container, the container is in a stable state in the assembled state of FIG. 1 and the folded state of FIG. 2 and is held in the respective shapes.

As shown in FIG. 3, the flaps 8 provided on the upper edge of the container are bent inward so that the flaps adjacent to each other have a vertical staggered relationship. If there is a flower stem in the center of the container, flap 8 assembled as shown in Fig. 3
Bending occurs on the stem, and the stem is held in the center of the container by the elastic force based on the bending deformation.

As shown in FIG. 10, the flap 8 has perforations 15 at its upper edge (upper edge of the side wall) 12,
It is preferable to be able to remove the flap 8 from this perforation 15 when it is not needed.
Further, as shown in FIG. 11, a top surface 16 which is continuous with the upper edge of the side wall of the container is provided, and perforations 18 that connect the center of the container and each of the square vertices 17 are provided on this top surface so that the flowers are When arranging, the structure may be such that the central portion 19 of the perforation is pierced and an opening corresponding to the amount of arranging flowers is provided in the central portion of the top surface 16.

As shown in FIG. 4, a double-sided adhesive tape 9 is attached to the bottom surface of the container in a state where release paper is attached to its adhesive surface. After the container is assembled, the release paper is peeled off and the adhesive tape 9 is attached. The container 6 is fixed by sticking it on the upper surface of a table or a shelf.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show a second embodiment of the present invention, which has a regular triangular cross section. The rising angle α of the valley fold line 2 provided on the side wall 7 of the container 6 is one half of the apex angle of the triangle, that is, 30 degrees. The height H of the container is H = 4 × Atan 30 °, where A is the side length of the bottom surface. FIG. 6 shows a folded state of the container of FIG. 5, and shows by reference numerals what position the valley fold line 2 and the mountain fold line 5 and the ridge line 3 of the side wall 7 are in when they are folded. Has been done. Container 6 as shown in FIG.
Is a regular triangular prism, the shape when folded is a regular hexagon.

7 to 9 show a third embodiment of the present invention, the cross section of which is a regular hexagon. Also in this case, the rising angle α of the valley fold line 2 on the wall surface of the container
Is half the apex angle of the bottom surface, that is, 60 degrees. In the illustrated example, the height H of the container has a relationship of H = 2 × Atan 60 °, where A is the side length of the bottom surface of the container.

FIG. 8 shows a state in which the container of FIG. 7 is folded, and the ridge line 3, valley fold line 2 and mountain fold line 5 of the container are shown.
The position of each is shown with a code. When the container cross section is a regular hexagon, the folded state is also a regular hexagon. When the flap 8 is provided on such a container having a regular hexagonal cross section,
As shown in FIG. 9, when the flap 8 is bent toward the inside by 90 degrees, the apex 22 of the flap reaches the center of the regular hexagon, and the apex 22 and both ends 23, 23 of the upper edge are convex arcs 2.
The shape is such that it is tied with 4.

[0023]

As described above, the flower stand container of the present invention can be folded by squeezing it while twisting it, and by twisting it in the opposite direction and stretching it, it becomes a flower stand shape. Can be assembled. The folding and assembling operations may be one operation. The shape when folded is compact and very convenient for carrying. In addition, the shape when folded and the cross-sectional shape when assembled are regular polygons, and the cross-section does not have to be a lazy shape due to the folding line, which is also aesthetically pleasing.

Further, by providing a flap on the periphery of the upper end opening, it is possible to hold the flower arrangement in the center,
Further, by providing the adhesive layer on the bottom surface, the container can be securely fixed. Further, since the bottom surface of the container and the flap are not folded at the time of folding, the functions of the flap and the adhesive layer are not impaired.

Further, when folded, all the side wall portions of the container are folded inward, so that the message can be written or printed on the side surface of the container and the container can be used as a message medium. Since it will appear, it can be used as an unexpected communication means.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment in an assembled state.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view of a folded state of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an assembled state of the flaps.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the bottom surface of the container.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of an assembled state of the second embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of a folded state of the second embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of an assembled state of the third embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory view of a folded state of the third embodiment.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory view of a flap provided in the third embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a flap that can be cut out.

FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing another means for fixing a flower stem.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Each vertex 2 Valley fold line 3 Ridge line 4 Intersection point 5 Mountain fold line 6 Container 7 Side wall 8 Flap 9 Double-sided adhesive tape

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A side wall (7) of a bottomed regular polygonal cylinder (6) formed of a water-impermeable sheet material, with each vertex (1) at the bottom of the regular polygonal section (2) of the apex angle of the regular polygon. The valley fold line (2) that rises diagonally at an angle of 1 is provided spirally, and this valley fold line is also present.
There is a mountain fold line (5) that passes through the intersection (4) between (2) and the ridgeline (3) of the polygonal cylinder and is parallel to the bottom of the container.
A folded flower arrangement container characterized by being twisted and folded in the vertical direction by folding the (2) and the mountain fold line (5). 2. The folded flower arrangement container according to claim 1, wherein the valley fold line (2) is formed in a spiral in the left-hand screw direction. 3. Inward folding flaps (8) at the upper edge of each side wall (7)
The inner folding flap (8) is provided at a height equal to the distance to the center of the upper end opening of the container when folded toward the inside of the container. Or the folding flower arrangement container according to 2. 4. The folding flower arrangement container according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein an adhesive layer (9) is provided on the bottom surface of the container (6). 5. The folded flower arrangement container according to claim 1, 2, 3 or 4, wherein a cut flower activator is applied to the inner surface of the container (6).