JPH10244800A - Glass decoration device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a table type glass decoration device in which champagne glasses on the upper stage are not slid nor dropped. SOLUTION: In a glass decoration device with a pyramid type glass overlapping body in which the three-stage constitution is formed by a plurality of glasses, stems and an upper stage glass 3 and a central glass 1-7 on the central section of lower stage are disposed on the same axial line in the up and down direction, the upper stage glass 3 and the glass 1-7 on the central section of the lower stage are fixed by a removable fixing tool 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pyramid-shaped glass stack formed by stacking champagne glasses in three stages, and more particularly to a table-top type glass decoration apparatus used by placing it on a table.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A pyramid-shaped glass stack (hereinafter referred to as a champagne tower) is formed by stacking champagne glasses as a representative one of the glasses with legs provided with legs between a glass body and a base. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 6-305300 has been proposed. this is,
A housing accommodating a lighting device having light sources of a plurality of colors is used as a dedicated mounting table, and a champagne glass is arranged at the lowest level in a 10 × 10 mode, and a 9 × 9 mode is placed on the champagne glass. In a manner of × 8, it is stacked in ten stages.

On the back surface of the base of the champagne glass, four projections are formed at regular intervals, and these projections are engaged with the inner edges of the mouths of the four lower champagne glasses. Positioning is performed.

[0004] Such a conventional champagne tower is used, for example, by placing the casing on the floor of a banquet hall, and the tip of the champagne tower has a height to look up, and illumination light from a lighting device in the casing is used. Is complicatedly reflected and refracted by a champagne glass and a liquid such as champagne poured into the champagne glass.

[0005]

By the way, when such a champagne tower is to be arranged on each table of a banquet hall, a three-tiered stack is reasonable, and in this case, the champagne is placed on a low lighting box having no bulk. A glass will be placed.

However, such a table has a large number of people seated toward the periphery thereof. Therefore, when the table is shaken when the user sits down or leaves the table, the upper champagne glasses are displaced or fall. It is also possible.

It is an object of the invention according to the present application to provide a table-top glass decoration device in which an upper champagne glass does not shift or drop.

[0008]

A configuration for realizing the object of the invention according to the present application is such that a plurality of glasses with legs are stacked in a three-stage configuration, and the upper glass and the lower middle glass are identical in the vertical direction. In a glass decoration device having a pyramid-shaped glass stacked body arranged on the axis,
The upper glass and the lower central glass are fixed by a removable fixing tool.

The fixture has a suction cup which is sucked to the bottom of the upper glass, a suction cup which is sucked to the inner bottom of the lower central glass, and a connecting member which connects the two suction cups. is there.

[0010] The connecting member is formed of a member having a variable length within a predetermined length, such as a thread or a chain.

Further, as another structure of the connecting member, the connecting member is formed of a rod-shaped member having a constant length.

Further, the fixture is transparent.

On the other hand, in the glass stack, the lower and middle glasses are arranged in a non-contact state with an interval.

Further, in the glass stack, the lower and middle glasses are arranged in contact with each other.

On the other hand, the glass stack has a light transmitting plate on the upper surface and is mounted on a lighting box having lighting means inside.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

(First Embodiment) FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 show a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a table-top glass decoration device according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

Reference numerals 1-1 to 1-9 denote lowermost (first-stage) glasses arranged in a 3 × 3 manner, and reference numerals 2-1 to 2-4.
Is a middle (second tier) glass arranged in a 2 × 2 manner,
Reference numeral 3 denotes one glass 3 at the uppermost stage (third stage), which is arranged at the same position in the vertical direction as the glass 1-9 at the center of the first stage.

In the present embodiment, the intervals between the first and second glasses are arranged so that the mouth portions are in contact with each other. For example, the first and second glasses are arranged on an illumination light transmitting plate 4 a on the upper surface of the illumination box 4. The first-stage glasses 1-1 to 1-9 can be regularly arranged at predetermined positions by placing them in accordance with the marks or depressions indicating the arrangement positions of the first-stage glasses.

FIG. 3 shows a champagne glass according to the present embodiment. The champagne glass SG has four projections 10 formed at equal intervals on the back surface of the pedestal, and the middle champagne glass located on the inner edge side of the mouths of four adjacent champagne glasses located at the lower stage. The projections engage to perform positioning, and similarly, these projections 10 of the upper champagne glass engage with the inner edges of the mouths of four adjacent champagne glasses located at the middle. Is performed.

In the first stage, nine champagne glasses 1-1
1 to 9 are arranged, and the second-stage glasses 2-1 to 2-4 are placed with the central champagne glass 1-9 as one point of four-point support, and four second-stage champagne glasses are further placed. 2-
Glasses 3 of the third stage are similarly engaged and positioned and placed with each of the support points 1 to 2-4 as four support points.

The champagne towers thus stacked in three stages are mounted on a lighting box 4, and the lighting box 4 is further mounted on a banquet table or the like. For this reason, if the table is shaken, the third stage glass 3 may fall.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the glass 1-9 at the center of the first stage and the glass 3 at the third stage are fixed by the fixture 5, so that the glass 3 at the third stage is prevented from falling. ing.

The fixing device 5 according to the present embodiment includes a transparent suction cup 5b, 5c on both sides of a transparent thread 5a as a connecting member.
And one suction cup 5b is a third stage glass 3
And the other suction cup 5c is held by suction on the inner bottom of the first stage glass 1-9. For example, when the third stage glass 3 is stacked, a fixture is provided. 5 is fixed to both glasses, and the third-stage glass 3 is lifted slightly and slid slowly to 3
The glass 3 of the stage is held at a predetermined position in a state where the projections 10 of the base are engaged with the mouths of the glass of the stage 2, respectively. Note that a chain may be used as the connecting member instead of the thread.

In the present embodiment, the entire length of the fixture 5 is set to the bottom of the third stage glass 3 and the center of the first stage glass 1.
-9 is set shorter than the distance between the inner bottom portion and the inner bottom portion, and a proper tension is obtained by a spring force depending on the elastic deformation of both the suction cups 5b and 5c when fixed. 3 is held and fixed to the center glass 1-9 of the first stage without loosening.

Further, since the thread 5a and the suction cups 5b and 5c constituting the fixing tool 5 are made transparent, the decorative effects of light such as transparency and light guide of illumination light from the illumination box 4 are prevented. There is no.

In the arrangement mode of the glass according to the present embodiment, 1
Even if water is poured into the glasses 1-1 to 1-8 around the second stage and the spherical candle 11 with a weight is floated there, the fire of the spherical candle 11 does not affect the second stage glass. Water is also poured into the third glass 3 so that the spherical candle 11 floats.

As shown in FIG. 2, this spherical candle is not floated on the second stage glass.
Or the like may be floated to enhance the decorativeness.

On the other hand, the lighting box 4 is provided with an illumination light transmitting plate 4a on the upper surface by blinking a plurality of colors of light sources such as LEDs in an organic manner or by rotating a plurality of color filters.
Light the glass through.

(Second Embodiment) FIGS. 4 and 5 show a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the table-top glass decoration device of the present embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. Reference numerals 1-1 to 1-7 denote lowermost (first-stage) glasses, circles indicated by solid lines indicate the outer periphery of the mouth, and reference numerals 2 to 2.
1-2 are the middle (second) glasses, the solid line portion indicates the outer periphery of the mouth, the broken line indicates the outer periphery of the bottom portion, and one glass 3 and 1 at the uppermost (third stage). The glass 1-7 at the center of the stage is arranged at the same position in the vertical direction.

The distance between the first and second glasses in the present embodiment is such that the mouths are separated from each other so that the mouths are not in contact with each other, for example, on the illumination light transmitting plate 4 a on the upper surface of the illumination box 4. The first-stage glasses 1-1 to 1 to 7 can be arranged at predetermined intervals by placing the first-stage glasses in accordance with the marks or depressions indicating the arrangement positions of the first-stage glasses.

The champagne glass according to the present embodiment is different from the one shown in FIG. 3 in that three projections are formed at equal intervals on the back surface of the base portion, and the mouth portions of the three champagne glasses located at the lower stage. These projections of the middle champagne glass positioned on the inner edge of the champagne glass are engaged with each other to perform positioning, and similarly, the projections of the three champagne glasses positioned at the middle of the upper champagne glass. Positioning is performed by engaging with the inner edge side of the portion.

In the first stage, seven champagne glasses 1-1
1 to 7 are arranged, and the second-stage glasses 2-1 to 2-3 are placed with the central champagne glass 1-7 as one point of three-point support, and three second-stage champagne glasses are further placed. 2-
Glasses 3 at the third level are similarly engaged and positioned and mounted, with 1-2 to 3-point support points.

The champagne towers thus stacked in three stages are placed on a lighting box 4, and the lighting box 4 is placed on a banquet table or the like. For this reason, if the table is shaken, the third stage glass 3 may fall.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, the glass 1-7 at the center of the first stage and the glass 3 at the third stage are fixed by the fixture 5, so that the glass 3 at the third stage is prevented from falling. ing.

The fixing device 5 of the present embodiment comprises a transparent suction cup 5b, 5c which is provided on both sides of a transparent thread 5a as a connecting member.
And one suction cup 5b is a third stage glass 3
And the other suction cup 5c is held by suction on the inner bottom of the first-stage glass 1-7. For example, when stacking the third-stage glass 3, a fixing tool is provided. 5 is fixed to both glasses, and the third-stage glass 3 is lifted slightly and slid slowly to 3
The glass 3 of the stage is held at a predetermined position in a state where the projections 10 of the base are engaged with the mouths of the glass of the stage 2, respectively. Note that a chain may be used as the connecting member instead of the thread.

In the present embodiment, the entire length of the fixture 5 is set to the bottom of the third stage glass 3 and the center of the first stage glass 1.
-7 is set shorter than the distance between the inner bottom portion and the inner bottom portion, and a proper tension is obtained by a spring force depending on the elastic deformation of both suction cups 5b and 5c at the time of fixing. 3 is held and fixed to the first stage glass 1-7 without looseness.

Further, since the thread 5a and the suction cups 5b and 5c constituting the fixing tool 5 are made transparent, the decorative effects of light such as transparency and light guide of illumination light from the illumination box 4 are prevented. There is no.

In the arrangement mode of the glass according to the present embodiment, 1
Even if water is poured into the glasses 1-1 to 1-6 around the stage and the spherical candle 11 with the weight is floated there, the fire of the spherical candle 11 does not affect the glass of the second stage.

It should be noted that the spherical candles may not be floated on the second stage glass, but the petals 12 and the like may be floated to enhance the decorativeness.

On the other hand, the illumination box 4 is provided with an illumination light transmitting plate 4a on the upper surface by organically combining light sources of a plurality of colors, such as LEDs, so as to blink, or by rotating a plurality of color filters.
Light the glass through.

(Third Embodiment) FIG. 6 shows a third embodiment.

The fixing device 5 in the first and second embodiments has a transparent suction cup 5b at both ends of a transparent thread 5a.
5c is provided, but the fixture 6 in the present embodiment is provided.
In this example, transparent suction cups 6b and 6c are fixed to both ends of a transparent rod 6a such as an acrylic rod, for example, by press-fitting.

According to the present embodiment, the fixture 6 is fixed in advance to the bottom of the center glass 1-9 (1-7) in the first stage shown in FIG. Can be fixed simply by pressing it against one suction cup 6b when placing it on the central part of the second stage glass.

The fixing device of the present invention is not limited to the first and second embodiments described above, but is
Any material may be used as long as it prevents vertical movement of the glass 3 of the step and elastically holds and fixes it.

[0047]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the upper glass and the lower central glass are fixed by the removable fixing tool, the upper glass can be prevented from falling.

According to the second, third and fourth aspects of the present invention, it is possible to obtain a fixing device having a simple structure for preventing the upper glass from falling.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the fixture is transparent, it does not hinder the decorativeness of the transparent glass.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, since the lower glass and the middle glass are arranged in a non-contact state with an interval between the lower and middle glasses, the lower glass and the middle glass can be sufficiently separated. For example, even if the lower glass is filled with water and a candle is floated, the fire of the candle does not affect the middle glass.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, the glass stack can be compactly constructed.

According to the eighth aspect of the present invention, it is possible to effectively illuminate the stacked glass body.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a glass decoration device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 shows the glass of FIG. 1, wherein (a) is a side view and (b)
Is a bottom view.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a glass decoration device showing a second embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along the line BB of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a side view of the fixing device according to the second embodiment.

[Description of Signs] 1-1 to 1-9, 2-1 to 2-4, 3: Glass 4: Lighting box 5, 5: Fixture

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A glass decoration device having a pyramid-shaped glass stack in which a plurality of glasses with legs are stacked in a three-stage configuration, and an upper glass and a lower middle glass are arranged on the same axis in the vertical direction. A glass decoration device, wherein the upper glass and the lower central glass are fixed by a removable fixing tool. 2. The suction device according to claim 1, wherein the fixing device connects the suction cup sucked to the bottom of the upper glass, the suction cup sucked to the inner bottom of the lower middle glass, and the suction cups. A glass decoration device comprising: a connection member. 3. The connecting member according to claim 2, wherein
A glass decoration device comprising a member having a variable length within a predetermined length, such as a thread or a chain. 4. The glass decoration device according to claim 2, wherein said connecting member is formed of a rod-shaped member having an invariable length. 5. The glass decoration device according to claim 1, wherein the fixture is transparent. 6. The glass decoration according to claim 1, wherein the glass stacked body is arranged such that lower and middle glasses are arranged in a non-contact state with an interval. apparatus. 7. The glass decoration device according to claim 1, wherein the glass stack has a lower glass and a middle glass arranged in contact with each other. 8. The method of claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7.
, Wherein the glass stack has a light transmitting plate on an upper surface and is placed on a lighting box having lighting means inside.