Flexible pliable retaining package for flowers and plants
OwnerLambertus A. M. van den Hoogeninventor
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Abstract
A containing package of cardboard for flowers and plants and the method for manufacturing such a package, said package being pliable in such a manner that the flowers and plants can be forwarded safely in it and can be displayed at delivery in this package in its partly fold-out position, which functions as a vase or as a flower-pot, having a bottom (1), side planes (2) and connecting flaps (3).
Claims15
A packaging container for transport and display of flowers and plants, constructed for retaining water for keeping the flowers and plants fresh and for adding if desired a support characterized in that said container is made of a quadrangular sheet of waterresistant cardboard folded along creased folding lines, which are in crossform and diagonal over a surface of the sheet, such that four side planes (2), standing up to a variable degree around a square bottom surface (1) are formed, said side planes (2) being connected to each other by inwardly fold flaps (3), creating in a middle of said planes an almost quadrangular empty space having a height adapted to a height of the side planes (2), while said side planes (2) are provided with perforated small holes (4) near to an edge in an upper part of said planes, a string (5) being pulled through said small holes, to the effect that said container is kept either entirely collapsed or folded outwardly in a desired position by said string, which is put through said holes in said planes (2) and kept at a defined place through said holes, and said container being formed by folding the container into a vase and further comprising a flower or plant placed into the vase.
A foldable packaging container for transport and display of flowers and plants, comprising
- a quadrangular sheet of a cardboard, where the cardboard is rendered waterproof or water-repellent by impregnation coating or lining it with a plastic liner;
- wherein folding lines are prepunched on a surface of said coated cardboard, with said folding lines running diagonally, horizontally and vertically on said surface of the cardboard;
- wherein by folding two center lines;
- running horizontally or, respectively, vertically, there are formed four side planes and one connecting square bottom surface;
- wherein said side planes are connected to each other by a square, respectively, which square is folded inwardly along the diagonally running prepunched folding line and thereby forms folded flaps;
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- wherein a hollow quadrangular container is created by a forming of the side planes, the square bottom surface, and the folding flaps, and wherein said container is a vase containing a flower or plant.
A method of manufacture of a packaging container for flowers and plants, characterized in cutting a waterproof cardboard sheet to quadrangular shape;
- creasing the waterproof cardboard with folding lines in cross-form and diagonal over a surface,
- punching of the waterproof cardboard a pair of small holes in a middle of a side of the waterproof cardboard near to an edge,
- pulling a string of sufficient length through said holes and placing a flower or plant within the container.
A method for the manufacture of a foldable packaging container for flowers and plants comprising the following steps
- cutting out a flat square of waterproof cardboard having a surface;
- prepunching folding lines in diagonal, horizontal and vertical direction on the surface of the cardboard, wherein the two center lines, running horizontally or, respectively, vertically, form four side planes with an upper edge and one connecting square bottom surface,
- punching two small holes in each side plane near the upper edge,
- threading a string of a required length through the small holes punched near the upper edges of the side planes and placing a flower or plant in the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.