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US 6,672,002 B1Granted
Package for transporting and displaying bunches of fresh cut flowers
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InventorMarie Gumpper
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The technical field of the invention is that of making receptacles, packages, or parcels for living organisms or materials that are sensitive to changes in atmospheric conditions or surroundings, such as cut flowers. The lower portion (31) of a funnel-shaped shell overlies and matches the shape of a top portion (21) of a vase (2) which has the same funnel shape as the lower portion of the shell.
A display and packaging unit comprising:
A package for bunches of fresh-cut flowers, the package comprising a quasi-rigid shell having an upper portion and lower portion, and surrounding at least the flowering ends of said flowers and including a leakproof and rigid vase having an upper portion and lower portion, and being suitable for containing at least one of a liquid and a gel for keeping the cut ends of the stems of said flowers hydrated, and said shell comprises a funnel-shaped portion so that the lower portion of the shell cooperates with the upper portion of the vase via connection means and whose upper portion of the shell surrounds the flowering ends of said flowers;
A package for bunches of fresh-cut flowers, the package comprising a quasi-rigid shell having an upper portion and lower portion, and surrounding at least the flowering ends of said flowers and including a leakproof and rigid vase having an upper portion and a lower portion, and being suitable for containing at least one of a liquid and a gel for keeping the cut ends of the stems of said flowers hydrated, and said shell comprises a funnel-shaped portion so that said lower portion of the shell cooperates with said upper portion of the vase via connection means and said upper portion of the shell surrounds the flowering ends of said flowers;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
No related US applications are recorded in the indexed filing history.
For living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water…:…
Containers for storage or transport of articles or materials
Term ended 26 Apr 2021 (estimated)
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to a package for transporting and displaying bunches of fresh-cut flowers.
The technical field of the invention is that of making containers, packages, or parcels for living organisms or materials sensitive to changes in atmospheric conditions or surroundings, such as cut flowers, foliage, etc.
The description and the accompanying figures show embodiments of the invention that have no limiting character: other embodiments are possible in the ambit of the scope and the extent of the invention, in particular by changing the ways in which the various portions constituting said package are made.
FIGS. 1 to 3 show a first embodiment.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a package in accordance with the invention.
Embodiment 1 (FIGS. 1 to 4)
In conventional manner, the package 1 comprises a practically rigid funnel-shaped shell 3 surrounding at least the flowering ends of fresh-cut flowers 5; in addition, in the invention, the package includes a leakproof vase 2 that is rigid and flat-bottomed, containing a liquid or gel suitable for keeping the cut ends of said flowers in an aqueous medium, preferably including a bactericide: its total height h1 can, for example, be 25 centimeters (cm) for flowers such as roses that are 50 cm high and its inside diameter can lie in the range 6 cm to 10 cm, given that the stems of the flowers 5 are preferably held together in said vase 2 by binding at the top of the leafy portions of the stems.
The diameter of said vase 2, and also its height h1, are defined in such a manner as to provide physical support to the stems supporting the weight of buds and flowers, and to do so as a function of the length of the stems; it can be round or polygonal in shape, for example it can be hexagonal like the top cover 4 of the package 1: it must be leakproof and it can be made of a rigid plastics material that is transparent or opaque, such as polystyrene, leakproofed card, or metal, etc. Its weight should be determined so as to ensure that the bunch of flowers 5 is properly balanced and can stand vertically on its own. Thus, the bottom 22 of said vase can be weighted depending on the materials used so that, for height h1 equal to 25 cm, receiving twenty flowers such as roses that are 50 cm high, weighing a total of 400 grams (g), and receiving, for example a volume 6 of 200 milliliters (ml) water with bactericide.