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EP0049122A1 - Dispositif de présentation botanique - Google Patents

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EP0049122A1
EP0049122A1 EP81304428A EP81304428A EP0049122A1 EP 0049122 A1 EP0049122 A1 EP 0049122A1 EP 81304428 A EP81304428 A EP 81304428A EP 81304428 A EP81304428 A EP 81304428A EP 0049122 A1 EP0049122 A1 EP 0049122A1
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William Blackburn
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/50—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage
    • B65D85/52—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for living organisms, articles or materials sensitive to changes of environment or atmospheric conditions, e.g. land animals, birds, fish, water plants, non-aquatic plants, flower bulbs, cut flowers or foliage for living plants; for growing bulbs

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  • the invention is concerned with display devices for plants, especially pot plants or shrubs.
  • An application of the display device is in the marketing of plants, particularly in supermarkets, general stores and garden centres. Small shrubs are sometimes placed, with their roots in the compost in which they have grown, inside transparent plastics bags, the mouths of the bags being closed, and then put on display for selling purposes in that condition.
  • a botanical display device comprises a self-sustaining tube of transparent synthetic material enclosed in a meshwork sock which forms a bottom perforated support at the lower end of the tube for a plant placed in the tube, the meshwork sock being stretched over the outside of the tube to provide a decorative effect.
  • the top end of the meshwork sock is drawn into a bunch above the top end of the tube to provide a perforated top closure for the display device. It is further preferred that the drawn together part of the sock is sufficient to provide an effective hand grip for carrying the display device.
  • the sock is formed of a net fabric. It is further preferred that the transparent tube is of circular cross-section, although it is to be understood, that the expression "tube” is not intended to be restricted to cylindrical articles. For example, the tube could be of square or hexagonal cross-section.
  • a plant the roots of which are in a block of compost in which the plant was grown, is placed inside the transparent tube so that the compost block rests on the support provided by the lower end of the sock.
  • the block of compost is contained in an open-topped plastics bag, which is preferably a sliding fit within the transparent tube. If the plastics bag is employed, it preferably has perforations in its bottom for irrigation purposes. It is further preferred that the compost block and the bag in which it,fits, if such a bag is provided protrudes below the bottom of the transparent tube, so that when the display device is placed in a tray containing water, the lower end of the compost block will be in contact with the water.
  • the intended purpose of this display is the selling of small plants and shrubs, particularly in supermarkets, general stores and garden centres. It is desirable for this purpose that the plant shall be readily visible in its natural growing attitude, but at the same time it is also desirable that the purchaser shall be able to handle the plant easily. (Supermarket customers are generally used to being able to lift an article to be purchased from an open shelf, and simply place it in a shopping trolley.) Traditional methods of displaying plants in pots or trays are not suited to supermarket operations. On the other hand when a plant is simply placed in a plastics bag, the mouth of which is drawn together, it is constricted and certainly not displayed to any advantage.
  • a display-device for this shrub essentially comprises an open topped plastics bag 11, a cylindrical tube'12 and a perforated sock 14.
  • the roots of the shrub 10 are surrounded by a cylindrical cbmpost block 13, which is contained in the black polyethylene bag 11.
  • This kind of plastics bag is frequently used for containing compost blocks when plants are displayed without protective covering.
  • the base of the bag 11 is perforated.
  • the tube 12 is constructed from a sheet of 250 micron clear polyvinylchloride and the two opposite vertical edges of the sheet are formed with interlocking formations (not shown) whereby a vertical joint can be formed.
  • the two opposite vertical edges of the sheet may be secured together by staples or by use of an adhesive.
  • the tube 12 is large enough for the shrup 10 to grow naturally inside it as illustrated. In other words, the dimensions of the tube are such that when the shrub is placed in it, the shrub is not constricted to any substantial extent.
  • the tube is self-sustaining, open at both top and bottom ends, and completely.transparent.
  • the bag 11 containing the shrub 10 is positioned in the lower end of the tube 12. In fact, the bag 11 is a sliding fit in the tube 12 so that it is easily fitted into the tube and presents a neat appearance when in position.
  • the sock 14 is made of nylon netting which can be stretched, and the tube 14 is placed within the sock.
  • the construction of the sock is such that it is stretched over the cylindrical wall of the tube 12, thus providing the diamond-shaped pattern as illustrated all over the outside of the tube.
  • the patterning of the tube by the stretched netting greatly enhances the aesthetic attraction of the display in a manner which cannot be readily explained logically. Perhaps there is a psychological clash producing a jarring effect on the observer, between the "natural” as represented by the growing plant and the "synthetic" as represented by the purely, transparent plastics-tube, and this clash is greatly muted by the effect of the netting. In any event, the enhancement in the appearance of the display produced by the stretched netting is very marked.
  • the sock 14 also provides a perforated closure or support 16 across the open bottom of the tube.
  • a perforated closure or support 16 across the open bottom of the tube.
  • the part of the sack 14 protruding above the top end of the tube 12, is then drawn together and a clip or elastic band 20 applied around the gathered-together portion of the sack. This has the effect of stretching part of the sack across the top end of the tube 12, to provide a perforated closure 22.
  • a short buhched length 24 of the sack which can be used as a hand grip for the entire display.
  • Planting and cultivation instructions may be printed on the polyethylene bag 11 as indicated at 18, and these will be clearly visible through the tube 12. Since the sock 14 is made of fine thread, it presents no appreciable impediment to reading the instructions. Also, a label 25 may be inserted between the outside of the transparent tube 12 and the sock 14. The sock. therefore provides a convenient method of retaining the label in position on the tube.
  • the label 18 may bear an illustration of the plant when in flower or fruit and it may also bear additional descriptive and/or advertising matter.
  • a series of displays such as that illustrated in the drawing can be placed in a shallow tray containing water, on the shelf of a supermarket or the like. Because- the compost block 13 will be in contact with the water through the perforated bottom wall of the bag 11, and the lower portion 16 of the sock does not prevent this, the plant is able to receive a moisture supply, so long as it is on display. Also, whilst the top end of the tube is effectively closed, so that it is not possible for anyone to interfere with the plant, there is adequate ventilation through the perforated top 22 of the display. Hence, the plant is able to continue to grow naturally whilst in the display device, and because it is not constricted to any substantial extent by the display device, it is shown to the best possible advantage to potential customers. Moreover, if someone decides to purchase the plant, it is a simple matter to lift the entire display by means of the hand grip 24, and the display device protects the shrub 10 during transportation.
  • the tube 12 need not be made in the material which has been specified above.
  • the tube could be made in any other transparent plastics material.
  • the sock 14 need not necessarily be made in nylon, though clearly it should preferably be made in a material which is moisture resistant.
  • the invention also broadly comprises the display of a growing plant in a transparent container, with a net stretched around the outside of the container.

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  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Botany (AREA)
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  • Cultivation Receptacles Or Flower-Pots, Or Pots For Seedlings (AREA)
  • Medicines Containing Plant Substances (AREA)
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EP81304428A 1980-09-27 1981-09-25 Dispositif de présentation botanique Expired EP0049122B1 (fr)

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AT81304428T ATE9313T1 (de) 1980-09-27 1981-09-25 Vorrichtung zur schaustellung von pflanzen.

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EP0049122A1 true EP0049122A1 (fr) 1982-04-07
EP0049122B1 EP0049122B1 (fr) 1984-09-12

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Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE3238759A1 (de) * 1981-11-26 1983-06-01 Horst 2081 Prisdorf Huckfeldt Transport- und/oder verkaufsverpackung fuer baumschulen- und gaertnereiware, insbesondere fuer rosen
US4706411A (en) * 1983-01-21 1987-11-17 Strumpfabriken Vinetta Aktiebolag Plant guard
US6553714B2 (en) * 2001-02-01 2003-04-29 Ronald Vahrmeyer Container for a bulb
GB2411388A (en) * 2004-02-26 2005-08-31 Alba Trees Plc Plant protection system
CN105966784A (zh) * 2016-05-27 2016-09-28 安庆市康采恩包装有限公司 一种印刷型植株运输用包装盒
US10765071B2 (en) 2016-09-29 2020-09-08 Mariplast North America, Inc. Enclosing vegetative sheath

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR1245927A (fr) * 1960-01-20 1960-11-10 Double paroi récupératrice de chaleur pour ustensiles de cuisine
FR1345099A (fr) * 1962-10-25 1963-12-06 Vitherm Pot de fleurs en feuille de matière plastique souple
FR1353288A (fr) * 1964-05-29 Procédé destiné à fixer ou à fermer les gaines et les filets de matières plastiques sur les objets qu'ils recouvrent, emballent ou décorent
DE1804926A1 (de) * 1968-10-24 1970-05-27 Klaus Sontag Schutzvorrichtung fuer Pflanzen
FR2129232A5 (en) * 1971-03-19 1972-10-27 Rigot Stalars & Vandesmet Net bag - of polypropylene threads with vertical plastic - strip for describing products in the bag
FR2147527A5 (fr) * 1971-07-23 1973-03-09 Morane Bruno

Patent Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR1353288A (fr) * 1964-05-29 Procédé destiné à fixer ou à fermer les gaines et les filets de matières plastiques sur les objets qu'ils recouvrent, emballent ou décorent
FR1245927A (fr) * 1960-01-20 1960-11-10 Double paroi récupératrice de chaleur pour ustensiles de cuisine
FR1345099A (fr) * 1962-10-25 1963-12-06 Vitherm Pot de fleurs en feuille de matière plastique souple
DE1804926A1 (de) * 1968-10-24 1970-05-27 Klaus Sontag Schutzvorrichtung fuer Pflanzen
FR2129232A5 (en) * 1971-03-19 1972-10-27 Rigot Stalars & Vandesmet Net bag - of polypropylene threads with vertical plastic - strip for describing products in the bag
FR2147527A5 (fr) * 1971-07-23 1973-03-09 Morane Bruno

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE3238759A1 (de) * 1981-11-26 1983-06-01 Horst 2081 Prisdorf Huckfeldt Transport- und/oder verkaufsverpackung fuer baumschulen- und gaertnereiware, insbesondere fuer rosen
US4706411A (en) * 1983-01-21 1987-11-17 Strumpfabriken Vinetta Aktiebolag Plant guard
US6553714B2 (en) * 2001-02-01 2003-04-29 Ronald Vahrmeyer Container for a bulb
GB2411388A (en) * 2004-02-26 2005-08-31 Alba Trees Plc Plant protection system
GB2411388B (en) * 2004-02-26 2007-04-04 Alba Trees Plc Plant protection system
CN105966784A (zh) * 2016-05-27 2016-09-28 安庆市康采恩包装有限公司 一种印刷型植株运输用包装盒
US10765071B2 (en) 2016-09-29 2020-09-08 Mariplast North America, Inc. Enclosing vegetative sheath

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