The present invention relates to the field of tableware, in particular to a simple holder.
Tableware, such as chopsticks, knives and forks are the common eating tableware used during meals. Sometimes, people may need to temporarily put down the tableware during the course of meals. For hygiene's sake, a simple stand is used to hold the tableware so that the head thereof is kept off the table and to prevent it from contaminating or rolling off tables. Such simple stands are vastly used in restaurants or at home and most of them available in the market are made in solid shapes with either ceramic, metal or wood. These particular simple stands generally include a recess for resting the head of the tableware. Whereas, in order to ensure the stability, these simple stands usually come with certain thickness and the process of making the same is relatively complex. In addition, all these simple stands need to be washed after use and thus lead to waste of resources. Moreover, these simple stands occupy certain storage space.
Therefore, a simple holder, which is simple in its manufacturing process and is space-saving and, last but not least, has an added value for advertisement or promotional purpose, is desired.
The objective of the present invention is aimed to provide a simple holder which is simple in its manufacturing process, convenient in storage, space-saving and to serve as an advertisement or promotional media. The simple holder comprises an elastic first sheet structure. The first sheet structure has two opposite sides, namely, a first side and a second side. A hole located between the first side and the second side, a first cutting slit formed by cutting from the edge of the first side inwards and a second cutting slit formed by cutting from the edge of the second side inwards. The center of the hole is located between the first cutting slit and the second cutting slit. The first sheet structure can be bent to make the first cutting slit slotting into the second cutting slit and thus interlocked. Under this state, a part of the first sheet structure, which is located between the first cutting slit and the second cutting slit, is bent and rolled into a cylinder, and a part of the first sheet structure, which contains the hole, is also bent and rolled into a groove for placing articles.
As a preferred embodiment, the first side is parallel to the second side.
As a preferred embodiment, the first cutting slit extends to the middle position of both the first side and the second side, and the second cutting slit extends to the middle position of the first side and the second side.
As a preferred embodiment, the direction of the first cutting slit is perpendicular to that of the first side, and the direction of the second cutting slit is perpendicular to that of the second side.
As a preferred embodiment, the length of the hole is ⅓ of the overall length of the first sheet structure.
As a preferred embodiment, the first sheet structure comprises at least two holes which are disposed abreast between the first side and the second side. When a part of the first sheet structure, which is located between the first cutting slit and the second cutting slit, is bent and rolled into a cylinder, a part of the first sheet structure, which contains at least two holes, is bent and rolled to form at least two grooves for placing articles.
As a preferred embodiment, the hole is a runway-like U-shaped hole including two parallel opposite sides and two opposite arc-shaped sides.
As a preferred embodiment, the distance between the first cutting slit and the second cutting slit is ½ to ⅔ of the overall length of the first sheet structure.
As a preferred embodiment, the simple holder also comprises a second sheet structure which is connected with the second side of the first sheet structure. The second sheet structure can be overturned for multiple times to form a storage cavity having an open end for storing articles. The connection between the second sheet structure and the first sheet structure is a tearing connection which can be torn along the second side.
As a preferred embodiment, the length of the first side and the second side ranges from 100 mm to 200 mm, and the width of the first side and the second side ranges from 25 mm to 70 mm.
As a preferred embodiment, both ends of the first sheet structure are have a first slot and a second slot respectively. After the first sheet structure is bent, the first slot and the second slot can be penetrated by a first reinforcing sheet.
As a preferred embodiment, the first reinforcing sheet is positioned between the end portion of the first sheet structure and the part which is bent and rolled into a cylinder.
As a preferred embodiment, the first reinforcing sheet is slightly tight fit with the first slot and the second slot.
As a preferred embodiment, the shape of the first reinforcing sheet is the same as that of the hole.
As a preferred embodiment, the first reinforcing sheet and the first sheet structure are a single body before use, and the hole is formed in the first sheet structure after the first reinforcing sheet is torn off.
As a preferred embodiment, the first reinforcing sheet is bent at both ends after penetrating through the first slot and the second slot so as to prevent the first sheet structure from departing from the first reinforcing sheet.
The simple holder provided by the present invention is formed by sheets and is thus convenient to be manufactured, transported and stored. The sheets can be bent, rolled and shaped as a holder.
The embodiments of the present invention are further illustrated as below in conjunction with the drawings.
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In one embodiment, the shape of the first reinforcing sheet 161 is the same as that of the hole 130. Preferably, the first reinforcing sheet 161 and the first sheet structure 100 are a single body before use, and the hole 130 is formed in the first sheet structure after the first reinforcing sheet 161 is torn off.
In another embodiment, the first reinforcing sheet 161 and the first sheet structure 100 can be two different single body. In addition, each first sheet structure 100 may have two or more pairs of slots.
For the simple holder as described above, the lengths of the first side and the second side of the first sheet structure can be set as 100 mm to 200 mm, whereas the width of the first sheet structure, i.e. the distance between the first side and the second side, can be set as 25 mm to 70 mm.
The embodiments mentioned above just describe several implementations of the present invention. The descriptions thereof are concrete and detailed, but may not hereby be interpreted as limitations to the protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that transformations and improvements may be made to the present invention by the persons of ordinary skills in the art but these transformations and improvements should still fall within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention is defined by the claims.
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