Display package at least substantially made of a transparent plastic material

• US 20020074256A1
• Filed: 09/20/2001
• Published: 06/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wilhelmus Lucas Koeman
• Original Assignee: Wilhelmus Lucas Koeman
• Inventors: Koeman, Wilhelmus Lucas
• Application Number:
  US09/957,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20020074256A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/423
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/505 for cut flowers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/52 for living plants; for growing bulbs

Abstract

A display package at least substantially made of a transparent plastic material, with at least one cut flower packaged therein, characterized in that said display package is at least substantially made up of a hollow sleeve, in which the cut flower, stem and bulb included, is present. In particular, the sleeve includes supporting means therein, on which the bulb of the cut flower is supported in the sleeve.

Claims

1. A display package at least substantially made of a transparent plastic material, with at least one cut flower packaged therein, characterized in that said display package is at least substantially made up of a hollow sleeve, in which the cut flower, stem and bulb included, is present.

2. A display package according to claim 1, wherein the sleeve includes supporting means therein, on which the bulb of the cut flower is supported in the sleeve.

3. A display package to claim 2, wherein said supporting means include at least one pin extending from a bottom of the sleeve.

4. A display package according to claim 2, wherein said sleeve is round in cross-section.

5. A display package according to claim 2, wherein said sleeve is angular in cross-section.

6. A display package according to claim 5, wherein said sleeve is quadrangular, hexagonal, octagonal, decagonal or dodecagonal in cross-section.

7. A display package according to any one of the preceding claim 2, wherein said cut flower is a tulip.

8. A display package according to any one of the preceding claim 2, wherein said sleeve is closed by a bottom and a cover.

9. A display package according to claim 8, wherein an an oxygen and/or ethylene absorbing agent is present in said sleeve.

10. A method for packaging at least one cut flower in a display package which is at least substantially made of a transparent plastic material, characterized in that said cut flower, stem and bulb included, is placed into the display package, which is at least substantially in the form of a hollow sleeve.