Sealed ornament of dried and pressed flower

Details Sealed ornament of dried and pressed flower Sealed ornament of dried and pressed flower

1992-06-11

1997-09-02

Epstein, Henry F.

Stock material or miscellaneous articles

Three dimension imitation or 'treated' natural product

Flora

156 57, 428 13, A01N 300

Patent

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056629702

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BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD

This invention relates to an ornament of a dried and pressed flower decorated such that a dried and pressed flower is pasted to paper, cloth, film, leather, etc. or adhered to glass, metal, wood, pottery, etc. More specifically, this invention relates to an ornament in which a dried and pressed flower is sealed to safely protect the form of the dried and pressed flower, and the color and gloss of the pressed flower can be maintained for a long period.


BACKGROUND

Conventionally, it has been carried out that a picked flower was dried to maintain the beauty thereof and used as an ornament.
For example, a flower is often dried to make a dried and pressed flower, which is pasted to paper for use with a greeting card or which is pasted to cloth to provide the cloth with a pattern.
In this case, a traditional method for obtaining a dried and pressed flower comprises sandwiching a picked flower between sheets of paper, pressing it for a suitable number of days, and thereafter removing the flower.
Recently, in order to maintain the color of a prepared flower, a process has been carried out which comprises putting a drying agent, such as silica gel, into the bottom of a small box, placing a perforated plate thereon, placing paper, a picked flower, paper and an air-permeable urethane sheet on the plate and alternately placing paper, a flower and paper thereon so that three to four flowers are layered, closing the small box, and leaving them for about 2 to 7 days while removing air from the small box. A flower produced by the above-described method has color and gloss close to that of a natural flower, and maintains its beauty for a relatively long period of time.
In this case, if a natural flower is treated with citric acid before putting it into a small box, it advantageously prevents colors of red and pink from becoming blackish.
As methods for utilization of a pressed flower, many methods are used. For example, a utilization method is known from Japanese Patent Publication No. 63-239091 which comprises directly laying out a dried and pressed flower on paper, preparing a cover material with a film and a sheet integrated, putting the cover over the pressed flower, and heating and pressing the whole body to provide a postcard. In this utilization method, a surface of the dried and pressed flower is covered with a film so that mechanical contact with the surface can be prevented, and water is not directly moved into cut flowers from the surface.
However, since the back side merely has paper, air as well as vapor can freely pass therethrough with only a slight restriction. Accordingly, the dried and pressed flower is in the same state as with no protective means. Contact with vapor or water is not preferable for a dried and pressed flower having a moisture in the range of 10 to 20%. With passage of time, suction of water and oxidization progress and fading progresses. Then, color and gloss of a natural flower are completely lost within several weeks.
For overcoming the aforesaid disadvantages noted with respect to the aforementioned utilization method, a method is known from Japanese Patent Laid-0pen No. 62-231091 which comprises sandwiching a dried and pressed flower between two films having a low melting point and melting these two films to seal the dried and pressed flower from top and bottom. A further utilization method is known from Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-112784 which comprises placing on a film having a low melting point another film having a higher melting point than the former, and fixing the whole to cloth.
These two examples have been devised to attach a flower to cloth. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-231091 proposes a method comprising sandwiching a dried and pressed flower between films having a melting point which is molten at approximately 95.degree. C., pressing and heating the same to integrate the dried and pressed flower with the low melting point film, then placing it on cloth, and again pressing and heating it to place the flower on cloth.
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