JP4041142B2 - Bathroom towels - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a convenient and beautiful bathroom towel structure.

  Tools for washing your body in the bathroom include body brushes, body sponges, and towels. Recently, body brushes and body sponges have become very popular, but some people still dislike the unsanitary feeling caused by the difficulty of using brushes and the difficulty of drying sponges. There are many people who love it.

The towels themselves have also evolved, and cotton has traditionally been the mainstream, but recently, various materials and weaves, such as nylon, have become specialized for bathrooms. In general, many of these have good foaming, are easy to rinse, are easy to dry, and are free to adjust the roughness of the touch, and are overwhelming conventional products.

  However, these recent towels also have drawbacks. In other words, it must be put together one by one when applying soap and body shampoo (this is very troublesome and easy to avoid when small children wash their bodies) Even if you use it as a lump, if you change the hand holding the towel while working, it will be loosened immediately and a part of the towel will hang down, and if you wash it as it is, foam and soapy water will be in the bathroom And so on, and so on.

For this reason, a towel configured so that long rectangular towels can be collected together has been proposed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-325253. However, all of these towels have a complicated structure, and the presence of members other than the towel body such as strings and stopper members obstructs the work of washing the body and is a tool that is difficult to use.
JP 2000-325253 A

In view of the present situation as described above, the inventor has finally made the present invention as a result of intensive research for many years. The feature of the present inventor is that one long rectangular towel is placed in parallel with its short side. in terms of the fold, the after center to enclose with or suturing, some both ends of each short side in which the suture is generally disk-shaped is formed so as to respectively joined to that.

  That is, the present invention takes advantage of the characteristics of modern bathroom towels (for example, nylon towels) that are foamy, easy to rinse, comfortable to wash and very hygienic, and can be used as a body sponge. It can be used. When the present inventor made a prototype and actually used it, the “own back portion” that was thought to be easy with the conventional long towel and difficult with the present product was surprisingly well washed. Of course, since the operation is forced to be performed near the limit of the shoulder joint range of motion, it may be a product that dares to contribute to stretching exercise in the bathroom or may be used in combination with a conventional long towel. The bathroom towel of the present invention is basically assumed to be used for washing the body in the bathroom, but the use is not limited to this, and the bathroom equipment (floor, wall, or basin) It may be used as a rag for cleaning of equipment such as handbags and handbags, and it does not prevent it from being taken out of the bathroom and used for various purposes.

  The “long rectangular towel” used as the material of the bathroom towel according to the present invention can employ a conventional towel as it is. In that sense, whatever towel body material is used as the material of the present invention belongs to the present invention. However, within the scope of trial production by the inventor, what is called “nylon towel” compared to traditional cotton towels is a feeling of use, good foaming, good foam breakage, dryness (and “odor” ”And“ mold ”are difficult to form), shape retention, and so on. Some towels called “nylon towels” are made of 100% nylon, but others are made of other materials (for example, cotton or linen). In addition, blended products of synthetic fibers other than nylon, such as polyester and acrylic, and natural fibers such as cotton and linen are often used as bathroom towels. Of course, such a thing can also be adopted.

  “Long rectangle” means a rectangle that does not include a square, but the ratio of the short side to the long side is not particularly limited. In the range that the present inventors have experimented, the long side length should be at least twice the short side, and about 3 to 5 times was optimal. That is, the general shape of a conventional bathroom towel (body towel) is preferred.

  “Bellows fold” is a phrase that means a form of folding in which a mountain fold and a valley fold are sequentially repeated with parallel ridge lines. In this invention, it folds in the some ridgeline parallel to the short side of a long rectangular towel. The pitch (interval of the ridge lines) can be appropriately adopted. However, when a typical nylon towel is used, it is optimal that the number of mountain folds (or valley folds) is about 10 to 25.

  The towels folded in this way are first fastened and fixed in the vicinity of the center in order to maintain their shape. The fixing method is to tie or sew the whole with a string or string (synthetic fiber, nylon tex, etc., regardless of its details). This bellows fold is a fan-like shape whose rear end is widened. Therefore, if the widened shape is to be beautiful, it is preferable to sew it.

  In this state, the towel has a shape in which the center is thin and the end is expanded by its own restoring force. The “short sides” of the rectangle, which is the original shape of the towel, are each bent into a “<” shape. Then, if you bend it further, each short side will be completely folded. When the contact portions are sewn together, the whole becomes a disc shape. This is the basic shape of the bathroom towel according to the present invention.

Although there is no particular inconvenience when used in this state, a cue ribbon may be attached to the central portion so that it is convenient when the body is rinsed and rinsed and then is hung on a towel rack or the like. The details of the ribbon structure are not limited. Depending on the form of ribbon present, it may have the secondary effect of covering the central suture (or binding) portion. Further, the phrase “ribbon” mentioned here includes a string-like one having a narrow width.

The bathroom towel according to the present invention has the following effects.
(1) Since towels that are excellent in foaming, foaming and washing are gathered together in one piece, there is no need to bother them when applying soap or body shampoo.
(2) During use, a part of the collected items will unwind and sag, and bubbles and soapy water will not be scattered by the force of shaking.
(3) There are no obstructive members when washing.
(4) Easy to handle even for small children.
(5) The overall shape of a disk with undulations in the radial direction is beautiful to the eye.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows an example of a bathroom towel 1 according to the present invention (hereinafter referred to as the present towel 1). As is apparent from the figure, the present towel 1 has a disk shape with wavy irregularities in the radial direction ( The shape has a diameter of about 27 cm. This size seems to be optimal for general use within the scope of trial production by the inventor, but may be a little smaller or larger than that for children (not shown). ). In addition, a seam 4 is present in one diameter portion of the disk, which is formed by sewing. Moreover, although the towel main body 2 used as the material of the towel 1 of this invention is a plain in the figure, it is good also as a more beautiful product, for example by arranging a pattern.

  A ribbon material 3 having a width of about 25 mm is fixed to the center portion by sewing so as to form a ring portion. This ring part is used as a clue when washing the body or as a hooking point on a towel rack or the like, but is not an essential requirement of the present invention.

  FIGS. 2A to 2D schematically show an example of the manufacturing process over time in order to clarify the structure of the towel 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2A shows a towel body 2 as a material, which is a very general nylon towel in this example. When manufacturing the towel of the present invention, the towel body 2 is folded bellows, and the valley fold line 21 and the mountain fold line 22 are parallel to the short side X as shown in the figure. In addition, although these lines are drawn in drawing, it is a virtual line which is not actually described.

  The towel body 2 is folded bellows. FIG. 2B shows this state. The inventor manually performed the bellows folding, but it may be automated using a machine (not shown). Next, the center of the towel body 2 folded bellows is pressed as shown by the arrow in the figure.

Then, as shown in FIG. 3C, the pressed central portion is bound. In the case of this example, the binding method is sutured with the central binding yarn 5 (made of nylon) so as not to break the bellows structure, but other methods may be used (not shown).

  Finally, the short side X is folded in half so as to spread the bellows around the center binding yarn 5 and then stitched (the stitch 4 is the stitched trace). By this stitching, a disc-like structure is formed as shown in FIG.

Note ribbon material 3 shown in FIG. 1, the state in FIG. 2 (c), i.e. the central portion while stitching the central binder yarn 5, it may be mounted and fixed so as to surround this portion, a central binding When the ribbon main body 2 is sewn with the threading 5, the ribbon material 3 may be sewn together (not shown).

It is a schematic perspective view which shows an example of the bathroom towel which concerns on this invention. (A) thru | or (d) are all top views which show an example of the manufacture process of the bathroom towel which concerns on this invention over time and roughly.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bath towel according to the present invention 2 Towel body 21 Valley fold line 22 Mountain fold line 3 Ribbon material 4 Seam 5 Center binding thread X (Towel body 2) short side

Claims (3)

After a long rectangular towel is folded into a bellows parallel to its short side, and then cinched or sewn so that the vicinity of each center of a plurality of ridges formed by the bellows folding is tightened together A bathroom towel characterized by having a generally disk shape formed by stitching both short sides folded in a "<" shape into two .   The bathroom towel according to claim 1, wherein a cue ribbon is fixed to the centrally bound or sewn portion.   The bathroom towel according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the long rectangular towel is made of a material mainly made of nylon.

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