CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT STRUCTURE
A Christmas ornament structure comprises a glass ball and a ceramic cap, wherein the glass ball is a hollow object, and a blow orifice part upwardly extends from an end of the surface and includes a hole; in addition, the ceramic cap is a modeled body, a circle ring is connected on the top of the modeled body, a hollow structure is inwardly formed by a connection inner wall on the interior surface of the ceramic cap, and such a hollow structure is connected in communication with the interior of the glass ball; moreover, the bottom of the ceramic cap includes an opening which allows the blow orifice part of the glass ball to enter such that the perimeter of the opening forms an arc-shaped face closely fitting to the surface of the glass ball in order to be fixedly bonded to the glass ball thus resulting in an in-out thoroughly connected Christmas ornament model of integral formation.
The present invention generally relates to a Christmas ornament structure; especially, it relates to a Christmas ornament structure capable of presenting an integral profile.
2. Description of Related ArtTraditionally, during Christmas holidays, people may decorate their Christmas trees to add more joyful atmosphere, and, for such decorations, it is possible to set up many colorful light bulbs and suspend various kinds of ornaments to reveal certain specific festival ambience, possibly including the selection of an intended theme, with different themes being embodied by some specific representative colors, patterns, symbolic characters, or otherwise based on popular or cultural preservation or people's personal preferences, and these decorative approaches may vary per household. In practice, people may choose a variety of diversified but mutually story-connected ornaments to collectively create a Christmas tree emanating delightful complete festival ambience.
Most of conventional Christmas suspension ornaments are made into a spherical shape from various suitable materials, and different colors, finishes and patterns may be embellished on its spherical surface so as to match the required theme; in use, Christmas ornament balls of glass materials are most comprehensively adopted. As shown in
It should be noticed that the closely fixed attachment between the metal cap 21 and the ball 1 entirely depends on the strength of the elastic connector 221, and since the elastic connector 221 may be vulnerable to deformation issues caused by metallic fatigue or excessive suspension weight, or else because of being erroneously applied, the metal cap 21 may detach from the ball 1 thus resulting in ball damage or breakage problems. Therefore, the structural security of the conventional metal cap 21 obviously may be quite insufficient, and the metal cap 21 merely features the required suspension function and the coverage for the blow orifice part 11 of the ball 1; further, since the illustrated structure is restricted to bending into a stereo profile from a flat sheet, the aesthetic aspect may be undesirably lost, thus departing from the true and original purpose of such embellishing decorations for Christmas tree themes as well as atmosphere. Moreover, the weight proportion of the metal cap 21 may greatly differ from glasses, and the costs of metallic materials may be significantly higher as well; hence, the manufacture processes for the Christmas ball ornament may become more cost-saving and efficient if it is possible to effectively eliminate or reduce the above-said drawbacks.
Accordingly, the Christmas suspension ornaments may provide the best decorative effects in case that the metal cap 21 can provide meaningful shapes and colors, and also enable a 3-dimension feature in order to be combined with the ball 1 safely in terms of its structure and allow the extension of pattern design variations on the ball 1.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONA Christmas ornament structure, comprising: a glass ball, wherein the glass ball is a hollow object, a blow orifice part upwardly extends from the surface of the glass ball, the blow orifice part includes a hole, and the adjoining area between the blow orifice part and the surface of the glass ball forms an arc-shaped face; and a ceramic cap, including an integrally formed cap body and a modeled body, wherein the bottom of the cap body has an opening, the perimeter of the opening includes a connection inner wall having a concavely arc-shaped face, and a hollow structure extends upwardly from the continuous inner wall to the modeled body, and a circle ring is connected on the modeled body; wherein the cap body of the ceramic cap covers the blow orifice part of the glass ball such that the blow orifice part enters the hollow structure of the ceramic body via the opening of the cap body, so the concavely arc-shaped connection inner wall of the ceramic cap closely fits to the arc-shaped face of the glass ball, and the ceramic cap and the glass ball can be fixedly bonded by means of a glue thereby obtaining an in-out thoroughly connected Christmas ornament model of integral formation.
In a preferred embodiment, the surface of the glass ball can be embellished with the color painting pattern, texts or a combination thereof.
In a preferred embodiment, the cap body and the modeled body of the ceramic cap conjunctively form an integral model.
In a preferred embodiment, the integral model of the ceramic cap is designed specifically for the color painting pattern on the surface of the glass ball.
In a preferred embodiment, the cap body may be in a form of a round column or a quadrilateral column.
In a preferred embodiment, the glass ball and the ceramic cap have similar weight proportions.
In a preferred embodiment, a strip is connected onto the circle ring.
In a preferred embodiment, the diameter of the hole in the blow orifice part is 8 mm.
In a preferred embodiment, the diameter of the blow orifice part is 10 mm.
Other technical contents, aspects and effects concerning the present invention can be clearly appreciated through the detailed descriptions on the preferred embodiments of the present invention in conjunction with the appended drawings.
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Herein the diameter of the hole 32 in the blow orifice part 31 is 8 mm, while the diameter of the blow orifice part 31 is 10 mm.
Moreover, the ceramic cap 4 includes an integrally formed cap body 41 and a modeled body 42, wherein the bottom of the cap body 41 has an opening 411, the perimeter of the opening 411 includes a connection inner wall 412 having a concavely arc-shaped face, and a hollow structure 413 extends inwardly from the connection inner wall 412 to the modeled body 42, and a circle ring 43 is connected on the modeled body 42.
The ceramic cap 4 covers the blow orifice part 31 of the glass ball 3 such that the blow orifice part 31 enters the hollow structure 413 via the opening 411 of the cap body 41, so the concavely arc-shaped face on the continuous inner wall 412 closely fits to the arc-shaped face 33 of the glass ball 3, and the continuous inner wall 412 of the cap body and the arc-shaped face of the glass ball 3 can be fixedly bonded by means of a glue 9 thereby obtaining an in-out thoroughly connected Christmas ornament model of integral formation.
In addition, the circle ring 43 on the modeled body 42 can be utilized to connect to a strip 8 such that the Christmas ornament structure can be placed in suspension onto a Christmas tree (as shown in
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Therefore, it can be seen from the aforementioned embodiments that, through the plasticity of the material in the ceramic cap 4 itself, it is possible to make the ceramic cap extend to form a variety of modeled bodies, and, further in conjunction with the color painting pattern 341 drawn on the glass ball 3, each of the Christmas ornaments can create a different and unique visual effect, which is impossible for prior art Christmas ornaments to achieve.
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Compared with other conventional technologies, the Christmas ornament structure according to the present invention provides the following advantages:
1. Under the premise of structural safety, the present invention features that a hollow ceramic cap is utilized and closely glued onto the exterior surface of the glass ball, no additional connectors are required, and the consistence with regards to object weight proportions and appearance effects can be achieved.
2. Since the conventional cap is obtained by pressing a flat metal sheet to be in a cap shape and then attached onto the glass ball, the model thus created can be only single and unchangeable, in capable of allowing design flexibility in conjunction with the color painting pattern on the glass ball. Comparatively, the ceramic cap according to the present invention is made from ceramic materials so as to offer meaningful profiles and colors and allow the formation of any required 3D models by exploiting the advantage of low costs with regards to stereo plasticity, such that the glass ball design is not restricted to the changes in the ball itself; besides, the present invention allows the 3D modeling design on the ceramic cap in conjunction with the color painting patter on the glass ball so as to provide rich and versatile integral models of the ceramic cap thus successfully achieving the objective of the best Christmas decoration effects that conventional metal cap fails to attain.
It should be noticed that, although the present invention has been disclosed through the detailed descriptions of the aforementioned embodiments, such illustrations are by no means used to restrict the scope of the present invention; that is, skilled ones in relevant fields of the present invention can certainly devise any applicable alternations and modifications after having comprehended the aforementioned technical characteristics and embodiments of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. Hence, the scope of the present invention to be protected under patent laws should be delineated in accordance with the claims set forth hereunder in the present specification.
Claims
1. A Christmas ornament structure, comprising:
- a glass ball, wherein the glass ball is a hollow object, a blow orifice part upwardly extends from the surface of the glass ball, the blow orifice part includes a hole, and the adjoining area between the blow orifice part and the surface of the glass ball forms an arc-shaped face; and
- a ceramic cap, including an integrally formed cap body and a modeled body, wherein the bottom of the cap body has an opening, the perimeter of the opening includes a connection inner wall having a concavely arc-shaped face, and a hollow structure extends upwardly from the continuous inner wall to the modeled body, and a circle ring is connected on the modeled body;
- wherein the cap body of the ceramic cap covers the blow orifice part of the glass ball such that the blow orifice part enters the hollow structure of the ceramic body via the opening of the cap body, so the concavely arc-shaped connection inner wall of the ceramic cap closely fits to the arc-shaped face of the glass ball, and the ceramic cap and the glass ball can be fixedly bonded by means of a glue thereby obtaining an in-out thoroughly connected Christmas ornament model of integral formation.
2. The Christmas ornament structure according to claim 1, wherein the surface of the glass ball can be embellished with the color painting pattern, texts or a combination thereof.
3. The Christmas ornament structure according to claim 2, wherein the cap body and the modeled body of the ceramic cap conjunctively form an integral model.
4. The Christmas ornament structure according to claim 3, wherein the integral model of the ceramic cap is designed specifically for the color painting pattern on the surface of the glass ball.
5. The Christmas ornament structure according to claim 1, wherein the cap body may be in a form of a round column or a quadrilateral column.
6. The Christmas ornament structure according to claim 1, wherein the glass ball 3 and the ceramic cap have similar weight proportions.
7. The Christmas ornament structure according to claim 1, wherein a strip is connected onto the circle ring.
8. The Christmas ornament structure according to claim 1, wherein the diameter of the hole in the blow orifice part is 8 mm.
9. The Christmas ornament structure according to claim 1, wherein the diameter of the blow orifice part is 10 mm.
Type: Application
Filed: Jan 18, 2017
Publication Date: Jul 19, 2018
Inventor: MIN-LU LIN (TAIPEI CITY)
Application Number: 15/408,755