JPH0524937Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a sheet-like clay that can be used for hobbies, pottery, and sculpture.

[Conventional technology and issues]

Conventionally, clay has generally been sold as a rectangular block, and the user can take an appropriate amount from this block and, depending on the intended use, can either roll it out with a roller to form a sheet, or press it by hand and roll it. It was used in the form of sticks. However, this process is very troublesome, especially when it is stretched into a sheet, the thickness is not uniform, and the shape of the surrounding area is not uniform. Then I had to use a ruler and knife to cut it.

[Means to solve the problem]

This invention solves the above-mentioned problems.During the manufacturing stage, clay is passed between two rolls and stretched to a constant thickness, and both ears are cut to create a long piece of constant width. Sheet-shaped clay is layered with a long plastic film (hereinafter simply referred to as film) and rolled into a roll with the clay on the inside, or
Sheets of clay are cut into regular shapes, which are stacked alternately with films of roughly the same shape and placed in a container.
This improves the convenience of use.

[Example 1] 1 in Fig. 1 is a long sheet-like clay that has been stretched to a substantially uniform thickness of 3 mm. The color and composition of this clay are not particularly limited; earthen clay,
Resin clay, paper clay, starch clay, and all other types of clay can be used, but in this example, gray-white resin clay (stone powder clay mixed with resin) is used.
is used. 2 is a long film, and the material of this film is not particularly limited, but it may be any material that has releasability that allows it to be easily peeled off even when it is in pressure contact with clay for a long time. In this embodiment, a polyethylene film having a thickness of 20 μm and silicon-treated on both sides is used.

Note that the film may be colored or printed if necessary. The width of the long clay sheet is about 21 cm and the length is about 1 m. This sheet clay is placed on top of a long film with slightly larger dimensions, and the sheet clay is formed as shown in the figure. By rolling the clay into a roll so that it is on the inside, both the front and back sides of the sheet-shaped clay are isolated from the outside air.

In this case, if the widths of the clay sheet and the film are made equal, solidification will be promoted since both edges of the clay will be exposed to the outside air at all times if the clay is rolled only into a roll. Therefore, as shown in the figure, by making the width of the film sufficiently wider than the width of the sheet-like clay, the degree to which the selvage of the clay comes into contact with the outside air is reduced, thereby delaying solidification.

However, in any case, this rolled clay is provided in an airtight container such as a bag or box, and when needed, it can be taken out of these containers and cut into pieces as needed. Because the clay sheets are only used and the rest is returned to the container, the time that the selvage of the sheet clay is exposed to the outside air is extremely short, and there is no need to worry about it solidifying during normal use.

[Example 2] FIG. 2 shows another embodiment of the present invention,
In the figure, reference numeral 5 indicates a sheet-like clay cut into a regular shape, and a large number of films 6 of approximately the same size as the clay are stacked alternately with the sheet-like clay, and this is placed in a sealed container with a lid 7. This is what is loaded in the 8.

Therefore, when using this sheet clay,
If you open the lid 7, take out the required number of clay sheets from the upper layer, and immediately close the lid, you can prevent the remaining clay from solidifying. Then, the sheet-shaped clay taken out is further stretched, cut, molded, etc., if necessary, and then used.

[Effect of idea]

In this invention, the clay is stretched in advance into a sheet and layered with the film, and then rolled up into a roll or cut into regular shapes and laminated with the film. After unraveling and cutting the sheet clay alone or the sheet clay together with the film, stretching the cut clay further as necessary, cutting, shaping, etc., and peeling the clay from the film for use. I can do it.

In addition, if the regular shaped sheet clay is stacked and loaded in a sealed container with a lid, open the lid and take it out, and if necessary, after stretching it further, cut it, mold it, etc., and use it. can do. In addition, during various processing, since the clay has been stretched to a certain thickness in advance, subsequent processing such as stretching, cutting, molding, etc. is extremely easy.

Therefore, this sheet-shaped clay is extremely convenient for modeling things such as the bottom of a basket, frills for dolls, reliefs, etc. Also, by cutting it finely into linear shapes, string-shaped clay with an angular cross section and a uniform thickness can be made. Since it is easily obtained, it can be rolled into a round string and used for various shapes.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one example of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sectional view of another embodiment of the present invention. 1... Long sheet-shaped clay, 2, 6... Film, 5... Sheet-shaped clay cut into regular shapes, 7...
Lid, 8... Sealed container.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] 1. A sheet made by stacking a long sheet-like clay 1 on a long plastic film 2 and rolling the plastic film into a roll with the sheet-like clay inside. shaped clay. 2 Sheet clay 5 cut into a regular shape and plastic film 6 cut into substantially the same shape as the clay
A sheet-like clay made by stacking a large number of layers alternately and loading them into a sealed container with a lid. 3. The sheet-shaped clay according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the sheet-shaped clay has a thickness of 0.5 to 3 mm, and the plastic film is a polyethylene film with silicone processing on both sides.