Flower stem insertion device for forming flower bouquets
OwnerElaine Mueller, Robert Buttainventors
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Abstract
A flower stem insertion device for forming flower bouquets includes an outer portion fabricated from a relatively flexible polymer material and having a plurality of apertures disposed to ultimately configure a preselected flower bouquet when stem portions of preselected flowers are inserted through the apertures. The flower stem insertion device further includes a deformable inner portion fabricated from Floral foam configured to cooperate with the outer portion such that when the stem portions of the preselected flowers are ultimately inserted through the apertures, the stem portions penetrate the deformable inner portion a predetermined distance sufficient to maintain the position of each preselected flower relative to the outer portion.
Claims8
A flower stem insertion device for forming flower bouquets comprising:
- an outer portion having a substantially hemisphere configuration formed from a plurality of arcuate stem receiving members with apertures disposed to ultimately configure a preselected flower bouquet when stem portions of preselected flowers are inserted through said apertures, said stem receiving members being arcuately joined together via connecting links, whereby adjacent arcuate stem receiving members form arcuate triangle configurations between center points of said stem receiving members in adjacent arcuate rows and arcuate columns of said hemisphere configured outer portion, thereby providing non-linear rows and non-linear columns of receiving members for correspondingly offsetting received preselected flowers, resulting in a relatively hemisphere configured flower bouquet;
- a deformable inner portion configured to cooperate with said outer portion such that when the stem portions of the preselected flowers are ultimately inserted through said apertures, the stem portions penetrate said deformable inner portion a predetermined distance sufficient to maintain the position of each of the preselected flowers relative to said outer portion;
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- a base portion having a recess for receiving said deformable inner portion;
- whereupon said base portion is detachably secured to said outer portion, thereby securing the position of said deformable inner portion relative to said outer portion and said base portion, whereby the stem portions penetrating said deformable inner portion the predetermined distance sufficient to maintain the position of each of the preselected flowers relative to said outer portion ultimately configure the preselected flower bouquet that covers said outer and inner portions, thereby enabling a user to form a preselected flower bouquet having a constant hemispheric periphery.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.