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US 2002/0163806 A1Published application
Outdoor ornament kit
AssigneeAdams Mfg. Corp.
InventorWilliam E. Adams
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Abstract
A kit for making decorative lawn ornaments has a set of rods and rod connectors that enable the rods to be connected together to form two dimensional shapes and three-dimensional structures. The rod connectors permit two rods to be connected end to end collinearly or to connect two pr more rods together at a selected angle between pairs of connected rods. Light holders are also provided to enable strings of decorative lights to be attached to the rods.
Claims19
A kit for creating a decorative lawn ornament comprising:
- a. a plurality of generally cylindrical rods having a same selected diameter, a first end and a second end, each rod being sufficiently flexible so that when any selected rod is placed across a second rod at a tangent point on the second rod, the selected rod can be flexed to that the ends of the first rod and a point on the second rod 180° from the tangent point will lie is a common plane;
- b. a plurality of rod connectors, each rod connector comprised of at least two arms, each arm having a first end and a second end, the first end containing a socket sized to receive one arm at one of the plurality of rods and the second end of each arm connected to a second rod of another arm;
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- c. a plurality of decorative light holders, each light holder having a decorative light receiving portion sized and configured to hold at least one of a light socket and a cord of a string of decorative lights and also having a rod attachment portion sized and configured to attach the decorative light holder to one of the plurality of rods.
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A kit for creating a three-dimensional decorative lawn ornament having at least 4 sides comprising:
- a. a plurality of generally cylindrical rods having a same selected diameter, a first end and a second end, each rod being sufficiently flexible so that when any selected rod is placed across a second rod at a tangent point on the second rod, the selected rod can be flexed to that the ends of the first rod and a point on the second rod 180° from the tangent point will lie is a common plane;
- b. a plurality of rod connectors, each rod connector comprised of at least two arms, each arm having a first end and a second end, the first end of each arm containing a socket sized to receive one of the plurality of rods and the second end of each arm connected to all other arms such that there is substantially the same angle between any two adjacent arms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.