Flower arranging apparatus
OwnerDale Kathleen Wrightinventor
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Abstract
Flower arranging apparatus for arranging a bunch of flowers including a sheet of substantially flexible material; a plurality of penetrations through the sheet adapted to receive therethrough elongate items of the bunch of flowers to be arranged; gripping means operatively associated with each penetration whereby one or more elongate items may be passed through one or more of the penetrations and gripped thereby with a predetermined force, the penetrations being reinforced against failure of the flexible material about the penetration by thickening of the flexible material and/or one or more round apertures operatively associated with each penetration.
Claims9
Flower arranging apparatus for arranging a bunch of flowers including:
- a sheet of substantially flexible material;
- one or more penetrations through said sheet and remote from the perimeter of said sheet, said penetrations being adapted to receive therethrough elongate items of the bunch of flowers to be arranged;
- gripping means operatively associated with at least one of said one or more penetrations for gripping at least one of the elongate items extending through the penetrations with a predetermined force;
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- a rounded aperture terminating each slit forming tear prevention means for preventing tearing of the flexible material about the penetration.
Flower arranging apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the sheet is substantially planar and of substantially constant thickness.
Flower arranging apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the sheet is shaped to conform to a three-dimensional former.
Flower arranging apparatus substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to any one of the examples shown in FIGS. 1 to 14.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.