Kiss cut tree ties
OwnerJoe Fitzgerald, Rosendo Guerreroinventors
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Abstract
Pairs of tree ties are made from a section of flexible tube, each comprising a shorter tube head section at one end and a longer half tube tail extending from the tube head section and terminating at a threading tip at the opposite end of the tail for making a self tie loop through the tube head section for securely holding a tree to a support. Two parallel units in a tree tie pair are temporarily joined along a score line in a diametrically opposite orientation with respect to each other, wherein a cycle of die cutting forms a kiss cut that creates the score line and a separation indenture between a leading tree tie pair and a trailing tree tie pair.
Claims20
Kiss cut tree ties comprising:
- a string of tree ties having kiss cuts preformed from a single flexible tube for holding a tree to a nearby support, the flexible tube comprising a series of kiss cuts for defining continuous identical pairs of tree tie patterns along generally axial contoured lines on the tube and intermittent separation score marks extending transversely of the tube between leading pairs of the tree tie patterns and trailing pairs of the tree tie patterns, wherein upon separation at the preformed patterns each unit of the tree ties out of the respective pairs assumes a tubular loop head provided with a front end defined by the separation score marks, a rear end section located at a close distance from the front end of the loop head, and an elongated half-tube section merged in the rear end section of the loop head and terminating at a threading end in a complementary shape to the rear end section of the loop head of the oppositely formed unit of the tree ties in a pair, the threading end of each unit tree tie being inserted in the loop head of the same tree tie in bilateral axial directions in order to make an instant and firm tie knot about the tree and support.
Kiss cut tree ties comprising:
- pairs of tree ties made from a section of flexible tube, each comprising a shorter tube head section at one end and a longer half tube tail extending from the tube head section and terminating at a threading tip at the opposite end of the tail for making a self tie loop through the tube head section for securely holding a tree to a support, two parallel units of the tree ties being temporarily joined along a score line in a diametrically opposite orientation with respect to each other, wherein a cycle of die cutting forms a kiss cut that creates the score line and a separation indenture between a leading tree tie pair and a trailing tree tie pair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.