Fastener Device for Boutonnieres and Corsages
OwnerStephanie E. Crillyinventor
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Abstract
A fastener device facilitating the secured attachment of a boutonniere or corsage to an article of clothing is described. The fastener device includes a heat shrinkable tube and at least one fastener assembly. The heat shrinkable tube is sliable along a stem extending from a flower arrangement prior to the application of heat and fixable to the stem after heat has been applied. Each fastener assembly is disposed along and extends from the heat shrinkable tube. One or more such fasteners secure the fastener device to an article of clothing, thus securing a flower arrangement to an article of clothing.
Claims15
A fastener device for securing a flower arrangement onto an article of clothing comprising:
- (a) a heat shrinkable tube sliable along a stem extending from said flower arrangement prior to the application of heat and fixable to said stem after the application of heat;
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- (b) at least one fastener assembly disposed along and extending from said heat shrinkable tube, said at least one fastener capable of securing said fastener device with said flower arrangement to said article of clothing.
A method of securing a fastener device for use with an article of clothing onto a flower arrangement comprising the steps of:
- (a) sliding a tube composed of heat shrinkable material onto a stem extending from said flower arrangement, said tube have at least one fastener assembly extending therefrom;
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- (b) heating said tube so that said tube dimensionally shrinks so as to contact said stem fixing said tube to said stem.
A method of securing a flower arrangement onto an article of clothing comprising the step of attaching said flower arrangement to said article of clothing via at least one fastener attached to and extending from a tube shrunk onto said flower arrangement via heat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.