Tiki torch holder kit
OwnerPatrick Kelly Brennaninventor
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Abstract
A kit of garden torch holders for securely retaining a garden torch in the ground and on the wall is provided. An in-use torch holder has a hollow body having a circumferential flange and a hollow tip for planting the first torch holder into the ground for retaining a shaft therein. The kit also provides wall mountable upward, lateral or rack torch holders providing pairs of opposing notches for mounting both the body of the garden torch and the above mentioned in-use torch holder.
Claims9
A torch holder, comprising:
- a hollow cylindrical portion extending from a flange end to a tip end, wherein the flange end defines an opening communicating to the hollow of the hollow cylindrical portion;
- a flange radially extending from the flange end;
- the hollow cylindrical portion having an edge point, the edge point being approximately midpoint between the flange end and the tip end;
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- a void of the cylindrical portion defined by an angled edge extending from the edge point to the tip end.
A torch holder, comprising:
- a hollow cylindrical portion extending from a flange end to a tip end, wherein the flange end defines an opening communicating to the hollow of the hollow cylindrical portion;
- a flange radially extending from the flange end;
- a hollow tapered portion extending inwardly from the tip end of the hollow cylindrical portion so that the hollows of the cylindrical and tapered portions communicate;
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- a spike extending from a distal end of the hollow tapered portion along a longitudinal axis shared by the hollow cylindrical portion and the hollow tapered portion from said tip end along a longitudinal axis shared with the cylindrical portion.
A kit for holding garden torches in a vertical supporting surface and a horizontal supporting surface, comprising:
- a rack torch holder comprising:
- a mounting portion;
- a plurality of rack arms extending from the mounting portion;
- a top plate perpendicularly joined along a top portion of each rack arm;
- a first void in the top plate between adjacent rack arms;
- the first void provides inward-facing, spaced-apart stake holding nubs so as to define a plurality of slots;
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- a plurality of torch slots provided along the top plate that extends not between adjacent rack arms, wherein the torch slots are dimensioned to slidably receive a conical base portion of a garden torch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.