Hanging scroll christmas tree with kit for ornamentation and lighting
AssigneePlaying With Awareness LLC
InventorChristine Doley Carlson
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Abstract
A hanging scroll textile with mount that provides a graphical representation of a Christmas tree is provided in kit form. The kit includes a packing tube for shipment and storage, a thin elongated string of lights, a battery pack to power the lights, and a plurality of pin ornaments and a plurality of hanging ornaments. The kit provides instructions for assembly by a user. The hanging scroll design provides a finished Christmas tree graphical display on the obverse side of the scroll mount, eliminating the necessity to use drawing implements to finish a crude outline or blank design for a tree. The hanging scroll design is environmentally friendly, as it eliminates the necessity for harvest, transport, and disposal of live trees.
Claims27
A kit providing a graphic tree assembly system, the kit comprising:
- (a) a hanging scroll, the hanging scroll including
- (i) a textile sheet, the textile sheet having an upper edge and a lower edge, and an obverse side and a reverse side, wherein the obverse side comprises a mount for a graphic rendering of a coniferous tree;
- (ii) a top bar, the top bar affixed to the upper edge of the textile sheet;
- (iii) a hanger, the hanger configured for attachment to the top bar, to facilitate suspension of the textile sheet from the top bar;
- (iv) a bottom bar, the bottom bar affixed to the lower edge of the textile sheet, wherein the textile sheet is provided in a rolled-up configuration, and wherein the bottom bar is weighted to provide downforce to straighten the textile sheet into a substantially planar configuration when the textile sheet is unrolled and hung;
- (b) a plurality of pin ornaments, one or more of the plurality of pin ornaments including an ornamental face, a pin for secure attachment to the obverse side of the textile sheet, and a locking pin back, wherein the locking pin back is configured for use on the reverse side of the textile sheet for locking attachment to the pin, so as to secure each of the one or more of the plurality of pin ornaments to the textile sheet;
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- (c) an elongated thin string of lights, and wherein the coniferous tree in the graphic rendering has a treetop point, and wherein the textile sheet comprises a first aperture therethrough defined by first aperture sidewalls, and wherein the first aperture is located at or adjacent the treetop point, and wherein the first aperture is sized so as to allow the elongated thin string of lights to pass therethrough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.