Picture frame vase
OwnerLindsey D. Lufkininventor
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In a picture frame vase, a picture frame surrounds a board made of attractive material, and the board has a rectangular opening below a center. A water pocket is mounted on the back of the board just below the rectangular opening, so that stems of flowers may be inserted through the rectangular opening and into the water pocket. The narrow pocket holds the stems inward so that the flowers, standing upright, generally lie along the face of the board. The frame in a preferred embodiment is made with sufficient depth so that the frame, and not the water pocket, contacts the wall. The size of the frame and size and shape and position of the opening are variable, and the water pocket size, shape and position are changeable. One frame, face, board and pocket are a completely molded one-piece unit. A frame has a mirror finish to enhance the appearance of the device when it supports flowers.
A picture vase comprising a relatively large vertically oriented decorative plate having a front face and a rear surface and having a generally rectangular opening with a larger horizontal dimension and a small vertical dimension positioned in a central portion of the vertically oriented plate and slightly below a center of the plate and having a frame surrounding the plate and extending outward from the plate, the frame extending forward from the front surface of the plate and rearward from the rear surface of the plate, means connected to the frame for hanging the frame with the decorative plate disposed vertically on a wall and having a relatively small water pocket container with an open top and a closed bottom and sides mounted on a rear surface of the plate, the water pocket container having an upward opening adjacent the opening in the central portion of the vertically oriented plate, wherein the container is a flat laterally extended container mounted flush on said plate beneath the opening, the container having an upward opening commensurate with the opening in the plate, the container being relatively wide in a direction along the plate and narrow in a direction transverse to the plate, and the container tapering laterally inward and downward, and the frame extends rearward from the plate for a distance greater than a thickness of the container, whereby the frame rests against a wall and whereby flowers positioned on the front of the plate and having stems extending downward and rearward through the opening in the container are held and watered by the water pocket container wherein the narrow rearward dimension of the container holds the stems so that the flowers remain upright.
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