Flora attaching device
OwnerJames D. Faganinventor
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Abstract
The invention includes a U-shaped pin with a base for passing around and engaging the shank of a flora arrangement and parallel prongs projecting outward from the base. The prongs have sharp points for piercing through clothing material from front to rear and engage a backing board on the rear side of the material, the backing board having two sets of apertures one for receiving each prong as it exits from the rear face of the clothing material. After passing through the appropriately spaced apertures, the prongs are bent so as to be retained therein with the sharp points against the rear surface of the board. A facing board with apertures for passing the prongs of the pin may also be employed on the front side of the clothing material. The method of using the apparatus for attaching a flora arrangement to clothing is also described.
Claims12
A method of attaching the shank of a flora arrangement to the front side of clothing material comprising:
- passing an elongated pin around the shank of said flora arrangement, said pin being of a deformable material and comprising a base and a pair of prongs extending away from said base;
- deforming said pin to conform said base to at least a portion of the cross-sectional shape of said flora shank and said prongs to a substantially parallel spaced-apart relation;
- passing at least a portion of each of said prongs through said clothing material so as to hold said flora shank between said base and the front face of said clothing material;
- placing an elongated body against the rear face of said material, said elongated body having a substantially planar backing surface for abutting the rear face of said material over a relatively large area around the points where said prongs pass through said material;
- and,
- securing said prongs to said elongated body so as to press the base of said pin against said flora shank, said flora shank against the front face of said material and the backing surface of said elongated body against the rear face of said material, said elongated body further including retaining means for securing each of said prongs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.