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US 4,339,059 AGranted
Decorative tie bow
AssigneeWm. E. Wright Co.
InventorDouglas A. Kenyon
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Abstract
A tie bow of ribbon for gift packages and a process of fabricating the bow are disclosed. The bow is formed from three separate ribbon pieces and includes a looped base portion and a superposed wing portion which are united by a central tying strip. As disclosed in the bow-making process, the loop and wing are easily formed by shaping and crimping strips of single-ply ribbon and impaling them on a pair of spaced needles. The tying strip is then looped over the impaled ribbon pieces and stapled to itself to hold the strip in place and finish the bow.
Claims2
A bow-making process comprising:
- (a) forming a convolution of ribbon and crimping the same at its center to provide a pair of oppositely extending loops;
- (b) twisting and crimping another length of ribbon to form wing-like members;
- (c) superimposing the wing members on the loops with the crimped portions adjacent one another by impaling both the loops and wing members on a pair of spaced needles to hold the crimped portions in adjacent fixed relationship;
- (d) looping an elongated strip of ribbon over the crimped portions while the latter are so impaled;
- (e) securing the strip to itself to hold the loops, wing members and strip together in bow form and removing the bows from said needles.
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