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US 4,685,949 AGranted
Glass flower process
OwnerDonald E. Hackerinventor
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Abstract
In a process for preparing glass flowers having petals, the steps of preparing petals which comprise providing a blown elongated enlarged hollow bulb on a hollow glass tube, heating and manipulating the bulb so as to separate it into two vertical dish-like pre-petal members, removing the pre-petal members from the tube, elongating the ends of the pre-petal members so as to form solid tips, attaching the members to a glass flower stem at the tips and heating and manipulating the members so as to refine the shape of the petals.
Claims1
In a process for preparing glass flowers having petals, the steps of preparing a petal comprising:
- providing a blown elongated enlarged hollow bulb on a hollow glass tube, heating and manipulating the bulb so as to separate it into two elongated dish-like pre-petal members, removing a said pre-petal member from the tube, elongating the end of said pre-petal member so as to form a solid tip, attaching said member to a glass flower stem at said tip and heating and manipulating said member so as to refine the shape of the petal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.