Ornament production
AssigneeRainbow Star Licensing S.A.
InventorsJames C. Mancel, Olaf B. Raiskums
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Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for producing an ornament for gift wrapping purposes and the like. The ornament has a basic member with a plurality of radially disposed conical elements, and these basic members may be combined to produce spheroidal or hemispheroidal ornaments having a plurality of radial cones or spikes. In the method, a flat circular blank is formed with a plurality of radially disposed leaves. The leaves are wrapped around a conical form and adhesively secured to form one of the basic members. The apparatus includes a winder for wrapping the leaves around the conical form and positioning means for holding the blank and locating each leaf on the form to be wrapped into a conical element by the winder.
Claims9
A method of producing an ornament having a plurality of conical elements, said method comprising the steps of:
- A--forming a planar blank of flexible material, said blank having a central part and a plurality of leaves projecting from said central part, each leaf having a central portion and lateral portions extending from said central portion;
- B--providing a conical form having a longitudinal axis and a winder assembly defining a conical bed extending along said longitudinal axis;
- C--positioning said blank at an angle with respect to said longitudinal axis and with one of said blank leaves lying over said conical bed;
- D--pressing said central portion of said one of said leaves into said conical bed, with said lateral portions of said one of said leaves bending outward of said conical bed on either side thereof, by rectilinearly moving said conical form along said longitudinal axis toward and into said conical bed with said central portion of said one of said leaves located between said conical form and said bed;
- E--with said conical form held fixed into said conical bed, rotating said conical bed about said longitudinal axis first in one direction to apply one lateral portion of said one of said leaves over said conical form;
- F--applying an adhesive material to at least one of said two lateral portions;
- G--with said form still held fixed, rotating said conical bed in reverse direction to apply the other lateral portion of said one of said leaves in overlapping relation with said one lateral portion, whereby to form a conical element held solid by said adhesive material;
- H--removing said conical form from said conical element, and
- I--positioning other leaves of said blank over said conical bed for the formation of other conical elements by proceeding in accordance with the aforesaid steps C to H.
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