Method of ornament production
AssigneeRainbow Star Licensing S.A.
InventorsJames D. 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.
Claims17
A method for producing, for use in an ornament, at least one ornament element having a three dimensional shape from a bendable blank having at least one leaf, said method comprising:
- positioning said blank such that a leaf of said blank is located between a form having a three dimensional shape corresponding to said three-dimensional shape of said ornament element and a winding surface having a shape at least in part conforming to said shape of said form;
- relatively arcuately moving said form and said winding surface while holding a leaf against said form to wind said leaf about said form;
- attaching overlying portions of said leaf on said form so that said leaf retains a wound configuration when said leaf is removed from said form;
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- separating said wound leaf from said form as an ornament element.
A method for producing, for use in an ornament, at least one ornament element having a conical shape, comprising:
- positioning a bendable blank having at least one leaf such that a leaf of said blank is located between a conical form and wrapping means having a conical surface portion;
- rotating said wrapping means about said conical form when said blank has been positioned to wrap said leaf over said conical form thereby forming an ornament element having a conical shape;
- attaching adjacent surfaces of said leaf on said conical form to retain said conical shape of said ornament element upon separation from said form;
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- separating said ornament element from said conical form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.