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US 5,120,382 AGranted
Process for forming a paper, burlap or cloth flower pot cover
AssigneeHighland Supply Corporation
InventorDonald E. Weder
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Abstract
A method for making a flower pot cover by treating a sheet of material which is non-shape sustaining with a shape-sustaining wax capable of imparting dead fold characteristics and forming the treated sheet of material into a predetermined shape of a flower pot cover.
Claims5
A method for making a flower pot cover having an outer peripheral surface which comprises the steps of:
- treating a first sheet of material selected from a group of materials comprising a non-shape sustaining natural or synthetic or burlap or combinations thereof, a non-shape sustaining natural or synthetic fiber or combinations thereof, or paper with a shape-sustaining wax capable of imparting a dead fold characteristic to the first sheet of material whereby the first sheet of material .is capable of being formed into a predetermined shape of the flower pot cover by forming a plurality of overlapping folds in the first sheet of material wherein the overlapping folds cooperate to provide the structural integrity for cooperating to hold the first sheet of material in the predetermined shape of the flower pot cover;
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- forming the first sheet of material into a predetermined shape of the flower pot cover by forming overlapping folds in the first sheet of material, the overlapping folds in the first sheet of material cooperating to maintain the first sheet of material in the predetermined shape of the flower pot cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.