Decorative pleats and method of manufacture
OwnerTai-Ping Chenginventor
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Abstract
Decorative pleats have two cuts made in each of two or more pleats and the fold of the pleat is reversed between the cuts. When used as a decorative display for a photograph, picture, merchandise or other item, the cuts may be made angularly to hold the item in place. Cuts may be perpendicular to the fold of the pleat, angular to the fold, zigzag, curvilinear or of other shape. The pleats may be a blind, a lantern or of other shape.
Claims20
Decorative pleats comprising two or more pleats in which a material is folded against itself along an outer fold line and an inner fold line, to form adjacent pleats which fold against each other and wherein said adjacent pleats are connected to each other along or near said inner fold line, wherein two or more of said pleats each have at least two cuts intermediate the ends of said pleats, said cuts extending from said outer fold line toward said inner fold line forming a segment of said pleat between said cuts, wherein said segment is removed from the plane of said pleats by said fold of said pleat included within said segment between the cuts, being reversely folded.
A decorative display constructed of a plurality of pleats in which a material is folded against itself along a plurality of fold lines to form said pleats, two or more of said fold lines each having at least two cuts therein, without said cuts cutting said pleats into disconnected pleats, and wherein the folds of said pleats are reversely folded between said two cuts.
Decorative pleats comprising a plurality of adjacent pleats, each said pleat comprised of material folded along outer and inner fold lines and each said pleat being connected to an adjacent pleat along or near said inner fold line, from said inner fold line for a discrete width beyond said inner fold line, and wherein selected ones of said pleats are each cut at two locations from said outer fold line to approximately said inner fold line, wherein said pleats are not thereby cut into disconnected pleats, and wherein the fold of the segment between said cuts is folded reversely from the fold of its respective pleat.
Decorative, accordion pleats comprised of both front and back pleats connected by a width of material between them, said width of material also connecting successive front pleats to each other and successive back pleats to each other, wherein is included two cuts in each of two or more of said pleats, said cuts not being so long as to cut through said front and back pleats, and wherein the fold of the segment of each said cut pleat between said cuts is folded reversely from the fold of said pleat.
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