Artificial shrub or tree and method of construction therefor
OwnerChien H. Liaoinventor
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Abstract
This invention pertains to an improved artificial shrub or tree and the method for constructing same. The invention improves upon all prior art artificial shrubs or trees by providing for a marketedly authentic series of branches which extend from the trunk or main body of the growth and improves upon all prior art structures through the use of an intermediate adapter shaped in the form of a branch which has its thickest end extending from the trunk and which becomes increasingly thinner as it approaches the cantilever end thereof. The adapter produces an authentic branch appearance in comparison to prior art branches which generally have little if any diminishing thickness extending from the supporting end and which are simply bluntly stuck into a bore in the trunk.
Claims5
In the trunk of a synthetic tree or shrub for supporting limbs or branches therefrom and in which the limbs or branches are characterized by a base and a distal end wherein the distal end is of a thinner cross sectional diameter than the base end, the improvement comprising
- an adapter having a rounded base to be affixed in abutting to the trunk, said adapter being characterized by a distal end having a cross sectional dimension substantially the same as the cross sectional dimension of the base end of the limb or branch, said distal end of the adapter being further characterized by a slot for receiving the branch therein, the base end of the adapter having a cross sectional dimension larger than the distal end thereof, and
- a connective means extending into the adapter and into the trunk for affixing the former to the latter in order to present an authentic and aesthetically pleasing appearance of a branch extending from a trunk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.