Icicle lightstring winding device
OwnerKevin J. Bissettinventor
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Abstract
A storage device for storing strings of ornamental lights which have a plurality of strands hanging pendant from the main string. The device has a plurality of spokes attached with respect to an elongate vertical member. It is preferable to have a storage-positioning member attached at either or both of the top or bottom ends of the elongate vertical member such that the device is stored upright. The invention also includes a method for attaching the string of lights to the device by rotating the string around the elongate vertical member as the strands hang down between the spokes.
Claims15
In combination with a string of ornamental lights which has two ends and a plurality of strands interspersed between the two ends, said strands hanging pendant from the string, a storage device comprising:
- an elongate vertical member extending generally along an axis and having a top end and a bottom end;
- a plurality of spokes attached with respect to the elongate vertical member near the top end of the vertical member and radiating therefrom such that each spoke is located at substantially the same predetermined distance from the bottom end of the elongate vertical member, the spokes being above a substantially unimpeded strand-hanging region around and along the length of the elongate vertical member, the string of lights being coiled around the vertical member above and supported by the spokes at positions thereon near and progressively farther form the vertical member, with the strands banging freely between the spokes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.