Flexible vase
AssigneeMcNaughton Incorporated
InventorPatrick J. McNaughton
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Abstract
A flexible vase that is suspendible from a smooth surface is disclosed. The vase is formed by a watertight pouch that has an open mouth for receiving flowers. The pouch is formed by sealing the edges of two layers of flexible, watertight materials together. One of the pouch layers extends beyond the other at the mouth to form a flap. The flap has an oval button hole. The vase also uses a suction cup that may be mounted to a smooth surface. The back of the cup has a button and a shaft between the button and the back of the cup. The pouch may be removably suspendible from the suction cup by stretching the oval button hole over the button and onto the shaft. The vase may also have a transparent pocket for receiving a card. The vase may also be dispensed from a perforated roll of two-ply material such as polyethylene.
Claims3
A flexible vase mountable to a surface comprising:
- a watertight pouch defining an interior space and having an upwardly facing mouth that is unsealed and open for receiving stems of flowers within the interior space, the pouch being comprised of front and rear generally planar, flexible, water impervious wall portions disposed so as to face each other, each wall portion having a periphery sealed to the periphery of the other of the wall portions other than at the mouth such that the wall portions together define the interior space of the pouch therebetween, one of the wall portions having a button hole defined by a flexible button hole periphery, the pouch being removably downwardly suspendible from the button hole periphery, the flexible vase including a front card pocket comprising a layer of flexible material having a periphery sealed to the front wall portion to form the card pocket separate from and in front of said interior space of the pouch, the pocket having an open mouth for receiving a card into the space between the layer and the front wall portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.