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US 6,640,492 B2Granted
Flower pot wrapper
AssigneeSouthpac Trust International, Inc.
InventorDonald E. Weder
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Abstract
A wrapper for flower pots. The wrapper is a sheet of material with each segment having a lower portion sized to surround a sidewall of the flower pot and an upper portion detachable from the lower portion via a detaching element such as perforations. The sheet of material can be formed about the flower pot and the adjacent edges of the segment joined and sealed.
Claims16
A wrapper for a flower pot, the wrapper comprising:
- a sheet of material having a central base portion and at least two segments extending away from the central base portion, each of the at least two segments having a lower portion, an upper portion, a first side, a second side, an upper end, and a detaching element disposed between the upper portion and the lower portion, for detaching the upper portion from the lower portion, the central base portion being substantially sized and shaped so as to conform to a bottom end of a flower pot and the at least two segments being sized and shaped such that as the bottom end of the flower pot is disposed adjacent the central base portion of the sheet of material and the at least two segments are formed upwardly so as to be disposed substantially adjacent a sidewall of the flower pot the at least two segments overlap and engage to form at least one overlapping portion such that at least a portion of the flower pot is covered by the lower portions of the at least two segments, and the upper portions of the at least two segments extend a distance upwardly above the flower pot and thereby form a wrapper for the flower pot.
A method of wrapping a flower pot, comprising the steps of:
- providing a sheet of material having a central base portion and at least two segments extending away from the central base portion, each segment having a first side, a second side, an upper end, an upper portion, a lower portion, and a detaching element disposed between the upper portion and the lower portion, the upper portion being removable from the lower portion via the detaching element;
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- forming the at least two segments of the sheet of material about a flower pot such that each of the at least two segments overlap forming at least one overlapping portion and the flower pot is covered by the lower portion of the at least two segments and the upper portion of the at least two segments extends a distance above an upper end of the flower pot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.