Artificial saguaro cactus
AssigneeDesert Steel Corporation
InventorsO. Richard Turner, Eric J. Carroll
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Abstract
An artificial saguaro cactus having a cactus trunk indicating section having an annular wall; a multiplicity of apertures extending through the annular wall, the apertures being arranged in a plurality of vertically extending series, the annular wall being alternately inwardly and outwardly creased along the vertically extending series of apertures, the creases vertically pleating the inner and outer surfaces of the annular wall; a domed cap fitted for covering the upper end of the annular wall; and cap attaching means interconnecting the domed cap and the upper end of the annular wall.
Claims18
An artificial saguaro cactus comprising:
- (a) a cactus trunk indicating column comprising an annular wall, having upper and lower ends, and having inner and outer surfaces;
- (b) a multiplicity of pleat assisting apertures extending through the annular wall, the pleat assisting apertures being arranged in a plurality of vertically extending series, the annular wall being alternately inwardly and outwardly creased along the vertically extending series of pleat assisting apertures, the creases vertically pleating the annular wall;
- (c) a domed cap fitted for covering the upper end of the annular wall;
- (d) cap attaching means interconnecting the domed cap and the upper end of the annular wall.
An artificial saguaro cactus comprising:
- (a) at least a first cactus arm sheet having an inner side, an outer side, a left end, a right end, a distal end, a proximal end, and having a vertical mid-line, the proximal end of the cactus arm sheet comprising a first plurality of arcuately curved pleat face strips;
- (b) a multiplicity of apertures extending through the at least first cactus arm sheet, the apertures being arranged in a plurality of vertically extending series defining a plurality of vertically extending pleat faces, the first plurality of arcuately curved pleat face strips being positioned so that each such strip underlies one of the pleat faces, and further positioned to define a plurality of pleat face gaps, each pleat face gap underlying one of the vertically extending pleat faces, the at least first cactus arm sheet being alternately inwardly and outwardly creased along the vertically extending series of apertures, the creases vertically pleating the at least first cactus arm sheet, said sheet being annularly curved so that its left end meets its right end;
- (c) a second plurality of arcuately curved pleat face strips fixedly attached to the first plurality of arcuately curved pleat face strips, the second plurality of extending and arcuately curved pleat face strips covering the pleat face gaps;
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- (d) a saguaro cactus trunk indicating column having a side wall, the proximal end of the at least first cactus arm sheet being fixedly attached to said side wall.
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