US2043770A - Ornament - Google Patents

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June 9, 1936. F. w. OLTMANNS ORNAMENT Filed July 27, '1935 Bu F. WDItmanns 1 -Pa'tented June 9, least UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE oanamm'r Frederick w. Oltmam'u, Omaha, Nebr. Application July g7, 1935, SerlaLNo. 33,477

3 Claims. ('01. 41-13) homes or the like but also may be combined with store window displays for attracting the atten- 35 tion of prospective purchasers to merchandise and similar commercial and decorativeuses of a general utilitarian nature.

A still further object of the invention, is to.

provide a new article of manufacture for the 20 above stated purposes, the construction of which is simple and inexpensive and requires no particular or special machinery.and which may be readfly manufactured manually by hand operations or manipulations.

25 With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention will be more particularly described hereinafter and more particularly pointed out in the claims. i

In the drawing-wherein like symbols refer to 30 like or corresponding parts throughout the sev-' eral views: v

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a device which may be employed for facilitating the manufacture of the article and showing in conjunction 35 therewith a quantity of the material from which the new article is made. 1

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the device shown in Figure 1, portions of thesaid material'being broken away."

40 Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on the similar to Figure 3 and line 3-,3 of Figure 1. Figure 4 is a view showing the relative position of the material-after a certain later described twisting operation 45 been applied to'a wire-employed.

. Figure 5 is a side view of the new article having a substantially semi-globular-outline or contour.

Figure 6 is a view showing amodiflcation of 5 0 the shape of the new article shown in Figure 5.

Figure 7 is an elevation of an artificial flower and showing the new article assembled with the leaves, branches and stem thereof.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, Ill

55 indicates generally an aligning-trough which may be employed, if desired, and formed of side rails II- for supporting a concave medially disposed sheet metal trough l2. The trough, as best shown in Fig. 2, is provided with an elongated slot l3 having oppositely disposed notches l4 5 formed on the side edges of the slot, said notchesin eflfect providing an aperture of greater diameter than the width of said slot for purposes later described.

The materials from which the new article is 1 formed include a twistable wire I and a selected quantity of elongated straws" l6.

The straws are tubular and formed of glassine paper and may be of any selected color, said paper and straws being translucentor semitransparent. A characteristic of the straws is that they are adapted to reflect and retract light rays.

ends are in alignment whichm'ay be facilitatedgo and expedited by the employment of the" device shown in Figures 1 to 4, said straws being piled upon each other as shown in Figure 1. t

The main body portion of the wire 15 is positioned above the straws and the ends of the wire inserted through the slot l3 encircling the straws in instances where the said device is employed and when said device is not used the operator may grasp a bundle of straws between the thumb and forefinger of one hand while positioning the wire with his other hand. i

The operator now twists the endsflof the wire or the bundle of straws for providing a loop I! V of the wire about the bundle, the twisted wire- .ends being indicated at i8 in Figure 4, which also provides a fastening means for purposes later described. 1

.As the twisting operation proceeds the closed loop ll consequently becomes smaller thereby gathering the straws into a compact bundle and 40 asthe twisting operation proceeds further and said loop becomes of lesser diameter the wire binds down upon the straws intermediate their ends compressing the annular wall of each straw until said walls become flattened-and gathered compactly adjacent the loop. t I

This step of the operation causes the outer or free ends of the straws which are adjacent the end of the loop or further away from the last twist of the wire or fastening means l8 to spring upwardly, as shown in Figure 4, resultant from the larger amount-of pressure applied by means of the wire loop to said straws and proportional to the lesser amount of pressure applied to the straws at the lower portion of the bundle adJa- 56 The straws are placed in a manner whereby their with two wires. The wire alignment and forming all of the straws into a semi-spherical configuration; whereupon the thus formed article may be removed from the device 10, the notches- H3 of the latter permitting a removal therethrough of the fastening means lliwhich is of substantially twice the diameter of the wire IS. The slot l3 should be of a width equal to the diameter of said wire.

Inorder to form the new article of globular outline, as shown in Figure 6, two wires are employed, the second wire b"ng indicated at IS in Figure 6 and illustrated by dotted lines in Figure 1.

The new article of globular shape is formed as heretofore described except that a proportionally greater quantity of straws are employed together I is twisted as heretofore mentioned for producing the article of semi-globular shape; whereupon the operation is repeated except that the wire I9 is employed and similarly twisted for. causing the straws at the bottom of the pile to become compressed by the wire l9 proportional to the straws at the medial portion of the bundle or pile. The ends of the straws at the bottom of the bundle are thus caused to spring towards each other. At this time if but one fastening element is desired upon the article of globular shape, the second twisted wire may be trimmed shorter by means of any suitable cutting implement or bent'o'r folded into all the medial portion of the article for cancelling the wire.

Referring to Figure 7, the new article or rosette may be assembled with the stem 2| for forming asimu'lation of a flower or that article of commerce conventionally known as an artificial flower.

Also the new article shown in Figure 5 or Fi ure 6 may be used in. any suitable manner and combined with any suitable decoration or its fastening device l8 may be employed for hanging the article under an electric light bulb or at any selected place where display is desired.

It will be understood that light rays which enter the ends of the straws illuminate the latter more profusely than light rays which penetrate through the 'sidewalls thereof whereby the new article provides lights and shadows therein of pleasing effect particularly when artificial electric light or sunlight rays are provided thereon. Said straws being of the same color or of harmonizing colors a pleasing and attractive eiiect to the eye is presented.

In forming an article of the present invention,

particularly the semi-globular article shown in Figure 5, the upstanding straws may be of lesser length and of a diiferent color from the other straws for providing a closer simulation of certain' flowers.

Also the new article may be combined with artificial Christmas trees for decorating the latter as well as hung upon the limbs of natural Christmas trees for ornamental purposes.

The straws are formed of a translucent paper .rolled upon itself or composited su ificiently to be normally self sustaining, the number of laminations to provide a tubular straw being optional.

Of course, where a large ornament is desired and formed'of straws of proportionally great length the number of laminations of paper for each straw is necessarily greater for providing a fairly stiff straw adapted to resist normal accidental contacts with objects while at the same time said straw is compressible transversely for disposing its ends radially with respect to a medially positloned securing means such as the wire loop.

I do not wish to be restricted to the size, form and'proportion of the various parts and obviouslychanges could be made in the construction herein described without departing from the spirit of the invention, it being only necessary that such changes fall within the scope of the claims.

What is claimed is:-

1. As a newarticle of manufacture, an ornament comprising a plurality of tubular straws,

means binding the straws together substantially midway between their ends, said means compacting the medial portions of the straws'to thereby dispose the straws in radial position about a common center.

2. The process of making ornamental decorationsconsisting in disposing a plurality of elongated tubular translucent straws longitudinally side by side providing a bundle, placing an elongated flexible element about the bundle between the ends of the straws, twisting the ends of said element together for forming a loop encircling the bundle, and further twisting the ends of said element for compressing the straws adjacent said loop for causing the endsof said straws to be disposed radially withv respect to said loop.

3. The process of making ornamental decorations consisting in arranging a plurality of elongated tubular translucent straws side by side, placing an elongated flexible element about the straws transversely and between the ends thereof; twisting the ends of said element together for providing .a loop portion thereof encircling the straws, and further twisting the ends of said element for compressing portions of the straws within said loop and causing the ends of said straws to be radially disposed with respect to said loop.

FREDERICK W. OLTM'ANNS.

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