This invention is a Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements. The device relates generally to cards and attachment pins and more specifically to a flexible card with features for the affixing of flowers or other objects to clothing or other puncture-able supporting means. The invention herein relates to the attachment card and attachment pins that are used to secure flowers or their objects to clothing. The preferred embodiment of the device is comprised of a flexible panel with features, a means to attach the panel to a floral arrangement, and one or more securing means such as pins to complete mounting device and floral arrangement clothing or other supportable means.
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A. Introduction of the Problems Addressed
Ever since flowers have been worn with nice casual and with formal clothing, there have been attempts to provide an easy and functional answer to easily attaching the flowers to the garments. Prior devices and methods included straight pins which are commonly used to secure a boutonniere or corsage to the lapel or collar of the wearer's clothing. Anyone who repeatedly endures the types of devices that feature a “sticking” process will eventually get stuck. This is true of the wearer and the person placing the flower on the clothing. Straight pins are reasonably functional and inexpensive to manufacture. This accounts for their continued popularity, even though a great deal of art exists each making an attempt to provide a better, and more potentially painless, method.
B. Prior Art
In prior art, disclosures have been made, many including large structural elements that are intended to house the base of the flower. These are not only costly to manufacture but bulky, uncomfortable and potentially unflattering to wear. The appearance of the boutonniere or corsage is a fashion accessory. The method of attachment is not. The mounting device should be as small and inconspicuous as possible.
Some devices employ backings of soft or rigid material to support the flowers and still use a form of a straight pin to fasten this to the clothing. To secure the device many include “caps” to enclose the end of the pin.
Still others use a type of button that is a part of the clothing.
None of the prior art found shows the simple and functional configuration as the new Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31 et al. As far as known, there is no other mounting device for floral arrangements such as boutonnieres and corsages at the present time which fully provide these improvements and functional characteristics as the present device. It is believed that this device is made with fewer parts with improved configurations and physical features to provide more functionality when compared to other currently utilized devices or methods to provide mounting device for floral arrangements. The particular combinations of materials and features are unique and novel and are not anticipated by prior art. Likewise unique is the use of the special support device for a mounting device for floral arrangements compared to prior art devices.
A securing card or backing and attachment pins that are used to secure flowers or their objects to clothing. The preferred embodiment of the device is comprised of a flexible panel with features, a means to attach the panel to a floral arrangement, and one or more securing means such as pins to complete mounting device and floral arrangement clothing or other supportable means.
There are several objects and advantages of the Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31. There are currently no known floral mounting devices that are effective at providing the objects of this invention.
The invention presented is the Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31. This device relates to a growing need for better floral mountings of boutonnieres, corsages and the like. This need is derived from a growing population that is getting younger, going to more high school, college and other types of formal occasions, and is continuing to look for fast, simple means to quickly prepare for a formal occasions than generations past. Particularly this new Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31 is related to devices and methods to add simplicity, safety and speed concerns from a less functional means of pinning boutonnieres and corsages to garments.
The following TABLE A summarizes various advantages and objects of the Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31. This list is exemplary and not limiting to the many advantages offered by this new device.
Noteworthy is that other advantages and additional features of the Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31 will be more apparent from the accompanying drawings and from the full description of the device. For one skilled in the art of Boutonniere and corsage mounting, it is readily understood that the features shown in the examples with this device is readily adapted for improvement to other types of mechanisms and devices for use with the mounting and affixing of boutonnieres and corsages in general and the mounting methods of the floral industry with such devices in particular.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate a preferred and alternative embodiments for the Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31. The drawings together with the summary description given above and a detailed description given below serve to explain the principles of the special floral mounting device. It is understood, however, that the device is not limited to only the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown.
The following list refers to the drawings:
The present invention presented is the Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31. This device relates to a growing need for better means to attach boutonnieres and corsages to garments. Specifically, the device relates generally to cards and attachment pins and more specifically to a flexible card with features for the affixing of flowers or other objects to clothing or other puncture-able supporting means. The invention herein relates to the attachment card and attachment pins that are used to secure flowers or their objects to clothing. The preferred embodiment of curved single leaf Boutonniere device 31 is comprised of a flexible panel with features, a means to attach the panel to a floral arrangement, and one or more securing means such as pins to complete mounting device and floral arrangement clothing or other supportable means.
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The advantages for the Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31 are listed above in the introduction. Succinctly the benefits for the device are:
The preferred embodiment of a special floral attachment device 31 is comprised of (a) a flexible clip leaf with features 75; (b) a connector leg 76 with features; (c) a means to secure 74 the device 31 to a flower 71; and (d) a means 72 to connect the device 31 to a garment wherein the special device 31 may be used to safely and easily provide a mounting means of the flower as a floral arrangement to a garment.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate a preferred embodiment of the special support device 31 for attaching floral arrangements. The drawings together with the summary description given above and a detailed description given below serve to explain the principles of the special attachment device 31. It is understood, however, that the device 31 is not limited to only the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown.
The materials anticipated for the devices 31, 41, 51, and 61 may be of various flexible yet durable compositions. Material thicknesses, for example and not limitation, may range approximately at 4 mil to 15 mil for polyester, poly carbonate, estralon, co-polyesters and the like. It may be a heavy paper composite such as 24 point card stock or 60 pound cover stock. Further, it could be of a mylar like or composite material. A durable, thin sheet plastic such as poly propylene, acrylic, poly urethane, urethane, and the like will also serve well. Some cases may also permit a thin metal or metal and plastic combination. Suffice to say the spirit of the invention is that the thin and flexible clip leaf 75 and connector leg 76 might be adaptable to various materials.
All of the details mentioned here are exemplary and not limiting. Other components specific to describing the new Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31 may be added as a person having ordinary skill in the field of boutonnieres and corsage attachment means and related devices in the floral industry well appreciates. OPERATION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
The preferred embodiment of the new Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31 has been described in detail above. The manner of how the device operates is described below. A person having ordinary skill in the field of boutonnieres and corsage attachment means and related devices in the floral industry will note that the description above and the operation described here must be taken together to fully illustrate the concept of the special support device 31.
With the above description it is to be understood that the new Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements 31 is not to be limited to only the disclosed embodiment. The features of the special attachment devices 31, 41, 51, and 61 are intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the description.
This application claims the benefit of Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/255,133 filed Oct. 27, 2009 by James O. Cooper et al and entitled “Special Boutonniere device for Wearing Floral Arrangements”.
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61255133 | Oct 2009 | US |