US1657184A - Artificial flower - Google Patents

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Jan. 24, 1928. 1,657,184

J. E. STEVENS ARTIFI CIAL FLOWER Filed Feb. 1926 IIYVENTOR.

JENN IE E. STEVENS.

Patented Jan. 24, 1928.

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JENNIE E. STEVENS, (GE BEN LGMDNID} CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TU ALJBEBT LES-LIE HGKE, OF OAKLMZI' 10, CALIFORNIA.

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Application filed February 1, 1926. Serial No. 85,289.

My invention relates to an improved article of manufacture comprising an artificial flower of the character set forth in the Unit ed States patent issued to me onthe 6th day of June 1922, and numbered 1,418,846, reference to which patent is hereby made.

The present invention is to provide a new and improved article of manufacture com prising an artificial flower which may be easily and cheaply made.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved artificial flower of the character set forth that shall be more conventional than truly imitative.

A further object is to provide a simple, economical artificial flower which shall be less durable and more delicate in appearance 1 and structure that the flower referred to in the above mentioned patent. I

A. still further object is to provide an improved article of manufacture which may be produced with less material and work than the flower hereinbefore referred to, and which may be added to. if desired, by additional fancy stitching. painting or other ornamentation.

I accomplish these and other objects by means of the device disclosed in the drawings forming; a part of the present specification wherein like characters of reference are used to designate similar parts throughout the said specification and drawings, and in which- Fig. 1 is a view disclosing the petal material being attached to its wire frame;

Fig. 2 is a view of the finished petal;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one type of finished flower; and

Fig. 4 is a front view looking into said flower. V

In the flower disclosed in the patent hereinbefore referred to a heavy stiff biickram petal is provided which is in turn covered with satin or silk finish and the whole is secured to a wire frame and the petal thus formed is covered all over with radial embroidery stitching.

In the present invention it is intended to make a lighter and more delicate product. requiring; less material and less work, and which will present a more delicate appearance than the flower disclosed in the former patent.

In the preferred form of the invention a light open-work fabric 1 of a very delicate texture. such as organdic or chiffon has secured thereto by what is termed over and over stitching 2, a light flexible wire frame 3 previously bent to the form, contour .or shape or the'desired petal or leaf to be reproduced.

After the wire frame 3 has been properly secured in position by the stitching 2 that portion of the fabric 1 which extends exteriorly of said frame 3 is cut or otherwise removed from the main or petal portion of the fabric 1, thereby forming the leaf or petal.

This will produce an artificial petal or leaf consisting of a very light fabric and of delicate texture and appearance; upon which may be sewed embroidery stitching 4, preferably radiating from the apex 6 or in place of said radial embroidery stitching 4t, stripes may be painted or any other suitable ornamentation may be placed thereon to suit the fancy of the producer.

When several leaves or petals are thus formed the stems or apices thereof are held in assembled positionby winding around such assembled apices or stems suitably colored thread. to form a Sepal 7, as disclosed in Fig. of the drawings. The assembled petals or leaves 11 will then assume the shape of the completed flower, which may be bent or arranged to present a natural appearance.

If a different appearance is desired for the edge of the leafor petal, the fabric 1 may be secured originally to the wire frame 3 by means of ordinary basting stitches 8. as disclosed at the left hand side of Fig. 1 of the drawings. which will serve to secure the said fabric 1 to the wire frame 2, said basting stitching; 8 taking the place of the over and over stitching 2 hereinbefore described. the only requirement being that any type of stitchingused should effectively secure the wire frame 3 to the fabric 1.

After the fabric 1 has been secured to the wire frame 8 by the basting stitches 8, an ornamental stitch 9. such as the embroidery stitching shown at the left hand margin of Fi 2, may be used to entirely surround and conceal the metal or wire frame 3.

An artificial flower of very light and delicate structure and appearance is thus produced with very small amount of material artificial flowers which consists in securing a flexible Wire frame upon a p1ece of light open-Work fabric of a size larger than the frame by means of stitches extending around the frame and through the fabric, and subsequently trimming off the fabric around the outside edge of the frame and stitching, and thereafter applying ornamentation upon the fabric to obtain a desired appearance.

In Witness whereof I hereunto set my nature.

JENNIE E. STEVENS.

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