US3676277A - Decorative bow and method of making same - Google Patents

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US3676277A
US3676277A US99448A US3676277DA US3676277A US 3676277 A US3676277 A US 3676277A US 99448 A US99448 A US 99448A US 3676277D A US3676277D A US 3676277DA US 3676277 A US3676277 A US 3676277A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D67/00—Kinds or types of packaging elements not otherwise provided for
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D63/00—Flexible elongated elements, e.g. straps, for bundling or supporting articles
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04D—TRIMMINGS; RIBBONS, TAPES OR BANDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D04D7/00—Decorative or ornamental textile articles
    • D04D7/04—Three-dimensional [3D] articles
    • D04D7/10—Decorative bow structures
    • D04D7/105—Decorative bow structures made by means of a drawstring or drawstrip

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  • One of the primary aims of the gift wrapping art is to provide aesthetically pleasing and unique products so that the purchasing public will utilize such products on personal gifts and packages.
  • the products must be individualistic in appearance and yet must be susceptible to production in large quantities in a relatively short time so that they may be reasonably priced.
  • mass production, on the one hand, and the provision of attractive, unique, individualistic and artistic appearing bow products, on the other, are mutually exclusive goals.
  • the present invention is especially concerned with meeting these seemingly antagonistic aims.
  • the ribbon materials of the present invention are Ilacelike materials made from interconnected pliable filaments.
  • the filaments are sparsely Ibut regularly distributed so that a major portion of the ribbon material is comprised of open spaces.
  • a drawstring is bonded to the lace-like material at spaced points along its length, the drawstring being longitudinally centrally disposed throughout the length of the lace-like ribbon material.
  • pre-bows Prefabricated bow forms
  • the method of forming the completed bows is so simple that the user need not have special skills or above average manual dexterity to form attractive bows in minimal time.
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view of pre-bows of the decorative ribbon of the present invention in roll form
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of one form of decorative bow made from the pre-bow of FIG. l;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another form of decorative bow made from the pre-bow of FIG. 1;
  • FIGS. 4 to 6 are perspective views of the pre-bow of FIG. l in the process of being formed into the decorative bow of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the bow being formed in FIG. 6;
  • FIG. 8 is an enlarged perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the ribbon of the present invention showing the drawstring and its method of attachment to the ribbon.
  • ribbon 10 comprises a plurality of filaments 11 sparsely but regularly distributed and bonded at their points of intersection and a drawstring 12 bonded to or othewise constrained by the filaments 11 at its points of intersection with said filaments.
  • drawstring 12 is a composite drawstring of nylon-acetate construction.
  • the drawstring 12 consists of a 210-6Z nylon yarn 13 wrapped with two ends of 300-LTDZ- cellulose acetate yarn 14 with seven twists per inch.
  • the cellulose acetate component 14 of the composite drawnstring 12 makes it possible to produce a large variety of patterns of lace-like ribbon materials since the drawstring 12 can be placed anywhere on the lace-like web as it is being extruded by sp-innerettes.
  • the ribbon structure 10 of the present invention must possess the two following characteristics designated A and B and desirably should possess the characteristics designated as C and D.
  • the ribbon structure 10 must have variable compressibility in a direction parallel to the drawstring 12 such that the portion adjacent the drawstring is easier to compress than the edge portions of the ribbon further removed from the drawstring.
  • This compressibility differential may be either a cumulative increase in the cornpression resistance or may be a simple differential increase.
  • the drawstring 12 should possess some resistance to being pulled longitudinally along the ribbon structure 10. In the preferred embodiment disclosed herein, this resistance is provided by the points of attachment of the acetate yarn 1'4 to the individual filaments 11 and the sliding action of the nylon yarn 13 through the acetate wrap 14.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 are decorative bows such as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
  • the bow of FIG. 2 which is a coiled or rose-bud bow is formed when the drawstring 12 is pulled and the ribbon material, consisting of the relatively easily compressible interconnected filaments 11 adjacent the drawstring 12, is compressed into a nest while the filaments 11 forming the outside edges resist compression and are held away from the center by the transverse stiffness of the filaments i11.
  • the mechanism by which the coiled or rose-bud bow is formed is believed to be that whereby the rectilinear pulling force on the drawstring i12 is translated into a rotary motion within the developing bow and appears to be dependent on the difference in actual force required to form a coiled structure as contrasted to a ruffied structure. Since according to characteristic B the filaments 11 of the ribbon structure are relatively free to rotate about the drawstring 12 the ribbon structure 10, in the absence of a constraining force, will rotate and form the coiled or rose-bud bow of FIG. 2. If, however, the ribbon structure is obstructed from rotating as by being laid fiat on a surface or if the drawstring 12 is pulled rapidly so that air friction and inertia hinder rotation, the rufiied or puff bow illustrated in FIG. 3 is formed.
  • the filaments 11 at the edges of the ribbon run primarily parallel to the drawstring 12 and are overlaid. These substantially linearly oriented filaments result in a structure that resists compression when the drawstring 12 is pulled. In contrast, it will be obsenved that the filaments :1
  • the pre-bow 10 of the present invention comprises a length of lace-like ribbon material, formed of interconnected pliable filaments 11 sparsely but regularly distributed so that a major portion of the ribbon material is comprised of open spaces, having a drawstring 12 longitudinally disposed along the length of the pre-bow.
  • the drawstring 12 may be trapped between two layers of spun filamentary material or may be woven into the filamentary material or could simply be bonded to the spun ribbon filaments as shown in FIG. 8.
  • the ribbon filaments 11 of acetate solution are laid onto a moving belt by a spinnerette moving in a circular motion.
  • the drawstring 12 is first placed on the belt and the overlaid wet acetate filaments 11 form a solvent bond to the acetate overwrap 14 on the nylon drawstring 13. It has been found that a very satisfactory composite drawstring can be produced by laying a serpentine pattern of at least one, preferably two, acetate laments 11 onto the belt, laying the nylon drawstring 413 thereover followed by filaments 11. Alternatively, the procedure may be reversed with the serpentine pattern being laid down last.
  • the pre-bow 10 of the present invention typically measures from 12 to 18 inches in length for a 3 inch wide ribbon structure and is provided at least at one end with a drawstring retainer.
  • a drop of a suitable hot-melt adhesive in the form of dots 15, 15a is applied over drawstring 12 to securely bond the drawstring to the ribbon material.
  • Dots 15, 15a can be conveniently applied to pre-bows 10 by the use of a double orifice hot melt head or two single orifice hot melt heads spaced approximately one-half inch apart to simultaneously apply two dots 15a onto the drawstring 12 at any desired spaced intervals along the ribbon length.
  • the pre-bows 10 may be supplied as individual pre-bows in which event the ribbon material would be severed between spaced dots 15a to produce an individual pre-bow 10.
  • the ends of each pre-bow '.10 are preferably cut of ⁇ 1r as shown in the drawings. If the prebows are to be supplied in roll form, the ribbon material. with adhesive dots applied thereto is simply rolled upon itself for later use. The generally triangular portions of ribbon material adjacent dots 15 and 15a may be excised from the ribbon material as part of the hot-melt adhesive applying or windup procedure.
  • One method of forming the coiled or rose-bud bow 20 of the present invention is as follows: pre-bow 10 is grasped between the thumb and index finger of one hand immediately below dot i1'5 (as seen in FIG. 4) with the free end of pre-bow 10 freely hanging downwardly. Drawstring 12 is then grasped at dot 1S between the thumb and index finger of the other hand and rapidly pulled for approximately one-third its length. As drawstring 12 is thus rapidly pulled, rufiies 21 are formed as the acetate wrap 14 of the drawstring 12 and the ribbon filaments 11 attached to the acetate wrap 14 break loose from nylon drawstring 13 and begin to bunch in a nest immediately ahead of the thumb and forefinger.
  • drawstring 12 is securely fastened at the bottom of the bow.
  • a small square card (not shown) having a slit therein to its approximate midpoint, the drawstring being wound about said card and inserted into the slit where it is frictionally retained.
  • the card may have a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating on one side thereof protected by a suitable barrier material for easy attachment of the completed rosebud bow 20 to a package.
  • Ruffled bow 30 is formed in a similar manner as rosebud bow 20 except that drawstring 12 is pulled quite rapidly for its full length and the ribbon may even be laid fiat on a surface while forming the bow.
  • the ribbon It is desirable for the ribbon to offer uniform resistance to the drawstring being pulled longitudinally along the ribbon structure. This resistance compresses the ribbon into a coiled nest in an orderly cumulative fashion. If portions of the ribbon structure have varying drawstring friction, the bow can begin to compress at more than one point, with different directions of rotation, resulting in a rufiied bow.
  • Woven ribbons It is possible to make self-coiling ribbon by weaving or knitting techniques or by a combination of weaving and laminating or weaving and cutting techniques. A strip was cut from a piece of burlap, approximately 3 inches wide. The linear threads were removed in the central portion of the strip and left on the edges. A single linear thread was left in the middle to act as a drawstring. When the drawstring was pulled, the burlap ribbon coiled.
  • nylon netting was cut into a 2 inch strip. In the central one-inch portion of the strip, all of the linear threads were cut with a razor, leaving the transverse threads intact. Only the 1/2 inch bands of linear threads at the edges could therefore offer resistance to compression. When a drawstring, added by weaving between the transverse threads, was pulled, this ribbon structure formed a coil.
  • Laminated ribbons Coiling ribbon structures were made by adding a drawstring to a compressible ribbon structure and then laminating compression resistant strips to the edges. Stiff tape added to the edge of a uniformly compressible lace-like drawstring ribbon structure provided one example of this construction.
  • a drawstring was heat laminated to the center of a loose, non-woven ribbon (Garnett backing), and narrow Sasheen Brand ribbon strips were heat bonded to the edges.
  • the railroad track pattern acetate structures with strings of Sasheen Brand ribbon taped on the edges are other examples of laminated ribbon structures which form coiled structures.
  • Die-cut structures Sself-coiling structures were made from stiff film of polypropylene and acetate which were cut into shapes that fulfilled the parameters for a coiled bow. Linear strips were left at the edges to resist compression; transverse members were separated to provide compressibility in the drawstring sector, and a juncture permitting rotation was left between the linear and the transverse members. Constructions were made with both one and two linear elements. By suitable cutting or by laminating one die cut structure to another it is possible to make flow-like structures.
  • the film can be embossed and die cut with decorative patterns for added decoration.
  • the drawstrings were made by threading a string through holes in the transverse members, or by combining a spun ribbon with film, where the drawstring was attached to the spun ribbon.
  • die-cut structures could be used not only for decorative package ornaments, but for such purposes as table ornaments, light shades, hats, skirts, containers, window shades, or room dividers. In all cases, the decorative articles could be changed in shape simply by pulling or releasing a drawstring.
  • Assembled structures Self coiling structures were assembled from metal strips, string and glue. Similar structures could be made with wood strips or they could be injection molded from thermoplastics. End uses of these structures would be as decorative ornaments or toys.
  • drawstring 12 described herein as being a nylon yarn with an acetate overwrap or a nylon yarn having a serpentine layer of acetate applied thereover, can be fabricated from many kinds of materials and can take many forms.
  • ribbon structures have been produced using a polypropylene lm strip as the drawstring.
  • monofilaments rather than yarns can tbe used as the drawstring.
  • the drawstring itself or one component of a composite drawstring structure should be of a material which is incompatible with the material of the ribbon structure so that the drawstring will not become firmly bonded thereto and not function as a drawstring.
  • a decorative ribbon material comprising a lace-type web formed of interconnected pliable filaments sparsely but regularly distributed so that a major portion of the ribbon material is comprised of open spaces and having a drawstring longitudinally centrally disposed throughout its length, said drawstring comprising. a nylon yarn loosely spirally wrapped with a cellulose acetate yarn and being bonded to the lace-type web only at the points of intersection of said cellulose acetate yarn with the filaments of said lace-type web.
  • a decorative ribbon material comprising a lace-type web formed of interconnected pliable filaments sparsely but regularly distributed so that a major portion of the ribbon material is comprised of open spaces and having a drawstring longitudinally centrally disposed throughout its. length, said drawstring comprising a nylon yarn overlaid with at least one serpentine acetate filament and being bonded to the lace-type web only at the points of intersection of said at least one serpentine filament with the filaments of said lace-type web.
  • a prefabricated fbow form adapted to produce a decorative bow comprising a length of lace-type ribbon material formed of interconnected pliable ⁇ filaments sparsely kbut regularly distributed so that a major portion of the ribbon material comprises open spaces, a draw string longitudinally disposed along the length of said lace-type ribbon material, at least one end of said drawstring being rmly aixed to said lace-type ritbbon material, the interconnected filaments of said ribbon material adjacent said drawstring being substantially perpendicular to said drawstring and the interconnected larnents furthest removed from the drawstring being substantially parallel thereto.
  • a decorative bow constructed from the prefabricated bow form of claim 3 having a central convolutely wound portion surrounded by serpentine undulations Haring outwardly, the bow thus resembling a partially open rose-bud.
  • a method of forming a decorative bow from a prefabricated bow form comprising a length of lace-type ribbon material formed of interconnected pliable filaments sparsely but regularly distributed so that a major portion of the ribbon material comprises open spaces, a drawstring longitudinally disposed along the length of said lace-type ribbon material, at least one end of said drawstring being firmly aixed to said lace-type ribbon material comprising the steps of grasping one end of the prefabricated bow form between the thumb and index finger of one hand with the free end of the bow form freely hanging downwardly, grasping the end of the drawstring adjacent the held end between the thumb and index nger of the other hand, pulling the drawstring upwardly until the other axed end of said drawstring is in substantial juxtaposition with the thumb and index finger of said one hand and securing the drawstring at the bottom of the thus formed bow.

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US5144728A (en) * 1989-11-09 1992-09-08 Bandfabrik Breitenbach Ag Method for manufacturing a semifinished material for forming a blossom-type decoration
US5387446A (en) * 1993-08-03 1995-02-07 Highland Supply Corporation Ribbon assembly forming curved segment for making a bow or ruffle
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US4840822A (en) * 1988-06-02 1989-06-20 Cheng Peter S C Decorative netting bow and method of making same
US5144728A (en) * 1989-11-09 1992-09-08 Bandfabrik Breitenbach Ag Method for manufacturing a semifinished material for forming a blossom-type decoration
US5387446A (en) * 1993-08-03 1995-02-07 Highland Supply Corporation Ribbon assembly forming curved segment for making a bow or ruffle
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