Patent ID: 6455117
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: A47G,B43K,B44C,Y10T

Abstract:
A formable decorative product having at least one vertical extention comprising:a tubular plastic outer sheath having a predetermined length and an internal passageway of predetermined internal diameter, said outer tubular sheath normally having a predetermined orientation and configuration and tending to retain that orientation and configuration absent external force varying such orientation and configuration, a forming member received in said passageway and extending the length of said sheath whereby the length of said sheath is approximately equal to the length of said forming member, said forming member being a solid, bendable wire having an outer diameter which is less than the internal diameter of said outer sheath and including an outer surface portion which is unbounded to said sheath and, in an uncurved condition thereof, being unsupported by said sheath and being spaced from intimate contact therewith and with the internal passageway of said sheath and, in an uncurved condition thereof, being in opposed facing and spaced relationship with said outer tubular sheath and being essentially centrally located in said sheath so as to form an annular space between the outer surface of said forming member and the inner surface of said sheath in any uncurved portion thereof, said forming member being further characterized as being manually formable to a desired conformational shape whereby said sheath assumes the conformational shape of said forming member as contrasted to the predetermined orientation and configuration of said outer tubular sheath, and said forming member including at least one curved portion whereby the outer sheath follows the contour of the curved portion of the forming member in said curved portion and the outer surface of said forming member is in contact with the inner surface of said outer sheath along at least some portion of said curved portion operating to cause the outer sheath to follow the contour of the curved portion of said forming member.