Patent ID: 8112890

Claim:
A method of forming an ornamental object made from bottle caps comprising the steps of: providing at least two bottle caps; punching out a punch member from the outer surface of each bottle cap, each punch member having a punch member peripheral edge, wherein punching out the member comprises: placing at least one of the bottle caps with imagery facing a hole in a punch member forming tool, moving a distal end of a cutting die having a shape toward the bottle cap therewith forming at least a center section of the bottle cap into the shape, and moving the distal end of the cutting die further therewith severing a formed punch member from the bottle cap the formed lunch member retaining imagery of the bottle cap essentially as the imagery appeared before being punched out of the bottle cap centered on the formed punch member; bringing the punch member peripheral edges together; and joining the two punch members together along their punch member peripheral edges to form a common connection area.