Patent ID: 7007354

Claim:
A process for making a three-dimensional ornamental device having a spine with a single vertical axis, a series of spaced-apart, progressively longer, elongate strips, and a reference elongate strip, wherein each elongate strip in the series outlines a similar two-dimensional shape, wherein the two-dimensional shape of each elongate strip in the series is concentric to the two-dimensional shape of an adjacent elongate strip, wherein each elongate strip in the series has a length, a width, a thickness, and a major surface defined by the length and the width of the elongate strip, wherein the length of each elongate strip in the series is greater than the width of the elongate strip and the width of the elongate strip is greater than the thickness of the elongate strip, wherein the major surface of each elongate strip in the series is located in a vertical plane different from that of an adjacent elongate strip in the series, and wherein the vertical planes of the major surfaces of the elongate strips in the series intersect at the single vertical axis wherein the reference elongate strip outlines a similar two-dimensional shape to each elongate strip in the series, the two-dimensional shape of the reference elongate strip is concentric to the two-dimensional shape of an adjacent elongate strip in the series, the reference elongate strip has a length, a width, a thickness, and a major surface defined by the length and the width of the reference elongate strip, the length of the reference elongate strip is greater than the width of the reference elongate strip and the width of the reference elongate strip is greater than the thickness of the reference elongate strip, the length of the reference elongate strip is less than the length of any elongate strip in the series, the major surface of the reference elongate strip is located in a vertical plane different from the vertical plane of an adjacent elongate strip in the series, and the vertical plane of the major surface of the reference elongate strip intersects at the single vertical axis, and wherein the vertical plane of the major surface of each progressively longer elongate strip in the series is angularly displaced by a progressively larger angle from the vertical plane of the major surface of the reference elongate strip, comprising the steps of cutting a sheet of material into the two-dimensional shape; making cuts in the sheet material to form the series of strips; and bending the strips to form the device.