Patent ID: 7111429

Claim:
A sleeve apparatus rolled about a bouquet of flowers comprising: a planar flexible sheet having a first side, a second side opposites of the first side, a top edge, and a lower edge opposites of the top edge, wherein the planar flexible sheet is served as both a flower protector and point of sale display sleeve; a pair of substantially horizontal elongated parallel slots in the sheet disposed near the first side and the top edge of the sheet; and a tab structure disposed near the top edge and on a peripheral of the second side of the sheet which includes tab ears wherein the tab ears are inserted into both the elongated parallel slots at the same time such that when the tab ears are disposed at one end of the slots the apparatus is in a first diameter diameter configuration serves as the flower protector when the bouquet is tightly compressed and when the tab ears are at opposite end of the slots the apparatus is in a second diameter configuration, which is larger than the first diameter configuration, serves as the point of sale display sleeve to allow the flowers to be attractively displayed apart from each other the apparatus being sized such that flower stems project beneath the apparatus from an open bottom so that the flower stems can be hydrated with water when the apparatus is in its large diameter configuration at a point of sale display; and a plurality of co-liner slots, wherein the co-linear slots are shorter in length than the elongated parallel slots, disposed parallel to and near the lower edge of the sheet to cooperate with flower stem bundling and tying elements such as rubber bands that are placed around of the stems.