Abstract: A plant package assembly, comprising a pot containing a floral grouping and a flexible sleeve having detaching elements at preselected areas, the sleeve further comprising a bonding material which connects the sleeve to the pot when the pot is positioned within the sleeve, the sleeve being positioned about the pot and a lower portion of the sleeve closely surrounding and encompassing the pot, an upper portion of the sleeve extending upwardly from the pot and substantially surrounding and encompassing the floral grouping contained within the pot, at least a portion of the sleeve being removable via the detaching elements, leaving a portion of the sleeve which is a decorative plant cover.

Abstract: A reusable package wrapping apparatus and method. The apparatus has a spring-loaded ribbon reel which dispenses an inverted ribbon in a first direction and recovers the ribbon, which has been re-inverted in a secondly direction. Spring tension or a locked hand crank secures the apparatus to the package.

Abstract: A packing assist apparatus is provided which assures that articles to be packed can continuously be packed without close contact of the surface of a packing film with the surface of the articles and each packing operation can be performed at improved efficiency. A rotary member is disposed on a support column standing upright from a base board, an arm is fitted to the rotary member, and a holding frame having an opening portion through which the articles can pass is fitted to the arm. Putting means for putting a packing bag on the holding frame is arranged below the rotary member.

Abstract: A method and device for attaching a covering sheet material on top of a row of crop bales positioned in end to end relationship on a raised earthen mound. An elongated needle is used to insert strands of tie material under the bales and then the tie material is pulled up over the top surface of a cover sheet on the top of the bales. The strands of tie material are then tied in position to encircle the bales and the cover sheet to hold it is position on at least the top half of the bale with the lower portion of the bale being left uncovered for air circulation. The cover sheet is also tied to extend over the top portion of the ends of the bale row.

Abstract: A container and jig assembly for dispensing a sheet of material and for wrapping the sheet of material about a flower pot or floral grouping. The container accommodates a roll of sheet material suitable for wrapping flower pots or floral groupings. In addition, the container may have a cutter for separating a sheet of material from the roll of sheet material. The jig assembly is attached to the container and has a jig opening surrounded by a sheet-supporting surface. The jig opening is sized and shaped to receive a lower portion of a flower pot or a stem end portion of a floral grouping. In operation, a sheet of material is separated from the roll of sheet material and disposed on the sheet-supporting surface over the jig opening. The lower portion of the flower pot or the stem end portion of the floral grouping is inserted through the jig opening and carries a portion of the sheet of material with it. In the process, the sheet of material is formed into a covering about the flower pot or floral grouping.

Abstract: A device for collecting and packing paper material comprises a receptacle having a mainly square-shaped bottom, back and front walls, and two side walls. A box may be fixed either to the exterior surface of the back wall or to the exterior surface of one of the side walls for loosely retaining a string bobbin. The free end of a string wound onto the bobbin passes through an adjacent aperture in the side or back wall. String lengths are obtained using a knife preferably fixed to a slit in one of the side walls for cutting the string when pulled out to a suitable length through the aperture. A dummy knife is fixed to any corresponding slit or slits made in other walls but not needed for a knife. The string lengths are fixed in a holder arranged in the back and front walls. The string lengths are kept freely movable in the front wall holder. When tied using the string lengths, the pile of paper material is lifted from the receptacle via a handle having hooks introduced under the string lengths.

Abstract: A wrapping material for providing a decorative covering for an item wherein the wrapping material has a width and at least a first end. The first end of the wrapping material is positioned on the outer peripheral surface of the item to be wrapped and the wrapping material is wrapped about the outer peripheral surface of the item while moving the wrapping material generally over the outer peripheral surface of the item until the wrapping material covers at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the item.

Abstract: A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system once the protective function of the sleeve has been completed, thereby exposing the decorative cover and allowing the skirt portion to extend angularly from the base. The protective sleeve and decorative cover components may comprise a unitary construction or may comprise separate components which are attached together by various bonding materials.

Abstract: An apparatus for wrapping one or more variously-sized articles from a roll of web material, e.g., elastic plastic material, by supporting the articles on an adjustable support assembly while orbitally rotating the web material roll around the articles. A preferred apparatus in accordance with the present invention is characterized by an article support assembly comprised of a pair of arms at substantially right angles each having a plurality of elongate V-shaped fingers adjustably positioned on said arms and extending at substantially right angles to said arms wherein one or more articles are supported by said fingers during a wrapping operation.

Abstract: An axially elongated tube is slideably and pivotally supported within a tlar housing from which the tube extends rearwardly for connection to a source of vacuum. The vacuum is selectively applied through the tube from a flattened forward end thereof to a workpiece after the tube is slideably displaced rearwardly from a retracted to an extended position within the housing. A hand grip on the housing enables it to be manually held in operative relation to the workpiece. A support assembly pivotally mounted on the housing adjustably positions a heating jaw electrically connected by a switch on the housing to a power supply for performance of heat sealing operations on the workpiece.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for providing a zippered bag in an open configuration to allow its filling with packages or other like items. The apparatus includes an automatic bag zipping feature, and is resettable by depression of a foot pedal by an operator. The bag is maintained in its "open" position by a pair of flaps, which when open tend to hold the bag mouth open, but when closed no longer interfere with the bag mouth, such that a pull arm can pull the bag mouth into a closed position, and a zip arm can zip the mouth closed. The zip and pull arms are transported by a weight falling under the influence of gravity, which can be reset manually by an operator.

Abstract: A device for packaging liquids, particularly animal semen, in pre-scaled and pre-cut pouches provided in a roll and designed for artificial insemination. The device includes a tiltable table with a base enabling adjustment of the tilt angle of the table to facilitate gravitational filling of pouches, a pouch filling station and a sealing station. The device also includes a movable filling needle inserted into a removable needle guide and mounted on a block that includes an inductive proximity sensor for generating an alternating magnetic field which is automatically stopped when a metal liner is inserted into the needle guide following needle insertion into the pouch. Cessation of the alternating magnetic field triggers the sealing of the pouch.

Abstract: A Christmas light wrapping apparatus comprising wrapping trays with indentations for keeping the light strings separated and a base with a crankshaft for turning the trays, thereby winding the Christmas light strings. Additionally, a storage structure protects wrapped Christmas light strings and accommodates the wrapping trays.

Abstract: A low-cost capsule filler has a capsule holder with a medication tray, and cavities in the tray for receiving capsule bodies and capsule covers for filling with powdered or granulated medication. A wall around the medication tray contains loose medication, and the tray surface slopes toward each cavity to facilitate filling. Medication is tamped into the capsules with posts on an extractor; the extractor after tamping is inserted from beneath into the base of the capsule filler so the extractor posts push the filled capsules upward from their cavities where they can be gripped and removed.

Abstract: In an automatic prescription dispensing system, a multiplicity of pill dispensers dispensing the pills of different prescriptions are arranged in columns and rows. A conveyer organizes open and labeled pill bottles in columns corresponding to the columns of the pill dispensers and carries the columns of pill bottles severally past and beneath the pill dispensers in the array. The pill bottles are carried in bottle carriers which in turn are carried by pallets on a conveyer. When a pill bottle gets to a pill dispenser containing the pills to be dispensed for the prescription of a pill bottle, the pills are released from the dispenser into the pill bottle, whereby a plurality of pill bottles passing under the array of dispensers are filled simultaneously. The pill dispensers count the pills out one at a time and accumulate the pills of a prescription before the pill bottle to receive such prescription reaches the dispenser and then releases the pills en masse into the pill bottle.

Abstract: An umbrella fitting device permits a wet umbrella to be inserted into an umbrella sack by simple handling, enabling a visitor to utilize an umbrella sack free of charge. The device has a top open portion 6 and a vertically elongate front open portion 4, two shafts 9, 9 fixed in position on the interior of the device at a rear side thereof and extending to a location adjacent the front open portion, and pivot members 16, 17 arranged at opposite sides of the front open portion 4 for pivotal movement within a horizontal plane. The pivot members 16, 17 are normally maintained in a position such that the pivot members lie across the front open portion by elastic elements. Locking elements 14, 14 are operative to block the front end portions of the shafts 9, 9 when the pivot members lie across the front open portion 4 and to release the front end portions of the shafts 9, 9 when the pivot members 16, 17 pivot outward. An umbrella sack assembly has one-side open, elongate umbrella sacks A.sub.1, A.sub.

Abstract: A storage device for wrapping long and narrow items, such as loaves of French bread, green onions, umbrellas and other articles of similar dimensions, including a device body into which a plurality of wrapping bags are stored and means for opening such wrapping bags, one after the other, positioning an item to be stored therein and for removing such wrapping bag, with such item wrapped therein from such storage device.

Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a piston is sized to slide along a first axis within a hollow cylinder, and the piston and cylinder assembly is rotatable about a second axis with respect to a support structure. In another aspect of the invention, a container is sized to receive a bag having a mouth larger than a characteristic cross-section of an article to be deposited therein. A member supported by the container has a hole sized in accordance with the characteristic cross-section of the article, and the mouth of the bag is releasably secured to the hole so that the bag is gathered to provide an opening into the bag sized in accordance with the characteristic cross-section of the article.

Abstract: Described is a yarn packaging station and method. Yarn spools are fed to an inclined table where they slide down into a predetermined configuration. A moveable yarn bagging station is adjacent the inclined table and between the inclined table and a boxing station. The apparatus and method are designed such that a yarn spool can be bagged and boxed in one fluid movement of the human operator's arm.

Abstract: A cushioning conversion machine (20) and a dispensing table (100), in combination, are provided. The dispensing table (100) includes a substantially horizontal work platform (102) which includes an opening (109). The cushioning conversion machine (20) is mounted to the table (100) in such a manner that the cushioning product is deposited on the work platform (102) during operation of the machine. In this manner, a worker may conveniently place the cut section in a shipping case, or box, to fill any voids and/or to cushion an item during the shipping process.

Abstract: A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system once the protective function of the sleeve has been completed, thereby exposing the decorative cover and allowing the skirt portion to extend angularly from the base. The protective sleeve and decorative cover components may comprise a unitary construction or may comprise separate components which are attached together by various bonding materials.

Abstract: A band applicator for applying a band about a sheet of material disposed about a pot to provide a decorative cover for the pot. The band applicator includes a pot frame having a pot opening and a band holder configured to releasably hold a plurality of bands. The sheet of material is extended about the outer peripheral surface of the pot, and the pot with the sheet of material disposed thereabout is disposed in a pot receiving space in the pot frame. The pot frame holds the sheet of material positioned about the pot. A band is removed from the band holder and disposed about the sheet of material and pot for cooperating to hold the sheet of material positioned about the pot.

Abstract: A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system once the protective function of the sleeve has been completed, thereby exposing the decorative cover and allowing the skirt portion to extend angularly from the base. The protective sleeve and decorative cover components may comprise a unitary construction or may comprise separate components which are attached together by various bonding materials.

Abstract: A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant or a covered potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system once the protective function of the sleeve has been completed, thereby exposing the decorative cover and allowing the skirt portion to extend angularly from the base. The protective sleeve and decorative cover components may comprise a unitary construction or may comprise separate components which are attached together by various bonding materials.

Abstract: A band applicator for applying a band about a sheet of material disposed about a pot to provide a decorative cover for the pot. The band applicator includes a pot frame having a pot opening and a band holder configured to releasably hold a plurality of bands. The sheet of material is extended about the outer peripheral surface of the pot, and the pot with the sheet of material disposed thereabout is disposed in a pot receiving space in the pot frame. The pot frame holds the sheet of material positioned about the pot. A band is removed from the band holder and disposed about the sheet of material and pot for cooperating to hold the sheet of material positioned about the pot.

Abstract: A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system once the protective function of the sleeve has been completed, thereby exposing the decorative cover and allowing the skirt portion to extend angularly from the base. The protective sleeve and decorative cover components may comprise a unitary construction or may comprise separate components which are attached together by various bonding materials.

Abstract: A method of producing a container of banana clusters is provided wherein a flexible inner container is inserted into an outer container prior to placing the banana clusters into the outer container, placing a first row of banana clusters in the inner container atop the interior bottom, placing a second row of banana clusters in the inner container such that a portion of the second row is positioned atop a portion of the first row, providing a tunnel pad having a width at least as great as the length of the sidewalls of the outer container and a length greater than the length of the endwalls of the outer container and positioning a portion of the tunnel pad atop and in contact with a portion of the banana clusters of the first and second rows, and placing a third and fourth row of banana clusters in the inner container atop a portion of and in contact with a portion of the tunnel pad. A method of transferring a load of bananas from the outer container to another outer container is also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a flower pot cover or sleeve by automatically delivering a sheet of material to a forming mold, the sheet positioned in a vertical or semi-vertical orientation relative to the mold, automatically forming the sheet about the mold, and removing the formed cover from the mold.

Abstract: A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system once the protective function of the sleeve has been completed, thereby exposing the decorative cover and allowing the skirt portion to extend angularly from the base. The protective sleeve and decorative cover components may comprise a unitary construction or may comprise separate components which are attached together by various bonding materials.

Abstract: A waste disposing system and apparatus are described which use inverted conical frustum cup-like containers of paper or synthetic resin with brims having an adhesive applied thereto, said apparatus comprising: a container supplying means for holding a stack of containers having a top and a bottom, and formed by one sliding over another, and releasing, in response to a request, one after another, from the stack of containers, permitting the falling of a sequential container that has descended down to the bottom of the stack for its turn; a standby means for holding the container with the open side thereof up, thereby permitting the filling of waste into container on standby; a sealing means for pressing the top circumference of the container which is filled with waste to seal the container; and a carrier means for transporting containers from the container supplying means to the standby means, and from the standby means to the sealing means.

Abstract: A plant packaging system comprising a combination of a protective sleeve portion and a decorative cover portion having a base and skirt for packaging a potted plant. The protective sleeve can be detached from the decorative portion of the package system once the protective function of the sleeve has been completed, thereby exposing the decorative cover and allowing the skirt portion to extend angularly from the base. The protective sleeve and decorative cover components may comprise a unitary construction or may comprise separate components which are attached together by various bonding materials.

Abstract: A container and jig assembly for dispensing a sheet of material and for wrapping the sheet of material about a flower pot or floral grouping. The container accommodates a roll of sheet material suitable for wrapping flower pots or floral groupings. In addition, the container may have a cutter for separating a sheet of material from the roll of sheet material. The jig assembly is attached to the container and has a jig opening surrounded by a sheet-supporting surface. The jig opening is sized and shaped to receive a lower portion of a flower pot or a stem end portion of a floral grouping. In operation, a sheet of material is separated from the roll of sheet material and disposed on the sheet-supporting surface over the jig opening. The lower portion of the flower pot or the stem end portion of the floral grouping is inserted through the jig opening and carries a portion of the sheet of material with it. In the process, the sheet of material is formed into a covering about the flower pot or floral grouping.

Abstract: A device for temporarily compressing or bending branches of a palm tree into a gathered position wherein the branches extend lengthwise upwardly from the trunk of the palm tree and for holding the branches in the gathered position during relocation and planting of the palm tree. The device has several embodiments, all of which include handles for grasping and forcibly urging the trunk encircling member, when closed around the trunk just below the branches, upwardly to inwardly deflect and temporarily hold the branches in the gathered configuration.

Abstract: A broccoli banding machine having an electric DC motor drive actuated by an interrupted optical beam is disclosed. The banding machine includes a plate with a central aperture defining a depending cylinder. The depending cone has a light beam looking across the cylinder which when interrupted keeps arms having band engaging fingers in the band expanded position. Both arms and fingers are mounted above the supporting plate where access and view of arms by the banding and packing worker is provided at all times. Upon gathering broccoli to a bouquet with both hands, the worker places the stalks of the gathered bouquet into the cylinder, interrupting the light beam. Upon such interruption, the arms at the band engaging fingers are cycled into the bunched stalks, the contracted band released to the stalk, the bouquet at the stalks removed from the vicinity of the fingers, and a new rubber band placed upon the centrally disposed fingers.

Abstract: A container having opposite side walls or panels joined with opposite end walls or panels to provide an open box-like structure for insertably receiving a plurality of newspapers to form a disposable stack. Releasable fasteners are employed to detachably join the walls or panels together. A spool of binding string is removably carried on a selected end wall and string is trained in a cross-over pattern with string ends extending exteriorly thereof. The string passes through slotted apertures in the walls.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a device and method for enabling a person to fill a sandbag quickly and efficiently without the assistance of another person.The inventive sandbag shovel preferably includes a scoop for scooping up the sand, a chute flexibly connected to the scoop for directing sand from the scoop into a sandbag, a sandbag gripper mounted to the chute for releasable connection to the mouth of a sandbag to maintain the sandbag mouth in sand-receiving relationship to the chute, and a pair of handles connected to the scoop.

Abstract: A sleeve used to wrap items such as potted plants. The sleeve may have an open or closed bottom. When closed, the bottom may have a gusset for allowing expansion upon the depositing of the pot into the sleeve. The sleeve has a detachable upper portion. The sleeve may have a bonding material disposed upon an inner or outer portion of the sleeve for attaching the sleeve to the pot or item.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for holding a collecting container (20) of low stiffness for collecting and packaging re-usable packages for filter tow, has erectable side parts (1) to (6), fastening strips (30) connected with the side parts (1 to 6) for fastening the collecting container (20) on the erected side parts (1 to 6); the side parts (1, 2, 6; 3, 4, 5) are divided into two groups (A) and (B) with the side parts (1, 2, 6) and (3, 4, 5) in each of the groups (A),(B) connected so as to be hinged, and the side parts (1, 2, 6) and (3, 4, 5) in the groups (A),(B) are connected so as to be hinged. The side parts (2, 3) and (5, 6) of the groups (A),(B) are foldable toward the outside away from the collecting container (20) so that the collecting container (20) can be removed from the apparatus (10) laterally or at the front face.

Abstract: A plant package assembly, comprising a pot containing a floral grouping and a flexible sleeve having detaching elements at preselected areas, the sleeve further-comprising a bonding material which connects the sleeve to the pot when the pot is positioned within the sleeve, the sleeve being positioned about the pot and a lower portion of the sleeve closely surrounding and encompassing the pot, an upper portion of the sleeve extending upwardly from the pot and substantially surrounding and encompassing the floral grouping contained within the pot, at least a portion of the sleeve being removable via the detaching elements, leaving a portion of the sleeve which is a decorative plant cover.

Abstract: A sleeve used to wrap items such as potted plants. The sleeve may have an open or closed bottom. When closed, the bottom may have a gusset for allowing expansion upon the depositing of the pot into the sleeve. The sleeve has a detachable upper portion. The sleeve may have a bonding material disposed upon an inner or outer portion of the sleeve for attaching the sleeve to the pot or item.

Abstract: A wrapping apparatus having a springable base with attached arms which support a wrapping material. The spaced apart arms extend upward and outward from the perimeter of the springable base, which is flexible to assume an arched posture and a flat posture. In response to downward pressure on a central area of the springable base, the springable base snaps from the arched posture into the flat posture. When the springable base is in the arched posture, the arms and wrapping material are in an open position to receive an item to be wrapped. The arms and wrapping material move into a closed position when the springable base assumes the flat posture. The wrapping apparatus may be constructed with or without an upper skirt of wrapping material. The wrapping material may be inside the arms, outside the arms or may envelope the arms.

Abstract: A portable round bale wrapping apparatus which wraps large upright cylindrical straw bales with protective plastic film for storage on the field. One person can operate the wheeled bale wrapper on uneven ground. A light-weight tubular frame with a pulley system moves the wrapper roll up and down. The rotation of wrapping can be reversed by moving the pulley system to an opposite side. The wrapping apparatus can be adjusted in height and length to accommodate the variance in size of hay or straw bale. The bale wrapping apparatus can be dismantled, folded into a light-weight package and carried to the next field or stored.

Abstract: A device is provided for opening at least one package bag which has a first sheet having a first top edge and a second sheet having a second top edge detachably engaged with each other. The device includes a horizontal L-shaped base member. A vertical U-shaped baffle is arranged and has one distal end fixedly attached to a second plate of the base member. At least one horizontal post has one distal end fixedly attached to the baffle, and the top edge of the first sheet of the package bag is mounted around the horizontal post. A pushing member has a vertical section slidably mounted around the horizontal post for urging the first top edge of the first sheet of the package bag to abut on the baffle. A pressing mechanism is mounted on the first plate of the base member and includes a pressing member pivotally mounted thereon. A pressing plate is formed on one end portion of the pressing member and is rested on the second top edge of the second sheet of the package bag.

Abstract: A portable shipping station (20) includes a wheeled cart assembly (22), a central table (24), a packaging dispenser roller support frame (26), and a pivotable hopper boom assembly (28). The roller support frame (26) serves to dispense packaging materials (122, 124) from a detachable rod (120) that may be retained at selected elevations by hooks (e.g., 116, 118) on a pair of upright standards 108, 110). A boom (140) may be used to pivot a filler-dispensing hopper assembly (158) along a horizontal arc (148).

Abstract: A packaging system comprising a cushion-creating machine (10) and a slide (12) positioned adjacent to the machine (10). The cushion-creating machine (10) includes a frame (36) and cushion-creating assemblies (50, 52, 54, and 56) which are mounted to the frame (36) and which create cushioning products (32). The machine frame (36) includes an exit through which the cushioning products (32) are discharged in a predetermined discharge direction D. The slide (12) includes a smooth sloped surface (60) with a top portion positioned proximate to the machine's exit so that the discharged cushioning products (32) will be deposited thereon. The smooth sloped surface (60) has a pitch angle which is sufficient to insure that cushioning products placed on the top portion of the surface will slide in a predetermined slide direction S. The smooth sloped surface (60) is oriented relative to the machine (10) in such a manner that the slide direction S is substantially perpendicular to the discharge direction D.

Abstract: The invention is a newspaper storage and bundling system, comprising a bin having a bottom panel and four side panels attached to the bottom panel and perpendicular to one another, defining a storage space. A lip connects the side panels opposite the bottom panel. Four reels extend downward from the lip, each near the center of one of the side panels. A rope assembly comprises a rope assembly spacer and four rope ends extending from the rope assembly spacer. The rope assembly spacer is placed on the bottom panel and the rope ends are each wrapped around one of the reels. Newspapers and the like are collected inside the storage space into a newspaper pile, until it reaches the lip. The rope ends are then unwrapped from the reels and are brought together around the newspaper pile and are tied into a knot.

Abstract: The storage device for umbrellas sacks of the present invention comprises: a body where a number of storage sacks are stored; a movable support base arranged to move vertically in the body; a wear plate that makes said movable support base lower when it contacts an edge of an umbrella; and open control levers that open the storage sacks in the descending motion of said movable support base. The storage device is structured so that the umbrella can be automatically inserted in the storage sack when the open control levers open the storage sack in the descending motion of the movable support base by contacting the wear plate with the edge of the umbrella. The wear plate simultaneously sweeps back by rotating downward.

Abstract: A system for enclosing an article includes a packaging apparatus for enclosing an article in a pouch configured as part of a packaging structure having first and second ends and an opening for the pouch. The packaging apparatus includes a platform with front and rear sides and a support surface therebetween, a heat sealer and a framework for positioning the sealer forward of the platform with an open space therebetween and with an open area under the platform. In use, a bundle of packaging structures, joined at the first ends, is coupled with the platform rear side, and then extended under the support surface, around the rear side through the open space and onto the support surface with the pouch openings supported above the surface. An article is inserted in the topmost pouch through the opening which is then sealed by the sealer. Filled structures are suspended below the platform rear side until all of the pouches have been filled.

Abstract: Method for packaging flowers which protects against botrytis and the damage inflicted to flowers by shifting during transportation. The method includes wrapping the flower heads in cardboard and plastic and placing the cardboard flush against the ends of a flower box in order to ensure no shifting occurs.

Abstract: A decorative assembly for a floral grouping comprising a floral holding material and a sheet of material. The floral holding material is constructed of a material capable of receiving a portion of a floral grouping and supporting the floral grouping. The sheet of material is extended about a portion of the floral holding material and a crimped portion is formed in the sheet of material with the crimped portion cooperating to hold the sheet of material about the floral holding material to provide a decorative covering.