Patents by Inventor Donald E. Weder

Donald E. Weder has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Wrapper with decorative extension and method
    Patent number: 8028471
    Abstract: A wrapper for wrapping an item to form a decorative cover thereabout is disclosed. The wrapper is constructed of a sheet of material having an extension attached to a portion thereof and provides the decorative cover with the appearance of being formed of two separate, unconnected sheets of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Wanda M. Weder and William F. Straeter
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Wrapper with decorative extension and method
    Patent number: 8028472
    Abstract: A wrapper for wrapping an item to form a decorative cover thereabout is disclosed. The wrapper is constructed of a sheet of material having an extension attached to a portion thereof and provides the decorative cover with the appearance of being formed of two separate, unconnected sheets of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Wanda M. Weder and William F. Strater,
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • FLORAL PACKAGING FORMED OF RENEWABLE OR BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20110225882
    Abstract: A method for forming floral packaging materials from biodegradable and/or renewable polymer materials is provided. Methods of utilizing such floral packaging materials are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • PLANT PACKAGE AND METHODS OF FORMING SAME USING A THERMOPLASTIC FLOWER POT
    Publication number: 20110219691
    Abstract: A flower pot in combination with a retaining medium for holding and retaining a floral grouping. The flower pot includes a base portion defining a receiving space for receiving at least a portion of the retaining medium so as to hold and retain the retaining medium. The base portion is constructed of a thermoformed plastic material, and has an upper end, a lower end, and a sidewall extending between the upper end and the lower end. The sidewall is substantially devoid of overlapping folds and has decorative ornamentation associated with at least a portion of the sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Antonio V. Alcazar, Donald E. Weder
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING CURLED DECORATIVE GRASS
    Publication number: 20110219922
    Abstract: Curled decorative grass having a variety of configurations and methods for making such decorative grass is provided which, because of its increased bulk, can also be used as a packing material, animal bedding, cat litter, mulch for soil, and a media for plants. The curled decorative grass is produced by curling a substantially flat sheet of material and thereafter cutting the resulting curled sheet of material, or by cutting a pre-curled material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • METHOD OF USING A CONICAL FLORAL SLEEVE
    Publication number: 20110219690
    Abstract: A method of using a floral sleeve sized to fit a flower pot, or a floral grouping, the sleeve generally having a conical shape and having a bonding material disposed thereon for connecting the sleeve to a pot disposed within the sleeve or connected via a banding element to a pot disposed within the sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Compressed packaged articles and methods of making, transporting, shipping and using same
    Patent number: 8015751
    Abstract: The present invention relates, in general, to articles that are packaged in a compressed state relative to an uncompressed fully articulated state and methods of making and using same. In a specific embodiment, but not to be considered as limiting, the articles so packaged in a compressed state are plant covers that are either substantially rigid and/or substantially flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Wanda M. Weder & William F. Straeter
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • HOLLOW WIRE AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110210214
    Abstract: A hollow wire and method of using the hollow wire to wrap or support a flower stem or floral grouping, and/or use in construction, crafts, hobbies, or other uses in need of wire products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • METHOD OF PROVIDING A DECORATIVE COVER FOR A FLOWER POT FORMED OF A HEAT SHRINKABLE MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20110209405
    Abstract: The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) relates to methods for providing decorative covers, decorative collars and decorative cover-collar combinations for covering a flower pot. The decorative covers and/or collars are formed from a variety of configurations of heat shrinkable sheet of material placed over all or a portion of a peripheral surface of the flower pot and then heated to shrink the sheet of material into a pressing engagement against the outer peripheral surface of the flower pot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • METHOD OF WRAPPING A FLORAL GROUPING
    Publication number: 20110203173
    Abstract: A method for wrapping a floral grouping is disclosed. In the method a substantially shape-sustaining sheet of material having a substantially circular shape is formed into a substantially frusto-conical shaped bouquet holder with an open upper end that has a diameter greater than the diameter of a lower end thereof. A floral grouping may be disposed within the bouquet holder, and the bouquet holder may be further provided with a skirt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • COLLAPSIBLE AND/OR ERECTABLE SUBSTANTIALLY EGG-SHAPED CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20110204049
    Abstract: A collapsible and/or erectable, shape-sustaining substantially egg-shaped container is selectively moveable from a substantially erect condition to a substantially collapsed condition and/or from a substantially erect condition to a substantially collapsed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Andrew Weder
  • DECORATIVE GRASS AND PACKAGING MATERIAL FORMED OF RENEWABLE OR BIODEGRADABLE POLYMER MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING SAME
    Publication number: 20110198257
    Abstract: A method for forming decorative grass and packaging materials from renewable polymer materials is provided. Methods of utilizing such decorative grasses and renewable polymer materials are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • DECORATIVE COVER FOR A FLOWER POT OR FLORAL GROUPING HAVING A MATTE FINISH ON A SURFACE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110198022
    Abstract: A flexible sleeve disposable about at least a portion of a flower pot or floral grouping is formed of a flexible polymeric material having at least a portion of one surface thereof modified to provide a textured or matte finish to the flexible sleeve. The flexible sleeve may also be provided with perforations at preselected areas for removing an upper portion of the flexible sleeve from a lower portion thereof. Methods for wrapping a floral grouping or packaging a plant using the flexible sleeve are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • FLORAL EASEL
    Publication number: 20110202482
    Abstract: The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) relates to an erectable and/or collapsible floral easel for holding a floral object, and more particularly but not by way of limitation, to an erectable or collapsible floral easel for holding a floral object. In one aspect, the presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) relates to a floral easel for holding and/or supporting a floral object. In yet another aspect, the presently disclosed and claimed inventive concept(s) relates to methods of shipping a floral easel, methods of using a floral easel, methods of storing a floral easel, and methods of placing a floral object on a floral easel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • SLEEVE WITH ANGULAR ARCUATE LOWER END
    Publication number: 20110192083
    Abstract: A plant packaging and covering system comprising a floral sleeve having a lower portion and optionally an upper detachable portion which may be sized to surround a plant disposed in a pot. The floral sleeve has a lower end having an angular arcuate portion for improving the conformation of the sleeve to the shape of a pot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • PACKAGING MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20110186474
    Abstract: A packaging material comprising a plurality of flexible strips of material integrally interconnected to one another along one end thereof so as to form a unitary mass and so that the strips of material are intertwineable with one another to form a resilient tuft. The strips of material interconnected via a border have a bonding material disposed thereon for bondingly connecting the packaging material to a container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • DECORATIVE SLEEVE COVER FORMED OF A PAPER AND/OR POLYMERIC MATERIAL HAVING A TEXTURE OR APPEARANCE SIMULATING THE TEXTURE OR APPEARANCE OF CLOTH
    Publication number: 20110189398
    Abstract: Flexible materials having a texture or appearance simulating the texture or appearance of cloth suitable for use in the formation of decorative flower pot covers and flower pots are disclosed. The flexible materials include polymeric materials, paper and laminates thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • METHOD FOR MAKING CONTOURED DECORATIVE GRASS
    Publication number: 20110180953
    Abstract: A method for producing decorative grass having a decorative pattern thereon is disclosed. The decorative pattern may be printed material and/or an embossed pattern, or the decorative pattern may be a non-linear side edge that provides the decorative grass with a contoured configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Wrapper with decorative extension and method
    Patent number: 7984587
    Abstract: A wrapper for wrapping a flower pot and/or floral grouping. The wrapper is constructed of a sheet of material having an extension attached to a portion of the sheet of material. Preferably the extension has a lace pattern thereon. When the wrapper is formed about a flower pot to form a decorative cover, upper edges of the sheet of material and extension cooperate to form a skirt portion preferably having at least two separate edges providing a “two-sheet” effect in the decorative cover. The wrapper may have extensions on opposing ends of the sheet of material and may having one or more additional overlapping extensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Wanda M. Weder and William F. Straeter
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder
  • Method of containing a floral grouping or potted plant
    Patent number: 7984588
    Abstract: A method of containing a floral grouping or potted plant in a sleeve is disclosed. The sleeve has first and second panels, and at least a portion of at least one of the first and second panels is constructed of at least two layers of material. At least a portion of the at least two layers of material may be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Wanda M. Weder and William F. Straeter
    Inventor: Donald E. Weder