US2461748A - Christmas tree stand or holder - Google Patents

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Patented Feb. 15, 1949 UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE CHRISTMAS TREE STAND R HOLDER William H. Looker, Burlington, Iowa Y Application February 1 1945, Serial No. 575,695

1 Claim.

The invention relates to improvements in, or a new type of Christmas tree stand or holder, of pyramidal shape and having three or more legs when assembled, which may be (owing to its cheapness) discarded with the tree after its period of use.

This Christmas tree stand or holder is made of one pie-ce of cardboard, pasteboard or light sheet metal, in various sizes and thickness of material to accommodate the various sizes of Christmas trees and is so creased and cut by machine or otherwise with slots and tabs that interlock when folded up on the crease in the center so as to form a rigid and strong stand with a square hole in the center (of size desired) to receive the butt of the tree and holding same in an upright position.

This Christmas tree stand or holder is made entirely in one piece and after process :of manufacture may be packed for shipment as ilat pieces of cardboard, pasteboard or light sheet metal, Whichever material is used, and may be quickly assembled by'any one without the use of any tool, staples or adhesive of any kind, merely by folding upwards on the square crease in the center and interlocking the tabs in their corresponding slots as per detailed instructions.

This Christmas tree stand or holder can be made with three, `four or ve legs to fold eitherv up or down, but the four legged type to fold upwards is the most practical and it is my intention to manufacture the four legged type to fold upwards, of pasteboard :or cardboard and I have contemplated putting a small waterproof cup in the bottom of the stand to hold a small amount of water for the purpose of keeping the tree from shedding during the time it is in use.

I Wish my patent to cover the four legged type and made of the materials mentioned, that is pasteboard, cardboard or light sheet metal, in connection with my way of forming the stand of one piece of material and the Way its tabs and slots interlock together firmly without the use of my tool, or without theuseof staples, adhesive, ir without the use of any outside agent Whatioever.

In my drawing, the four legged type to yfold lpwards is the one illustrated.

Fig. 1 represents the square piece of material :reased and cut, showing the square crease in he center, dotted lines.

The solid black parts represent the slots I and` he notches 2. The rest of the lines, which are cut entirely through the material, are represented by 3. The tabs are represented by 4. The square in the center is represented by 5.

Fig. 2 is a drawing of my Christmas tree stand or holder, after it is assembled and ready for use.

Referring to Fig. 1. The material is merely folded upwards on the square dotted lines in the center and any tab 4, ts into the slot l, next to it and locks there.

The rest of the tabs d, are fitted into their corresponding slots l, thus forming a stand of pyramidal shape having four legs and a square hole in the center to receive the tree. The stand cannot be put together wrong.

Referring to Fig. l again, after the material is creased and cut, in process of manufacture, anyone can quickly bend it upwards along the square crease in the center 5, the tabs 4 go into their respective slots l and `with a slight push left and out snap into the notches 2 and are locked there. The tighter the tree fits the square hole, the rmer it is held.

I do not claim the invention of the Christmas tree stand or holder broadly speaking.

I claim:

A novelty in a Christmas tree holding stand formed of a single blank, having score lines delining a centrally disposed sq-uare'base section of variable size, each of said score lines being continued as a cut from one end thereof for dividing the blank into four equal sections, each cut being so made as to provide a tab extending outwardly from the edge of the section, and each section having a slot parallel to and rearwardly of the tab, the construction being such that when the sections are folded along the score lines with the tab of one section inserted in the slot of an adjacent section, a tree support having a square opening at the top, with support all the way from top to bottom of the stand for the tree and four outwardly extending legs is provided.

WILLIAM H. LOOKER.

` REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the' file of this patent:

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