Illuminant imitation plant and method of making the same

• US 20050136197A1
• Filed: 11/16/2004
• Published: 06/23/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Li Min Liu
• Original Assignee: Li Min Liu
• Inventors: Liu, Li Min
• Granted Patent: US 7,559,666 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/13
• CPC Class Codes: A41G 1/005 luminous or luminescent
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/805 Horticultural

Abstract

An illuminating imitation plant, comprising a stem, twigs and leaves. Said stem is made as the pattern of a real plant stem and stem light circles and light bands are arranged outside or inside the stem at intervals; the elastic supporting rod is installed in the middle of said stem and interposes pin said stem; meanwhile, the illuminant bodies are installed inside twigs on which multiple leaves are distributed; said leaves imitate the natural leaves and colors and show natural flexible patterns and are also inserted with elastic strips and with distributed light bands made of illuminant bodies and photo conducting materials. The twigs and leaves are ideally elastic and flexible especially can wobble vividly when it is breezy. They also glow more evenly and dimly and the effects of night illuming and decorating are excellent.

Claims

1. An illuminant imitation plant comprising the stem, twig and leaf, said stem is built up as the pattern and color of a real plant;

a elastic supporting rod is installed in the middle of said stem, and interposes said stem with multiple leaves distributed on it;

said leaves are made imitating the natural leaves and colors and show natural soft patterns, also the leaves are installed with elastic strips and are distributed with light bands made of illuminant bodies and photo conducting materials.

2. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein stem light circles and light bands are arranged outside or inside said stem at intervals and light bands made of illuminant bodies and photo conducting materials are installed in the twigs.

3. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein the elastic supporting rods installed in the twigs are steel wires or elastic supporting rods made of multiple steel wires or the elastic framework tendons molded by plastic injection molding.

4. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein said elastic strip installed in said leaves are elastic steel wire strip.

5. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein said light bands are made of illuminant bodies and the segmented photo conducting materials arranged at intervals or of EL cold light laminates or wires and OLED illuminant laminates, which pass through the hollow cavities of the leaves or twigs, and can also be stuck to the leaves, twigs or stems.

6. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein said light band is made of illuminant bodies and segmented photo conducting materials and passes through the hollow cavities of the leaves or twigs, and can also be stuck to the leaves or twigs.

7. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein said stem is formed by pouring cement or resin or plastics onto metal framework.

8. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein said leaf has hollow cavity in structure and is shaped by the plastic molding;

the middle of it is elastic framework tendon, its two sides are platy leaf blades, the hollow cavities are distributed in the framework tendons in the same direction as the framework tendons and are respective cavities for installing the steel wire and light bands.

9. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 8, wherein said hollow cavity is a single supporting hole and a single illuminant placing hole, or double supporting holes and double illuminant body placing holes, or a single supporting hole and double illuminant body placing holes.

10. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein said illuminant body are made of LED tubes or EL cold light wires or laminates or OLED illuminant body laminates.

11. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein said stem top is airtight and connects with power supply block terminal which is connected with a cable linker through a cable water proof lock.

12. The illuminant imitation plant of claim 1, wherein the cables are installed inside the plastic soft tubes in said twigs, and are airtight sealed at the openings of the plastic soft tubes;

a space is kept inside the poured or pressure injected plastic soft tubes.

13. A method of making illuminant imitation plant of claim 1 with steps:

prepare a whole imitating stem or separated stems and then to assemble them to be an entire one;

stem light circles and light bands are arranged outside or inside said stem at intervals;

prepare leaves in shapes and colors of a real plant by using flexible photopermeable materials after the injection molding or extrusion, and the hollow cavities comprising supporting holes and lamp placing holes to be prepared at the same time and then to prune the made leaves as desired shapes, then to put the light band comprising elastic strips, illuminant bodies and photo conducting materials into leaves, wherein the cable wire connecting every illuminant bodies in the leaves are encompassed with plastic soft tubes, further, to add elastic supporting rods to assemble said multiple leaves to form an entire twig by using injection molding or pouring;

then insert the twigs with leaves to the imitation stems, and make the power supply control supply electrical current to illuminant bodies through connecting a cable and a cable linker with respective cables on each twig.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein tops of said imitation stem are sealed and connected with a power supply block terminal which connects with a cable linker through a cable water proof lock and further contact and connect with the cable linkers in each twig through the cable linker.

15. A method for making illuminant imitation plant of claim 1 with steps:

prepare a whole imitating stem or separated stems and then to assemble them to be an entire one;

stem light circles and light bands are arranged outside or inside said stem at intervals;

make imitation leaves by using color plastics or fabric materials, and illuminant bodies and photo conducting materials are filled in the hollow cavities preserved in the leaves, further, the illuminant bodies and photo conducting materials are arranged at intervals and then sealed as strip-like light bands, or illuminant bodies and photo conducting materials construct light bands which are then stuck to leaves or to leaves by injection molding, the elastic strips pass through leaves and the latter connect with twigs, meanwhile, the cables of illuminant bodies inside the leaves also link with those inside the twigs, a twig is constructed by one leave and one leave stalk or multiple leaves with one leave stalk, and is passed through with elastic supporting rods, also a twig is installed with light bands comprising illuminant bodies and photo conducting materials;

then insert the twigs bearing leaves into imitating stems, and the power supply control at the lower middle part of the imitating stem supply electrical current to the lamp series by the cables connecting with those of twigs, leaves and imitation stems so as to produce an illuminant imitation plant.