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Christmas-tree stand

US6419202B1 · kind B1 · utility

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32Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJan 11, 2000
Grant dateJul 16, 2002
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 11, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47G2033/1286
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

The invention relates to a stand, particularly a stand for the substantially vertical erection of trunks of Christmas trees with adaptation to different sizes and characteristics of the trunks of Christmas trees, with a housing, with a receiving region for the trunk, with a clamping apparatus and with swivel-mounted holding elements, said holding elements being adapted to be swivelled by means of a force-transmission element and the clamping apparatus from and to the longitudinal axis of the trunk of the Christmas tree between an open position, receiving position, for receiving the trunk and a closed position, holding position, for holding the trunk. The housing is of one-part design and the holding elements are mounted on the one-part housing.

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