Christmas light display apparatus
View Patent ↗The invention is an apparatus that facilitates the efficient arrangement of a Christmas light display and the efficient removal of that display. The invention accomplishes this through the use of a sliding rod and a multitude of alternating hanger members. The rod and hangers are slidingly attached to each other allowing the positioning of light strands around a columnar article in a knitting arrangement. Accordingly, when removal of the display is desired, an end restraint is removed and the rod is pulled out of the display by sliding through the hangers. The result, therefore, is that the hangers and their attached light strands fall freely from the columnar article.
1. A method of knitting a light strand around a columnar article comprising the steps of:
a. providing a columnar article;
b. providing a light strand display apparatus comprising a multitude of linearly oriented successive hanger members and a flexible rod slidingly connected to said multitude of linearly oriented successive hanger members and a pair of end restraints removably connected to said flexible rod for restraining said successive hanger members from sliding off of said rod;
c. providing a light strand;
d. temporarily securing the light strand display apparatus parallel to said columnar article;
e. hooking said light strand through the first hanger member of said successive hanger members;
f. wrapping said light strand around said columnar article in a direction generally away from the first hanger member but further along said columnar article;
g. hooking said light strand through the next hanger member of said successive hanger members;
h. reversing direction and wrapping said light strand around the columnar article, and
i. repeating steps (g) and (h) until said light strand is attached to the last successive hanger member.
2. The method of knitting a light strand around a columnar article of claim 1 wherein the linearly oriented successive hanger members of said light strand display apparatus provided in step (b) are arranged in an alternating opposing orientation.