| 摘要 |
An artificial palm tree has a trunk made from at least one tapered pole segment. Multiple trunk segments are butt connected with doweling screws threaded at both ends. A palm head in the form of a cylindrical solid is attached to an uppermost end of the uppermost segment of the trunk in the same manner as abutting segments of the trunk are attached to one another. A plurality of frond attachment holes are bored in the head. Each attachment hole is sized to accept a removable wood dowel pin. Each dowel pin, when inserted within its receiving hole, is angled to approximate the position of a frond on the trunk. Prior to assembly, each trunk segment and the palm head are individually wrapped with a layer of palm matting harvested from live palm trees. The matting layer is either stapled or adhesively bonded to the wrapped trunk segments and head. Wrapping of the palm head is performed with the dowel pins inserted within the frond attachment holes so that the dowel pins may serve to mark the location of the holes. Artificial and dried palm fronds obtained from a variety of sources may be affixed to the palm head. As each dowel pin is successively removed from the head, a frond is inserted in its place. Once all dowel pins have been replaced with fronds the palm head is attached to the assembled trunk. Alternatively, the fronds may be attached to the palm head after it is attached to the trunk. For another embodiment of the invention, each of the dowel pins becomes part of the assembled tree, being axially drilled to receive the attachment end of a high-tensile steel wire which serves as the central rib of a particular type of commercially-available frond. One or more artificial palm trees manufactured in accordance with the present invention are anchored to a steel fabricated from a base member, at least one upright right-angle support bracket to which a lowermost trunk segment is strapped, and an alignment pin associated with each bracket which fits into an alignment hole bored in the base of the lowermost trunk segment.
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