Decorative plastics strips and motifs

Claim 1

A decorative motif as claimed in claim 1, wherein each end of the web portion of the twin-beaded strip projects slightly beyond the inner edges of the mitered bead portions and extends into a recess, of a height approximately corresponding to the thickness of the web portion, along the inwardly facing side of the bead portion of the associated piece of auxiliary strip.

Claim 4

The method of making a decorative motif in the form of a panel, comprising the steps of fabricating a twin-beaded decorative plastics strip comprised of a central tape-like web portion along each side of which is a bead portion which projects above the front face of said web portion, each bead portion having a thin and narrow welding flange portion projecting outwardly from the back edge thereof in the plane of said web portion, said extruded plastics strip having bonded to the front face of said web portion a strip of material providing a desired decorative finish to said web portion, and each of said bead portions having a metallized appearance, fabricating a strip of auxiliary plastics material comprising a bead portion having the shape of one of said bead portions of the twin-beaded strip, said bead portion having a metallized appearance, and thin and narrow flanges projecting outwardly in opposite directions from both rear edges of the bead portion, cutting off a desired length of the twin-beaded strip, mitering the ends of thE bead portions thereof and cutting off the ends of the web portion between the mitered ends of the bead portions, cutting pieces of the auxiliary strip and mitering their ends so as to fit between the mitered ends of the bead portions of the twin-beaded strip, and then positioning the pieces of auxiliary strip across the ends of the twin-beaded strip with their inwardly facing flanges beneath the ends of the web portion and bonding said flanges to the back of the web portion.