Improved Tub or Vessel for Holding Plants or the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Tub or Vessel for Holding Plants or the like.
I ANTON FIRMENICH, of 530 Hauptstrasse, Frechen, near Cologne, in the
Empire of Germany Inventor do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The present invention relates to a novel construction of tub by which 1 produce
A greatly improved tub or vessel by using which plants of all kinds can be readily
inspected as to the condition of their roots and can be easily changed into
larger tubs.
The improved plant tub is illustrated in the accompanying drawings ;
Fig. 1 being an elevation; and Fig. 2 a plan.
The improved plant tub consists essentially of a skeleton frame (advantageously
of galvanised iron) provided internally with grooved or recessed fillets or uprights a
adapted to receive suitable plates & advantageously of slate to thus form a state
enclosing wall.
Similarly the bottom cd made in two parts may also be supported by an irou
cross-piece which is connected to the framing and is placed underneath the
bottom co in a suitable position to support same. This iron cross-piece d may
also be galvanised. Tubs constructed in this manner have several important
advantages as compared with wooden tubs such as heretofore in use.
Thus, by drawing out one of the plates as shown in the drawings it can be
immediately ascertained whether the roots of the plant are still in a healthy
vigorous condition or whether they are attacked (for instance by insects) or
otherwise require attention.
Also the capacity of the slate surface (especially black slate) for taking up heat
serves also to supply the soil and roots of the plant in the tub rapidly with a
considerable amount of beat.
A great drawback experienced in the use of wooden tubs after a lapse of time
(say three or four years) consists in the roots becoming jammed fast in the
fissures or cracks produced by the moisture in the soil whereby the finer rootlets
are killed.
This drawback is obviated by the insertion of slate plates in the
Finally plants can ho changed from my improved tub in a most convenient and
improved plant tub.
easy manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A plant tub constructed of a skeleton metal frame provided with slide-way
fillets into which slide suitably shaped plates of slate so as to form the side wall of
the tub substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
2. The improved plant tub consisting of the combination of a skeleton metal
frame having uprights such as a adapted to receive and guide therein plates such as b
of slate or other suitable material adapted to slide in said guideways a bottom
formed of two pieces such as cc and cross bars such as d adapted to support said
bottom substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereiubefore set forth.

page_text: 3. The improved plant tub arranged combined and acting substantially in the
mauner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings
hereunto annexed.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1895.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.