Improvements in Flower Pots.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 189-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1897
Improvements in Flower Pots.
I, HEINRICH IKEN, of Gerresheim, near Dusseldorf, in, the Province of the Rhine,
Prussia, Germany, General Secretary, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The present invention consists of flower pots made of sheet metal finely perforated
all over. Such flower pots may be made in all sizes and of the ordinary shape,
but it is necessary that the perforations be very fine so as to prevent the roots of
the plants from growing through the same, which renders re-planting very
difficult and dangerous to the health of the plants.
I may also construct flower pots of the larger kinds of two sheet metal receptacles,
of which the inner one is finely perforated, whilst the outer one may be plain
having no perforations, and may be decorated if desired. In this case I arrange
an air space round the inner receptacle and between it and the outer, the inner
one being advantageously supported in the outer one on a cross piece arranged in
the latter a little distance from the ground. The outer receptacle has of course no
bottom and the lower rim of the same is advantageously recessed to permit of free air
circulation under the inner receptacle. The inner receptacle may be supported
laterally in the outer one by means of U-iron bars extending from the outer wall
of the inner to the inner wall of the outer receptacle and secured by rivets or other
Or the same effect may be secured by employing distance bolts or rivets
arranged at suitable distances apart.
Pots of the present construction are much cheaper than the ordinary earthenware
ones and provide greater facilities for decorative purposes than the latter.
1, HEINRICH IKEN, of Gerresheim, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire,
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 consists of improvements in flower pots.
In order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference is
had to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference denote
similar parts throughout the several views:-
Fig. 1 being a part vertical section and part side elevation of a large flower pot
constructed according to the present invention,
Fig. 2 a horizontal section on line a-y of Figure 1, and,
Fig. 3 a side elevation of a smaller kind of flower pot.

page_text: Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 the device consists of an inner receptacle A made of
sheet metal and finely perforated all over as at c. These perforations must be very
fine as otherwise the roots of the plants will grow through and render replanting
of the same impossible or at any rate dangerous to the health of the plant.
The inner receptacle A is mounted on a cross piece D secured in the outer
receptacle B, said cross piece being arranged some little distance from the ground
and the lower rim B₁ of the outer receptacle being cut away at parts as shown
at B. The inner part A is steadied in the outer part by means of U-iron rods F
secured to the sides by rivets or other suitable means. Thus an air space is left at E
all round the inner receptacle. The outer part need not be perforated and may be
decorated in any suitable manner and provided with handles C.
Pots constructed in this manner are much cheaper than earthenware or wood pots
or tubs and are capable of much more effective decoration. They are just as healthy
for the plants as earthenware pots because the porosity of the latter is effectually
replaced by the fine perforations.
In Figure 3 an ordinary small flower pot made of sheet metal and provided with
fine perforations 6 is illustrated. The arrangement of the same is obvious from the
drawing and needs no further explanation.
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 sheet metal flower pot having over its whole surface fine perforations
substantially as described.
(2.) A sheet metal flower pot consisting of an inner perforated receptacle an outer
plain receptacle an air space around said receptacle and between it and the outer
one and the air space beneath the bottom of said inner receptacle substantially as
described.
(3.) The combination of an inner receptacle A having over its whole surface fine
perforations and outer plain receptacle B a cross piece D fixed therein near the
bottom, recesses B2 in the bottom rim of said outer receptacle and vertical U-irons F
fixed between the two receptacles substantially as described and shown and for the
purpose specified.
Dated this 16th day of December 1896
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.