An Improved Suspender for Flower-pots or Orchid-baskets.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 20th Jan., 1890-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Suspender for Flower-pots or Orchid-baskets.
:
I WILLIAM GOARING of Weald Hall Gardens, Brentwood in the County of Essex,
Head Gardener, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to means of suspending plants in flower pots or orchid baskets
in a manner to expose to view the greatest amount of foliage and to render all sides
of the plant easily accessible.
For this purpose I provide a swivel hook secured at one extremity of a bent
rigid wire, the other extremity of which is formed into a ring standing out approximately
at right angles from the lower end of the dependent wire.
The dependent wire is bent to the required curve to bring the centre of the ring
perpendicularly under the axis of the swivel hook referred to.
In the case of plants in flower-pots the flower-pots are secured in the suspender
by inserting the pot in the ring. The extremity of the wire forming the ring is bent
in an upward direction forming a spur between which and the dependent wire of the
suspender an orchid basket may be clamped so that it is retained securely upon the
ring which forms the base of the suspender.
Dated thin 90th dove of Amil 1000
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Suspender for Flower-pots or Orchid-baskets.
I WILLIAM GOARING of Weald Hall Gardens, Brentwood in the County of Essex,
Head Gardener 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 :-
This invention relates to means of suspending plants in flower-pots or in orchid-
baskets in a manner to expose to view the greatest amount of foliage and to render
all sides of the plant easily accessible.
For this purpose I provide a swivel hook secured at one extremity of a bent rigid
wire, the other extremity of which is formed into a ring standing out approximately at
right angles from the lower end of the dependent wire.
The dependent wire is bent to the required curve to bring the centre of the ring
perpendicularly under the axis of the swivel hook referred to.
In the case of plants in flower-pots the flower-pots are secured in the suspender by
inserting the pot in the ring.
The extremity of the wire forming the ring is bent in an upward direction forming
a spur between which and the dependent wire of the suspender, an orchid-basket may
be clamped so that it is retained securely upon the ring which forms the base of the
suspender.
This device is represented in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is an
elevation and Figure 2 is a plan of the suspender for flower-pots or orchid-baskets.
The dependent wire is represented as bent to the required curve to bring the axis of
the swivel hook perpendicularly over the ring; but when loaded with a flower pot the
wire assumes the shape hereinbefore referred to bringing the centre of the ring
perpendicularly under the axis of the swivel hook.
A is the swivel hook B is the dependent wire bent into the form shown for enclosing
a flower-pot the extremity of the wire being bent up to form the spur C between which

page_text: and the dependent wire an orchid-basket may be clamped by means of the sliding
hook D.
Thus the suspenders made as represented in the accompanying drawings may serve
either for holding flowers in pots or in orchid baskets.
If the suspenders are made especially for flowers in pots then the clamping book D
and the spur C may be dispensed with and if they are made especially for flowers in
orchid baskets then the supporting base may be somewhat square in shape to agree
with the shape of the orchid basket instead of being circular as required for enclosing
a flower pot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A suspender for flowers in flower-pots or orchid-baskets consisting of a single
dependent wire with a suitable base for enclosing the flower-pot or retaining the
orchid-basket substantially' as described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a suspender for flowers in flower-pots or orchid-baskets. the combination of
the swivel hook A and the dependent wire B formed at its extremity for enclosing
the flower-pot or retaining the orchid-basket substantially as described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
3. In a suspender for flowers in orchid-baskets the combination of the spur C and
the sliding hook D for clamping the orchid-basket in position substantially as described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of January 1890.
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AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicant.