Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr.. 1887.
Complete Left, 3rd May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th June, 1887.
I, JOSEPH DE PAIVA of 4, Tower Chambers, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention is designed to avoid the necessity of tying plants and the many
disadvantages resulting therefrom.
I use any form of stick, wood, cane, iron, tubular or solid, but at one or more points
in its height, pierce it with preferably two holes near together or a slit. In the two
holes, I place the two ends of a soft wire bent something like the letter 1, but with
rectangular turn, if the slit be used, I pass through it the end of a copper or other
soft metal ribbon, bending the short end round the stick, while the long one projects.
If wire be used, with very delicate plants, I prefer to thread a piece of leather or
cloth on the wire to go next the plant. To use the stick it is placed in the ground
alongside the stem it has to support and each wire or ribbon (if there be more than
one) is bent round the stem.
For export or carriage, the wire or ribbon can be bent down alongside the stick
or coiled round it. The top of the stick can be flattened and painted for a name
plate.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: This invention is designed to avoid the necessity_of_tying_plants and the many
disadvantages resulting therefrom.
It is described by aid of the accompanying drawings in these,
Figure 1 shows an elevation and
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Figure 2 a plan of a stick to support a comparatively low fragile stem.
A is the stick, B soft wire, preferably of copper fixed into two holes made in the
stick, Ca piece of leather or cloth threaded on the wire to give a larger bearing
surface against the stem than the wire itself affords. Figure 2 shows the wire and
leather bent round stem D as they actually are when in use. E is a flat place for the
name of the plant.
Figures 3 and 4 show another variation.
Figure 3 is a tapered stick, and Figure 4 a series of wires with eyes varying in size,
that can slide onto the stick, and stand at varying heights, and thus hold different
points in the stem as depicted in dotted lines in Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a form of wire for a parallel square stick. This stick is bored with
holes, or provided with longitudinal groove at various points as shown in section at G,
and then end I is pressed down into the hole.
Figure 6 is a similar wire for a cylindrical stick.
Figure 7 shows a double ended wire coiled in the centre to fit the stick, both ends
can then be used for supporting stem.
Figure 8. shows both ends of the wire passed through a hole in the stick, both
ends can then be used for supporting the stem.
Figure 9 also shows the wire passed through the stick in a similar manner, but
the wire is bent round the stick, so that it can be held at any desired angle
thereto.
For carriage and storage the wires can be packed separately from the sticks, or
inserted and bent round or alongside the stick to take little room.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I doclare that what I claim is :-
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1st. The method of supporting plants which consists in employing a stick (stako or
tube) and piece of soft bending wire, supporting the wire on the stick by one end,
bent to suit, or by a turn in the middle, substantially as described and bending the
projecting end or ends of the wire round the stem with or without protecting cloth or.
leather, substantially as described.
2nd. The various combined appliances for supporting plants consisting of stick and
wire, substantially as described.