Improvements in Drainage for Flower Pots, Boxes, Pans, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Drainage for Flower Pots, Boxes, Pans,
and the like.
I, JAMES LEWIS, of Hawarden 28 Westbourne Road, Penarth, in the County of
Glamorgan, Manufacturing Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved drainer for use as drainage for flower pots,
pans, boxes & the like.
My improved drainer consists of an appliance made of earthenware, wood or other
suitable material, to place at the bottom of the flower pot, box or pan &c. before the
soil is put in. The drainer is made grooved & perforated & of such shape or form
and size or sizes to suit the vessel to be drained.
Dated this 31st day of May 1894.
Improvements in Drainage for Flower Pots, Boxes, Pans,
and the like.
I, JAMES LEWIS, of Hawarden 28 Westbourne Road Penarth in the County of
Glamorgan Manufacturing Chemist 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in drainage for flower pots, boxes, pans, and
the like.
It consists essentially of an appliance made of earthenware, clay, wood, or any
other suitable material of such shape or size to suit the flower pot, box, pan or the
like, to be drained.
It is therefore specially adapted for use in draining flower pots, boxes, pans, and
the like, instead of the old plan of using broken crocks gravel or the like.
In order that the invention and the means by which it may be carried into
practical effect may be thoroughly understood 1 will now describe it in detail
referring in so doing to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of
this Specification & read therewith.
Fig. I is a sectional elevation of the drainer as when in position.
Fig. II is a sectional plan of a round shaped drainer.
Fig. III is a sectional plan of an oval shaped drainer.
Fig. III is a sectional plan of a square shaped drainer.
The drainer is made of various shapes and sizes to suit the requirements of the
horticulturalist. It is so constructed as to effectually keep the soil from choking
the hole at the bottom of flower pot, box pan or the like. The grooves
marked c in Figs. 2, 3 & 4 and dotted lines b' & 6 in Fig. 1 are intended to carry
away any excess of moisture in the soil, from too copious watering, through the
apertures marked 1. 2. 3. in Fig. 1. The holes a¹ & a in Fig. 1 and the perforations
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page_text: marked on drawings.in.Figs. 2. 3 & 4 are intended to supply air to the roots
of the plants as they absorb the moisture from the soil.
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The drainer need not necessarily be of either of the forms shewn in the
drawing but may be made to any shape suitable to the requirements of the
horticulturalist.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. A drainer made of the shape or material as described in the foregoing adapted
to the use of draining flower pots, boxes, pans, and the like.
2. The right to manufacture in any size or sizes, form or forms for the purposes
set forth in the Specification.
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JAMES LEWIS.