Improvements in Flower Pots.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flower Pots.
I, DUDLEY WILLIAM WILSON, of Dempster Road, Wandsworth, in the
County of Surrey, Warehouse Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an improved flower pot having a water
reservoir for supplying water to the plant as required.
I effect this in the following manner: Round the upper portion of a flower pot
of the ordinary form I construct an annular reservoir, preferably glazed on its inner
surface, but no part of the flower pot proper is glazed. The water is contained in
the reservoir and filters through the porous sides of the flower pot into the earth at
the top.
The side of the reservoir may be continued downwards below the bottom of the
flower pot so as to form an ornamental surrounding and stand for the same. But I
prefer to make the stand separate from the flower pot. In this case the bottom of
the reservoir rests upon the upper edge of the circular stand, or the circular stand
may be continued upwards so as to completely hide the flower pot.
The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.
Fig. I. shews a section and plan of the first form having an annular reservoir a
containing water to feed the plant as required.
Fig. 1. shews a form of flower pot having the side of the reservoir continued
downwards to form an ornamental surrounding and stand.
Fig. III. shews a flower pot of the first named form surmounting an ornamental
stand b made separate from the pot.
Fig. IV. shews a flower pot of the first named form carried by an ornamental
stand having its side continued upwards so as to completely hide the flower pot.
Dated this 18th day of June 1891.
DUDLEY WILLIAM WILSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flower Pots.
1, DUDLEY WILLIAM WILSON, of Dempster Road, Wandsworth, in the
County of Surrey, Warehouse Manager, 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 object of this invention is to provide an improved flower pot having a water
reservoir for supplying water to the plant as required.
I effect this in the following manner: Round the upper portion of a flower pot of
the ordinary form construct an annular reservoir preferably glazed on its outer
surface, but no part of the flower pot proper is glazed. The water is contained in
the reservoir and filters through the porous sides of the flower pot into the earth at
the top.
The sides of the reservoir may be continued downwards below the bottom of the
flower pot so as to form an ornamental surrounding and stand for the same. But I
prefer to make the stand separate from the flower pot. In this case the bottom
of the reservoir rests upon the upper edge of the circular stand, or the circular
stand may be continued upwards so as to completely hide the flower pot.

page_text: Reference is made to the drawings accompanying the Provisional Specification.
Fig. I. shews a section and plan of the first form having an annular reservoir a
containing water to feed the plant as required.
Fig. II. shews a form of flower pot having the side of the reservoir continued
downwards so as to form an ornamental surrounding and stand.
Fig. III. shews a flower pot of the first named form surmounting an ornamental
stand made separate from the pot.
Fig. IV. shews a flower pot of the first named form carried by an ornamental
stand having its side continued upwards so as to completely hide the 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. flower pot having a water reservoir round its upper portion as described
and illustrated in Fig. I.
2. A flower pot having a water reservoir round its upper portion, and having the
sides of the reservoir produced downwards to form an ornamental stand and
surrounding for the pot as described and illustrated in Fig. II.
Dated this 17th day of March 1892.
DUDLEY WILLIAM WILSON.