Improvements relating to Flower Holders.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 27th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Flower Holders.
We, ALBERT LOSCHER of 101 Waddon New Road, Croydon, Engineer, and
HENRY ROBERT HARVEY of 7 Church Road, Croydon, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to flower holders for attachment to wearing apparel &c.
and in accordance with which we proceed as follows:-
To the front or back of a frame made of wire, sheet-metal or other suitable
material having at one end a hook or pin, or both hook and pin, turned over
backward and downward, we attach a loop made of wire, sheet-metal or other
suitable material, and so placed that its lower end when in its normal position rests
upon the lower end of the frame, against which it is pressed by a tongue or by a
helical or flat or spiral spring made of metal, rubber or other suitable material; so
as to ensure that the stalk of the flower shall be held firmly between the frame
and the aforesaid loop; the above referred to hook or pin, or both, serving to
attach the device to or suspend it from a button hole or other portion of the dress
or hair of the user. We may enclose the said spring within a lap, bend or curl of
the wire or other material forming the frame; or it may be held by or fixed thereto
in any other suitable manner provided always that one end of the said spring is
securely fixed to the frame, the other end brought downwards and bent over one
side or limb of the loop and being free to slide upon the said loop so as to afford
the latter the necessary elasticity.
We may make the loop and spring aforesaid together of one length of wire
or piece of sheet-metal or other material; or we may make the whole device―
consisting of frame, spring and loop-together of one length of wire or piece
of sheet-metal or other material the necessary elasticity in the spring or tongue
being ensured by a process of hardening and tempering, if metal be the material
employed.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1901
E. J. TRUSTRAM,
61, Cheapside, E.C., Applicants' Agent.
improvements relating to fro
We ALBERT LÖSCHER of 101 Waddon New Road, Croydon, Surrey, Engineer
and HENRY ROBERT HARVEY of 7 Church Road, Croydon, Surrey, Engineer 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:-
Our invention relates to flower holders for attachment to wearing apparel &c.
and in accordance with which we proceed as follows:-To the front, or back, of a
frame made of wire, sheet metal, or other suitable material having at one end a
hook, or pin, or both hook and pin, turned over backward and downward, we attach

page_text: a loop made of wire, sheet metal or other suitable material, and so placed that its
free end when in its normal position, rests upon one end of the frame aforesaid,
against which it is pressed by a tongue, or by a helical, or flat, or spiral, spring,
made of metal, rubber, or other suitable material; so as to ensure that the stalk
of the flower shall be held firmly between the frame and the loop aforesaid. The
above referred to hook or pin or both, serve to attach the device to, or suspend it
from, a button hole or other portion of the dress, or in the hair, of the user. We
may enclose the said spring within a lap, bend or curl of the wire or other material
forming the frame, as in the accompanying Fig. 5; or it may be held by or fixed
thereto in any other suitable manner, provided always that one end of the said
spring is fixed to, or rests securely against, the frame; the other end being brought
downward and upon or over one side or limb of the loop and being free to slide
upon the said loop so as to afford the latter the necessary elasticity.
We may make the loop and spring together of one length of wire or piece of
sheet-metal or other suitable material; or we may make the whole device-
consisting of frame, spring and loop-together of one length of wire or piece
of sheet-metal or other suitable material-as in Figs. 1 & 2, 1 & 2 and 1º;
the necessary elasticity in the spring or tongue being ensured by a process of
hardening and tempering, if metal be the material employed; or we may make the
frame and spring together of one length of wire, piece of sheet-metal or other
suitable material as in Fig. 3. the one end of the frame being bent upwards and
tempered as a spring if metal be the material employed.
In order that the nature of our invention and the manner in which it is to be
carried out may be better understood, we attach the accompanying drawings, to
which we now proceed to refer, and in which like letters apply to corresponding
parts in all the figs. so far as this can be done.
Fig. 1 shows one form of our flowerholder in which the whole device is stamped
out from one piece of sheet-metal to the shape more or less of A, having a piece b
to form the hook for attaching the holder to the garment or hair; c is a hole left
by a piece stamped out of a, a¹ (to waste); the hole forming in this case the loop
for the flowerstalks to pass through; a is folded over across the said hole
towards a and brought to the edges of, or to between the flanges d, d, which are
bent to right angles, more or less, from the flat, and which may be made larger or
smaller in proportion than shown. Here the frame a a¹ forms also the flat spring,
when suitably tempered. A₁ is a front view, A, a back view and A, a side view
of this form when ready for use. Fig. 1 is a modification of the Fig. 1, having
in addition to the beforementioned parts a separate loop attached to and between
the flanges by an axial pin or by a projection stamped out as part of the loop in
the process of construction. This loop is given its elasticity and pressed against the
frame by the flatspring behind it, formed of part of the frame a a. Fig. 1 is as
Fig. 1 but without the hook which latter is substituted by a pin which may be
passed through or otherwise attached to, in any suitable manner, the back of that
part of the frame which is between the flanges. Fig. 1" is another modification
of Fig. 1 differing only in that a is so folded over towards a' as to bring the
end a above the upper edges of the flanges d, d and that the tip of a is then bent
over forward substantially in the manner shown.
Fig. 2 is another form of the article, in which the portion (Fig. 1) is not
stamped out from beyond the flanges, but for it is substituted a tongue e cut in the
frame al a in the place of the hole c (Fig. 1). O shows how this form may be
folded; but we prefer to represent it as at B, of which B₁ and B₂ are the front
and back views respectively. In this form the tongue e is bent to form a hook,
or bent and shortened to receive a pin (or it may be done away with as in
Fig 1) and the pin may be as in Fig. 2B, threaded or otherwise suitably attached.
Fig. 3 shows front and side views of another modification of form, having a
separate loop attached in manner as described under Fig. 1; the spring; being
formed by the frame between a', a and a; and in this form there may be provided
either a hook 6 or a piro

page_text: Fig. 4 is a form in which the frame a', a and loop are separate and made of
sheet-metal or other suitable material; the springs, also separate and made of
wire or other suitable material, of which the one ends is attached or bears
upon the frame, the other end s upon the loop 1. This form may also be provided
with either hook or pin.
Fig. 5 shows the frame a¹ a folded so as to
more or less encase the spring
the ends of which is secured to the frame and the free end s¹ is bent upon and
over the loop, l, of wire or other suitable material. This form may also have
either hook or pin.
Fig. 6 shows the frame, loop and spring made of wire either in one length or
each such part being made of a separate piece.
Figs. 7 & 8 show back and side views (one front view) of a frame in form of a
shield, plate or stud-face suitable for bearing some ornamentation or inlay. In
these forms the loop may be made of wire or sheet metal or other suitable material
or stamped out from the frame (shield or other shape); the spring may be separate
as in Fig. 7 and made of a coil of wire, a flat piece of metal or of other suitable
material; or it may be stamped out from the frame as in Fig. 8 and tempered as a
spring. The hook or pin may be formed by a prolongation of the flat or coiled
spring bent for that purpose as in Fig. 7; or it may be stamped out of the frame
or in any suitable manner made and affixed to the frame or loop as in Fig. 8.
Wherever in the above description a coiled spring is provided for, a flat or other
suitable spring may be substituted in lieu in any suitable manner, as in Fig. 8 among
other methods.
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Nothing in the terms of this Specification shall be held to prevent us from so
cutting the tongue "e (Fig. 2) nor from so making, forming, affixing or placing
the hook or pin and the loop in any form of this device so that it may be worn as
shown in the accompanying figs. or so that it may be worn the contrary end
upwards (up end down) or the contrary side before (obversely); and the flower
may enter from either side or either end of the device accordingly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved flower-holding device made up in the manner substantially as
herein above set forth.
Dated the 26th day of December 1894.
HENRY ROBERT HARVEY,
7, Church Road, Croydon.