An Improved Stake for Supporting Carnations or other similar purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1897-Accepted, 17th July, 1897
Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1897-Accepted, 17th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stake for Supporting Carnations or other similar
purposes.
I, ALBERT PORTER of Stone House Maidstone in the County of Kent, Steward,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an improved stake for supporting
carnations or similar flowers or plants or for like purposes, which will support
the same without tying or other fastening of the plant or the like thereto and
which shall be durable and suitable for repeated use.
The improved stake is made of a suitable length of wire or other material
twisted into a helix of which the pitch very greatly exceeds the diameter, the
latter being preferably but slightly larger than or equal to the diameter of
the stem or group of stems of the plant intended to be supported by this stake.
The one end of the stake may be straight where it is to be inserted in the ground
and the other end may be twisted to form one coil or part of a coil of a quick
pitch or to form in effect an eye or hook lying in a horizontal plane through which
the stem or stems will pass after the stake has been inserted in the ground and
the stem or stems brought by a twisting movement within the helix.
To avoid injury to bulbs, when used for bulbous plants, the stake may be bent
outwardly at its lower part previously to being bent downwardly to provide the
tongue which is to be inserted in the ground.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Agents to Applicant.
An Improved Stake for Supporting Carnations or other similar
purposes.
I, ALBERT PORTER, of Stone House, Maidstone in the County of Kent, Steward,
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 stake for supporting
carnations or similar flowers or plants or for like purposes, which will support the
same without tying or other fastening of the plant or the like thereto and which
shall be durable and suitable for repeated use.
The annexed drawing illustrates the stake and the mode of its employment.

page_text: The improved stake is made of a suitable length of wire or other material
twisted into a helix A of which the pitch very greatly exceeds the diameter, the
latter being preferably but slightly larger than or equal to the diameter of the
stem or group of stems B of the plant intended to be supported by this stake A.
The one end of the stake at C is straight where it is to be inserted in the ground
and the other end twisted to form one coil or part of a coil D of a quick pitch
or to form in effect an eye or hook lying preferably in a horizontal plane or in a
slightly inclined plane through which eye or hook the stem or stems B will pass
after the stake has been inserted in the ground and the stem or stems B brought
by a twisting movement within the helix A.
To avoid injury to bulbs, when used for bulbous plants, the stake may be bent
outwardly at its lower part as shown at E in the dotted lines previously to being
bent downwardly to provide the tongue which is to be inserted in the ground.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The improved stake constructed substantially as illustrated and described.
2. The improved stake comprising the helical portion A, the hook or eye D and
the straight part C substantially as set forth.
3. The improved stake comprising the helical portion A, the hook or eye D and
the laterally bent prong E substantially as set forth.
Doted this 17th day of Tune 1807
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agents to Applicant.