Improvements relating to Saucers and Stands for Flower Pots for Preventing Access of Insects to the Plants.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd May, 1894-Accepted, 6th July, 1995
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Saucers and Stands for Flower Pots for
Preventing Access of Insects to the Plants.
HERBERT. FRANCIS BROWN of 129 Selhurst Road South Norwood S. E. in the
County of Surrey Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to. be
as follows:-
This apparatus which will be made from pottery wares is for preventing access
of insects to the plants in pots placed upon,the said apparatus.
The stand upon which the pot stands is placed in a recess in a saucer which is
filled to the brim with a strong solution of salt,& water against which insects will
not go.
The saucer is quite round & about 1 inches deep. The recess in the middle is
inch and allows of the stand to be placed therein for security.
The construction of stand is similar to the bottom of an ordinary flower pot
with 4 holes at bottom & one at top for drainage & stands inch above the level of
rim of saucer.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1894
Improvements relating to Saucers and. Stands for Flower Pots for
Preventing Access of Insects to the Plants.
1, HERBERT FRANCIS BROWN,.of: 129. Selhurst Road, South Norwood, S.E. in
the County of Surrey, Traveller, 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:—
This invention relates to saucers and stands for flower pots for preventing access
of insects to the plants.
This apparatus consists of two distinctly constructive elements, viz... a stump pot
and an internally rimmed saucer both made preferably from pottery or glass wares
for preventing access of insects to the plants in pots placed upon the said apparatus.
The stand. upon which the pot stands is somewhat higher than the saucer in which
it is placed being filled with water into which insects will not go.
For table decoration and other purposes the article may be formed of metal if
desired.
The invention will be clearly understood from a reference to the annexed
drawings.
Figure 1 indicates a short or stump pot shaped appliance with a central hole A
in its upper or otherwise closed end.B,,this being of sufficient width for an ordinary
flower or plant pot to stand on. Near the bottom C are a series of holes D, D,
which however may be actually at the bottom edge, so that said stump pot may
rest upon the edge portions between the series of holes or slots.
Figure 2 represents the saucer E in which such a stump pot as that shown at
Figure 1 can be lodged with its broadest diameter downwards, said saucer having
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page_text: an internal bottom annular rib F as part of the side wall G and of the bottom H
to give strength, and within which and resting on the bottom, a stump pot can be
placed, the rim, so to speak, centralizing the position of the stump pot when placed
in the saucer.
Figure 3 represents the stump pot and saucer as two articles but they are intended
to be used in combination for support of a flower or plant pot to stand upon, and as
a water holding medium to prevent access of insects.
In the case of many succulent and other plants, particularly those of the flowering
kinds, great ravages and destruction occur from, in the ordinary way, insects
crawling up the pots and after penetrating the bark or outer skin feeding upon the
sap of the plant, or of crawling up the stem and nibbling at the flowers as to destroy
their beauty or their foliage which creates a constant source of annoyance to the
grower and necessitating a constant watch on the part of an attendant.
The
greatest destruction however goes on during the night time.
With orchids, carnations, and other tender yet valuable plants and also with
fruit and other trees grown in pots, it is of the utmost cousequence and desire to
raise fine well formed heads, trusses, or fruits, and necessarily demands some
efforts to prevent such disadvantages, and which my invention is intended to provide
against.
I am aware that flower and pot plants have been placed upon ordinary flower
pots when inverted but from the height of the lower pots and the absence of a
free or constant passage of moist air to the interior of such lower part, the aëration
of the upper pot soil is prevented, consequently the growth of the plant becomes
stunted, or the flowers do not develop.
By my invention, there being a constant inflow of air into the interior of the
lower porous pot or stand coupled with its action on the surface of the contained
water, causes an evaporation and the travel of moist air up through the plant pot
by its vent and a free dissemination among the soil and the roots of a plant, which
tends to invigorate it and improve its foliage and flowers, or foliage and quality of
the fruit as the case may be, at the same time the odour or fragrance of the flower
or the fruit is much enhanced.
I am also aware that a combined pot stand and saucer as a single article has
heen used, but the top of such stand is composed of a rim only with recesses
formed in said rim; this is found objectionable for the purpose on account of the
moist air escaping sideways through the holes in the rim instead of being held
within the stump pot as with my invention, so that its only outlet is from its central
hole and up through the plant pot, the water in the saucer preventing the entrance
of insects.
A pot of smaller diameter than the rim of such a stand cannot be used but with
my stand any size pot can be employed with free drainage.
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 :-
The improvements relating to saucers and stands for flower pots for preventing
access of insects as hereinbefore set forth, the saucer being one article with an
internal annular rib or fillet for centralizing the stand or stump pot placed therein,
said stand constituting a separate article with a closed top except to central hole as
shown and for the purposes described.
The 22nd day of May 1805
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Herbert Francis Brown.