IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING FRAMES, TRAYS, POTS, OR HOLDERS FOR FLOWERS. PLANTS, OR SHRUBS, GROWING OR OTHERWISE, WITH ABRANGEMENTS FOR THEIR DISPLAY, AND ALSO FOR DRAINAGE
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Weeks, of Bromley, in the County of Kent,
Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONSTRUCTING FRAMES,
TRAYS, POTS, OR HOLDERS FOR FLOWERS. PLANTS, OR SHRUBS, GROWING OR
OTHERWISE, WITH ABRANGEMENTS FOR THEIR DISPLAY, AND ALSO FOR
DRAINAGE,"
Sealed the 6th March 1863, and dated the 11th September 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Weeks at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th September 1862.
I, GEORGE WEEKS, of Bromley, in the County of Kent, Ironmonger, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CON-
STRUCTING FRAMES, TRAYS, POTS, OR HOLDERS FOR FLOWERS, PLANTS, OR SHRUBS,
GROWING OR OTHERWISE, WITH ARRANGEMENTS FOR THEIR DISPLAY. AND ALSO FOR
DRAINAGE," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing frames, trays, pots, and holders for
flowers, plants, and shrubs, with a hollow stand, pedestal, or support, which shall
or may raise or mount them at a convenient height above the table or ground,
and shall serve as a reservoir or receptacle for the water with which they
may be watered to drain into, and the constructing them with a hollow
chamber or passage for water, formed eutirely or principally of a pair of
plates or thicknesses of metal, or other material, which may be parallel to

page_text: each other or not, the lower one being so dished or inclined as to drain or
throw off thewater into the reservoir above mentioned, andthe upper one having
perforations through which the water may pass, and also having partitions
and divisions upon it for separating the flowers, plants, or shrubs to be
exhibited, so as to display them to advantage. The construction to be either
without or in combination with one or more wells or holders over and
draining directly or indirectly into the reservoir. The reservoir may be
made separate from the other parts, but so that these may be fitted on to it
and removed at pleasure. The flowers, plants, and shrubs may be placed
in moss or earth supported by the upper plate, and in the well or wells
when used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Weeks in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th March 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WEEKS, of Bromley, in the County of Kent, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Lotters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of September, in the year ofour Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Weeks, Her special licence that I, the said George Weeks, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Weeks, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exer-
cise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CON-
STRUCTING FRAMES, TRAYS, POTS, OR HOLDERS FOR FLOWERS, PLANTS, OR SHRUBS
GROWING OR OTHERWISE, WITH ARRANGEMENTS FOR THEIR DISPLAY, AND ALSO FOR
DRAINAGE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Weeks, my executors or administrators by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Weeks, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
(No. 1.) My Invention consists in constructing frames, trays, pots,' and
holders for flowers, plants, and shrubs, with a hollow stand, pedestal, or
support, which shall or may raise or mount, them at a convenient height above
the table or ground, and shall serve as a reservoir or receptacle for the water
with which they may be watered to drain into,and the constructing them with
a hollow chamber or passage for water, formed entirely or principally of a
pair of plates or thicknesses of metal,or porcelain, or fictile, or other material,
which may be parallel to each other or not, the lower one being so dished or
inclined as to drain or throw off the water into the reservoir,above mentioned
and the upper one having perforations through which the water inay pass,and
also having or not having partitions or divisions upon it for separating the
flowers, plants, or shrubs to be exhibited, so as to display them to advantage.
Further, I can, if desired, use in combination with the aforesaid arrange-
ments, one or more water chambers or receptacles draining directly or
indirectly into the reservoir. The reservoir, when made separate from the
other parts, will be so fitted on to it as to be removable at pleasure. The
flowers, plants, shrubs, and mosses may be placed in earth, or the appropriate
compost supported bythe upper plate,and in the pots or divisions when used.
Further, the reservoir aforesaid may be used independently of any other
parts mentioned, in conjunction with an ordinary, ornamental, or other flower
pot,forming a desirable substitute for the ordinary draining saucers or pans,
and provided the flower pot introduced in the receptacle be of such a diameter
and form as will only allow it to fit therein, and remain supported at some
distance from the bottom of the receptacleas thus,
1½, and above the
level of the drainage water collecting in the receptacle.
(No II.) Having thus far described the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I now proceed to further and
fully describe and ascertain in what manner the same is to be performed by
the aid of the Drawings accompanying the Specification.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, a sectional view, and Fig. 2, a top plan. A is a flower pot or
holder of the same size and form as the ordinary flower pot, (which latter
may be adopted if desired,) thus affording an easy means of changing a plant

page_text: in blossom or otherwise. This flower pot or holder it is preferred to make
with a large aperture at the bottom thereof, to be covered with a piece of
perforated metal or inaterial. This flower pot or holder is inserted in an
orifice in the frame, which orifice is surrounded by a curved piece or tray B
of perforated metal or material, in which many plants, and lycopods or mosses
particularly, may be grown luxuriantly; partitions C being introduced to
afford space for wet sands, in which cut flowers may be placed, and the whole,
when arranged, forms quite a garden in miniature, and may be watered with
a fine rose water pot; the surplus water, as shewn by the arrows, draining
through the space Cx into the foot or pedestal D, which can be detached
from the upper part, and can, therefore, be emptied, if necessary. Both plants
and flowers will retain their beauty and freshness much longer than by any
other means hitherto adopted. The partitions marked C may be dispensed
with if desired. In order that when it is found inconvenient to detach
the pedestal or support from the upper portion, a common cock or draw-off
may be used to remove the surplus water, and this provision will be urgently
required when the pedestal is not detachable. Instead of having only one
pedestal or support, I can use several in one and the same arrangement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare
that I do not limit myself to the precise form and arrangement illustrated by
the Drawing and herein set forth; but I claim the Invention, the nature and
character whereof is set forth in the outset part marked No. I. to part
marked No. II. of this my Specification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Weeks, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
ARTHUR J. Lockwood,
Clerk to the General Patent
Company, Limited,
71, Fleet St., E.C.
GEORGE WEEKS. (L.S.)