Improvements in "Guide Lines" for Planting Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 25th June, 1891-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in "Guide Lines" for Planting Purposes.
1, HENRY NICHOLS of Fern Villa, Stourton, Hunslet near Leeds in the County
of York, Gardener, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to enable gardeners and others to set plants or
roots of all kinds at a more even distance apart than hitherto, thereby keeping the
lines of the same uniform and straight, thus producing a better appearance in the
garden and dispensing with drilling.
For the above purpose I employ metallic cord or light wire, this being not
effected by moisture, as far as expansion and contraction are concerned.
On such metallic cord or wire I place any required number of metal collars, these
are fixed in any desired position apart by set screws, the adjustment thereof is there-
fore simple and can be readily effected to suit the distance required between each
plant or root.
The metallic cords or wires above described are laid in the manner of the ordinary
lines.
J. W. HARDING,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in "Guide Lines" for Planting Purposes.
1, HENRY NICHOLS of Fern Villa, Stourton, Hunslet, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Gardener, 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 my invention is to enable gardeners, farmers and others, to set
plants or roots, or to pierce or hole where such plants or roots are to be set, in
uniform and straight lines; simplifying thereby the work of setting, piercing or
holing, and dispensing with what is known as "drilling" or "grooving."
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 shews the construction of "guide line."
Fig. 2 an end clevation.
Fig. 3 the mode of applying my invention.
Fig. 4 an end elevation, shewing detachable marker closed upon wire or cord,
and
Fig. 5 shews same open for removal.
For the above-purpose I employ a metallic cord A consisting of twisted wires,
which may have a central thread of fibrous material, or may consist of a light wire
without twist, such metallic cord or wire is not effected by moisture or weather
generally; whereas there is a great difficulty in marking the lines or positions for plants
or roots so as to make them uniform and straight under the present system where
ordinary ropes or cords are employed, as these when new are liable to be stretched,
and also are effected very much by moisture or dryness of the weather, rendering it
almost impossible without considerable difficulty and care to plant evenly or with
uniformity.
On the above mentioned metallic cord or wire A I place any required number of
markers B of metal or other suitable material, these are fixed in any desired position

page_text: apart by set screws c, such position being the required distance between each plant
or root, or holes for same as shewn at Fig. 3, the adjustment thereof being easily
effected through the medium of a gauge provided for the purpose.
When preferred, instead of employing the solid markers B which spans the wire
or cord and has to be put on from the end of wire, I employ the small clamp
markers D shewn at Figs. 4 and 5, which consists of upper plate E and lower plate F,
having suitable openings G therein to receive the wire or cord; these two pieces E
and Fare brought together and fixed onto the wire or cord A by means of the set
screw H. This arrangement dispenses with the flattening of the cord or wire A and
is readily removed therefrom as shewn at Fig. 5, and will be found more convenient
on account of the user being able to take them off at any point, instead of having to
draw them off the wire or cord the full length thereof.
The above mentioned metallic cord or wire A is used in a similar manner to the
ordinary cord, but the markets or clamps shew the position where the plants or
roots are to be set, or the holes to be made for such plants or roots, so that whatever
number of guide lines are laid, the positions of plants or roots, or holes for same are
set uniform and straight with each other.
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 :-
1st. A guide line for the use of gardeners, farmers and others, which is not
effected by moisture or weather generally, consisting of a metallic cord A formed of
twisted or untwisted wire, substantially as hercin set forth.
2nd. A guide line for the use of gardeners, farmers and others, having in com-
bination therewith adjustable markers B, or adjustable clamp markers D, such
markers being used for regulating or denoting the distance between plants or roots,
or holes for same, applied and adjusted substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 25th day of June 1891.
J. W. HARDING,
Agent for the Applicant.