AN IMPROVED COMBINED BELL AND FLOWER STAND; OR COMBINED BELL, SUGAR BASIN, AND SPOON HOLDER
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Gall, of Halifax, in the County of York, Engineer,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMBINED BELL AND FLOWER STAND;
OR COMBINED BELL, SUGAR BASIN, AND SPOON HOLDER."
Sealed the 13th September 1878, and dated the 26th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Gall at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th March 1878.
CHARLES GALL, of Halifax, in the County of York, Engineer. "AN IMPROVED
COMBINED BELL AND FLOWER STAND; OR COMBINED BELL, SUGAR BASIN, AND
SPOON HOLDER."
This Invention relates to an arrangement of gong, bell, dish, or tray for holding
flowers, or for sugar and spoons, and being specially designed for use in hotels.
According to one arrangement I employ a stand of glass, porcelain, metal, wood,
or other substance, over which I mount a gong or disc-shaped bell, the bell may be
of glass, within which is a light blade spring, having near its outer ends a button
striker. Over or above the gong or disc bell is a dish (or tray) for reception of
flowers, or for sugar; and central to the dish is a raised vase for reception of flowers
or for spoons.
Another arrangement comprises a dish or tray with central stem carrying a gong
or disc-shaped bell, over which a vase is mounted for purposes aforesaid.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Gall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th September
1878.
:
CHARLES GALL, of Halifax, in the County of York, Engineer. "AN IMPROVED
COMBINED BELL AND FLOWER STAND; OR COMBINED BELL, AND SUGAR BASIN,
AND SPOON HOLDER."
This Invention relates to an arrangement of gong, bell, dish, or tray for holding
flowers, or for sugar and spoons, and being specially designed for use in hotels.
According to one arrangement I employ a stand of glass, porcelain, wood, metal,
or paper macha, over which I mount a gong or disc-shaped bell, the bell may be of
glass, within which is a light blade spring, having near its outer ends a button
striker. Over or above the gong or disc bell is a dish (or tray) for reception of
flowers, or for sugar; and central to the dish is a raised vase for reception of flowers,
or for spoons.
Another arrangement comprises a dish or tray with central stem carrying a gong
or disc-shaped bell, over which a vase is mounted for purposes aforesaid.
Such being the nature and object of this my said Invention, I will now proceed to
describe the same in detail, and in order that the Invention may be fully understood
I have hereunto annexed four Sheets of Drawings; I have marked the same with
figures and letters of reference, the same letter referring to like parts in the various
views or Figures.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of apparatus; Fig. 2, an elevation; Fig. 3, plan of Fig. 2;
Fig. 4, elevation of part detached; Figs. 5 and 6 are front elevations; Fig. 7 is an
end elevation with gong underneath the stand.
A is the stand, on which is mounted a gong or disc bell B, within which is the
light blade spring C, having button-shaped striker D; over or above the gong or
disc bell is a dish or tray E for the reception of flowers, or for sugar; and central
with the dish is a raised vase F' (which may be moveable) for the reception of
flowers, matches, or for spoons.
A modification comprises a dish or tray G with central stem A, carrying a gong B
or disc-shaped bell, over which a vase E is mounted for the purpose aforesaid; or
the gong-shaped bell B may be inverted and placed under the dish G, as shewn at
Fig. 5.
At Fig. 6 the stem A is hollow for the reception of spoons, or for holding the
detached vase, as described.
At Fig. 7 the bell or gong B is underneath the stand A.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this my said Invention,
together with the manner in which the same is to be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would have it understood that I claim as my Invention, the com-
bination and arrangement of parts described for purposes aforesaid, and as illustrated
by Drawings.
In witness whereof the said Charles Gall hath hereunto set his hand and seal,
this Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
sight hundred and coventy night
Witness,
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Patent Agent,
Halifax & Blackburn.
CHARLES GALL. (L.S.)