A Plant Pot Extension for Reception of Top Dressing or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Plant Pot Extension for Reception of Top Dressing or the like.
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:-
This invention consists in an addition or combination with a flower or plant
pot by means of which an upward continuation of the flower or plant pot may be
formed to receive top dressing or layering.
The principal object of the invention is to enable an ample and sufficient top
dressing of fresh soil to be placed upon the soil with which a flower or plant
pot is already filled as a substitute for repotting. As an example this addition or
extension of the pot may be advantageously used by growers of tomatoes,
chrysanthemums or carnations when the plants are in the largest sized pots they
are to be put in and the soil is full of roots.
The addition or extension consists of a band of a suitable diameter and height
and of any convenient material perforated or not, to form in effect an upward
extension of the pot wall or an upwardly extending wall which will in effect
heighten the space in which fresh soil or other suitable top dressing may be placed
so that it does not fall out.
The band is preferably in the form of a discontinuous ring, the ends of which
loosely overlap one another so that the circuit of the band may be compressed or
extended according to the size of the pot on or over which it is placed and so that
it may be more readily placed in position or removed, for example, by slipping
it around the pot or about the stem of the plant therein or otherwise.
It may be conveniently made of zinc with a rounded flange at the upper edge
to avoid a sharp edge and to strengthen it, but this construction is not essential
to the function and utility of this pot extension.
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HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Plant Pot Extension for Reception of Top Dressing or the like.
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:―
This invention consists in an addition or combination with a flower or plant
pot by means of which an upward continuation of the flower or plant pot may be
formed to receive top dressing or layering.

page_text: The principal object of the invention is to enable an ample and sufficient top
dressing of fresh soil to be placed upon the soil with which a flower or plant
pot is already filled as a substitute for repotting. As an example this addition or
extension of the pot may be advantageously used by growers of tomatoes,
chrysanthemums or carnations when the plants are in the largest sized pots they
are to be put in and the soil is full of roots.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 illustrates in elevation an ordinary flower
or plant pot provided with the improved extension, composed of a continuous ring.
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a flower pot extension, in this case the latter being
in the form of a discontinuous ring, or part of a spiral. Figs. 3 and 4 are hori-
zontal sections on lines 3-3 and 44 of Figs. 1 and 2 respectively.
The addition or extension consists of a band A of a suitable diameter and
height and of any convenient material, perforated or not, to form in effect an
upward extension of the wall of the pot B or an upwardly extending wall D which
will in effect heighten the space in which fresh soil or other suitable top dressing
may be placed so that it does not fall out.
The band is preferably made in the form of a continuous or discontinuous ring:
in the latter case the ends C of the ring loosely overlap one another, as shown
in Figs 2 and 4, so that the circuit of the band A may be compressed or extended
according to the size of the pot B, on or over which it is placed and so that it
may be more readily placed in position or removed, for example, by slipping it
around the pot or about the stem of the plant therein or otherwise.
It may be conveniently made of zinc with a rounded flange E at the upper edge
to avoid a sharp edge and to strengthen it, but this construction is not essential
to the function and utility of this pot extension.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
An improved plant pot extension consisting of a continuous or discontinuous
band of suitable diameter and height, perforated or unperforated, and made of
any convenient material to form an upward extension of the pot wall for reception
of top dressing on lavaring
Dated this 17th day of May 1900.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.