IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE WINDOW FLOWER STANDS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Körner at the Office of the.
Commissioners of Patents on the 9th March 1883.
RICHARD KÖRNER of the City of Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony and
German Empire. "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE WINDOW FLOWER STANDS
"
My Invention relates to improvements in adjustable window flower stands. The
stand or parapets used up to now for holding or protecting objects placed on
the window sill from falling and which also serve as ornaments to the building
would have been employed to a much greater extent if the fixing of the same had
not presented so many difficulties.
According to the old system the window sill or breadth of the window had to
be carefully measured and the stand made to fit exactly so that on removing from
one house to another the said flower stands or parapets had either to be sold for
old iron or left to the next following tenant for nothing or next to nothing, it
being extremely seldom that such said stands or parapets will fit the windows in
the new dwelling. The object of the present invention is to produce an ingeniously
constructed window flower stand or parapet which can be adapted to windows of
various breadth or width, can be readily fixed and as readily removed, can be
packed or stored in an exceedingly small space and can be made at a very
low price.
My said window flower stand or parapet consists of straight or ornamental
diagonally arranged bars rods or strips of metal or other suitable material, which
said bars rods or strips of metal are loosely rivetted screwed or otherwise attached
to each other at the crossing points so that the said flower stand or parapet for
window sills balconies and such like can be shortened or lengthened at will by
moving the said metal bars rods or strips so that the same stand at a more or less
obtuse or acute angle to each other.
For very narrow windows some of the said metallic or other suitable bars, rods
or strips can be removed and for very broad windows an appropriate number of
such said bars, rods or strips, added, in order to avoid the angular position of the
aforesaid bars rods or strips to each other being too obtuse or acute. It is hereby
advantageous to attach at least some of the centre bars rods or strips by means of
screws or screws and nuts. The ends of the railing forming the front of the said
[Price 91

page_text: flower stand or parapet are attached to the inner surface of the window opening
or wall or to the framework of the window by means of T formed or other suitably
formed holders or attachments which are fastened to the upper and lower crossing
point of the rods bars, staves or strips on the one part and to the wall to the side
of the window or to the framework of the window by means of suitable screws,
bolts or thin equivalents.
The holders are provided with suitable slots through which the screws or thin
equivalents are passed which said slots can be made in the vertical or horizontal
parts of the said holders or both.
This arrangement admits that the holder, can be placed at an upper or lower
crossing point or junction even when the said bars rods or strips stand at a more
acute or obtuse angle.
By employing this said method of attachment it is not necessary to be so
extremely particular in inserting the wooden plug or its equivalent into which the
attaching screw or bolt is screwed as the horizontal and vertical slots permit a
considerable adjustment of the holders both in the vertical and horizontal
direction.
In order to prevent the said flower stand or the centre of the railing to be
bulged out, angular holders are employed, which said holders are also provided
with slots in order to be able to adjust the said holder according as the
circumstances may require. These holders are attached on the one end to the
stand or parapet on the other to the window sill.