Improved Means for "Training" and Supporting Plants, such as Peas, Scarlet-runners, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for "Training" and Supporting Plants, such as
Peas, Scarlet-runners, and the like.
I, FRANCIS RIGBY, of North George Street, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Wire Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The improvements relate to means for "training" and supporting plants, such
as peas, scarlet-runners, and the like, and have for object the providing of a
"trainer," or means of support for the same during growth, of a special and.
peculiar character hereinafter to be described.
To accomplish this, and to effect my improvements, I provide uprights at
convenient distances apart, which are inserted in the ground, and which uprights.
may be composed of galvanized iron, wood, or other suitable substance, and
connected together in pairs, or a greater number, by means of wire or light rods.
stretched horizontally, or thereabouts, from one to another, along the top thereof.
From these horizontal members, I suspend spirals, by preference of wire, but it.
might be, in some cases, of thin cane, or other like substance.
A number of these spirals are suspended one underneath another, and by
preference from one another, when they are arranged horizontally, in which case,.
also, the top spiral may be curved at a greater radius than those below, which may
be graduated down so as to enable the foliage, at the top of the plants, to have
ample space for development. Nevertheless, the spirals may be suspended vertically,.
in which case a volute spiral form may be employed, and the spirals arranged side
by side. In like manner the spirals may be arranged in an angular position; and.
other variations in detail may be made, without departing from the peculiar
character of the invention.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1893.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for "Training" and Supporting Plants, such as
Peas, Scarlet-runners, and the like.
I, FRANCIS RIGBY, of North George Street, Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Wire Manufacturer, 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 improvements relate to means for "training" and supporting plants, such
as peas, scarlet-runners, and the like, and have for object the providing of a
"trainer," or means of support for the same during growth, of a special and
peculiar character hereinafter to be described.
To accomplish this, and to effect my improvements, I provide uprights at
convenient distances apart, which are inserted in the ground, and which uprights
may be composed of galvanized iron, wood, or other suitable substance, and
connected together in pairs, or a greater number, by means of wire or light rods
stretched horizontally, or thereabouts, from one to another, along the top thereof.
From these horizontal members, I suspend spirals, by preference of wire, but it.
might be, in some cases, of thin cane, or other like substance.

page_text: A number of these spirals are suspended one underneath another, and by
preference from one another, when they are arranged horizontally, in which case,
also, the top spiral may be curved at a greater radius than those below, which
may be graduated down so as to enable the foliage, at the top of the plants, to
have ample space for development.
But that the improvements may be better understood, I will, with the aid of
the accompanying drawings, proceed more fully to describe means employed
by me.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
The figure is a perspective view of one form of pea-trainer arranged according
to my improvements, the spirals being, in this case, suspended horizontally.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a. a. are the uprights, placed at convenient distances apart, and b. b. are the
light rods connecting the same together, to form a suitable framework wherefrom
the spirals may be suspended.
c. d. e. f. are the rows of spiral wire, by preference, although thin cane or like
substance may be employed in lieu thereof.
The spiral c. is suspended directly from the cross rods b. and the remaining
spirals are shewn suspended one from another, and one beneath another; but I may
employ, if desired, a separate connecting or cross rod or wire, or set of rods or
wires, for the support of each spiral. Likewise the spirals may be suspended
vertically from the cross rods or wires, in which case a volute spiral form may be
employed, and the spirals arranged side by side. In like manner the spirals may
be arranged in an angular position; and other variations in detail may be made
without departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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In the "training" and supporting of plants such as peas, scarlet runners and
the like, the employment of spirals of wire, cane or like flexible substances, whether
arranged horizontally, vertically, or inclined at an angle; such spirals being
suspended from a suitable framework, and from each other, or otherwise, in manner
substantially as herein shewn and described.
Dated this 20th day of November 1893.
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.