Improvements in Pots or like Receptacles for Flowers, Plants, and Seeds.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Mar., 1899-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pots or like Receptacles for Flowers, Plants, and
Seeds.
I, ALFRED CHANDLER, of Penrose, Wolborough Hill, Newton Abbot, in the
County of Devon, Horticulturist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to pots, or other like receptacles for containing Howers
and plants, trees, bulbs, seeds, or for use in other horticultural purposes, and
the object of the said invention is the construction and application to such recep-
tacles of detachable handles. The said invention is particularly applicable to
metal pots and receptacles, such for example as those described in the Specifica-
tion of my Letters Patent No. 16,837, of 9th September 1895, but its use is not
necessarily confined thereto.
Large pots and receptacles especially when containing plants, &c., are difficult
to move, without handles or similar appliances. Fixed handles, or like devices,
as heretofore used for this purpose, overcome such difficulty, but there are many
objections to the use of fixed devices, which said objections are overcome by the
employment of my said detachable handles.
The said handles are preferably formed of iron, or steel wire, or rod, and in
shape consist substantially of a horizontal portion, from each end of which the
wire or rod curves upwards and then downwards, forming two vertical loops.
The ends of these loops are bent upwards to form hooks, which enter into boles
formed to receive them in the sides of the pot, or receptacle. The vertical parts
of the loops, contiguous to the said hooks, are united by a horizontal metal band,
or rod, which, when the handles are in use for lifting the pot, bears against the
sides and has the effect of preventing the hooks slipping, or being drawn out of
the holes aforesaid, as might otherwise be the case. In a round, or curved pot,
these bands are curved to fit the pot, but in a flat sided pot, or receptacle, they
may be straight.
The handles may be galvanised, enamelled, plated, painted, or otherwise treated
to protect them from rust. In place of being bent out of wire or rod, they may
be cast in steel, or malleable iron, or other suitable metal.
For lifting small pots, the said handles can be readily grasped by the hand,
while for larger pots, poles may be placed under their loops, so that the pots can
be lifted and carried by two men.
By having the holes in the pots the same distance apart, one pair of handles
will serve for any number of pots, whether of the same or different sizes, and by
modifying the shapes of the hook portions, such handles are adapted for lifting
and carrying pots, or receptacles made of earthenware, or wood, as well as those
made of metal.
The pots, in place of having holes or apertures to receive the hooks, may be

page_text: furnished with suitable external sockets to engage with the said hooks, the said
sockets being formed in one piece with, or attached to the said pots or receptacles.
The invention provides a ready and convenient means for moving loaded pots
or receptacles, while the said pots are without any projections which would interiere
with packing, or transport when empty.
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Improvements in Pots or like Receptacles for Flowers, Plants, and
Seeds.
I, ALFRED CHANDLER, of Penrose, Wolborough Hill, Newton Abbot, in the
County of Devon, Horticulturist, 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:-
My invention relates to pots, or other like receptacles, for containing flowers
and plants, trees, bulbs, seeds, or for use in other horticultural purposes, and
the object of the said invention is the construction and application to such recep-
tacles of detachable handles. The said invention is particularly applicable to
metal pots and receptacles, such, for example, as those described in the Specifica-
tion of my Letters Patent, No. 16837 of 9th September 1895, and in the specifi-
cation of my application for Letters Patent, No. 3782 of 15th February 1898,
but its use is not necessarily confined thereto.
Large pots and receptacles, especially when containing plants, etc.,
are difficult to
move without handles, or similar appliances. Fixed
handles, or like devices, as heretofore used for this purpose, Overcome
such difficulty, but there are many objections to the use of fixed handles,
as for instance, such handles are in the way when it is required to stand pots
close together, they prevent pots of consecutive sizes being packed together, and
are liable to be broken off, such objections are overcome by the employment of
my said detachable handles.
The said handles are preferably formed of iron, or steel wire, or rod, and in
shape consist substantially of a horizontal portion, from each end of which the
wire or rod curves upwards and then downwards, forming two vertical loops.
The ends of these loops are bent upwards to form hooks, which enter into holes
formed to receive them in the sides of the pot, or receptacle. The vertical parts
of the loops contiguous to the said hooks are united by a horizontal metal band,
o rod, which, when the handles are in use for lifting the pot, bears against the
sides and has the effect of preventing the hooks slipping, or being drawn out of
the holes aforesaid, as might otherwise be the case. In a round or curved pot
these bands are preferably curved to fit the pot, but in a flat sided pot or receptacle,
they may be straight.
The handles may be galvanised, enamelled, plated, painted, or otherwise treated
to protect them from rust.
In place of being bent out of wire, or rod, they may be cast in steel, or malle-
able iron, or other suitable metal.
For lifting small pots the said handles can be readily grasped by the hand,
while for larger pots, poles may be placed under their loops, so that the pots can
be lifted and carried by two men.

page_text: By having the holes in the pots the same distance apart, one pair of handies
will serve for a number of pots, whether of the same, or different sizes, and by
modifying the shapes of the hook portions, such handles are adapted for lifting
and carrying pots, or receptacles made of earthenware, or wood, as well as those
made of metal.
The pots, in place of having holes, or apertures to receive the 'hooks, may be
furnished with suitable external sockets to engage with the said hooks, the said
sockets being formed in one piece with, or attached to the said pots or receptacles.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings, which forms part of this specification,
and in which similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout;
Fig. 1 is a side elevation,
Fig. 2 is a part sectional front elevation, and
Fig. 3 is a part plan of a metal flower pot with detachable handles, formed
according to one mode of carrying out my invention in practice.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the said handles,
Fig. 5 is a part side elevation, and
Fig. 6 is a part front elevation, of a metal pot with detachable handles of
modified construction.
Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one of the said handles,
Fig. 8 is a part side elevation, and
Fig. 9 is a past front elevation, of a metal pot shewing a further modification in
the detachable handles.
and
Fig. 10 is a perspective view of one of the said handles.
in
Referring to Figs. 1 to 4, each of the handles applied to the pot, is formed of
metal rod or wire in one piece, bent or forged to the required shape and consists
of a straight portion A, a vertical loop B at each end of such straight portion,
holes D, D, formed
the pot.
two hooks C, C, which enter
the
E is al metal band uniting the ends of the handle, and when
handles are in use and the pot being lifted thereby, the said bands press
against the sides of the pot and prevent the hooks C, C, being drawn out of the
holes D, D.
In the arrangement shewn in Figs. 5 to 7, bands E are not used, and in place
of holes D, D, a metal plate F is riveted on each side of the pot and provided
with sockets H, H, to receive the hooks C, C.
In place of attaching a plate F, the sockets H, H, may be punched or pressed
out of the sides of the pot, as indicated in the sectional plan view Fig. 6.
In Figs. 8 to 10, two strips of metal J, J are employed. They are riveted to
the pot and their upper ends bent down, as shewn clearly in Fig. 9, to form
hooks, which engage with the hooked ends of the handle, the said hooked ends C, C,
being, in this case turned inwards in line with each other. This last described
arrangement is specially suited for large and heavy pots.
My invention provides a ready and convenient means for moving loaded pots or
receptacles, while the said pots are without any projections, which would interfere
with packing or transport when empty.
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:-
1. In a pot, or receptacle of the class described, the combination therewith of
detachable handles, constructed substantially in the manner and for the purposes
as herein set forth, with reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a pot, or receptacle of the class described, the combination therewith of
detachable handles, constructed substantially in the manner and for the purposes,
as herein set forth, with reference to Figs. 5, 6, 6 and 7 of the accompanying
drawings.
3. In a pot, or receptacle of the class described, the combination therewith of

page_text: detachable handles, constructed substantially in the manner and for the purposes,
as herein set forth, with reference to Figs. 8, 9 and 10 of the accompanying draw-
ings.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1899.
AMBROSE MYALL,
6, Whitfield Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.