Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 17th June, 1898-Accepted 30th July, 1898
I, CHARLES FARRIS, of 81, Bishopsgate Street Within, in the City of London,
Wax Chandler and Church Furnisher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an improved holder for natural flowers and foliage. The
object of my invention is to enable flowers or foliage arranged in troughs or other.
receptacles to be furnished with an extra supply of water and to facilitate the renewal
of such supply without disturbance of the arrangement of or injury to the flowers or
foliage.
The method by which I carry out this object is to attach the receptacle for the
flowers or foliage which I will call the primary receptacle to a wall or division forming
preferably but not necessarily the back of such receptacle. On the other side of this
wall or division I arrange a supplementary receptacle having its floor at approximately.
the same level and communicating at the lower part thereof with the primary
receptacle so that the water can flow freely from one receptacle to the other the
supplementary receptacle being intended for the storage of water and for enabling
the supply to be renewed without disturbance or injury to the flowers or foliage
arranged in the primary receptacle.
It is preferable to make the height of the side or wall of the supplementary
receptacle slightly lower than the height of the side or wall of the primary
receptacle to prevent overflow of water in the latter.
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One supplementary receptacle can be made to supply any number of primary
receptacles which may be made in the form of troughs tubes trumpets or any
other design or several supplementary receptacles may. supply the same primary
receptacle according to the exigencies of the design of the receptacle or receptacles.
Where it is desired to have a series of primary receptacles in tiers or at
different heights they may all be attached to the same wall or division which
would form if desired a support and each have one or more supplementary
receptacles.
The wall or division between the two receptacles can take any form that may
be desired being made flat curved or angular as desired and should preferably
stand one two or more inches according to the nature of the flowers or foliage
to be arranged in the primary receptacle above-the rim of such receptacle.
Or the supplementary receptacle or receptacles may take the form of a cylinder
or series of cylinders or other conveniently shaped vessel or vessels one inside the
other but with their walls or sides at convenient heights filled by means of a
pipe or pipes passing through or under the primary receptacle or receptacles.
Dated this 4th day of September 1897

page_text: An Improved Holder for Natural Flowers and Foliage.
I, CHARLES FARRIS, of 81, Bishopsgate Street Within, in the City of London, Wax
Chandler and Church Furnisher, 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 consists of an improved holder for natural flowers and foliage.
The object of my invention is to enable flowers or foliage to be arranged in
troughs or other receptacles to be furnished with an extra supply of water and to
facilitate the renewal of such supply without disturbance of the arrangement of or
injury to the flowers or foliage.
The method by which I carry out this object is to attach the receptacle for the
flowers or foliage which I will call the primary receptacle to a wall or division forming
preferably but not necessarily the back of such receptacle. On the other side of this.
wall or division I arrange a supplementary receptacle having its floor at approximately
the same level and communicating at the lower part thereof with the primary
receptacle so that the water can flow freely from one receptacle to the other the
supplementary receptacle being intended for the storage of water and for enabling.
the supply to be renewed without disturbance or injury to the flowers or foliage
arranged in the primary receptacle. It is preferable to make the height of the side
or wall of the supplementary receptacle slightly lower than the height of the side or
wall of the primary receptacle to prevent overflow of water in the latter.
I now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the drawings of which
Figure 1 is a front elevation Figure 2 is a back elevation and Figure 3 is a sectional
elevation on the line A, B of Figure 2. The same letters refer to the same parts of the
apparatus in each of the drawings. a, a, are the primary receptacles; b is the wall.
or division; c, c, are the supplementary receptacles communicating with the primary
receptacles a, a, through the passages i, i; d, a stem or handle inade of a
convenient size to fit into a hole in a table or into the neck of a vase or other receptacle,
e, e, are spring bands of brass or other suitable metal which may be fastened to the
stem or handle, d; in order to make the stem or handle, d, fit more tightly; f, is a.
stop which if desired may be used to fit into a suitable slot in the table vase or
other receptacle so as to enable the apparatus to be always replaced in any desired
position.
If desired I can also, use a band or wire, g, of brass or other suitable metal fastened
at its ends h, h, which band is shaped to the outline of the wall or division b and fits
sufficiently close thereto to keep any flowers or foliage placed in the supplementary
receptacles c, c, in such position that foliage or flowers can be standing in water at
the back of the receptacle but can be seen from the front of the receptacle as a fringe
or border.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:-
The flowers or foliage are suitably arranged in the primary receptacles a, a, and if
desired and as above described partly in the supplementary or back receptacles c, c,
and the whole apparatus is then put in its desired position on the table vase or other
receptacle being kept in position if required by the bands e, e, and the stop f. The
supplementary receptacles c, c are then supplied with a suitable quantity of water
which flows through the communicating passages i,, into the primary
receptacles a, a.
One supplementary receptacle can be made to supply any number of primary
receptacles which may be made in the form of troughs tubes trumpets or any other
design or several supplementary receptacles may supply the same primary receptacle
according to the. exigencies of the design of the receptacle or receptacles.

page_text: Where it is desired to have a series of primary receptacles in tiers or at different
heights they may all be attached to the same wall or division which would form if
desired a support and each have one or more supplementary receptacles.
The wall or division between the two receptacles can take any form that may be
required being made flat curved or angular as desired. The supplementary
receptacles may take the form of cylinders or other conveniently shaped vessels
surrounding the primary receptacles suitable connections being made between the
lower parts of the primary and supplementary vessels so as to allow water poured into
the supplementary receptacles to pass into the primary receptacles. In fact any
form of primary and supplementary receptacles may be used which operate in the
nature of V tubes the flowers being in one limb of the V tube and the water being
poured into the other limb of the V tube which is in such a position as not to
interfere with the arrangement of or to cause injury to the flowers in the limb of the
V tube in which such flowers are placed.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my invention, and the
manner in which the same to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. Apparatus for holding natural flowers and foliage in which the flowers and
foliage can be supplied with water and in which the supply of water can be renewed
without disturbance of the arrangement of or injury to the flowers or foliage substan-
tially as herein before described.
2. A flower or foliage holder substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
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CHAS. R. TAYLOR,
63 and 64, New Broad Street, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.