AN IMPROVED WINDOWS AND APARTMENTS FLOWER-POT STAND OR TABLE FOR PROVISIONAL SPATION
Year: 1882

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LETTERS PATENT to John Fray-Grimmo, of Leyton in the County of Essex
for an invention, of AN IMPROVED
WINDOWS AND APARTMENTS
FLOWER-POT STAND OR TABLE FOR
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Fray. Grimmo at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd March 1882.
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JOHN FRAY GRIMMO of Leyton in the County of Essex, "AN IMPROVED
FLOWER-POT STAND OR TABLE FOR WINDOWS AND APARTMENTS. "
My Invention relates to an improved. stand for pots containing, flowers and
plants for use in apartments, windows, and elsewhere, and it has for its object to
enable the saucers commonly placed beneath such pots to receive the surplus water
therefrom to be dispensed with, and to this end the Invention consists in a stand
adapted to support the pots and to collect the surplus water that may drip from
the pots and convey it to a receptacle.
The stand is constructed of a suitable frame supported on legs and having a
grated top of any suitable kind (but preferably of slats of galvanised iron) for the
pots to stand upon. Beneath this open grated top there is fixed a sheet metal tray
or tank to catch the water, dripping from the pots, such tray being, formed with a
double incline or concavity descending to a central gutter. that leads to an outlet
which discharges into a vessel suspended beneath the tray so as to be removable
for the purpose of being emptied from time to time. The tray is fixed within the
side framing of the stand and both it and the receptacle are concealed from view
thereby.
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The grated top may either be formed longitudinal or transverse bars or slats, or
may be a cast iron or other grating of any suitable pattern, and instead of a gutter
the tray or tank may be simply concave with a central outlet to the vessel placed
beneath.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Fray Grimmo in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd September 1882.
JOHN FRAY GRIMMO of Leyton in the County of Essex "AN IMPROVED
FLOWER-POT STAND OR TABLE FOR WINDOWS AND APARTMENTS."
"
My Invention relates to an improved stand for pots containing flowers and
plants for use in apartments, windows, and elsewhere, and it has for its object to
enable the saucers, which are commonly placed beneath such pots to receive the
surplus water therefrom, to be dispensed with, and to this end the Invention
consists in a stand adapted to support the pots and to collect the surplus water that
may drip from the pots and convey it to a receptacle.
The stand is constructed of a suitable frame supported on legs and having a
grated top of any suitable kind and consisting of 'slats or rods of wood, iron, wire
work or other material (but preferably of slats of galvanised iron) for the pots to
stand upon. Beneath this open grated top there is fixed a sheet metal tray or
tank to catch the water dripping from the pots, such tray being formed with a
double incline or concavity descending to a central gutter that leads to an outlet
which discharges into a vessel suspended beneath the tray so as to be removable
for the purpose of being emptied from time to time. The tray is fixed within the
side framing of the stand and both it, and the receptacle, may be concealed from
view or not as desired. The grated top may either be formed of longitudinal or
transverse bars or slats, or may be of cast iron, or other grating of any suitable
open work pattern, and instead of a gutter the tray or tank may be simply concave
with a central outlet to the vessel placed beneath, or the water may be carried off
by a tube or pipe.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figures 1 and 2 are longitudinal and transverse sectional elevations of the
stand and Figure 3 is a plan and Figure 4 a plan with the grating removed.
A is the framing of the stand. It is an open frame of rectangular or other
shape and may be of wood, iron, or other material. B is the grating forming the
top of the stand fitted loosely in a rebate of the frame A so as to be removable for
cleaning the tray beneath. C is the tray of sheet zine fixed to and within the
framing A beneath the grating. It slopes down from the two ends or sides to
the middle which may form a gutter leading to the outlet E. Fis any suitable
receptacle suspended by hooks or otherwise beneath the outlet E so as to be readily
removable.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing the
'same I declare that what I claim as my. Invention to be protected by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is.
.
The improved flower-pot stand or table constructed with an open or grated top
and an inclined catch tray beneath said grating, substantially as shown and
described.
In witness whereof I the said: John Fray Grimmo have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twentieth day of September AD 1882.