A New or Improved Device for Exhibiting the Names of Plants and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Exhibiting the Names of Plants and
the like.
1, ARTHUR GOODMAN SWALES of 37 Ravenscroft Road, Beckenham Kent,
Metal Plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved device for exhibiting the name of
plants in botanical or other gardens, hot houses, conservatories and the like, in
such a manner that the tickets bearing the name of the plant may not be
damaged by rain or moisture or in consequence of other injurious meteorological
influences.
The
In carrying my invention into practice, I stamp by means of suitable dies and
from a sheet of tin, zinc or other suitable metal, a long tapered piece with bent
over longitudinal edges and a rectangular piece with three of its edges bent over
the fourth and end edge being left flat for the insertion of the ticket and of a
piece of glass of corresponding size and shape, which is slid over the same.
upper and under end of the tapered piece aforesaid is centrally soldered or rivetted on
the back of the ticket holding piece, while its narrow end is designed to be inserted
in the ground or in a flower pot etc. or the two parts of my improved device may be
formed in one piece.
Dated this 14th day of Mac 1891
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Exhibiting the Names of Plants and
the like.
1, ARTHUR GOODMAN SWALES of 37 Ravenscroft Road, Beckenhani Kent,
Metal Plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a new or improved device for exhibiting the name of
plants in botanical or other gardens, hot houses, conservatories and the like, in such a
manner that the ticket bearing the name of the plant may not be damaged by rain
In
or moisture or in consequence of other injurious meteorological influences.
carrying my invention into practice, I stamp by means of suitable dies and from a
sheet of tin, zinc or other suitable metal, a long tapered piece with bent over
longitudinal edges, and a rectangular piece with three of its edges bent over, the
fourth and end edge being left flat for the insertion of the ticket and of a piece of
The upper
glass of corresponding size and shape, which is slid over the same.
and under end of the tapered piece aforesaid is centrally soldered or rivetted
on the back of the ticket holding piece, while its narrow end is designed
to be inserted in the ground or in a flower pot etc. or the two parts of my improved
device may be formed in one piece. Instead of employing pieces inserted in the
ground, I may provide loops on the rectangular holder by means of which they
may be hung up.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figs. 1 and 2
device with curved and straight supports and Figs. 3 and 4 with loops.
holder formed of a rectangular sheet of metal with three edges 1 bent
show the
1 is the
over in a

page_text: U form, and having at its lower edge the small pieces of wire 2 fastened to it,
which can be turned over when the ticket 3 and covering glass 4 have been inserted
holding them securely in the turned over. edges 1ª. Instead of using separate
pieces of wire the holder may have small projecting pieces 5 which hold the
ticket and glass in the same manner.
In Fig. 1 the support 6 is shown soldered or rivetted to the back of 1, Fig. 2
showing it attached in another manner, two slits 6* being punched out of the back
of ticket holder, and the bent ends 6 pushed through and then turned over and
fixed by a blow securing the two pieces together.
In Figs. 3 and 4, loops 7 are used, being attached at the top in any suitable
manner. The edge 1 which is not turned over, must always be the lower edge, in
order to prevent rain reaching the ticket.
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:
An improved device for exhibiting the names of plants and the like comprising
a plate with three turned over edges, under which the ticket and covering glass
can be slipped, means, such as a bent wire 2 or projecting piece for retaining the
ticket and glass, and a device, such as a tapered strip of metal 6 or loop 7, for
supporting the holder.
Dated this 15th day of February 1892
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.