An Improved Device for Holding Cut Flowers in Position in Shallow Vessels.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1899-Accepted, 17th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Holding Cut Flowers in Position in Shallow
Vessels.
I, HERBERT GOODE of No. 19; South Audley Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Glass and China Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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The object of my invention is to provide a means for conveniently arranging
cut flowers and holding them in position in an open or shallow vase bowl or
vessel. For this purpose I employ a perforated plate or disc which stands by its
own weight and without clips or supports in the vase bowl or vessel when filled
with water ready to receive cut Howers by the insertion of the stems through the
perforations.
The plate or dise should be of sufficient thickness to give adequate support to
the flowers by the contact of their stems with the upper and lower edges of the
perforations. I find three quarters of an inch a convenient thickness for the
arrangement of ordinary cut flowers. My device may be round oval square or any
convenient shape to suit any particular vessel and it may be made solid or preferably
with feet or rims, arranged so as to admit of a supply of water underneath.
The holes may be of any shape and of a size suitable to the size of the stems of
the flowers to be held care being taken that the size of the holes relatively to the
diameter of the stems should be sufliciently large to admit of the flowers being
With the same view the
arranged with sufficient freedom to avoid stiffness.
outer perforations may be inclined towards the centre of the plate or disc. The
device may be made of wood metal china earthenware glass or any other suitable
material or partly of one material and partly of another.
It is obvious that the holder must be heavy enough to stand on the bottom of the
receptacle when filled with water and that additional weight must be given to
materials which are not heavy enough for this.
Dated this 27th day of July 1898.
An Improved Device for Holding Cut Flowers in Position in Shallow
Vessels.
I, HERBERT GOODE, of No. 19, South Audley Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Glass and China Merchant, 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:
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The object of my invention is to provide a means for conveniently arranging

page_text: cut flowers and holding them in position in an open or shallow vase bowl or
vessel. For this purpose I employ a perforated plate or disc which. stands by its
own weight and without clips or supports in the vase bowl or vessel when filled
with water ready to receive cut flowers by the insertion of the stems through the
perforations.
The plate or disc should be of sufficient thickness to give adequate support to
the flowers by the contact of their stems with the upper and lower edges of the
perforations. I find three quarters of an inch a convenient thickness for the
arrangement of ordinary cut flowers.
My device may be round oval square or any convenient shape to suit any
particular vessel and it may be made solid or preferably with feet or rims arranged
so as to admit of a supply of water underneath.
The holes or perforations may be of any shape and of a size suitable to the size
of the stems of the flowers to be held care being taken that the size of the holes
relatively to the diameter of the stems should be large enough to admit of the
flowers being arranged with sufficient freedom to avoid stiffness.
With the same view the outer perforations may be inclined towards the centre
of the plate or disc.
The device may be made of wood metal china earthenware glass or any other
suitable material, or partly of one material and partly of another.
It is obvious that the holder must be heavy enough to stand on the bottom of
the receptacle when filled with water and that additional weight must be given to
materials which are not heavy enough for this.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which:-
Figure 1 is an elevation of a flower holder made in accordance with my
invention.
Figure 2 is a plan and
Figure 3 is a vertical section taken through 0 0.
A is the outside surface of the holder which may be horizontal convex or
concave. A holder with a convex top is shewn at Figure 4.
A, is the top surface (in this case shewn flat).
B, is a circular rim round the outside edge with three arched recesses C C C cut
out so as to form feet and give free access to the water.
The body of the plate or disc is perforated with holes of such size shape
number and disposition as may be required-and which may be formed in any
position viz., perpendicular, converging at the top or as shewn in Figure 3
converging towards the bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
A new and improved flower holder substantially as described of permanent and
defined shape made of a material or materials of sufficient weight to enable it to
stand firm under water without clips or external supports and perforated to
receive and support the stalks or stems of flowers leaves fronds and the like.
Dated this Fourth day of May 1899.
HERBERT GOODE.