Improved Means of Preparing or Producing Ornamental Grasses from Palm Like Plants for Decorative and Artistic Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
RENAL DI EUITIVATION,
Improved Means of Preparing or Producing Ornamental Grasses
from Palm Like Plants for Decorative and Artistic Purposes.
I, GEORGE WALKER of 5 Little Britain in the City of London, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said invention which has been communicated to
me from abroad by Niels Lund Chrestensen of Erfurt, Saxony, Manufacturer to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved means of preparing or producing ornamental
grasses from palm like plants for decorative and artistic purposes.
For the purpose of this invention, I take ordinary palm leaves in a dry condition
and prepare them by a washing and scraping to clear them of the epidermis.
I then pass them through cutters to produce fine or narrow strips. These are
then painted to a natural green or grass like tint, and have their broader ends
clustered or clumped, bound up and enclosed in a ball or equivalent shaped bulb
composed of natural piassava like fibre, a wire or hanger like hook being embedded,
so that the article so made can be suspended.
The tips of the grass like threads are dipped in a paste of a wet meal, which
when dry gives the appearance of bloom.
The threads when bent over around the bulb, have all the appearance of natural
grass and can be hung in windows, passages, and other places for artistic effect.
If a short length or stick of wood be inserted into the bottom of the bulb, the.
grass can stand in and from a vase or the like for table decoration, or in pots on
the floor of an entry, hall, or corridor, or be arranged to stand out from an
artificial rockery.
By dispensing with the meal tips on the threads, they can be used for outdoor
and tent decoration.
Dated this 0th Jul 1805
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for G. Walker.
Improved Means of Preparing or Producing Ornamental Grasses
from Palm Like Plants for Decorative and Artistic Purposes.
I, GEORGE WALKER, of 5 Little Britain, in the City of London, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention which has been communicated to me
from abroad by Niels Lund Chrestensen of Erfurt, Saxony, Manufacturer and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improved means of preparing or producing ornamental
grasses from palm like plants for decorative and artistic purposes.
For the purpose of this invention, I take ordinary palm leaves in a dry condition
and prepare them by a washing and scraping to clear them of the epidermis.
I then pass them through cutters to produce fine or narrow strips leaving the bases
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page_text: intact, these are then painted to a natural green or grass like tint and have
their broader ends or bases clustered or clumped bound up and enclosed in a ball
or equivalent shaped bulb composed of natural piassava fibre, a wire or hanger
like hook being embedded, that the article so made can be suspended. The tips of
the grass like threads are dipped in a pasté of a wet meal which when dry give the
appearance of bloom.
The threads when bent over around the bulb have all the appearance of natural
grass and can be hung in windows, passages, and other places for artistic effect.
If a short length or stick of wood be inserted into the bottom of the bulb, the
grass can stand in and from a vase or the like for table decoration or in pots on
the floor of an entry hall or corridor or be arranged to stand out from an artificial
rockery.
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By dispensing with the meal tips on the threads they can be used for outdoor:
and tent decoration.
I am aware that the leaves of palm and like plants have, when dry, been painted
to imitate fresh leaves, and these have been clustered and fixed in pots for
decorative purposes, these however always represented palms and like plants,
therefore I make no claim to treating palm and like leaves except that; by my
invention I imitate grasses by stripping such dry leaves into thread like form and
produce a novel result which has greater scope for ornamental and decorative
purposes than is possible by unstripped leaves of such plants.
. Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I.
claim is :-
:-
1. The preparation of grass like plants by stripping the leaves of palm and like
plants into narrow threads in their length, leaving the bases intact for clustering
purposes and then enclosing such clustered parts in ball, egg, or like shaped bulb
of piassava fibre from which a hook or hanger loop depends as set forth for
decorative purposes.
2. Preparing the leaves of palm and like plants by forming thin narrow grass
like threads therefrom except at the base, tipping said threads with meal paste,
clustering the bases, enclosing said clustered bases in bulbs of piassava fibre with
or without suspension hooks as desired, the article so made having the appearance
of long grass as and for the purposes set forth.
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A 1904
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said George Walker.