Improvements in Flower Ornaments for the Table, for Graves, and for other Decorative Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flower Ornaments for the Table, for Graves, and
for other Decorative Purposes.
I, JENS EDWARD CHRISTIAN NIELSEN of 82 Gibbon Road, Nunhead in the
County of Surrey, Gardener, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce flower ornaments in the form of
wreaths, monograms, initial letters, crosses, crowns or any other ornamental forms
or devices suitable for decorating the table or the grave or for other decorative
purposes, such ornaments being of a more permanent character than the usual ones
and capable of being provided with fresh flowers from time to time as required to
replace faded ones.
For this purpose I employ a frame or framing of the wreath, cross or other
desired form consisting of a foundation plate which may conveniently be of wood,
and pieces of cork fixed to the plate with suitable openings generally of a circular
form and adapted to receive glasses wherein to put water and cut flowers or flower
pots with earth and growing flowers therein. The flowers will more or less
overspread and cover the cork, which latter however when or where it shews
through does not detract from but rather adds to the beauty of the ornament. As
the cut flowers when placed in water retain their freshness for days or weeks the
articles acquire a more permanent and hence more valuable character, and the
flowers may be replaced by fresh ones from time to time as desired, and that by
any inexperienced person. At the same time the number of flowers used may as
compared with ordinary flower wreaths and the like be considerably reduced.
Fruit, berries, moss and ferns may be used in connection with these ornaments.
When the article is to be used in a slanting position I provide the foundation with
a leg or legs attached by hinge or made to slide in a groove or in any other
suitable way for collapsing or detaching; the holes for the glasses or flower pots
will in such cases be made slanting to the base but will stand upright when the
article is in use.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flower Ornaments for the Table, for Graves, and
for other Decorative Purposes.
JENS EDWARD CHRISTIAN NIELSEN of 82, Gibbon Road, Nunhead in the
County of Surrey, Gardener, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to produce flower ornaments in numerous designs,
and on many various materials both for outdoor and indoor decorative purposes.
For outdoor work they are made in circles, crosses, angles, squares, figures,
letters, monograms, masonic and other emblems, or any other ornamental form or
device suitable for decorative purposes, such ornaments being of a more permanent
character than those in general use, and more easily supplied with fresh flowers for
time to time as required, to replace those faded. For this purpose I use a frame
or foundation of wood, metal, earthenware or any other suitable material, which
will stand the weather or atmospheric changes, with or without feet, or with legs
attached to a hinge at the back, or made to slide in a groove, or in any other

page_text: suitable way for collapsing or detaching, the sides being rounded up from the inside
and the outside of the foundation, to the centre above it, with suitable apertures of
a circular, oval, or any convenient shape, adapted to receive receptacles, wherein
to put water for cut flowers, or earth for growing flowers.
The receptacles or cups are made of earthenware, metal or any suitable material.
In some cases the whole ornament is cast or moulded in one, in earthenware, metal
and the like.
.
The receptacles or cups being placed in the aperture of the frame, specially
cut for them are provided with a cork lid or cover, which is made to fit inside the
top or rim of the cup, and perforated with a perpendicular hole in the centre, with
others round it, drilled at different angles, so that the flowers, ferns, grasses or
anything else used, inserted in these perforations, shall overspread and cover the
ornament, more or less, which however, when or where it shews through, does not
detract from, but rather adds to the beauty of the ornamental decoration.
For indoor work, these ornaments are made on the same principle as those for
outdoor, only in addition to the foregoing materials mentioned, so many others are,
and can be used, such as glass, ivory, silver, gold velvet, and the like, in fact, they
can be made from almost anything where taste and style are combined, for indoor
decoration. I use plate glass, silvered on the under side, in addition to the
structure, for indoor purposes, the result being, the flowers, ferns or whatever are
used, are reflected in the plate glass, and the effect thus produced, is a much larger
quantity, than is actually used.
The advantages of these flower ornaments are very great, every part of a building
or room, lending itself thus, to a cheap and durable decoration.
Looking glasses, pierglasses, overmantles, chandeliers, furniture, doors, doorways,
window frames, staircases, and numerous other things, are all amenable to the
utility of these flower ornaments, and can be fitted with them.
The special advantages of these ornaments above what are in general use, are
that they can be so easily arranged, tastefully, by any one who has not had any
previous experience in the art, and further, that not being crowded together, each
Hower, piece of fern, grass, or anything else used in the arrangement, being inserted
separately in the top or lid, they naturally, last fresh much longer than being
heaped together in vases and the like, as, is usually seen, and a much smaller
quantity is required, to produce a pretty and better effect.
The invention is more particularly described and shewn with reference to the
accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1. 2. 3. 4 and 5 shew the frame, base, or
foundation, of the various designs, with C-D. shewing the section of a wreath,
with a leg attached to a hinge underneath the ornament for the purpose of
elevating it, to any angle desired. Fig. 6. shews the wreath ready to receive the
cups or receptacles for holding the water, and which cup or receptacle is shewn in
Fig. 7. while K-G shews the section of completed wreath. E-F. shews the lid
with the perforations through it, in which flowers and the like are placed, and
which lid fits inside the cup as shewn in section K-G and in Fig. 8. Fig. 8.
shews the indoor ornament with the plate glass centre, resting on an inner
foundation or piers, as shewn by the deep black spots.
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,
1st. The construction of flower ornaments of the designs and materials herein-
before described, with any addition thereto, or modification thereof.
2nd. The perforated covers or lids, to be used with the flower ornaments, or
without.
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J. E. C. NIELSEN.