Improved Folding Garden Frames.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1898-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1898
Improved Folding Garden Frames.
CHARLES JOHN NEWBURY, Hook Warsash, Titchfield, near Fareham, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Folding garden light. This light is made to fold up so that it can be easily
stored when not in use the glass slide in and out easily so that it can be packed into
crates it is not necessary to take the glass out to fold the light as the sides or wall
of light is hinged to fold up to the underside of roof the ridge is hinged so that the
roof fold together the ridge being kept low enough to allow the sides to close under
same. The rafters are grooved so that their is no need of putties, for ventilation
the glass can be easily removed. For larger light or small houses the light can be
made to open.
Sizes of lights the lights can be made in different sizes to meet
the requirements of customers. The object of the invention is to be used more
as a hand light for the protection from frost plants such as strawberries peas beans
potatoes tomatos violets &c. in fact any kind of dwarf plants growing in the open
ground but needing protection in the early spring.
Dated this Sixth day of December 1897.
Improved Folding Garden Frames.
I, CHARLES JOHN NEWBURY, of Hook-Warsash, Titchfield, near Fareham, in the
County of Hampshire, Builder, 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 improvements in garden lights, and more particularly
hand or portable lights, as used by nurserymen and others for forcing or encourag-
ing the growth, and protecting from frost all kinds of dwarf and other plants, such
for instance as, strawberries, peas, beans, tomatoes, and the like, the object of my
invention being to provide such a light that may be folded and stored away in a
small space when not required for use.
For the purposes of my invention I purpose constructing such portable lights
in such a manner that the ridge plate of the roof thereof is in two pieces, hinged
together at their under surfaces, the rafters of the said roof at either side being
suitably connected at their upper ends to their respective halves of the said ridge
plate, while the lower ends of the said rafters are preferably suitably connected to
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page_text: tie plates, to which said tie plates, or the lower ends of the said rafters, is hinged
the sides or walls of the light, the latter being preferably of solid wood, although
these may be of frames suitably glazed if desired. Each light is provided with
ends of solid wood or glazed frame work, which are detachable, and when in position
serve to maintain the shape of the light when expanded but when the said ends are
removed, the said sides or walls may be folded up under the roof, while the two
sections of the roof may be folded towards each other, enclosing the said sides or
walls, the dimensions of the folded light permitting the whole to be packed away
in a small space. The glasses in each section of the roof slide in grooves in the
rafters, and are therein retained by portable pegs or pins, which, when removed,
permit the glasses to be lowered for the purposes of ventilation, when the light is
in use, or entirely removed and. packed in crates when the lights are done with at
the end of the season, and are folded and packed away.
In order that my invention and the manner in which I purpose constructing and
using the same may be fully understood, reference is hereinafter made to the
accompanying drawings, of which,
Fig. 1 is an end view of such a light according to my invention, as it would
appear when in use, while Fig. 2 is a view of the same, when folded and packed
away, the said detachable ends for clearness of illustration being omitted."
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of same.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of either section of the roof
for the purpose of illustrating the manner of fixing the glasses therein, and retain-
ing the same in position by pegs or pins such as Fig. 5.
In the construction of my said improved folding portable light, I form from any
kind of wood the roof in two parts A and B, the upper ends of the respective rafters
of which A and B₁ (which may consist of any number according to the desired
length of the light) are screwed, nailed, morticed, or otherwise suitably connected
to wooden plates C and D respectively, the said plates when placed together and
connected to each other by hinges such as E collectively form a ridge plate for the
roof of the light. The lower ends of the said rafters are preferably screwed, nailed,
or otherwise suitably connected to wooden tie plates F and G, respectively, which
are connected by hinges such as H with the side walls J and K, (which may be of
solid wood or glazed frames) or if desired the said plates F and G may be dispensed
with, and the lower ends of A and B¹ be connected by the hinges H directly to and
upon the walls J and K, but I do not recommend the latter arrangement. The
rafters A and B are provided with grooves L (Fig. 4) into which is slid from either
end panes of glass M (Fig. 3) the said glasses being prevented from falling out at
the lower ends of the said grooves, by the means of pins or pegs such as N, (Fig. 5)
engaging with holes O, in the said rafters, as shewn in Fig. 3, the said pegs or
pins being removed when the glasses M are to be lowered for ventilation as at M¹
Fig. 3, or when the said glasses are to be entirely removed, that the light may be
folded as at Fig. 2, and packed away after use, but when the folding of the light
is only temporary such folding may be effected without removing the said pins or
pegs and the glasses M if desired.
Although I have described and shewn the glasses M as adapted to slide in the
grooves L for ventilation etc., I may arrange for use with large lights, or as small
portable houses, that the said glasses, M or some of them, instead of sliding in
the said grooves may be in suitably hinged frames, adapted to slide in the said
grooves, so that the said frames can be raised for ventilation without being moved
in the said grooves.
Each light is provided with two portable ends (not shewn) which may be
opaque and of solid wood or framed to receive glass as desired, and arranged for
connection with the ends of the said light by hooks, clips buttons, pegs, screws, or
other suitable means.
When a long length of plants or vegetation is to be protected from frost or forced
by sun-heat, (such for instance as a row of early peas or strawberries) any number
of my said lights may be placed together, end to end, until the said row is covered,

page_text: in which case only one pair of ends would be necessary to enclose the whole, the
glasses M of any of which said lights may be removed as stated for ventilation,
and all or any of the said lights be folded up and packed away after use as stated,
and shewn by Fig. 2.
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:-
1st. The improved folding garden light substantially as described and shewn.
2nd. In an improved folding garden light, the combination of a divided glazed
roof such as A, B, connected to a divided ridge plate such as C, D, connected
together by hinges such as E, the said roof A, B, being connected by hinges such
as H, to side walls such as J, K, with means such as pegs or pins N for retaining
the glass M, or frames containing such glass, in the said roof without the use of
cement, the whole being adapted to fold up as at Fig. 2 when out of use, substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein described and shewn.
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GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.