IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL FENCES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Goulding, of No. 34, Ayleston Street,
Leicester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL FENCES
Sealed the 2nd January 1866, and dated the 7th July 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Goulding at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th July 1865.
I, WILLIAM GOULDING, of No. 34, Ayleston Street, Leicester, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTAL
FENCES AND BASKETS TO CONTAIN FLOWERS AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ornamental fences and
baskets to contain flowers and other articles. In constructing ornamental
fences and baskets to contain flowers and other articles, each basket or fence
is composed of a series of independent ribs of any desired device, plain or
ornamental, which being combined together either in straight or curved lines
produce fences suitable for beds in gardens, or baskets to stand on pedestals
or otherwise. Each rib is formed with a notch or recess on one side, and
near its lower end this notch fits on to a bar fixed to a pedestal, or to the
ground, or otherwise held, whilst the lower end of each rib passes under
another bar or fixed stop. The frame or fence thus produced may have grass,
turf, moss, or other material placed against it, and then earth in which flowers
may be bedded out. By thus constructing fences or baskets the parts will

page_text: pack when out of use in a small compass, and the fences or baskets may be
readily taken apart to be used again, and at different times the same parts
may be composed into and form different shaped fences or baskets. The
ribs are preferred to be of cast iron, but they may be of wrought iron.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Goulding in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
6th January 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GOULDING, of 34, Ayleston Street, Leicester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and suecessors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Goulding, Her special licence that I, the said William
Goulding, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
'the said William Goulding, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE
MENTS IN ORNAMENTAL FENCES AND BASKETS TO CONTAIN FLOWERS AND OTHER
ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Goulding, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Goulding, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in ornamental fences
and baskets to contain flowers and other articles. In constructing orna
inental fences and baskets to contain flowers and other articles, each basket
or fence is composed of a series of independent ribs of any desired device, plain.

page_text: or ornamental, which being combined together either in straight or curved
lines produce fences suitable for beds in gardens, or baskets to stand on
pedestals or otherwise. Each rib is formed with a notch or recess on one
side, and near its lower end this notch fits on to a bar fixed to a pedestal, or
to the ground, or otherwise held whilst the lower end of each rib passes under
another bar or fixed stop. The frame or fence thus produced may have grass,
turf, moss, or other material placed against it, and then earth in which flowers
may be bedded out. By thus constructing fences or baskets the parts will
pack when out of use in a small compass, and the fences or baskets may be
readily taken apart to be used again, and at different times the same parts
may be composed into and form different shaped fences or baskets. The ribs
are preferred to be of cast iron, but they may be of wrought iron.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
As above stated the frames or fences may be arranged in straight or curved
lines, and the ribs may be according to an ornamental or plain device, and
they may be straight from end to end, or curved.
In the Diagram, Figure 1 shows a rib a of a curved form with an orna-
mental device thereon. a² is a notch on its under side near its lower end, by
which it rests on the upper surface of the bar 6, whilst this pointed end rests
under the bar or stop c, these bars or stops b and c are fixed in any desired
position, either near the surface of the ground, or elevated above the ground
on a pedestal or otherwise. It is not necessary that the bars or stops b and c
should be notched to receive the ribs a, a, but such may be the case particu-
larly where it is desired that the ribs should be placed correctly spaced one
from the other. And in place of the lower ends a³ of the ribs passing under
the stop or bar c, the form of the end of each rib may be such as simply
to rest against the side of the bar c, whilst by the notch a² it rests on the
bar b.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Goulding, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixte ci
WILLIAM GOULDING. (L.S.)
Witness,
THOMAS CARTER.