An Adjustable Stand or Holder for Pots or Jars of Flowers, Plants, and for other Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar.. 1889-Accepted, 11th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Adjustable Stand or Holder for Pots or Jars of Flowers, Plants,
and for other Articles.
ALFRED GEORGE HAMILTON, the Quintin Matsys Forge, 14 Griffin Street, York
Road, London, SE, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
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My invention consists of an adjustable stand for the display or placing of pots, jars,
or other receptacles, for flowers or plants, or other articles in such a way that each
separate one can be readily seen, displayed, moved, and its position altered as may be
required, without interfering with any of the othors, so that all can be displayed in a
convenient, attractive, and elegant manner; the stand being for use in fireplaces,
conservatories, or other places. Upon a base, frame, or stand of metal or any other
suitable material, I place a number of vertical hollow standards, open at the top, of
varying height, and in two, or more rows, having a similar or a varying number of
standards in each row These standards are so made that they can be readily moved
to any desired position upon the base or frame; the lower end of the standards being
Ushaped, so that by means of a screw, spring, or other device in one side of the U,
it be affixed at any part of the base or frame For preference I arrange that the
back row of standards shall be of a greater height than those in any of the rows in
front of it, so that each row of standards from front to back is of increased height.
Preferably, also, I arrange that there shall be a greater number of standards in the
front row, than in the one behind it; thus, for instance, the back row of standards
may be three in number of thirteen inches in height, the next row, four of nine
inches; and the next, five of five inches, and so on with any number of rows or
standards, of whatever dimensions may be convenient or requisite, but I do not hold
myself to this exact arrangement or number of lows, or number of standards
each of the standards I place a wire or rod of metal or other suitable material, of
such a length that it may reach to the base if required, and in such a way that it can
be moved freely up and down in the standard; the top of this wire or rod is continued
at a right or any other suitable angle in a circular or other convenient form either in
an outline or substance, thus forming a trame, tray, or outline for receiving, holding,
or carrying the flower or plant pots, or jars, or other articles, which may be placed or
suspended therein or thereon. These wires or rods are retained at any height or
position required, by means of a screw, or spring, or other appliance at some
convenient part of the standard, preferably near the top.
Dated this 0th dow of June 1888
In
A G. PRITCHARD,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Adjustable Stand or Holder for Pots or Jars of Flowers, Plants,
and for other Articles.
I, ALFRED GEORGE HAMILTON, The Quintin Matsys Forge, 14 Griffin Street, York
Road, London, SE., Mechanical Engineer, 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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My invention consists of an adjustable stand or holder for the display, placing, or
fixing, of pots, jars, or other receptacles, for flowers or plants of any description, or
other articles, in such a way that each separate one can be readily seen, displayed,
moved, or removed, and its position altered as may be required or desired, without
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page_text: such moving or display interfering with any of the others, and so that each separate
one and all of them can be displayed or adjusted in a convenient, attractive, ready,
and elegant manner; the stand or holder being adapted for use in fireplaces, con-
servatories, shop or other windows, recesses, or other places. Upon a base A, frame,
or stand, composed of metal or any other suitable material or materials, I place a
number of vertical hollow standards, B open at the top, of the same or of varying
height, and in two, three, or more rows, a similar or a varying number of standards
being arranged in each row. These standards are so made that they can be readily
moved and placed in any desired position upon the base, frame, or stand, the lower
end of the standards being in the shape of an inverted letter U, see Fig 4 so that by
means of a screw, spring, or other suitable device or arrangement in one or both sides
of the U, the standards can be readily affixed at any part of the base, frame, or stand,
which is provided with bars arranged parallel to each other, or in a geometrical or con-
venient form for that purpose, or they may be permanently fixed as required as shown
at Fig. 1. For preference I arrange that the back row of standards shall be of a
greater height than those in any of the rows in front of it, so that each row of
standards from front to back is of a greater height. Preferably also, I arrange that
there shall be a greater number of standards in the front row than in the one behind
it Thus, the back row of standards may be three in number of 13 inches in height,
the low immediately in front of this consisting of four of 9 inches, the next five of
5 inches, and so on with any number of rows of standards, of whatever dimensions or
numbers as may be convenient or requisite, but I do not hold myself to the exact
arrangement of rows, standards, or diniensions cited above. In each of the standards
I place a wire or rod C of metal or any other suitable material, of such a length that
it may reach to the bottom of the hollow standard if required, and in such a way that
it can be moved freely up and down in the same, the top of this wire or rod is
surmounted or continued at a right or any other suitable angle in a circular or other
convenient form, either in outline or substance, thus forming a frame, ring, tray,
hook C Fig. 3., or outline, for receiving, holding, carrying, or suspending the flower
or plant pots or jars, or other articles which may be placed or suspended therein or
thereon. These wires or rods are retained at any height or position required, one
being represented as raised at C C. by means of a screw, spring, or other appliance
at some convenient part of the standard, preferably near the top as at D, or the screw,
spring, or other device may be dispensed with, as the weight of the article suspended
or displayed at the top of the rod may be found to be sufficient to retain it in position
as it causes the wire or rod to bite the interior of the hollow standard.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An adjustable stand or holder for the display or fixing of pots, jars or other
receptacles, for flowers, plants, or other articles, and suitable for use in fireplaces,
conservatories, windows, recesses, and elsewhere, made substantially as described
2. A stand or holder on which the articles displayed can be moved to any desired
position without such moving interfering with any other of the articles displayed,
as set forth in specification.
3. A stand or holder consisting of a base or frame having an arrangement of bars
with vertical hollow standards capable of being fixed at various parts of the base upon
said bars, as described.
4. The use of wires or rods running in the standards, having a ring, hook, tray, or
other shaped portion at the top, capable of being retained or fixed at any desired
height or position in the manner set out in foregoing specification.
Dated this 1st day of March 1889
A. G. PRITCHARD,
Agent for Applicant.