Improvements in or appertaining to Devices for Protecting Growing Fruit, Flowers, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Devices for Protecting Growing
Fruit, Flowers, and the like.
I JOHN TAYLOR of Hoole Hall, Chester in the County of Chester, Horti-
culturalist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object a method of protecting and assisting the growth
of individual fruits or bunches of fruit, flowers and the like and consists essentially
in a glass envelope formed in two or more parts and covering the fruit and supported
in any convenient manner.
In carrying out my invention I prefer to form two hemispheres of glass one to
fit into the rim of the other. They can if desirable be on the one side projection
and the other recess consequently while there is a projection fitting into a recess all
round a single mould will do for both of them and they will be both inter-
changable.
In order to fix the two hemispheres together each of them is supplied on opposite
sides with a peg or projection preferably hemispherical, an india rubber band
round these two hemispherical pegs hold the two halves together at various points.
In each hemisphere I place perforations, both for ventilation and as sockets in
which I fix a stick support and also let the stock of the fruit or flower pass
through.
In some cases these holes may be in the form of a deep socket with transverse
holes through the socket so that the stock placed in the socket can be held by a
pin passing through these holes. Besides spherical envelopes I may have oblong
and other shapes to suit the various varieties of fruit such as a bunch of grapes, a
pear an apple or other fruit.
Dated this 7th day of January 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Devices for Protecting Growing
Fruit, Flowers, and the like.
JOHN TAYLOR Hoole Hall Chester Horticulturist. I 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 :---
My invention consists of a glass globe made in two halves, A & B respectively,
which encases the fruit to be preserved & ripened; the two halves are held
together by steel galvanized wire, which clasps round them, the extreme end of
the wire (C) being fixed to the branch of the tree. At the joints of the halves
of the globes, several holes (D) are made, which are perforated for ventilation, or
for the insertion of the stalk of the flower.
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. Simple, it being so easily adjusted that any one can with little trouble.

page_text: 2nd. It accelerates the rapid ripening of growing fruits.
3rd. It protects the fruit and flowers from the ravages of birds, beetles, wasps
and all other injurious insects.
Dated this 9th day of November 1891
JOHN TAYLOR.