An Improved Holder for Cut Flowers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 16th Aug.. 1893-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder for Cut Flowers.
GEORGE WALKER 12 Lingfield Road Wimbledon Surgeon do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An ordinary metal or other tube with a notched projection running from top to
bottom on the outside. A plate is made with a hole in the middle slightly larger
than the diameter of the tube, which plate is slotted to allow the projection on tube
to pass up & down.
It is used as follows, the plate is fixed to the stand either above or below or both
above & below. The tube is placed in the hole in the plate to the height required,
& by slightly turning the tube the projection rests on the plate or plates.
Dated this 17th day of November 1892.
GEORGE WALKEK,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder for Cut Flowers.
I, GEORGE WALKER 12 Lingfield Road Wimbledon in the County of Surrey
Surgeon 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 :-
A metal tube (B) of any suitable length & diameter, (one end of which is closed
& the other open with a ring or flange on top,) is made to hold water, on the outside
of this tube, extending from top to bottom is a serrated or other suitable toothed
projection (D) either made from the same piece of metal as the tube or 'fastened
on to the tube by solder or otherwise.
Suitable sized round, or other shaped sheet metal plates (A) are made with a
hole in the middle to correspond with the diameter of tube, and a notch (C) cut to
allow the serrated projection to clear the plate when the tube is being put into the
holes in plates.
The method of using these tubes & plates is as follows, on the top of a prepared
board, one that has holes made in at desired places, the plates (A) are fixed & above
the holes, and plates (A) are fixed underneath & so fixed that the holes in the top
plates correspond with the hole in the lower plates & the plates are so fixed that
the notches (C) are one above the other in a direct line. A tube (B) with the
serrated projection (D) is placed within the hole of plates (A) and in such a
position that the projection slides in the notch (C) when the tube (B) is passed
through the plates to the desired position, the tube (B) is turned either to the right
or left & causes the projections nearest to the plates to rest upon the plates &
prevents the tube from moving in a downward or upward direction, by again
turning the tube (B) until the projection (D) stands opposite the notch (C) the
tube may be raised or lowered & again secured by turning so that the projections
rest upon the plates.
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 1
claim is
1. Tubes, with a narrow longitudinal serrated or other suitable toothed projection
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page_text: 2. Plates with a hole to correspond with above tubes & a notch inside of hole to
allow the serrated projection to pass through.
Dated this 15th day of August 1893.
GEO.
WALKER,
12, Lingfield Road, Wimbledon, Surrey.