Improvements in Plant Supports for Use in Greenhouses.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application. 9th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1896 -Accepted, 24th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Plant Supports for Use in Greenhouses.
I GERALD FITZGERALD WRIGHT of No. 19 Chapel Street Worthing
Sussex Painter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A slotted metal bar attached to hangers, such bar being bolted to the said
hangers.
The object of the invention is to facilitate the fixing, and removal, of wires, used
to support vines, etc., in greenhouses; which at present are laced thro' eyes screwed
to rafters, or thro' holes drilled in metal, systems which are most inconvenient when
the work of painting, or cleaning the green-house is being executed; as great
labour is entailed in unlacing the wires.
The said invention, entirely obviates such inconvenience, as, in fixing, the wires
fall into the slots, instead of having to be laced, and in removing, the bar, on being
unbolted from the hangers, releases the wires. The hangers are fastened to the
rafters of the greenhouse.
Dated this Seventh day of December 1895.
GERALD FITZGERALD WRIGHT.
GERALD FITZGERALD WRIGHT, of No. 19, Chapel Street, Worthing in the
County of Sussex, Painter 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 :-
This improved device consists of a slotted bar A, having slots C, cut through on
one edge of the bar, the slots should preferably slope towards the lower end of bar
when fixed, the aforementioned bar A is attached to hangers B, which are fixed to
greenhouse rafter D.
This invention renders the fixing and removal of greenhouse wires much easier
than the present modes of fixing them, which are usually laced through wire supports
suspended from rafters, or laced through holes in bars attached to rafters similarly
as the slotted bar A, and when once they are fixed in this manner generally remain
so, causing great inconvenience when the greenhouses require to be painted or
cleaned down.
In fixing this invention, the wires drop to the bottom of the slots C, the weight
of the plants or vines and the like keeping them in their proper position, the end
bars which are generally angle bars have slots C cut in one edge in a like manner
as before described, in order to facilitate the removal or fixing of the straining
bolts and nuts, so that from one end of the greenhouse to the other the whole
length of wire, and straining bolts and nuts can be lifted up out of the slots C, the
bars A, can then be detached from the hangers B, leaving the underneath of
greenhouse roof clear of bars and wires.

page_text: The slotted bar A can also be used upright against a greenhouse wall for
holding the wires for training vines, plants and the like, the end bars also having
slots C for holding or releasing straining bolts and nuts.
Any suitable number of bars the section of which may be I, L or T shaped,
and slots of any suitable shape and number can be used.
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. A slotted bar as a means for holding or releasing greenhouse wires and
straining bolts and nuts, and having any number of slots.
2. The methods of using the aforesaid slotted bar as herein described in this
my Complete Specification, and shewn on drawing.
3. The right to use any suitable shaped slot in the aforesaid slotted bar.
4. Any suitable shaped slotted bar, whether the section of it be I, L, or T shaped.
Dated this 5th day of September 1896.
GERALD FITZGERALD WRIGHT.