Improvements in Plant Holders or Supports.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 21st Sept, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Plant Holders or Supports.
J, WILLIAM ABENDROTH MILLS of Port Chester, in the County of
Westchester and State of New York, United States of America, Assistant
Superintendent 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 :—
The object of this invention is to provide a neat, light and easily adjusted
support for carnations, pinks, and other delicate flowers, such support being of wire
and having a loop or ring that can be raised or lowered to adapt the same to
holding up the stem or flower and preventing injury thereto, such wire ring or loop
having hooks at its ends that engage corrugations in the standard which is inserted
into the earth.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 represents one form of the wire standard, and Figure 2 a slight
modification of the same with portions of the wire loops or rings applied to such
standard.
Figure 3 is a plan view of one of the loops or rings.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of the hooks on the ring in the form shown in
Figure 2.
The standards A A' are to be made of wire of sufficient size and strength and
preferably twisted together and formed with a double loop 2 and the centre coil 3
to give the proper surface bearing in the earth to maintain the standard in a
vertical position, and the wires are twisted together as shown at 45 to maintain
the proper distance between the wires forming the sides of the standards, there
being a sufficient space between one side and the other of such standard for the
books 6 of the wire ring or loop B to be passed through between the two parts of
the standard, and such books 6 to engage the corrugations in the wire and pass up
at the back of the standard sufficiently to hold the wire ring or loop B in a
substantially horizontal position.
In Figure 1 there are openings at 7 between the two parts of the wire standard
through which the hooks 6 can be passed so as to engage the back of the wire of
the standard, the circular portion of the loop or ring B coming against the front
portion of the wire, and this also is the case in the form of standard represented
in Figure 2 in which the corrugations or zig-zags of the wire are more numerous
and are in substantially one plane so that the loop or ring B can be raised or
lowered without removing the same from the standard, it only being necessary to
spring the ends of such ring B toward each other to bring the hook portions 6
sufficiently near together to pass them up or down between the two parts of the
wire of the standard, and the spring of the loop or hook B is sufficient to cause
the hooks 6 to spread apart and firmly engage with the standard at the zig-zags
or corrugations in the wire. By this construction I am enabled to make use of
comparatively light wire that is sufficiently strong for supporting the plant and at
the same time not large and objectionable in appearance, and by painting or
enameling the wire the same is rendered quite durable as well as artistic in
appearance.
In some instances the wire is bent to form double hooks 16 as shown in Figure 4,
so that when placed together as in Figure 2 the wires of the standard may pass
between the parts of such hooks and the ring can be slipped up or down on the

page_text: standard such wires springing as the corrugations pass the hooks. In either of
the forms shown, the wires of the hooks are folded to take a bearing against
the surfaces of the standard and sustain the ring in a nearly horizontal position
for use.
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 :-
1. The standard of two part wire having corrugations or zig-zags in combina-
tion with the wire hoop or loop having hook shaped ends that engage the
corrugations or zig-zags in the wire of the standard, substantially as set forth.
2. The standard of two part wire having corrugations or zig-zage, in combina-
tion with the wire hoop or loop having hook shaped ends that engage and extend
up behind the corrugations or zig-zags in the wire of the standard, substantially as
set forth.
3. The combination in a plant support with the standard, of a wire ring having
hook shaped ends folded to take a bearing upon the standard and sustain the
ring in a substantially horizontal position, substantially as specified.
Dated this 19th day of August 1895.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.