A New or Improved Holder for Cut-flowers, Sprays, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application. 23rd Apr., 1898-Accepted, 4th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Holder for Cut-flowers, Sprays, and the like.
I, CHARLES FREDERICK LOWE, of Norfolk College, Vicarage Road, Leyton, in the
County of Essex, Gentleman, 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 invention relates to an improved flower-holder for personal wear, and has for
object to provide an inexpensive device of convenient form for holding a button-hole,
small bouquet or spray or bunch of flowers, in a gentleman's coat or the equivalent
article of ladies wearing apparel, whereby such bunch of flowers or the like may be
maintained in a fresh condition for a considerable length of time.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings, wherein,
Fig. 1 is a transverse section of the flower-holder.
Fig. 2 a perspective view of same.
Fig. 4 is a transverse section of a modified form of my improved flower-holder,
while
Fig. 3 is a view of a portion of the underside showing the hooks for securing the
device to a coat or the like.
In carrying the invention into practice, I fashion the holder a of a strip or sheet
of tin, aluminium, or other suitable resilient material, which is bent into the
triangular form (in section) shewn by Figs. 1 and 2, or into a circular form as
illustrated by Fig. 4, such holder being capable of expansion, that is to say, the
opposing sides a¹ can be separated. The resiliency of the material composing the
holder will at once return the sides a¹ to their normal position when the expanding
pressure is withdrawn. The interior of the holder a is lined with felt or like
absorbent material b which when the holder is in use, is saturated or damped with
water in order to maintain the flowers, (the stalks of which come into contact with
such felt) in a fresh condition.
Hooks c (Fig. 3) or their equivalent are provided upon the back of the flower-holder
for the purpose of allowing same to be readily affixed to a ladies' coat or the like
garment.
If desirable suitable catches (not shewn) may be provided upon the holder, for the
purpose of fastening the opposing sides a¹ together. Although I have illustrated two
shapes of my improved flower-holder, I do not wish to confine myself to any particular
shape but may vary same as found desirable or convenient.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The improved flower-holder, consisting of a strip or sheet of resilient material bent

page_text: so that two of its sides near the edges lie one upon the other, said holder being lined
with felt or other absorbent material and provided with hooks, substantially and for
the purpose described, and as illustrated by the drawing.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1898
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.