IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE WATERING OF PLANTS IN POTS IN CONSERVATORIES, GREENHOUSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR STRUCTURES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustus Frederick Bayford, of 38, Hamilton
Terrace, St. John's Wood, N. W., Esquire, for the Invention of
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE WATERING OF PLANTS IN
POTS IN CONSERVATORIES, GREENHOUSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR STRUCTURES."
Sealed the 23rd June 1868, and dated the 12th February 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustus Frederick
Bayford at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 12th February 1868.
I, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK BAYFORD, of 38, Hamilton Terrace, St.
John's Wood, N. W., Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE WATERING OF
PLANTS IN POTS IN CONSERVATORIES, GREENHOUSES, AND OTHER SIMILAB
STRUCTURES," to be as follows:-
A tube made made of metal, & of course hollow. It is curved at the
end to allow the water readily to enter the pot, and may be made of

page_text: any length provided the efficiency of the suction power of the syringe
be not impaired thereby. It may be made to open & shut like a
telescope. It is screwed or otherwise fastened to the end of syringe,
the rose ordinarily used having been previously removed. The tube
may be removed at pleasure. A small rose may be easily fitted on to
the end of it if required. It may be applied to any large syringe. To
use it the end of the tube is immersed in water and the syringe is filled
and discharged in the usual way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Augustus Frederick Bayford in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 25th June 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUSTUS
FREDERICK BAYFORD, of 38, Hamilton Terrace, St. John's Wood, N.W.,
Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Twelfth day of February, in the year.
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Augustus Frederick Bayford, Her
special licence, that I, the said Augustus Frederick Bayford, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Augustus Frederick Bayford, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING THE
WATERING OF PLANTS IN GREENHOUSES AND OTHER SIMILAR STRUCTURES," upon
the condition (amongst others) 'that I, 'the said 'Augustus Frederick
Bayford, my 'exécutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of 'the 'said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause 'the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Augustus Frederick Bayford,.
do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 consists of a tube of metal hollow and curved. at the
end, and may be of any length upon which the suction power of the
syringe to which it is fitted will efficiently act. It is screwed or other-
wise fastened to the end of the syringe, instead of the top ordinarly.
employed, and is removable at pleasure. The tube can be fitted to any
syringe, but the larger sized syringes will be found to answer best. A
small rose removable at pleasure can be readily fitted to the end of
the tube if required. If desired the tube may be constructed so as to
open and shut like a telescope, or be fitted to a gutta percha pipe.
When in use the ordinary top from the syringe is removed and the
syringe tube is fastened in its place, the syringe is then filled and
discharged in the usual manner, the more leisurely the syringe is filled
the more perfectly it will act.
Advantages. The advantages attained by using the greenhouse
syringe tube consists in a considerable saving of time and labour in all
cases in which it is required to water plants placed above the level of
the hip. It is peculiarly adapted for watering plants placed at a
distance from the person watering them, also plants placed on high
shelves, and suspended in the air. From the small size of the tube
accidents to plants in these and similar situations will be readily
avoided. The rose will be found advantageous where the plants to be
watered are small.
The above-mentioned advantages will render the greenhouse syringe
tube almost a necessity in pineries, whilst its general utility, simplicity
of construction, and trifling cost cannot fail to recommend it equally to
the attention of the amateur and the professional gardener.
Fig. 1, the syringe tube detached from the syringe; Fig. 2, the two
lengths combined; Fig. 3, the telescope tube.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, what I claim
is, an improved apparatus for facilitating the watering of plants in

page_text: pots in conservatories, greenhouses, and other similar structures, as
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustus Frederick Bayford, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight húndred and sixty-eight.
A. F. BAYFORD. (L.S.)