Improvements in connection with Flower-pot Saucers and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Flower-pot Saucers and the like.
I, HERBERT JOSEPH POWELL of 6, Súrbiton Park Terrace, Surbiton in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
This invention relates to improvements in connection with flower pot saucers
and such like receptacles and has for its object to provide the free drainage so
necessary to plant life which is unobtainable in the ordinary flower pot saucer
now in use.
According to my invention I provide a saucer of any suitable size and shape
having a loose perforated plate or diaphram situated at about half its depth
through which the superfluous water may drain thus preventing the pot from
standing in the water to the injury of the roots of the plant.
An additional advantage also being that the plants may obtain an amount of
moisture by capillary action from the water retained in the saucer at the bottom
of the plate referred to.
My improved saucer may be made of potteryware, metal or of any other suitable
material and may be of any desired shape and size according to requirement.
Doted this 12th day of January 1897.
J. B. FLEURET,
5 Hatton Garden London Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in connection with Flower-pot Saucers and the like.
I, HERBERT JOSEPH POWELL of 6 Surbiton Park Terrace Surbiton in the
County of Surrey 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 improvements in connection with flower-pot saucers
and such like receptacles and has for its object to so construct the said saucers
that a free drainage so necessary to plant life is provided which is unobtainable
For this purpose I
with the ordinary form of flower-pot saucers hitherto in use.
construct my improved saucers with a ledge or annular projection situated about
half way down the depth of the same. This ledge is for the purpose of supporting
a perforated slab diaphragm or plate upon which the flower-pot rests thus per-
mitting the superfluous water from the latter draining through the said perfora-
tions into the lower part of the saucer. The pot also being thus supported preserves
the roots of the plant from injury by contact with the water contained in the

page_text: saucer. An additional advantage also obtains by providing the plant with a
certain amount of moisture owing to the capillary action of the same upon the
water contained in the saucer underneath the perforated slab or plate.
Instead of employing a loose perforated slab or plate I may form the saucer
with a solid division or support for the pot and it may be provided with a central
perforation only.
My improved saucers may be made of pottery-ware, metal or other suitable
material an 1 may be of any desired shape and size according to requirements.
And in order to clearly understand my invention reference is had to the accom-
panying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a cross-section of my improved flower-pot
saucer constructed of earthenware and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a
section of a saucer formed with a solid division in place of the loose plate or slab
and Fig. 4 is a section showing the saucer constructed of metal a is the ledge or
annular projection and b the slab or plate resting thereon formed with perfora-
tions and a central hole 62. The flower-pot is supported upon the said slab or
plate b in the upper or larger part of the saucer thus permitting the superfluous
water from the pot draining through the perforations into the lower or smaller
part of the saucer and also enabling a certain amount of moister being supplied
to the plant by the capillary action of its roots upon the water in the part c¹.
As shewn in Fig. 3 the loose slab or plate is dispensed with and the saucer
formed with a division for supporting the pot and the same may be formed
with a single hole in the centre, the perforations b' being dispensed with. In
Fig. 4 the saucer is formed of sheet metal and provided with the perforated metal
plate or support e.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
'I claim is:-
(1) In flower-pot saucers forming the same with a ledge or annular projection
such as a for supporting a perforated slab or plate b substantially as described
and for the purposes specified.
(2) The improvements in flower-pot saucers substantially as described with
reference respectively to Figs. 1 and 2, Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 of the accompanying
sheet of drawings.
J. B. FLEURET,
5 Hatton Garden Holborn Circus, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.