Improvements in Hyacinth Glasses.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 16th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hyacinth Glasses.
I ALBERT CAY trading as James Stevens and Son of Victoria Glass Works
Dartmouth Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Glass Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is so to construct the hyacinth glass that a stick or
other upright carrying the wire ring string or other means of attachment by
which the Hower and leaves of the hyacinth are supported can readily be attached
to and detached from the glass; and this object effect by making in the side
of the hyacinth glass a vertical groove or depression into which the lower part
of the stick or upright described is fitted the said stick or upright being fastened
in its place in the said vertical groove or depression by means of string wire or
india rubber bands passed round the sides of the hyacinth glass and made to cross
the said stick or upright and hold it in the groove. I prefer to use in combination
with the vertical groove or depression in which the stick or upright is placed one
or more cross grooves in the sides of the hyacinth glass. In this groove or in
these cross grooves the fixing string wire or india rubber bands lie and the fastening
of the stick or upright facilitated and the slipping of the string wire or bands
prevented.
I do not limit myself to any sectional figure of the vertical groove or depression
in the hyacinth glass as its figure may be varied; for example it may be semi-
circular or semi-elliptical or angular according to the sectional figure of the stick
or upright used; and the said vertical groove or depression may be made in the
wall of the hyacinth glass or in the substance of the wall of the hyacinth glass;
or a vertical rib may be made on the outside of the glass in which rib the groove
or depression is formed.
My invention may be applied to hyacinth glasses the bodies of which are either
square cylindrical or conical or of other figure.
Dated this 12th day of August 1890.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hyacinth Glasses.
I ALBERT CAY trading as James Stevens and Son of Victoria Glass Works,
Dartmouth Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Glass Manufacturer do
hereby declare the nature of my 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 my invention is so to construct the hyacinth glass that a stick
or other upright carrying the wire ring string or other means of attachment by
which the flower and leaves of the hyacinth are supported can readily be attached
to and detached from the glass; and this object effect by making in the side of
the hyacinth glass a vertical groove or depression into which the lower part of the
stick or upright described is fitted the said stick or upright being fastened in its
place in the said vertical groove or depression by means of string wire or india
rubber bands passed round the sides of the hyacinth glass and made to cross the
said stick or upright and hold it in the groove. prefer to use in combination
with the vertical groove or depression in which the stick or upright is placed one

page_text: or more cross-grooves in the sides of the hyacinth glass. In this cross groove or
in these cross grooves the fixing string, wire or india rubber bands lie and the
fastening of the stick or upright acilitated and the slipping of the string wire or
bands prevented.
My invention may be applied to hyacinth glasses the bodies of which are either
square cylindrical or conical or of other figure.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in perspective a hyacinth
glass, having a square or angular figure, constructed according to my invention and
Figure 2 represents the same with the stick or support applied and fastened to it;
a is the body of the hyacinth glass and is the cup of the same for holding the
bulb c is the vertical groove or depression made in the wall of the body of the
glass for receiving the cylindrical (or other) stick or upright d the grooved part o
projecting within the glass (see Figure 4); and ee are the cross grooves or
depressions in which the fastening strings wires or india rubber or other bands
are placed and lie for securing the stick or support in its place in the vertical
groove c. It will be seen by an examination of Figure 2 that the strings, wires
or bands passed around the sides of the hyacinth glass cross the stick or
support and hold it firmly in the groove c. By means of the cross grooves e, e
the slipping of the strings, wires or bands is prevented. One cross groove or
more than two cross grooves may be used in combination with the vertical groove
for holding the stick or support but I have found in practice that two grooves
answer well.
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The upper end of the stick or support d may be provided with a ribbon or band
or with a wire, ring or other means of attachment for supporting the flower and
leaves of the hyacinth.
Figure 3 represents in elevation a hyacinth glass the body of which has the
general figure of a cylinder provided with my invention; and
Figure 4 represents a horizontal section of the same taken at the base of the
glass.
In this modified hyacinth glass a vertical groove is made at the cylindrical
base part only of the glass for receiving the stick or other support d the said
stick being held in its place at the base by the crossing band, string or wire i
lying in the groove or space formed between the two annular ribs kk at the said
base. The said stick is also held in its place by the second band string or wire /
lying in the space formed between the detached ornaments at m, m near the upper
part of the glass.
Although I prefer to use cross grooves or depressions, or their equivalents, in
the hyacinth glass for receiving and preventing the slipping of the bands strings
or wires employed for fastening the stick or support in the vertical groove or
depression yet the cross grooves or depressions or their equivalents may be
dispensed with the fastening bands strings or wires in that case encircling the
plain body of the hyacinth glass and crossing the stick or other support in the
vertical groove.
I do not limit myself to any sectional figure of the vertical groove or depression
in the hyacinth glass as its figure may be varied; for example it may be semi-
circular or semi-elliptical or angular according to the sectional figure of the
stick or upright used and the said vertical groove or depression may be made in
the wall of the hyacinth glass as illustrated in the drawing or in the substance of
the wall of the hyacinth glass; or a vertical rib may be made on the outside
of the glass in which rib the groove or depression is formed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed 1 declare that I
claim as my invention of "Improvements in hyacinth glasses"
:
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First Making in the body of the hyacinth glass a vertical groove or depression
extending from top to bottom of the said body or extending through a portion or
portions of the said body for receiving the stick or other upright carrying the

page_text: wire, ring string or other means of attachment by which the flower and leaves
of the hyacinth are supported substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
Secondly The combination with the vertical groove or depression in the body
of the hyacinth glass for receiving the stick or other support of one or more cross
grooves or depressions or their equivalents for receiving and preventing the
slipping of the strings bands or wires by which the stick or support is held in the
said vertical groove or depression substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
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ALBERT CAY.