Improvements in "Guide Lines" for Planting. Purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in "Guide Lines" for Planting. Purposes.
I, HENRY NICHOLS of Fern Villa, Stourton, Hunslet, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Gardener, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to enable gardeners farmers, and others to set
plants or roots, or to pierce or hole where such plants or roots are to be set in
uniform and straight lines, and at regular distances apart; simplifying thereby the
work of setting, piercing, or holing, and dispensing with what is known as "drilling"
or "grooving."
For the above purpose I employ a metallic cord, consisting of twisted or untwisted
wire or wires with or without a central thread of fibrous material so as not to be
effected by moisture as far as expansion and contraction are concerned.
On or through the said metallic cord are mounted or passed any desired number
of adjustable metal markers of any suitable construction such as for instance formed
somewhat like a safety pin, a portion of which may pass between and beyond the
twisted strands of the cord, or a boss or clip spring or otherwise made in one or
more portions armed with a projection, and with or without a pin or point for
entering between the twisted strands, or to gripping the circumference of the cord,
or it or their equivalents may be employed and readily fixed in or on the cord to suit
the distance required between each plant or root; the adjustment thereof being easily
effected through the medium of a gauge provided for the purpose.
The above mentioned metallic cord armed with the adjustable markers as described
may be used in a similar manner to the ordinary cord.
Dated this Nineteenth day of February 1892.
HENRY NICHOLS,
By W. Fairburn-Hart.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in "Guide Lines" for Planting Purposes.
I, HENRY NICHOLS, of Fern Villa, Stourton, Hunslet, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Gardener, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to enable gardeners, farmers, and others to set
plants or roots, or to pierce or hole where such plants or roots are to be set in
uniform and straight lines, and at regular distances apart, simplifying thereby the
work of setting, piercing, or holeing, and dispensing with what is known as "drilling"
or "grooving; and it may also be used for other purposes where an adjustable
marker is required..
"
For the above purpose I employ a metallic cord consisting of twisted or untwisted
wires or wires with or without a central thread, strand, or core of fibrous material
so as not to be effected by moisture as far as expansion and contraction are con-
cerned, on or through which is threaded or passed any desired number of adjustable
markers, hereinafter termed "adjustable sets of any suitable construction as. here-
after described. .
In the drawings:-
Fig. 1. is a plan of guide line with “adiustable-sets"-applied.

page_text: Figs. 3 and 4 are elevations of guide line with "adjustable sets" threaded on.
Fig. 5. shows the mode of applying this invention.
A is the metallic cord which forms the guide line and it may consist of twisted or
untwisted metallic wire or wires with or without a central thread of fibrous material
so as not to be affected by moisture, as far as expansion and contraction are con-
cerned. B are the "adjustable sets" which are employed for regulating and
denoting the distance between the plants or roots or the like. In their simplest
form they may be as shown at Figs. 1 and 2 that is be made somewhat in the form
of a safety pin, and of strong wire bent to the shape shown at Fig. 2. so that its
pointed portion b may be passed through or between the strands of the metallic
cord A and secured in position by means of the shield, or it may be constructed
as.shown at Figs. 3 and 4 in which case the boss 62 is threaded onto the metallic
cord A and held in position by one or more pins or screws 63, provided with pointed
ends so as to pass through or between one or more of the strands of the metallic
cord A. A projection or arm 6' may when desired, though not necessarily so, be
provided for marking purposes. Or the "adjustable set may be in the form of a
spring clip or boss, made in one or more portions, armed with or without a projection,
and with or without one or more pins or points for entering between the twisted
strands, or for gripping the circumference of the cord, or it or their equivalents may
be employed and readily fixed in or on the cord to suit the distance required between
each plant or root or the like; the adjustment thereof being easily effected through
..the medium of a gauge provided for the purpose.
The above mentioned metallic cord armed with the adjustable markers as described
may be used in a similar manner to the ordinary cord, and as shown at Fig. 5, that
is passed round the props C and D on which the markers may be set and adjusted
to the required distance apart.
"
It will be readily understood that the object I have in view is to provide a guide.
line for the use of gardeners, farmers, and others by which the distances between
plants, roots, and the like may be readily marked by means of an "adjustable set
which may be readily adjusted and securely fixed in position without damaging the
periphery or other portion of the cord A, and without working loose when the same
is, whilst in operation, moved from place to place. And I desire it to be distinctly
understood that I do not limit myself to the methods herein described and illustrated
but that they should be taken simply as examples of the various methods in or by
which my invention may be carried into practice.
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 what I claim is :-
1st. A guide line for the use of gardeners, farmers, and others armed with
markers capable of adjustment to the same or varying distances apart and arranged
to be securely fixed on or to the said cord without injuring the same for regulating
or denoting the distances between the plants, roots, and the like as set forth.
2nd. A guide line such as A for the use of gardeners, farmers, and others com-
posed of twisted or untwisted metallic wire or wires with or without a central
strand or core of fibrous material, having in combination therewith adjustable
markers or sets, such as B, which are employed for regulating or denoting the
distance between the plants, or roots, or the like, and which are capable of being
adjusted and fixed on or to the said cord A without injuring the same substantially,
as herein set forth.
3rd. The guide line A having adjustable markers B mounted and fixed thereto
substantially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Fourth day of November 1892.
HENRY NICHOLS."