An Improved Screen or Cover for Flower Pots and similar Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Screen or Cover for Flower Pots and similar Articles.
I, ERNEST HUTCHINSON of Glevum, Murrell Hill, Carlisle in the County of Cumber-
land, commercial clerk 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved screen or cover for flower pots, and similar
articles, and has for its objects the attainment of a better method of packing for
transit or storage, increased durability, and also an improved method of and means
for joining the same round a flower pot or the like, when it is desired to use the
device, relatively to other appliances of the same nature as hitherto made and used.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a screen or cover laid
flat, and Figure 2 is an elevation of the same when closed ready for use. Figures 3
and 4 illustrate alternative arrangements for fastening or closing the ends.
In carrying my invention into effect, I make use of a sheet of metal, A Figure 1,
or other suitable material possessing elasticity; which may be plain or may be
enamelled or ornamented if required. The outline or shape thereof may be curved,
as shewn by Figure 1 if the shape of the screen or cover is required to be taper or
conical when closed as shewn by Figure 2, or I may form said sheet of metal of any
shape to correspond with a required outline when closed.
I form upon the sheet of metal or other material A, a series of tongues, a
corresponding to gaps or recesses ¹ upon the opposite edge of said sheet A. The
tongues al also are adapted to the recesses b, and the manipulation of the sheet A is
simply to bend it round and bring the tongues a and a¹ inside, so that the elasticity
of the material forming said sheet A may cause the tongues a and a¹ to expand
outwards, and so furnish sufficient grip, or lateral friction to retain the cover or screen
in position when closed, shewn by Figure 2.
I may in order to render the joint or joining between the ends of said sheet A-
form one or more of the tongues a or a' with angular edges, so as to form, as it were,
a dove-tailed joint between said tongues a and recesses b.
In Figure 3, where A and A' represent the two terminal edges of the sheet of
metal or the like, I have shewn an alternative device, in which slots c and c¹ are cut
or formed in the spaces or recesses b and so that the tongues a and a' may interlock
therewith, and be placed in position to form a circular cover or screen, or may be
disconnected at will, a slight vertical displacement being necessary in both cases.
In Figure 4 I have shewn the tongues a and a¹ as before, and also the
recesses 6 and 6 but in this case the slots c and c¹ are duplicated, and formed upon.
both sides of the tongues, and the latter are bent round at right angles, as shewn by
the plan view, Figure 5, so that each tongue a, and a¹ may interlock with the
corresponding recess 6 or 0, the length of said slots or recesses being exactly that of
the width of the tongues a and a', and the elasticity of the sheet of metal will allow
of the perfect interlocking of the same in the manner as set forth above.
I do not confine myself to the employment of any particular metal or material, nor
to the shape or outward conformation of the device when opened, or closed for the
reception of the flower pot or other article intended to be covered by it.
The points desired to be considered as novel and useful, are therefore; the employ-
ment of a suitably formed or shaped sheet or plate of metal or other material which
may be readily packed when flat, and may be closed round a flower pot or the like to
forin a joined cover or screen when required, which may be at any time be dis-
connected and again laid flat for cleaning, transport, packing away, or the like ;

page_text: and I may employ either of the three alternative devices for securely retaining
said cover or screen in position around a flower pot or other article as may be best
suited to the conditions of use in each case of adaptation.
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 that what I
claim is
First. In a cover or screen for flower pots or the like, the employment of a sheet
of metal or other suitable material, with tongued joints, substantially as herein
described and shewn by the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Second. In a cover or screen for flower pots or the like, the use and employment
of a straight or angular tongue or tongues with a recess or recesses corresponding
thereto substantially as herein described with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the
accompanying drawings..
Third. In a cover or screen for flower pots or the like, the use and employment of
slotted tongues, substantially as and for the purpose as herein described, with reference
to Figure 3 of the accompanying drawings.
Fourth. In a cover or screen for flower pots or the like, the use and employment of
slotted tongues, substantially as herein described with reference to Figures 4 and 5
of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 57th day of Santamban 1000
FREDK. WALKER & HYDE,
4, Little Moorfields, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.