Improvements in Means for Stringing or Training Hops and other like Plants.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Stringing or Training Hops and other
like Plants.
I RICHARD BACON Eggar of Cedar Cottage Bentley Farnham in the County
of Surrey Farmer and Civil Engineer 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 has for its object to provide "stringing" or trainers for training.
hops and other like plants, so that horse cultivation can be carried on and whereby
manuring and the removal of the picked hops is facilitated.
I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 of which represents a side elevation of a portion of a row of stringing.
or trainers arranged according to my invention and
Figure 2 is a perspective view looking on the end of a series of alleys or avenues
formed by rows of stringing or trainers.
At suitable distances apart in each line of hop plants I erect posts. A of wood or
metal the upper ends of which, say at about 12 feet above the ground, I connect
together by rods or by wire, wire rope or the like B and from these horizontal rods
or this wire, wire rope or the like I suspend rods or wires C, having at the lower
ends loops or hooks c to engage with hooks or eyes a on or in the projecting ends of
pegs D driven into the ground on the opposite sides of each hop plant. Each pair
of pegs D is, or the lower ends of each pair of rods or wires C are, connected
together by string rods or wire the said pairs of rods or wires C being similarly
connected together at a distance above the ground of say about 4 or 5 feet as shewn
at d. The connection of the rods strings or wires b and d to the rods or wires C
may be effected in any suitable way but I prefer to use wires at C, and wooden
rods at d and to twist the wires round the ends of the rods and to use strings at
tied to the wires C or to the loops c. Strings e are secured to the strings or wires b
and passed upwards and secured to or passed over the strings rods or wires d and
thence to the top wire or the like B by which the next row of posts A are connected,
the said strings e from the strings rods or wires d to the rods or the like B forming
a sloping roof to the alley or avenue formed between two rows of the plants as
shewn in Figure 2. By the arrangement according to my invention horse cultiva-
tion can be carried on with facility as the wires or the like at b and d do not obstruct
the passage, and, after the hops are picked, the wires C, can be readily unhooked
from the pegs D to admit of the passage of carts or waggons onto the ground for
manuring or for carrying away the picked hops or produce or for any other required
purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting "stringing" or
trainers for hops and other like plants substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. For "stringing or training hops and other like plants the combination with
poles or posts A arranged at suitable distances apart in the line of a row of plants
and connected together at their upper ends or at any required distance above the
ground by horizontal wires ropes or rods B of wires or rods C, suspended from the

page_text: horizontal wires ropes or rods B and detachably secured at their lower end to
pegs D driven into the ground and having cross wires strings or rods b and d for
the strings e substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
Dated this 7th day of May 1894.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
Agents.