Improvements in Stands for Holding and Showing Seeds or Pockets of Seeds.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application. 19th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Holding and Showing Seeds or Pockets
of Seeds.
WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP 78 Fann Street, Aldersgate Street, London E.C.
Horticultural Printer and Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
The stand is formed square; round, or triangular pyramid shape, with pole or
tube through the centre of top slab, extending to the base, or fixed to top slab,
upon which is fixed or attached moveable or otherwise, a square, round; or
triangular shaped box, with a number of pigeou holes, in each face, for the purpose
of holding and exposing seeds, or seed pockets, so as to revolve round, if desired
by hand.
To be made of cardboard, tin, paper. maché, wood, or other material most
suitable.
Improvements in Stands for Holding and Showing Seeds or Pockets
of Seeds.
I, WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP of 78 Fann Street, Aldersgate Street, London, E.C.
Horticultural Printer and Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The stand is formed square, round, or triangular pyramid shape, with pole or
tube through the centre of top slab, extending to the base, or fixed to top slab,
upon which is fixed or attached moveable or otherwise, a square, round, or
triangular shaped box, with a number of pigeon-holes, in each face, for the purpose
of holding and exposing seeds or seed pockets, so as to revolve round if desired
by hand.
To be made of cardboard, tin, papier-maché, wood, or other material most
suitable.
It will be seen that my invention relates to cases or boxes for holding or
containing seeds or pockets of seeds, and it consists in so arranging and constructing
such cases or boxes as to enable them to be displayed to the best advantage. For
this purpose I use a show case or cases which are mounted upon a central vertical
spindle in such manner that the show cases are revoluble with the spindle, and
consequently each can in succession be brought in front of a person.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood I append a sheet of
drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a plan, and
Fig. 2 an elevation of a simple form of stand according to my
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page_text: or projection from its upper surface, through which and into the body of the stand
is bored a vertical hole of such a size that it fits loosely the lower end of the
central spindle, pole, or tube B. Rigidly attached to the upper end of this
spindle B is the case or box C which has its faces c divided by vertical and
borizontal partitions c into pigeon-holes e in which the seeds or pockets of seeds
are contained and in which they are visible to an onlooker. The case or box C is
shown as square in plan, and its corners are cut off to form flats c³, but the case
may be constructed or any convenient and suitable shape such as circular or
octagonal, provided that a sufficient space is left for faces in which the pigeon-
holes may be formed. The case or box C being either formed integrally with or
rigidly attached to the spindle B which is revoluble, it is obvious that the case
can be turned easily and conveniently round so as to bring the several different
faces, and their contained pigeon-holes and contents, in succession to the potice of
a person without the necessity of changing his position.
By boring through the central spindle, pole, or.tube, and through the centre of
the box, or case, and carrying a second central spindle up through this, I can
.upport two boxes, or cases revoluble independent of each other, and situate one
above the other.
The pigeon-holed faces may be formed out of the box itself, or a number of
pigeon-holed show cases may be attached to one case or box.
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. A stand for holding or containing, and showing seeds or pockets of seeds, in
which one or more show cases with pigeon-holes or equivalent receptacles formed
in it or them, are mounted upon a revoluble vertical spindle, in such manner as to
enable each of the faces in succession to be presented to the view of a person
remaining in one position, substantially as described and shown.
2. In a stand for holding, containing, and shewing seeds or pockets of seeds, the
combination of a fixed stand, and a revoluble case or box, having its face or faces
divided into compartments substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 19th day of September 1895.