An Improved Support or Stand for Plant Pots and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1899-Accepted, 15th July, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Support or Stand for Plant Pots and the like.
I, WILLIAM SIMPSON, of The Gardens, Meldon Park, Morpeth, in the County
of Northumberland, Gardener, 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;-
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This invention relates to an improved support or stand for plant pots and the
like.
This improved stand comprises a holder adapted to receive a flower pot, or
if desired several flower pots, and so supported upon or by an under frame
comprising a bowl-like water containing vessel that the flower pot holder freely
exposes the pot or pots to the air, while slugs, beetles or the like cannot pass
from the ground to said pots owing to the water in the bowl which offers an
effectual obstacle to their passage.
The annexed drawing shows in Figs. 1 and 2 respectively two forms of such
device as seen in perspective view.
In this constructive form the support consists of a top circular frame of wire A,
a bottom circular frame of wire B, three or more legs C, preferably curved inwardly
towards each other connecting the two frames A and B together, and a shallow
bowl or saucer 1), for containing water interposed about midway between the
top and bottom frames through the bottom of which the legs pass and to which
they are also connected. The bowl D is made large enough in diameter to allow
a sufficient distance between the inner edge of the bowl and any of the legs C,
so that insects of the nature before described cannot pass from the one to the
other when the bowl contains water.
Instead of making each leg C in one piece between the top and bottom
frames A, B, it may be made in two pieces, one piece C¹ (Fig. 2) connecting the
bottom frame to the bowl, and the other C the top frame to the bowl. In some
cases the bottom frame may be omitted and the legs tied or braced together
if necessary. Wire of circular section is preferably used for making the top and
bottom frames and legs, but suitable material of any other form or section may
be adopted and the whole may be made in a more or less ornamental form, while
the top and bottom frames may be square, hexagonal or of other convenient
shape. Not only is the object of the invention to prevent slugs, beetles and
the like from entering the plant pot from the ground as before doing so they
must cross the water in the bowl, but it is also to allow a free circulation of air
round the pot thus preventing fungoidal growth while the water moistens the
air.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
is-
1. An improved support or stand for plant pots and the like comprising a
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page_text: supported by or upon a suitably supported bowl whereby the legs of the holder
may be insulated from the sides of the bowl by water therein for the purpose
set forth.
2. An improved support or stand for plant plots and the like comprising a top
frame A and bottom frame B of circular or other form connected by legs C in
one or more pieces and a bowl carried by or upon the said legs and adapted
to hold water for surrounding and so insulating the upper parts of the legs from
the sides of the bowl for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 9th day of June 1899.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to the Applicant,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.