US317443A

US317443A - Flower-stand

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Publication number: US317443A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-05-05
Anticipated expiration: 1902-05-05

Description

(No Model.)

P. J. CUNNINGHAM.

FLOWER STAND. V

Patented May 5; 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHEBE JANE CUNNINGHAM, OF AMBER, IOWA.

FLOWER-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,443, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed June 9, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHEBE JANE CUNNING- HAM, of Amber, in the county of Jones and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flower-Stands; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved flower-stand. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the detached base, a detail being shown in section; and Fig. 3 is a similar view of one of the pot-brackets detached.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

The base a of the flower-stand is supported on suitable legs, 11 b, and is provided with a central vertical aperture, 0, in which is in serted the lower end of a vertical standard, j. This standard is formed at suitable intervals throughout its length with octagonal portions 8 8. To each of these octagonal portions are secured four brackets, f f, which are secured at intervals of ninety degrees to four faces of the octagon. The brackets on adjacent octagons are preferably so arranged that the brackets on one octagon are directly over the vacant faces of the octagon below. The object of this arrangement is to equalize the weight of the flowers on the stand, and to prevent the brackets on one octagon interfering with the flowers supported by the octagon below. Each bracket carries on its upper end a shelf, 0, on which the flower-pots rest. The upper end of the standard j is provided with a similar shelf, a.

Each bracket is secured to the standard by means of a mortise, 1", formed in the bracket which fits over a tenon formed on the standard, and by a pin, h, which passes through the bracket and the tenon on the standard. Each bracket is also further supported by a chain, 9, secured at one end to the bracket, and attached at the other end to a hook, on, on the standard.

Each bracket is or may be provided with a hook, it, at its upper end, to which trailing cords may be attached from the pot below. The lower tier of brackets are usually not so provided.

In order that the stand may be easily turned, the lower octagonal portion of the standard which forms a shoulder with the lower end of the standard which enters the hole cin the base rests upon anti-friction balls at (I, which rest upon the upper part of the base a.

I claim as'iny invention- The base (1, having legs I) I), aperture 0, and anti-friction balls at d, in combination with the standard j, having octagonal portions 8 s at suitable distances throughout its length, four brackets, f f, having shelves 0 c, said brackets being secured to said octagonal portions at intervals of ninety degrees, chains m m, attached to the outer ends of each bracket and to the standard, and hooks 70 76, attached to the outer ends of each bracket, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of November, 1883.

PHEBE JANE GUN N IN GHAM.

Witnesses WILLIAM D. LITZENBERG, EZRA KEELER.