US1491925A - Vase - Google Patents

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Federated Apr. 29, 1924 LUCIAN ROSENWALD, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

VASE.

Application filed April 21, 1921. Serial No. 463,129.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Looms RosnNwALn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Vases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in vases.

The object of my invention is to provide a vase having novel means for supporting in a separated position the stems of plants, such as the stems of flowers or terns.

A further object of my invention is to provide in a vase novel means for support ing stems of plants which is simple in construction, cheap to make, durable, not liable to out of order. which will securely hold the stems in different positions and angles, and which is of ornamental appearance.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawingswhich illustrate the preferred form of my invention,

F ig. l is a central vertical sectional View of my improved vase.

Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the different views.

1 designates the body oi? an ordinary vase in the upper end of which is mounted a transverse screen 2, which may be of woven wire, and which is preferably concavo convex, with the convex side up. Preferably the screen 2 is rigidly secured to the body 1 by soldering the screen at its edges to the body, which in such case would be of metal.

Supported in the body 1 below the screen 2 is another transverse screen 3, which may also be woven wire, and which may be supported by one or more upwardly extending wires 4 which are attached at their upper ends to the screen 2.

In the use of the invention the stems of the plants are inserted through both screens 2 and 3, the openings in the screens permit- ,through the stems of ting the stems to be set at different angles in the vase, as indicated in. dotted lines in Fig. 1.

By having the screens rigidly mounted in the body, theyare not liable to loss, and the positions of the. stems will not be changed in even rather rough handling of the vase.

By having the upper screen concave-convex, the upper side of the bouquet/is curved when, as with short stems the flowers rest on the upper screen. This shape of the upper screen also permits. 01. the stems being a flatter angle than would be the case with a fiat upper screen. As the screens are spaced apart a substantial distance, the stems are held at two points,thus insuring against shirting'of the stems from the proper positions.

By employing wire screens, the rounded surfaces do not injure the stems, and large openings may he provided with minimum amount of metal.

I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, as many modifications, within the scope of the appended claims, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

\Vhat I claim is 1. A vase having rigidly secured in its upper end a screen, and having mounted in it below said screen another transverse screen, and means supported by the upper screen for supporting the lower screen. the screens being adapted to receive there plants. substantially as set forth.

2. A vase having mounted in its one above the other two transverse screens, the upper screen being concavo-convex with its convex side up, the upper screen being; rigidly secured to the body of the vase, the screens being adapted to receive therethrough the stems of plants disposed at the same or different-angles, and means supported by the upper screen for supporting: the lower screen, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

- LUCIANROSENWALD.

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