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Flower Holder for a Vase: Crossed Brass Strips Carrying Slit Spring Cones That Grip Each Stem (Green, 1903)
Francis W. Green · Public domain
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Flower Holder for a Vase: Crossed Brass Strips Carrying Slit Spring Cones That Grip Each Stem (Green, 1903)

Francis W. Green of Brooklyn received US 720,132, dated 10 February 1903, for a holder that sits on the mouth of a vase and holds each flower separately, at the height you choose. Metal strips cross at the centre and hook over the rim; small cones of sheet metal, slit at the bottom, hang in holes along the strips and grip each stem like a spring, so a bunch can be arranged "as may suit the individual taste of the user". We make it from brass. All sizes are ours.
Beginner
About 3 hours

Instructions

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Cone blank

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2

Read US 720,132

"The stems of the sprays or flowers may be inserted and forced downward through the conical holder until the head of the flower or spray is at the desired position in the holder."
3

Make the frame

Cut four brass strips a little longer than your vase's mouth is wide. Drill each at its centre and rivet all four together crossed at equal angles with a short piece of brass tube flared at both ends, his hollow rivet 2. Bend the ends down to make ears that rest over the rim of the vase.

Materials for this step:

Brass StripBrass Strip1 piece
Brass TubeBrass Tube1 piece

Tools needed:

HacksawHacksaw
Drill PressDrill Press
Drill Bit SetDrill Bit Set
Center PunchCenter Punch
Ball Peen HammerBall Peen Hammer
Flat-Nose PliersFlat-Nose Pliers
Bench ViseBench Vise
4

Punch the holes

Drill holes along each strip, spaced so the flowers will stand apart, just big enough for a cone's narrow part to pass and its lip to rest on the strip.

Tools needed:

Drill PressDrill Press
Drill Bit SetDrill Bit Set
File SetFile Set
5

Make the cones

Mark the notebook's blank on brass sheet, cut it out, roll it round a tapered rod or nail into a cone small end down, overlap the seam and solder it. Turn the wide end out into a small lip 6. Slit the narrow end up a short way with a saw so it springs.

Materials for this step:

Brass SheetBrass Sheet1 piece
Tin-Lead SolderTin-Lead Solder1 piece
FluxFlux1 piece

Tools needed:

Tin SnipsTin Snips
Round-nose PliersRound-nose Pliers
Electric Soldering IronElectric Soldering Iron
Jeweler's SawJeweler's Saw
File SetFile Set
6

Fit the cones

Drop a cone into each hole and solder its lip to the strip, or make the hole a little small and press the cone in until the lip sits on the strip, as he allows.

Materials for this step:

Tin-Lead SolderTin-Lead Solder1 piece
FluxFlux1 piece

Tools needed:

Electric Soldering IronElectric Soldering Iron
Flat-Nose PliersFlat-Nose Pliers
7

Arrange flowers

Set the frame on the vase. Push each stem down through a cone until the flower is at the height you want: the slit end grips it. Lift a flower out and put another in without disturbing the rest.
8

Troubleshooting

Flower holder troubleshooting.

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History and honest limits

**Francis W. Green** of Brooklyn, US 720,132, dated 10 February 1903, filed 28 November 1902. He claimed "a frame adapted to rest over the mouth of a vase or other receptacle and provided with a number of vertically-disposed tapering spring flower-holders open at both ends". Not built: his adjustable frame ends (Fig. 6). He gives no sizes and does not limit the material: brass, all sizes and the solder are ours.

Materials

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Tools Required

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