IMPROVEMENTS IN WINE GLASSES, AND IN STANDS OR HOLDERS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Murdoch Napier, of York Road, Lambeth,
in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN WINE
GLASSES, AND IN STANDS OR HOLDERS FOR THE SAME."
Sealed the 10th March 1868, and dated the 13th September 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Murdoch Napier
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 13th September 1867.
I, JAMES MURDOCH NAPIER, of York Road, Lambeth, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE
MENTS IN WINE GLASSES, AND IN STANDS OR HOLDERS FOR THE SAME," to be
as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in wine glasses which are
not provided with a foot or base, and in the stands or holders for supporting
them,(such asare described in the Specification of my Patent, dated 11th March
1865, (No. 693,) and consists in furnishing such wine glasses with moveable
stems of any suitable material attached to the bowl of the wine glass by means
of screw, spring, or other convenient fastening, so that they may be removed
and replaced with ease.
In my improved stands or holders I provide (more especially for use in
warm climates) covers attached or jointed to my stands or holders to keep
insects out of the wine. I also provide my stands or holders with vessels for
holding ice conveniently for use, and I arrange them when desired to contain
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page_text: water which may serve for cooling the glasses for washing the fingers and for
other purposes. The water vessel may form part of or be fixed to the stand
or holder so as to be necessarily placed upon the table and removed with it, or
it may be loosely fitted to the stand or holder.
In order conveniently to arrange my stands or holders with water vessels
I sometimes suspend the rotating frame which carries the wine glasses instead
of supporting it from below. I also in some cases provide the stands or
holders with rollers arranged to run upon the table so that the stands or holders
may be freely turned round upon the rollers; the weight of the stand or
holder and its contents may if desired be partially supported upon a centre
pivot. The modes to which I have referred to of suspending the rotating
frame in which the wine glasses are placed, and of turning the stand or
holder on rollers, may be used for stands or holders which are not intended
to contain water.
To furnish convenient means for carrying my improved wine glasses when
they are out of the stands or holders I provide a tray having holes in it at
suitable distances from each other, large enough for the stems of the glasses to
pass through and to form a seat or rest for the bowl part of the glass. The
frame of the tray should be made deep enough to guard the stems of the
glasses, and it may be covered in at the bottom if desired.
In order to save the space upon the table and for general convenience in
cases where it is desired, I attach to my wine glass stands or holders salt and
pepper vessels, flower holders, branches for candles or other lights, and
branches for carrying dishes or any suitable receptacles which may be used
for sweets, fruits, or biscuits.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Murdoch Napier in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th March 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
MURDOCH NAPIER, of York Road, Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
Onethousandeighthundredandsixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Murdoch Napier, Her special licence that I, the said James Murdoch

page_text: Napier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Murdoch Napier, my executors, administrators,andassigns, should atany
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WINE GLASSES, AND IN STANDS OR HOLDERS FOR THE SAME," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said James Murdoch Napier, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Murdoch Napier, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in wine glasses which are
not provided with a foot or base, and in the stands or holders for supporting
them, (such as are described in the Specification of my Patent dated 11th
March 1865, No. 693,) and consists in furnishing such wine glasses with
moveable stems of any suitable material attached to the bowl of the wine
glass by means of screw, spring, or other convenient fastening, so that they
may be removed and replaced with case.
In my improved stands or holders I provide (more especially for use in
warm climates) covers attached or jointed to my stands or holders to keep
insects out of the wine. I also provide my stands or holders with vessels for
holding ice conveniently for use, and I arrange them when desired to contain
water, which may serve for cooling the glasses, for washing the fingers, or for
other purposes. The water vessel may form part of or be fixed to the stand
or holder so as to be necessarily placed upon the table and removed with
it, or it may be loosely fitted to the stand or holder.
In order conveniently to arrange my stands or holders with water vessels I
sometimes suspend the rotating frame which carries the wine glasses, instead
of supporting it from below. I also in some cases provide the stands or
holders with rollers arranged to run upon the table, so that the stands or
holders may be freely turned round upon the rollers; the weight of the stand
or holder and its contents inay if desired be partially supported upon a centre

page_text: pivot. The modes which I have referred to of suspending the rotating frame
in which the wine glasses are placed, and of turning the stand or holder on
rollers, may be used for stands or holders which are not intended to contain
water.
To furnish convenient means for carrying my improved wine glasses when
they are out of the stands or holders I provide a tray having holes in it at
suitable distances from each other large enough for the stems of the glasses
to pass through and to form a seat or rest for the bowl part of the glass.
The frame of the tray should be made deep enough to guard the stems of
the glasses, and it may be covered in at the bottom if desired.
In order to save the space upon the table, and for general convenience
in cases where it is desired, I attach to my wine glass stands or holders salt
and pepper vessels, flower holders, branches for candles or other lights,
and branches for carrying dishes or any suitable receptacles which may be
used for sweets, fruits, or biscuits.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents my improved wine glass stand with vessel for holding
ice at A; Figure 2 is a plan of the same so far as regards the rotating
carrying frame; Figure 3 shews my improved stand arranged with covers B
attached for covering the glasses to keep insects out of the wine; one cover is
shewn raised, and the other down in the position occupied when the glass is
covered. The covers are shown upon the Drawing jointed to the rotating
carrying frame, which is shewn in plau at Figure 4; Figures 5 and 6 shew in
elevation and plan salt and pepper vessels C, C, attached to my wine glass
stand; Figure 7 represents my wine glass stand with the flower holder D
attached; Figure 8 illustrates the arrangement of mywine glass stand, in which
the rotating frame E is suspended; a branch or bracket F is also shewn sup-
porting a dish, which may be used for sweets, fruits, or biscuits; the branch F
may be replaced by branch G which holds a candle; the base of this stand is
arranged with a vessel H for containing water. Figure 9 is an outline
of the base; Figures 10 and 11 illustrate another mode of suspending the
rotating frame which carries the wine glasses by means of an arched support;
a water vessel is also shewn in these Figures. Figure 12 represents in plan
a carrying frame suited to Figures 8, 9, 10, and 11. It will be observed
that a wider space is allowed between the arms I, I, than between the other
arms; this is done in order that the water vessel may be easily got at, for
which purpose the carrying frame should be turned until the wide space comes
conveniently towards the person using the stand. Figures 13, 14, 15, and

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15 shew one of my wine glass stands arranged to turn upon rollers, the
weight being partly supported by a centre at a; this stand is also furnished
with a water vessel. Figures 16, 17, 18, and 19 show a mode of attaching
my moveable handles to wine glasses by a spring fastening. The metal
J, which has a short cylindrical stem b, is fitted and firmly cemented
to the wine glass at c. The stem is provided with a groove or notch at d.
The handle K is hollow at its upper end, into which a tube is inserted and
fixed having three slits in it; this tube at its extreme lower end where it
is divided by the slits is slightly curved inwards, so that when the stem b
is pushed into it the curved ends are at first forced open by the end of the
stem and then spring into the groove d, and so fasten on the handle,
which can be detached at pleasure by a slight force being used in the opposite
sense. Figures 20, 21, 22, and 23 indicate a mode of attaching wine glass
handles by means of a screw fastening. In this instance the stem 6 is long
and screwed at the end. The stem is passed through the handle, and at e
fits into a square hole in a disc which is fast to the handle; this prevents
the stem turning round when the end piece fis screwed on.
Figures 24 and 25 show another mode of attaching wine glass handles by
means of a screw fastening. In this case a short screw is furnished to the
cup piece which is cemented to the wine glass, and the handle being provided
with a corresponding internal screw it is screwed on and off with ease.
Figures 26 and 27 represent my improved tray for carrying my wine
glasses when they are taken out of the stands or holders.
My disconnecting wine glass handles may be formed of silver or plated
metal, hard wood, bone, ivory, porcelain, glass, horn, mother-of-pearl, or other
suitable metals or materials.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
forms of my Invention described and illustrated herein, as it will be at
once evident that they may be varied; but I claim the improvements
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Murdoch Napier, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March, in the
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
year of
JAMES M. NAPIER. (L.S.)