Improvements in Inkstands, Cruet Stands, and other Stands for Supporting Bottles and Vessels
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 5th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 6th Jan., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Inkstands, Cruet Stands, and other Stands for
Supporting Bottles and Vessels.
I ALFRED DAVIS of Nos. 56 and 57 Albion Streei. Frederick Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Manufacturer of Stationer's Sundries do hereby declare
the nature of this Invention to be as follows :-
My invention has reference to those parts of inkstands cruet stands and other stands
by which the bottle cruci or vessel is supported laterally on the stand and my said
invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in constructing the side
supporis for the said bottles and vessels and applying the said supports to the
stand.
The said supports consist of uprights either flat angular or curved and having any
desired ornamental figure. The said uprights are made by preference from sheet
brass or other hard anil ductile sheet metal or alloy. The lower paris of the uprights
are reduced in width and their ends are pointed so that they can be driven into the
stand which make generally of wood. In supporting say a square bottle on a
wooden stand according to my invention four flat uprights are driven by their reduced
and pointed lower parts into the stand the said uprights being situated perpendicular
or nearly so to the stand and arranged equidistantly thereon. When a bottle is
placed between the flat uprights described it is supported and gently gripped at each
of its four sides or faces by the uprights and securely maintained in its place on the
stand.
The bottle may be supported laterally at its angles instead of at its sides. In this
case the supports are made angular and are arranged on the stand at such positions
that the angles of the bottle will engage with the angular supports or uprights.
When cylindrical bottles or vessels are to be supported the uprights are curved to
suit the curvature of the bottle or vessel.
A group of bottles or vessels may be supported laterally on a stand in the way I
have described with respect to a single bottle or vessel.
When the lateral supports or uprights are to be used with stands made of a material
into which the uprights cannot be driven such for example as metal or glass or marble

page_text: stands holes are made through the said stands at the places where the uprights are to
be fixed and the reduced ends of the uprights are made of a length suitable to pass
through the said holes and project at the back of the stand. By clinching the pro-
jecting ends of the uprights on the back of the stand they are fixed in their places.
But I do not limit myself to any particular way of fixing the lateral uprights or
supports to the stand."
Dated this Fourteenth day of March 1887.
W. 1. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Inkstands, Cruet Stands, and other Stands for
Supporting Bottles and Vessels.
1 ALFRED DAVIS of Nos. 56 and 57 Albion Street, Frederick Street, Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer of Stationers' Sundries do hereby declare
the nature of my Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has reference to those parts of inkstands, cruet stands and other
stands by which the bottle, crues or vessel is supported laterally on the stand and my
said invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in constructing the
side supporis for the said bottles and vessels and applying the said supports to the
stand.
The said supports consist of uprights either flat angular or curved and having any
desired ornamental figure. The said uprights are made by preference from sheet
brass or other hard and ductile sheet metal or alloy. The lower parts of the uprights
are reduced in width and their ends are pointed so that they can be driven into the
stand which I make generally of wood. In supporting, say, a square bottle on a
wooden stand according to my invention, four flat uprights are driven by their reduced
and pointed lower parts into the stand, the said uprights being situated perpendicular
or nearly so to the stand and arranged equidistantly thereon.
When a bottle is placed between the flat uprights described it is supported and
gently gripped at each of its four sides or faces by the uprights and securely
maintained in its place on the stand.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in side elevation and Figure 2
in plan an inkstand in which the square ink bottles are supported on the stand by side
supports according to my invention Figure 8 represents one of the side supports
detached.
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The same letters of reference indicate the same parts; a is the wooden stand
and b, bare the square ink bottles resting on the said stand and supported by the
sheet metal uprights or supports e, e a support e being situated at each of the four
sides of the bottles. The reduced and pointed lower parts of the side supports c, c
which lower parts are driven into the wooden stand a, are marked. It is pre-
ferred to drive the side supports c, cinio the wooden stand so that the said supports
are slightly inclined to one another as represented in the Drawing, whereby the bottle
when placed between them is gently gripped at its sides by the broad upper parts of
the said supports as seen in the elevation Figure 1.
The side supports c, e may however be driven into the stand so that they are situated
perpendicular thereto. By means of the side supports c, e the bottles are so securely
supported on the wooden stand that they cannot be accidently detached either by the
inclining of the stand or by a blow applied to the stand.

page_text: In order to remove the ink bottle from the stand it must be lifted vertically until it
is clear of the side supports c, c.
The ink bottles b, may be supported laterally at their angles instead of at their
sides. In this case the supports are made angular and are arranged on the stand at
such positions that the angles of the bottles will engage with the angular supports or
uprights. When cylindrical bottles or vessels are to be supported the uprights are
curved to suit the curvature of the bottles or vessels to be supported.
A group of bottles or vessels may be supported laterally on a stand in the way I
have described and represented with respect to two bottles or vessels.
When the uprights or supports are to be used with stands made of a material into
which the uprights or supports cannot be driven such for example as metal or glass
or marble stands, holes are made through the said stands at the places where the
uprights are to be fixed and the reduced ends of the uprighis are made of a length
suitable to pass through the said holes and project at the back or underside of the
stand. By clinching the projecting ends of the uprights on the back or underside of
the stand they are fixed in their places. But I do not limit myself to any particular
way of fixing the uprights or supports to the stand.
I apply my invention to the supporting of the bottles or cruets or vessels of cruci
stands and other stands substantially in the manner herein before described with
respect to the inkbottles of inkstands.
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Although prefer as before stated to make the uprights or supports of sheet metal
yet I do not limit myself thereto as the uprights or supports may be made by casting
or forging.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in inkstands, cruet stands and other stands for supporting
bottles and vessels."
Supporting the bottles, cruets or vessels of the said stands by means of metal
uprights or supports either flat angular or curved arranged on and fixed to the
stands substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
Dated this Twenty first day of November 1887.