IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDS OR FRAMES FOR LIQUOR BOTTLES, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO STANDS OR FRAMES FOR OTHER BOTTLES AND VESSELS
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Silvers Williams at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th October 1880.
JOSEPH SILVERS WILLIAMS, of Brierley Hill, in the County of Stafford, Glass
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDS OR FRAMES FOR LIQUOR BOTTLES,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO STANDS OR FRAMES FOR OTHER
BOTTLES AND VESSELS."
My Invention relates to such stands or frames for liquor and other bottles and
vessels as are provided with means whereby the removal of the bottles or vessels
from the stand or frame may be permitted or prevented at pleasure, access to the
contents of the bottles or vessels being prevented so long as the bottles or vessels
are secured in the frame.
My said Invention consists of the arrangement or combination of parts herein
after described, for preventing or permitting the removal of the bottles or vessels
from the stand or frame and thereby preventing or permitting access to the contents
of the bottles or vessels.
I will describe my Invention in connection with a stand or frame for liquor
bottles.
I make the base of the stand of a size and shape depending on the number and
size of the bottles to be carried by it, the said base having cross divisions which
separate the bottles. An upright rises from each end of the base, the said uprights
being connected at top by a cross piece to which a handle for carrying the stand
may be affixed. The height of the uprights and cross piece is such that when
the bottles are in the stand, the heads of the stoppers are in contact or nearly so with
the underside of the cross piece and the stoppers cannot be raised. To each side of
the base a flap is hinged. When these flaps are in a horizontal position the bottles
can be introduced into and removed from the frame at either side, but when the
said flaps are raised and fixed in a vertical position they prevent the removal
of the bottles contained in the frame.
In order to fix the said flaps in a vertical position one end of each flap is
provided with a staple, which when the flap is vertical enters into a recess in the
edge of the upright, and by a snapping action engages with a spring latch or lock
on the upright, and the flaps are thereby fixed in their vertical position.

page_text: The bottles having been introduced into the frame before the flaps are raised,
the raising and fixing of the flaps as described prevents the removal of the bottles.
When it is wished to remove the bottles the staples on the flaps are liberated from
the spring bolt by means of a key, when the said flaps fall into a horizontal position
and the bottles can be removed from the frame.
In order to prevent the forcing of those ends of the flaps having no locking
staples by the inclination of the bottle at that end of the frame, a projection may
be fixed on the inner side of the upright at that end, the said projection bearing
upon the shoulder of the end bottle and preventing it being inclined. For the
sake of symmetry a similar projection may be fixed on each upright.
Or the flaps may be locked at both ends, in which case the projections described
are unnecessary.
My Invention is applicable to stands for all kinds of bottles as well as to stands
for other vessels, such for example, as pickle jars.