Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Nov., '1888
I, HENRY SMITH, of the Brierley Hill Iron Works, near Dudley, in the County of
Worcester, Fencing Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has reference to metal wine bins the chief objects being to simplify
and cheapen their construction and to so arrange their parts that they can readily he
fixed together or taken apart and packed for transport and when so packed that they
will occupy but little space.
In carrying out this invention I provide a rectangular framework consisting of four
metal (preferably square iron) corner posts connected together at or near their upper
and lower ends by L-iron or other metal stays removably secured to the posts, the lower
parts of the corner posts forming legs upon which the bin stands when built up.
These corner posts support corrugated sheets of galvanized iron or other suitable
metal one above the other which form the shelves for carrying the bottles, sufficient
space being left between each shelf for the bottles to lie in the corrugations and to be
readily removed therefrom or replaced therein. Each of the said shelves is carried
from the posts preferably by two bars underneath which pass through holes in the
posts or are otherwise removably connected thereto so as to support the shelves across
their corrugations. The said shelves are prevented from moving about on their said
supports by having a hole at each corner corresponding with the corner posts and
through which the corner posts pass; or corner pieces may be notched out of the
shelves to fit against the corner posts. The said frame of the wine bin is made wide
enough to take either one, two, three or more dozen or other number of bottles on
each shelf and deep enough in the direction of the corrugations for one, two, three or
more bottles to lie end to end in each corrugation.
The wine bin above described is very readily erected by first securing the four
corner posts in position by fixing the said stays thereto and then threading through
the posts the two lower cross bars which carry the bottom shelf which latter is then
placed on the said two cross bars, the next two cross bars are now threaded through

page_text: the posts and the shelf which they support is placed thereon, and so on until all the
cross bars and shelves have been placed in position, the four upper stays are then
fixed to the upper ends of the corner posts,and the wine bin is completed.
As when packed for transport the shelves can be bundled together one above the
other and the corner posts, stays and cross bars can also be made into a bundle the
parts occupy but little space.
In some cases when the corner posts pass through the shelves as above described the
cross stays which connect the posts together may be dispensed with as the shelves
themselves will then hold the corner posts in position.
Instead of supporting the shelves by cross bars as above described these cross bars
may be dispensed with and other means employed such for instance as the shelves
carried from the corner posts by tubular distance blocks which are threaded on to the
posts between the shelves and fill up the spaces between each shelf and the next
above it.
I sometimes employ an additional vertical post or posts between the said corner
posts so as the better to support the shelves, but this applies more particularly when
the cross bars are dispensed with.
I sometimes connect either the stays or the cross bars or botli to the vertical posts
by projecting dovetailed chills being cast on the ends of the said stays and cross bars
which take into corresponding notched dovetailed chills cast on the posts similarly to
the well known method employed in connecting the angular sides of metallic bedsteads
to their corner posts.
The corner and intermediate posts above mentioned may either be made of iron or
other metal of square, round or other .suitable cross section or they may be made of
metal tubes or of wood or other suitable substance.
Dated this 5th day of January 1888.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, HENRY SMITH, of the Brierley Hill Iron Works, near Dudley, in the County of
Worcester, Fencing Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
This invention has reference to metal wine bins the chief objects being to simplify
and cheapen their construction and to so arrange their parts that they can readily be
fixed together or taken apart and packed for transport and when so packed that they
will occupy but little space and not be liable to damage.
In carrying out this invention I provide a rectangular framework consisting of four
metal (preferably square iron) corner posts connected together at or near their upper
and lower ends by L-iron or other metal stays removably secured to the posts, the
lower parts of the corner posts forming legs upon which the bin stands when built
up. These corner posts support corrugated sheets of galvanized iron or other suitable
metal one above the other which form the shelves for carrying the bottles, sufficient
space being left between each shelf for the bottles to lie in the corrugations and to be
readily removed therefrom or replaced therein. Each of the said shelves is carried
from the posts preferably by two bars underneath which pass through holes in the
posts or are otherwise removably connected thereto so as to support the shelves across
their corrugations. The said shelves are prevented from moving about on their said
supports by having a hole at each corner corresponding with the corner posts and
through which the corner posts pass; or corner pieces may be notched out of the
shelves to fit against the corner posts. The said frame of the wine bin is made wide
enough to take either one, two, three or more dozen or other number of bottles on
each shelf and deep enough in the direction of the corrugations for one, two, three or
more bottles to lie end to end in each corrugation.
The wine bin above described is very readily erected by first securing the four
corner posts in position by fixing the said stays thereto and then threading through
the posts the two lower cross bars which carry the bottom shelf which latter is then
placed on the said two cross bars, the next two cross bars are now threaded through
the posts and the shelf which they support is placed thereon, and so on until all
the cross bars and shelves have been placed in position, the four upper stays
are then fixed to the upper ends of the corner posts and the wine bin is
completed.
As, when packed for transport, the shelves can be bundled together one above the
other, and the corner posts, stays and cross bars can also be made into a bundle, the
parts occupy but little space and are not liable to damage.
In some cases when the corner posts pass through the shelves as above described
the cross stays which connect the posts together inay be dispensed with as the shelves
themselves will then hold the corner posts in position.
Instead of supporting the shelves by cross bars as above described these cross bars
may be dispensed with and other means employed such for instance as the shelves
carried from the corner posts by tubular distance blocks which are threaded-on--to

page_text: the posts between the shelves and fill up the spaces between each shelf and the
next above it.
I sometimes employ an additional vertical post or posts between the said corner posts
so as the better to support the shelves, but this applies more particularly when the
cross bars are dispensed with.
I sometimes connect either the stays or the cross bars or both to the vertical posts
by projecting dovetailed chills being cast on the ends of the said stays and cross bars
which take into corresponding notched dovetail chills cast on the posts similarly to
to the well known method employed in connecting the angular sides of metallic bod-
steads to their corner posts.
The corner and intermediate posts above mentioned may either be made of iron or
other metal of square, round or other suitable cross section or they may be made of
metal tubes or of wood or other suitable substance.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a general view of a wine bin constructed
according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a modified form of one of the shelves of the
same and Fig. 3 shews on an enlarged scale a method of securing the cross bars to
the corner posts; Fig. 4 shews how the cross bars may be dispensed with and
tubular distance blocks employed on the corner posts to support the shelves and
Fig. 5 shews how the stays can be removably connected to the corner posts by
dovetaild castings.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 a a are the corrugated sheet
iron or other metal shelves (in this example six in number) and 61 62 63 64 are the four
corner posts which pass through holes in the corners of the shelves as shewn in Fig. 1
(or the corners of the shelves may be notched out as shewn in Fig. 2) and are
connected together by bottom stays marked d and top stays e.
Each shelf is carried
by two cross bars one at the front marked c¹ and one at the back marked c² at about
right angles to the corrugations, and these bars are carried from the corner posts
preferably by passing through holes therein (as shewn by Figs. 1 and 3) so as to be
readily removed or replaced.
The bottles lie in the corrugations as shewn in the second shelf in Fig. 1.
In erecting the said wine bin the four corner posts 61 62 63 64 are first secured
together by the bottom stays d being bolted thereto, the bottom shelf is then placed
on the stays or cross bars d, the two cross bars c¹ c² for the next shelf are now threaded
through the corner posts ready for the next shelf which is then placed on the cross
bars and so on until all the cross bars and shelves have been placed in position when
the four upper stays e are secured to the top of the corner posts and the wine bin
is completed.
The cross bars c² ² may be dispensed with and the shelves supported from the
corner posts by other means such as the tubular distance blocks f being threaded on
to the corner posts between the shelves as shown by Figs. 4 and 5 and in this
case an additional post for supporting the shelves may be employed beween the
corner posts.
In the modification illustrated by Fig. 5 the stays d are connected to the vertical
posts bbbb6 by dovetailed chills which are cast on the ends of the stays d and
take into notched dovetail chills / cast on the posts in a similar manner to that employed
in making metallic bedsteads.
The accompanying drawing illustrates what I have found to be the best method of
carrying my said invention into practice but it is to be understood that the said
invention is not limited to the precise details shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. In wine bins the employment of corrugated sheet iron or other corrugated sheet
metal for formning the shelves on which the bottles. lie. in the manner substantially as

page_text: 2nd. In a metal wine bin and in combination, the uprights removably secured
together by cross stays, the cross bars carried by and removably secured to the said
uprights, and the corrugated sheet iron or other corrugated sheet metal shelves
supported by the said cross bars, the whole forming a metal wine bin substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1. 2 and 3 of the accompanying
drawing.
3rd. In a metal wine bin and in combination, the uprights removably secured
together by cross stays and the corrugated sheet iron or other corrugated sheet
metal shelves supported by the said uprights the whole forming a metal wine bin
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 4 and 5 of the
accompanying drawing.
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