Improvements in Combination Frames for Bottles, Cigars, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Frames for Bottles, Cigars,
and the like.
We GEORGE WING, the Elder and GEORGE WING the Younger both of
Sycamore Street, Sheffield in the County of York, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of our invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to secure the bottles of liquors, scents, or the
like, in the frame, by the simple operation of closing and locking the drawer used
to contain cigars or other like articles and to open the same by the reverse
action.
In carrying out our invention we construct a frame of the usual well known
construction, having a base to contain the bottom parts of the bottles, and a strong
cross bar passing closely over the tops of the stoppers. The lower part of the base
is made deep enough to contain a drawer, usually arranged to contain cigars, and
we make the back of the drawer with inclined surfaces tapering downwards to the
extreme end of the drawer or thereabouts.
In front of the lower part of the bottles is a bar or ledge, moving vertically in
grooves or slides and capable of passing through the top part of the base so as to
form no impediment to the withdrawal of the bottles. The bottom of the said bar
is provided with rollers which rest upon the inclines formed on the sides of the end
portions of the drawer, and it is intended that the downward movement of the
bar or ledge shall be by gravitation, but it may be partially aided by springs if
desirable.
When the drawer is unlocked and drawn out, the inclines allow the bar to slide
down vertically until the top is flush with the top of base, and below the bottom of
the bottles, which can then be drawn out.
When the bottles are replaced and the drawer pushed in the action of the
inclined surfaces passing under the rollers, raises the bar up to its highest position
in front of the bottles, and when the drawer is locked, the bottles are secure and
cannot be withdrawn, or contents extracted.
1000
ROBT. F. DRURY, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combination Frames for Bottles, Cigars,
and the like.
We GEORGE WING the Elder, and GEORGE WING the Younger, both of
Sycamore Street, Sheffield in the County of York, Manufacturers, 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 for its object to secure the bottles which are fitted to the
frame, and which may be to contain liquors, scents, or the like; by the simple
operation of closing and locking the drawer in front of the frame, and to release
the bottles by the reverse action, or pulling out the said drawer.
In order that our invention may be clearly defined and understood we have
annexed a sheet of drawings which will illustrate the method of putting the
invention into practice.

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Fig. 1, is an end elevation of a frame made according to our invention, one side
being removed to show the interior.
Fig. 2, front and end elevation of the locking and releasing bar.
In carrying out our invention, we construct a frame of the usual well known
designs such as the one shown in the drawing Fig. 1, having a base A, and two
upright end standards B, with a connecting cover or cross bar C, passing over the
tops of the stoppers of the bottles D, which are shown in dotted lines.
The base of the frame is made deep enough to contain a drawer E, usually
constructed to contain cigars, and we make the sides of the drawer, with their top
edges F, inclined or tapering backwards as shown.
The bottles stand in shallow bins G, and in front of the bins and the bottles, is a
bar H, which can move up and down through a slot or opening I in the base, and
is guided and retained by end projections J, working in end grooves formed in
the frame.
The locking-bar H, can be lowered so that its top edge will be level with, or
lower than, the floor of the bins, so as to form no impediment to the withdrawal
of the bottles, and when raised it will be level with, and correspond in finish with
the back and divisions of the bins.
At the ends of the bottom edge of the locking bar we fix small rollers K, which
will roll upon the inclined edges of the drawer before described, and when the
drawer is drawn out, the bar is intended to move down the grooves by gravitation,
but it may be aided in its descent by one or more springs if desirable; these are
not shown.
When the drawer is pushed back from the position shown by the dotted lines,
the pressure of the inclined edges passing under the rollers causes the bar to rise
until it attains its highest position in front of the bottles, as shown in Fig. 1, the
drawer is then locked, and the bottles secure; when the drawer is drawn out, the
bar descends and the bottles can be removed.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same may be carried into practice, we declare that
what we claim is :-
1-In a combination frame for holding bottles, cigars and the like; constructing
the drawer with tapered or inclined sides, by which a locking bar is raised or
lowered, and secured, so as to prevent the removal of the bottles, substantially as
hereinbefore described and shown.
2-A bottle stand, commonly known as a "lock up spirit frame "-in which the
bottles stand in bins, and the front bar or ledge H, passes through an opening and
rests upon the inclined edges of the sides of a drawer, by which it is raised or
lowered, and secured by locking the said drawer, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated.
ROBT. F. DRURY, Fel. Inst. P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicants.