Improvements in Stands for Holding Cylinders, Flasks, or Drums, and for like purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1592-Accepted, 5th Nov., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stands for Holding Cylinders, Flasks, or Drums,
and for like purposes.
We, HENRY BRIER of 47 Dixon Avenue, Crosshill in the County of Lanark,
Engineer, and THE SCOTCH AND IRISH OXYGEN COMPANY, LIMITED, Rosehill
Works, Polmadie, in the County of Renfrew, 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 relates to stands for holding cylinders flasks or drums and for
other like purposes, and it has for its object to provide a stand which when in use
will afford a perfectly stable support to the vessel and when not in use shall be
capable of being folded up into small compass for facility of transport.
The improved stand constituting the invention is illustrated in condition to
receive the vessel by the elevation Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, Fig. 2
being a plan, Fig. 3 a vertical section on the line a, b, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 an elevation
shewing the vessel in position in the stand and Fig. 5 a view shewing the stand
folded up for transport.
As shewn by these figures the improved stand consists of three or other number
of legs or supports A, which may be hinged or jointed at or near the point B or
from the said point the lower extremities of the legs or supports may be curved,
bent or flared outwards, the object in both cases being to afford a wider base when
the stand is in use. When hinged or jointed the lower parts of the legs are, in
folding up the stand, straightened or made parallel with the upper parts as indicated
by Fig. 5 so as to cause them to occupy less room in transport.
At the top and also at a point above the hinges or joints the legs or supports are
connected together by bands C these bands being each made in two or more parts
articulated or jointed at the middle of their length so as to be capable of folding
downwards as shewn by Fig. 5. The bands are connected to the legs or supports
by rivets on which they are capable of swinging or turning and the rivet connecting
a section of one band to a leg or support has a T-shaped head as indicated at D
Fig. 5 the section of the band C to be connected to that rivet having a similarly
formed slot as shewn at E the slot being passed over the T-head, which is laid at
an angle, in erecting the stand or other means of fastening may be adopted. From
the joint F at the middle of each top band C a chain G extends downwards to the
like joint of the corresponding band below or a strap may be substituted for the
said chain. In any event the upper extremities of other chains or bands H are
connected to the joints F of the lower bands C the lower extremities of these
chains being rivetted or otherwise secured to a plate or disc I constituting the base
of the stand, or being rivetted together.
In inserting the vessel to be supported the lower end of it is rested upon the
plate or disc I or on the chains H and its weight pressing upon the said plate or
chains tends through the chains H and G to incline the bands C as shewn by
Fig. 4 whereby the diameter of the circle formed by these bands is diminished and
they are caused firmly to grip upon the cylinder or vessel and hold it securely in
position.
Besides being employed for the purposes set forth the improved stand herein-
before described may obviously be used to support other articles requiring to be
temporarily or permanently held in a vertical section.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is: --
The improved stand consisting of the legs or supports A jointed or otherwise,
the articulated frame C connecting chains or bands & and the supporting chains or
bands H. substantially as described with reference to the drawings annexed.
Dated this 29th day of September 1892.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.