IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF IRON WINE PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Farrow and Richard Brooker Jackson, of
Great Tower Street, in the City of London, Mechanical Engineers,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF IRON WINE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Farrow and
Richard Brooker Jackson at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 23rd March 1870.
We, CHARLES FARROW and RICHARD BROOKER JACKSON, of Great
Tower Street, in the City of London, Mechanical Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF IRON WINE BINS," to be as follows, that is to say :—
This Invention relates to the mode of constructing the iron divisions
forming the compartments or bins for storing wine or other liquors in
bottles.

page_text: These divisions have been hitherto constructed with lattice uprights
made of flat bars of iron rivetted to horizontal bars forming rests, and of
plate iron shelves supported by cross bars between two of such rests.
On these shelves the bottles were placed in tiers, neck and neck, the
hinder bottles being raised from the shelf by blocks of wood or bricks,
and the necks kept in position by perpendicular laths.
Now our improvements consist,-
Firstly. In substituting for the plate iron shelves bars of iron, by
preference of a T shape, placed at suitable distances apart with the flat
side upwards so as to afford a safe bearing for the bottle.
Secondly. In arranging the horizontal bars of the uprights either by
curving them or otherwise, so that the hinder bars which rest on theni
are precisely at the height required to sustain the hinder bottles without
the use of blocks.
Thirdly. In constructing the uprights with the centre perpendicular
bar of each tier placed at right angles to the other bars, and either
slotted to allow the horizontal bars to pass through it or rivetted thereto;
the said centre bars may be T shaped.
By these improvements we obtain an increased circulation of air
amongst the bottles; we also effect a saving in the cost of construction,
and avoid the use of blocks and side laths and the consequent risk of
breakage caused by the rotting or unequal sinking of the blocks, more
especially if placed on the ground.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Farrow and Richard Brooker Jackson in 2
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd September 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
FARROW and RICHARD BROOKER JACKSON, of Great Tower Street, in the
City of London, Mechanical Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 3
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Charles Farrow and Richard Brooker Jackson,

page_text: Her special licence that we, the said Charles Farrow and Richard
Brooker Jackson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Charles Farrow and Richard Brooker Jackson,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree,
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF IRON WINE BINS," upon the condition,
(amongst others) that we, the said Charles Farrow and Richard Brooker
Jackson, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed.
in the Great Scal Patent Office, within six calendar months. next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Charles Farrow and Richard
Brooker Jackson, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the mode of constructing the iron divisions
forming the compartments or bins for storing wine or other liquors in
bottles.
These divisions have been hitherto constructed with lattico uprights
made of flat bars of iron rivetted to horizontal bars forming rests, and of
plate iron shelves supported by cross bars between two of such rests.
On these shelves the bottles were placed in tiers, neck and neck, the
hinder bottles being raised from the shelf by blocks of wood or bricks,
and the necks kept in position by perpendicular laths.
Now our improvements consist,-
Firstly. In substituting for the plate iron shelves bars of iron of
a Tor shape placed at suitable distances apart with the flat sidę
upwards, so as to afford a safe bearing for the bottle.
Secondly. In arranging the horizontal bars of the uprights either by
curving them on othomvise on that the hindon have which most on tham

page_text: are at the height required to sustain the hinder bottles without the use
of blocks.
Thirdly. In constructing the uprights with the centre perpendicular
bar of cach tier at right angles to the other bars, and either slotted to
allow the horizontal bars to pass through it or rivetted thereto; the said
centre bars may be T shaped.
By these improvements we obtain an increased circulation of air
amongst the bottles; we also effect a saving in the cost of construction,
and avoid the use of blocks and side laths and the consequent risk of
breakage caused by the rotting or unequal sinking of the blocks, more :
especially if placed on the ground.
To make our Invention better understood we will now proceed to.
describe the same by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation, Figure 2 a transverse section, and Figure 3
a projected view of a single tier wine bin constructed according to:
our improvements. Similar letters in all the Figures represent similar
parts.
a, a, a, a, are the front uprights of the bin, formed of ☐ shaped iron;
and b, b, b, b, the back uprights, formed of flat bar iron; the front
uprights are connected together at the top by a length of angle iron c
fixed by screws and nuts d, d; this connecting bar c may be omitted for
arched vaults and the front uprights inserted in the arch; e, c, c, e, aro
the centre perpendicular bars of the uprights, made of flat bar iron and
placed at right angles to the back uprights b, b; f, f, f¹, f', are the side
horizontal bars forming rests and rivetted to the uprights, the back
bars ff, being higher than the front ones f,f; g, g', g³, are the bars
forming the shelves on which the bottles are placed; the front and back
bars and are made of T iron with the flat side upwards, and the
middle bar g¹ is made of ☐ shaped iron; a part of the flanges of these
three bars is cut away at each end and the flat parts turned down so as
to fit over the side rest bars f, ƒ, ƒ¹‚ƒ¹; h, h, top and bottom cross bars
connecting the front and back uprights. By this arrangement it will be
seen that the upper surface of the middle bar g' is higher than that of
the front bar g, the necks of the front bottles i resting on the middlo
bar g', while the bodies of these bottles rest on the front bar g. The
back bar g' is placed higher than the middle bar g' and serves to receive
the bodies of the hinder bottles j of the tier, the necks of these latter
bottles resting upon the front bottles, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2. By

page_text: having the upper surfaces of the three bars 9, g', g², forming the shelves
at different elevations, as herein-before described, no blocks are required
for raising the hinder bottles of the tier; and the perpendicular bars e, e,
being placed at right angles to the back uprights the use of side laths is
avoided and the strength of the bin is much increased.
Instead of employing shaped iron for the middle bar g' T iron may
be employed, in which case the front rest bars f,f, are curved so that
the middle bar may be higher than the front bar. We can also employ
T or angle iron for the front uprights a, a, a, a, and centre perpendicular
bars c, e, c, e.
The Drawing shews a wine bin constructed to hold single tiers of
bottles, that is to say, two bottles placed neck and neck on a tier, but it
will be understood that the same arrangement is applicable for a larger
number of bottles, that is, for several tiers. These improved wine bins
may be constructed for either arched or plain cellars.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, we wish it to be understood that we do
not confine ourselves to the precise details herein laid down and shewn
in the Drawing, but what we claim is, the improvements in the con-
struction of iron wine bins, substantially as hercin-before described and
represented in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Farrow and Richard
Brooker Jackson, have hereto set our hands and scals, this
Twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
W. A. GILDEE,
Patent Agent,
4, South St., Finsbury.
C. FARROW.
(L.S.)
R. B. JACKSON. (L.s.)