An Improved Tray for Holding Glasses or the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1898-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1898
An Improved Tray for Holding Glasses or the like.
A communication from abroad by JAMES PERCIVAL ROBERTSON, of Sydney, in the
Colony of New South Wales, Electrical Engineer.
I, ALLEN PARRY JONES, of 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, 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:-
In hotels, cafes and refreshment establishments, it is usual when carrying liquors
to customers, to place the bottle containing the wine, beer or spirits, upon the
tray with the glasses. The slightest jolt will often cause the bottle to upset with
consequent damage to, or loss of the articles and liquor upon the tray. By this
invention the risk is reduced to a minimum and the service is rendered much
more casy.
The invention consists in perforating the tray with a central aperture; the neck
of the bottle is then passed through the aperture so that the edges of the aperture
will rest upon the shoulder of the bottle. Wires or rods rise from the tray close
to the neck of the bottle so as to enclose the latter in a skeleton frame. These
wires or rods terminate above the mouth of the bottle in a loop or ring by means
of which the tray may be lifted from off the bottle.
In the accompanying drawings:-
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Fig. 1 shews the attachment set on the neck of the bottle and loaded with
glasses.
Fig. 2, is a plan of the same.
A is the bottle, B the tray, "(preferably of circular form) which is perforated
with a central aperture C, through which the neck of the bottle will be passed.
From the tray B.near the edge of the aperture C, will rise wires or rods D forming
a frame, which may wind spirally upwards as shewn in the drawings (or project
straight upwards) and terminating in a ring or loop E. The wires D must be so
disposed that they shall touch or grip the outer edge of the rim round the mouth
of the bottle, so as to stay the tray B and prevent it from canting. The tray will
be removed from the bottle by lifting it by means of the ring or loop. E. If
desired, there may be fixed to the upper side of the tray a light frame, similar
to that on a cruet stand, into which the glasses may be dropped, as into sockets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
A tray attachment to bottles, consisting of an ordinary tray, preferably of
circular form, and perforated with a circular central aperture from near the edge
of which will rise wires or rods forming a frame so disposed that the rods or
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page_text: wires shall bear against the rim around the mouth of the bottle so as to prevent
the tray from canting such wire frame terminating in a loop or ring whereby the
tray may be lifted from the bottle, as specified.
Dated the 5th day of July 1898
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Chartered Patent Agent, London, for the Applicant.