IMPROVEMENTS IN LIQUOR FRAMES, CRUET FRAMES, SCENT BOTTLE FRAMES, AND OTHER LIKE FRAMES OR STANDS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Sherwood at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th May 1881.
WILLIAM SHERWOOD, of the Firm of John Sherwood and Sons, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Electro Platers and Silversmiths. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN LIQUOR FRAMES, CRUET FRAMES, SCENT BOTTLE FRAMES, AND OTHER LIKE
FRAMES OR STANDS."
My Invention consists in constructing and arranging in the manner hereinafter
described the parts of liquor frames, cruet frames, scent bottle frames, and other
like frames or stands, the object of my Invention being to effect in a simple and
efficient manner the locking or securing of the bottles, vessels, or cases, in their
frames or stands, so as to prevent access to the contents of the said bottles, vessels,
or cases, and the unlocking or releasing of the said bottles, vessels, or cases at
pleasure. Frames or stands of this kind are commonly known as "lock up"
frames or stands.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a liquor frame containing two bottles.
I take a rectangular or oblong frame consisting of a top plate or bar and a base
plate or foot, the said top bar and base plate or foot being connected together by.
vertical end pieces. Within this rectangular or oblong frame, a second frame,
made preferably of metal, is placed. This second or inner frame carries the liquor
bottles and is pivotted at its middle to the outer or fixed frame. The pivots upon
which the inner frame work are made at the ends of a rod or axis dividing the
frame into two parts, one pivot working in the top bar or plate of the outer frame,
and the other pivot working in the base plate or foot of the outer frame.
By this construction the inner pivotted frame can either be turned into the
outer frame, so as to be parallel thereto, or turned out of the said outer frame, so
as to cross it at right angles. When the pivotted frame is situated within the
outer fixed frame, the stoppers of the bottles carried by the former are nearly in
contact with the top plate or bar of the outer frame, and the said bottles cannot be
lifted from their frame or the stoppers removed from the bottles. When the
pivotted frame is turned on its pivots or centres, so as to cross the outer frame at
right angles, the bottles carried by the said pivotted frame are removed from

page_text: under the top plate or bar of the fixed frame, and the said bottles are liberated
and may be lifted from their frame.
When the pivotted frame has been turned into the outer frame, so as to lock the
bottles or prevent access to their contents, the said pivotted frame is fixed in that
position by means of a lock at the base of the pivotted frame, the bolt of the lock
taking into a staple or recess in the base plate or stand of the outer or fixed frame.
The liquor frame may be lifted and carried about by means of a handle on the
top of the fixed frame.
The pivotted frame may carry one, two, or more bottles on each side of its
middle rod or axis, the bottles being so arranged in their frame that the stoppers
when the pivotted frame is turned from out the fixed frame shall be clear of the
top plate or bar of the fixed frame.
In applying my Invention to frames for holding cruets, scent bottles, and other
bottles and vessels, I construct and arrange the parts substantially as described with
respect to a liquor frame.
In addition to frames for holding bottles or vessels for various purposes, my
Invention may also be applied to frames or stands for holding boxes or cases, such
for example as biscuit boxes, or for holding both bottles and cases.