Improvements in Racks for Drying Bottles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Racks for Drying Bottles.
I, BASIL PENWARNE WIGAN of The North Cheshire Brewery, Macclesfield,
in the County of Chester, Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to racks in which bottles are dried after being washed, and
its objects are to secure economy of space and to facilitate the arrangement of the
bottles in the rack and their removal therefrom.
In a rack constructed according to my improvements, slides or drawers are
constructed which preferably may be withdrawn on either side of the rack. These
slides or drawers have openings in their bottoms through which the necks of the
inverted bottles may be inserted.
In using the rack, the slide or drawer is pulled out and the bottles are placed
therein to drain and the slide or drawer is then closed, or it may be closed step by
step during the filling. After the bottles have become dry, the slide or drawer is
pulled out on that side of the rack on which the bottles are required, when they
may be readily and conveniently removed. As in the filling of the rack, in
emptying, the slides or drawers may be opened step by step.
It will be obvious that with this improved construction of rack the bottles may
be arranged more closely in a vertical direction, since no head room is required in
the rack itself, for emptying and filling.
Dated this 17th day of November A.D. 1894.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Racks for Drying Bottles.
I, BASIL PENWARNE WIGAN, of The North Cheshire Brewery, Macclesfield,
in the County of Chester, Brewer 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 improvements in bottle racks, and has for its object the
securing of greater economy of space and facility of stowing and removing of the
bottles than are obtainable in other existing forms of bottle racks.
The invention consists in making the shelves, which hold the bottles either
horizontally or vertically or in an inclined position, removable: in other words
making the shelves to consist of a series of removable trays which may be made
either to slide or roll in their frames.
By such arrangement the bottles are inserted by wholly or partially withdrawing
the trays and inserting the bottles before sliding or rolling them back into their
frames, thereby diminishing the distance between the trays, which is necessary
when fixed trays are used. The bottles being dried by the action of the atmosphere.
In the accompanying drawing the removable trays are marked A. A. and the
frames in which they slide or roll are marked B. B.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of ny said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
Bottle racks so constructed that the shelves or trays or those parts of the
apparatus, which support the bottles either horizontally or vertically are removable
by sliding or rolling substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Fourteenth day of August 1895.
BASIL PENWARNE WIGAN.