IMPROVEMENTS IN LIQUOR STANDS OR FRAMES, CRUET STANDS OR FRAMES SO & RE AD To
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Beresford, of the Firm of Beresford and Company,
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Silversmiths and Electro-platers,
for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LIQUOR STANDS OR FRAMES, CRUET
STANDS OR FRAMES
SO & RE AD To"
ATHED
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Beresford at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd March 1882.
JAMES BERESFORD of the Firm of Beresford and Company of Birmingham in
the County of Warwick, Silversmiths and Electro Platers. IMPROVEMENTS IN
LIQUOR STANDS OR FRAMES CRUET STANDS OR FRAMES AND OTHER LIKE STANDS
OR FRAMES."
My Invention has reference to those kinds of lock up liquor and other like
stands or frames in which the bottles or vessels are locked in their stands or frames
by means of a series of radial arms carried by a vertical upright or axis, the said
axis and radial arms being capable of partial rotation so that the expanded ends
of the arms may either be brought over the stoppers to fix the bottles in the stand
or removed from over the said stoppers for releasing the bottles.
My Invention consists in arranging or combining the parts of lock up stands or
frames of the kind before explained in the manner hereinafter described, whereby
the construction of the parts is much simplified; their action improved and the
stability of the stand increased. Instead of making the vertical axis carrying
the radial locking arms extend downwards to the base of the stand in which
the fastening and unfastening mechanism is contained as usual. I confine the
locking parts entirely to the upper part or head of the stand, thereby leaving
the base or foot unencumbered by the fastening and unfastening mechanism.
For this purpose, I arrange on the foot or base of the stand, a fixed support or
upright of any desired configuration, around which support or upright the bottles
are arranged. This support or upright extends nearly to the level of the tops of
the bottles. Upon the said support or upright, the locking parts of the stand
constructed as follows are arranged and worked. To the said upright or support,
Price 6d1

page_text: a short flanged barrel or hollow cylinder is fixed. Through this barrel a short axis
passes, the upper external part of which axis has a disc like lead which carries the
radial locking arms and the central handle by which the stand is carried about.
The said disc like head of the axis screws into the top of the barrel and takes a
bearing upon a flange on the top of the said barrel, and the bottom of the axis
carries a stop which limits the rotatory motion of the axis of the locking arms.
In the said barrel or cylinder, is a lock and in the underside of the disc like
head of the axis of the locking arms, is a recess into which the bolt of the lock can
be shot. When the locking arms of the axis are turned by the central handle so
as to bring their expanded free ends over the stoppers of the bottles the recess in
the disc like head of the axis is brought opposite the bolt of the lock and by
shooting the bolt into the said recess by means of a key introduced through the
key hole in the barrel described, the said axis and its radial arms are fixed and
the bottles locked in their stand. By withdrawing the bolt of the lock by the
key, the axis of the radial arms is unfastened and the said arms may be turned
through a sufficient angle to remove their expanded ends from off the stoppers of
the bottles. The said bottles are thereby released and may be removed from the
stand. A lock with a spring bolt may be used. In this case the bolt snaps into
the disc like head of the axis when the latter has been turned into the position
proper for causing its radial arms to lock the bottles in the stand the said bolt
being withdrawn by the key of the lock when it is wished to release the bottles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Beresford in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th August
1882.
JAMES BERESFORD of the Firm of Beresford and Company of Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Silversmiths and Electro Platers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN LIQUOR
STANDS OR FRAMES, CRUET STANDS OR FRAMES AND OTHER LIKE STANDS OR
FRAMES."
My Invention has reference to those kinds of lock up liquor and other like
stands or frames in which the bottles or vessels are locked in their stands or
frames by means of a series of radial arms carried by a vertical upright or axis,
the said axis and radial arms being capable of partial rotation so that the expanded
ends of the arms may either be brought over the stoppers to fix the bottles in the
stand or removed from over the said stoppers for releasing the bottles.
My Invention consists in arranging or combining the parts of lock up stands or
frames of the kind before explained in the manner herein after described whereby
the construction of the parts is much simplified; their action improved and the
stability of the stand increased. Instead of making the vertical axis carrying the
radial locking arms extend downwards to the base of the stand in which the
fastening and unfastening mechanism is contained, as usual, I confine the locking
parts entirely to the upper part or head of the stand thereby leaving the base or
foot unencumbered by the fastening and unfastening mechanism.
For this purpose I arrange on the foot or base of the stand, a fixed support or
upright of any desired configuration, around which support or upright the bottles
are arranged. This support or upright extends nearly to the level of the tops of
the bottles. Upon the said support or upright, the locking parts of the stand,
constructed as follows are arranged and work. To the said upright or support a
short flanged barrel or hollow cylinder is fixed. Through this barrel a short axis
passes the upper external part of which axis has a disc like head which carries the
radial locking arms and the central handle by which the stand is carried about.
The said disc like head of the axis screws into the top of the barrel and takes a
bearing upon a flange on the top of the said barrel, and the bottom of the axis
carries a stop which limits, the rotatory motion of the axis of the locking arms.
In the said barrel or cylinder is a lock and in the under side of the disc like
head of the axis of the locking arms is a recess into which the bolt of the lock can
be shot. When the locking arms of the axis are turned by the central handle so
as to bring their expanded free ends over the stoppers of the bottles the recess in
the disc like head of the axis is brought opposite the bolt of the lock and by
shooting the bolt into the said recess by means of a key introduced through the
key hole in the barrel described, the said axis and its radial arms are fixed and the
bottles locked in their stand. By withdrawing the bolt of the lock by the key
the axis of the radial arms is unfastened and the said arms may be turned through
a sufficient angle to remove their expanded ends from off the stoppers of the
bottles. The said bottles are thereby released and may be removed from the
Stand. A lock with a spring bolt may be used. In this case the bolt snaps
behind a shoulder on the disc like head of the axis when the latter has been
turned into the position proper for causing its radial arms to lock the bottles in
the stand, the said bolt being withdrawn by the key of the lock when it is wished
to release the bottles.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
nanner in which my Invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in plan, a liquor stand or

page_text: frame containing my improvements, the bottles being represented locked in the
said stand; Figures 3 and 4 represent the same views as Figures 1 and 2 with the
bottles unlocked; Figures 5 and 6 represent in vertical section, partly in elevation,
the upper or locking parts only of the stand, Figure 5 showing the radial arms in
their fastened positions as in Figure 1, and Figure 6 showing the radial arms in
their unfastened positions as in Figure 3; Figure 7 is a horizontal section of
Figure 5 taken on the line a, a and Figures 8 and 9 represent the stop plate in its
two positions.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawing.
b is the foot or base of the stand carrying the uprights or supports c, c, c around
which the bottles d, d, d are arranged. By an examination of Figure 3 (where
one of the bottles is omitted) it will be seen that the supports or uprights c, c, c
extend to about the level of the tops of the bottles d, d, d and the locking parts of
the stand are supported upon the head of the said uprights. The locking parts
of the stand consist of the flanged barrel or hollow cylinder e fixed to the tops of
the uprights c, c, C.
In the said barrel e is a short axis of the upper part of which is connected to the
dise like head g which carries the radial arms h, h, h for locking and unlocking the
bottles. The said disc like head also carries the handle i by which the stand is
carried about. The disc like head g screws into the top of the barrel e rising from
the said barrel when the arms h, h, h are turned into their locking position and
descending and taking a bearing on the flange of the said barrel, when the said
arms h h, h are turned into their unlocking position. On the bottom of the short
axis is a stop plate k the projections k, k³, k2 at its edge being situated and
working between the fixed uprights c, c, c of the stand. The said stop plate k is
secured to the axis f by the screw nut and the said screw nut is covered and
concealed by the hemispherical piece m.
To the inside of the fixed barrel e a
having a spring bolt q with a
by means of a key r (see
On the disc like head g and
the spring bolt 7 of the lock
lock p is soldered or otherwise secured, the said lock
bevilled head. The said spring bolt q is withdrawn
Figure 3) passed into a key hole in the barrel e.
projecting into the barrel is a shoulders with which
engages to fasten the radial arms of the stand.
The several parts of the stand being in the positions represented in Figures 1. 2
and 5, the bottles d, d, d are locked in their stand by the expanded free ends of
the locking arms h, h, h being situated over the stoppers of the bottles, the
locking arms and their axis being secured in that position by the engagement of
the spring bolt q with the shoulder 8 on the head g of the locking mechanism.
When it is wished to unlock the bottles, the key r is introduced through the key
hole in the barrel e and the bevilled end of the bolt q is withdrawn by the action of
the key, from the shoulder 8, and the locking arms and parts connected with them
are thereby unfastened and may be turned through the required angle. While the
spring bolt q is thus withdrawn the locking arms h, h, h are turned by means of
the central handle i into the position represented in Figures 3, 4 and 6 so as
thereby to remove the expanded ends of the said arms from over the stoppers of
the bottles. The bottles being now released may be removed from the stand.
As soon as the locking arms have been turned into their unfastening position,
the pressure is removed from the key when the spring bolt q is projected outwards
and occupies, with respect to the shoulder s on the head g, the position represented
in Figure 6. In order to lock the bottles it is only necessary to turn the locking
arms h, h, h by means of the handle i into the position represented in Figures 1, 2
and 5 so as to bring the expanded ends of the said arms over the stoppers of the
bottles. As the locking arms take that position the spring bolt q is pressed
inwards by the shoulder 8 on the head 9 acting against the bevilled edge of the
said bolt and when the locking arms have reached their locking position, the said
head of the spring bolt a snaps behind the shoulders (see Figures 5 and 7) and
the parts are locked in their fastening position.

page_text: The manner in which the stop plate limits the motion of the locking arms
h, h, h when they are turned for locking the bottles is best seen in Figure 8. The
unlocking motion of the arms h, h, h is limited by the screwing home of the head g
in the screwed end of the fixed barrel e.
I do not limit myself to any particular construction of lock for fastening and
unfastening the locking arms h, h, h of the stand, as for example a lock having a
bolt shot and withdrawn by the action of the key may be employed. In this case
the shoulder 8 is dispensed with and a recess is forined either in the axis for head
for the bolt of the lock to be shot into or withdrawn from for fastening and
unfastening the bottles.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in which
the same is to be performed I wish it to be understood that I claim as my
Invention:
The improvements hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing in liquor stands or frames cruet stands or frames and other like stands
or frames in which the bottles or vessels are locked in and released from their
stands or frames by means of radial locking arms, the expanded ends of the said
arms being brought over or removed from over the stoppers of the bottles or vessels
by a partial rotation of an axis carrying the said arms; that is to say, the combi-
nation with the radial locking arms of the stand or frame of the parts e, f and g
situated at the upper part or head of the stand and supported upon the central
uprights c, c, c of the stand, the rotating part 9 carrying the locking arms and
axis being fastened to and released from the fixed part or barrel by lock
mechanism and the other parts constructed and combined substantially as and for
the purposes described and illustrated.
In witness whereof I the said James Beresford have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
0 Witness to the signature of
James Beresford
ELIZABETH RESTALL
27 West Parade
Rhyl,
JAMES BERESFORD. (LS.)
42 Summer Row
Birmingham.