An Improved Device for Hanging up Wineglasses.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Apr., 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Hanging up Wineglasses.
HAUGHTON DICKSON, 16, Avenue Mansions, Hampstead, N.W., Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An article made of metal, wood, stone, or composition which may be fastened
to wood or other material by a screw point or being driven in like a nail. The other
end has a forked arrangement to receive the stem of a wineglass & thus enable
the wineglass to be hung up.
For the forked arrangement a spiral one may be substituted & the articles may
be grouped in two or more to one screw or nail point.
An Improved Device for Hanging up Wineglasses.
I, HAUGHTON DICKSON, of 16, Avenue Mansions, Hampstead, London, N.W.,
Merchant, 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:
My invention has for its object to prevent the waste of shelf room as at present
obtains when the stock of domestic or other wineglasses or glasses with stenis not
in use are placed side by side upon a shelf, in which case the space between the
said shelf and the one above it cannot be used for any purpose.
My invention consists of a metal, wood, stone or other device in the form of
a clip, spring or jaws adapted to receive the stem of a wineglass or glasses, the
said device being provided with a threaded or pointed extension by means of
which it may be screwed or driven into the under surface of a shelf, or into a wall
or other vertical surface so that the glass or glasses may be hung up or suspended
therein mouth downwards.
In order that the alternative ways in which I purpose constructing the said
device, and the manner of its use may be fully understood I have hereunto
appended a sheet of drawings, of which
Fig. 1 is a side view of one form of device according to my invention, adapted
to be screwed or driven into a wall or other vertical surface, such as the back
of a cupboard, showing how a wineglass may be suspended or hung up therein,
Fig. 2 being a plan view of the said device.
Fig. 3 is a view, similar to Fig. 1, but illustrating an alternative method of
construction to enable the same to be screwed or driven into the under surface
of a shelf, or the roof of a cupboard, and the glass be suspended or hung up therein.

page_text: Fig. 4 is a modification adapted to hold one glass only like unto Figs. 1 and 2,
while Fig. 5 illustrates how either of the former devices may be duplicated or
triplicated so as to carry two or more such glasses.
The device illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2 is adapted to take one such glass only,
and consists of a metal, wood, stoneware, bone or other frame A, having an
extension B, terminating in a pointed or threaded end C, by means of which it
may be screwed or driven into a vertical surface such as those referred to. The
said frame A is preferably of circular formation, having a mouth or opening D
of just sufficient width that when fixed in position the stem. E of a wineglass
may be pushed through D into A, when the foot F of the wineglass would rest
upon A and be suspended or hung up as shewn in Fig. 1.
For the purpose of adapting the said device for attachment to the under surface
of a shelf or other like place, the extension B would be of greater length and be
bent at right angles to the plane of A, and used for suspending a wineglass in
the manner illustrated by Fig. 3.
I do not confine myself to construct the said frame to the design illustrated
by Fig. 2, as the same may be of rectangular or polygonal formation in plan,
so long as a mouth such as D is provided for the passage of the stem E, or I may
arrange a frame of volute or convolute formation as illustrated by A¹ in Fig. 4,
the same being provided with a straight extension B as shewn, so that it may be
fixed and used as at Fig. 1, or hent to adapt it for use as shown in Fig. 3. In
this device the stem of the glass would be passed into in the direction of the
arrow, and ultimately come to rest in the centre as shewn, the foot F resting upon
the frame A' as in the previous devices. This form of construction lends itself
anore particularly for use in the stewards quarters of passenger vessels.
Whichever of the said device of frame may be employed the portion B may be
duplicated or triplicated or more so as to provide other extensions such as B¹
and 13, so as to carry a like number of frames, as indicated by dotted outline
in Fig. 5, while the back end may be arranged for use as at Fig. 1 or Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:--
(1) The improved device for suspending one or more wineglasses and adapted
for fixation upon either a horizontal or vertical surface substantially as described
and shewn.
(2) The improved device for suspending glasses with stems consisting of a
circular or other shaped frame such as A, having a mouth D, and extension B,
straight as at Fig. 1, or bent as at Fig. 3, and provided with a plain or threaded
point C substantially as described and shewn.
(3) The improved device for suspending glasses with stems, consisting of con-
volute frame such as A', with straight or bent extension B, and plain or threaded
point C, substantially as described and shewn.
(4) In an improved device for suspending glasses with stems as set forth in
the preceding claims, the combination of two or more frames such as A or A' or
both, the extensions B, B' and 13 of which are connected to and radiate from one
straight or bent centre piece C having a plain or threaded surface, substantially
as herein described and shewn, more particularly by Fig. 5 of the accompanying
drawings.