IMPROVEMENTS IN CRUST FRAMES, LIQUOR FRAMES, AND OTHER FRAMES FOR HOLDING BOTTLES AND VESSELS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Ireland, of Handsworth, in the County.
of Stafford, Manager of Works, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CRUST FRAMES, LIQUOR FRAMES, AND OTHER FRAMES FOR HOLDING
BOTTLES AND VESSELS AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Sealed the 26th June 1868, and dated 11th January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Ircland at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th January 1868.
I, GEORGE IRELAND, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford,
Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CRUET FRAMES, LIQUOR FRAMES, AND OTHER FRAMES FOR
HOLDING BOTTLES AND VESSELS AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
the feet, handles, and stems or supports of the handles of cruet frames,
liquor frames, and other frames. for holding bottles and vessels and
other articles.
My improvement in the feet of the said frames consists in making

page_text: the said feet out of the same piece of sheet metal as the base of the
frame, the said feet being cut out by stamping or otherwise fashioned
in one piece with the base, and afterwards bent out of the plane in
which the base is situated into a position nearly at right angles to the
said plane. By this improvement the necessity for soldering the feet
to the base is obviated and the fect are more firmly connected to the
base than when joined thereto by soldering.
My improvements in the handles and stems or supports of the
handles of the said frames consist in arranging the parts of the said
handles in two, three, or more vertical planes, instead of making the
said handles in one vertical plane, and in arranging the parts of the
stems or supports in one, two, three, or more vertical planes, instead
of making the said handles in one vertical plane and the stems or
supports of a tubular or columnar figure. For example, in a frame
for holding three bottles or vessels, I make the handle of three parts
each of the said parts being of the same figure as one-half of an ordinary
handle. The said three parts of the handle are situated in three vertical
planes inclined to each other and making with each other angles of
120 degrees. The said parts of the. handle join each other in a line
forming the common intersection of the said three planes. The stem
or support for the handle consists of three portions situated by preference
in the same vertical planes as the three parts of the handle described.
The said three parts of the stem or support join each other at top
where they are connected to the handle and widen downwards towards
their lower ends where they join the base plate of the frame, their lower
ends being situated between the bottles or vessels carried by the frame.
The parts of the handle may be situated in two, three, or a greater
number of planes, and the parts of the stem or support may be situated
in one, two, three, or a greater number of planes. Handles constructed
according to my Invention may however be used with the ordinary
straight stem or support, and supports of the kind described may be
used with ordinary handles. By my improvements in the handles and
stems or supports of the handles of cruet frames and other frames, the
handle may be more readily laid hold of for the purpose of lifting
the frame, and the stem or support of the handle is stronger and more
firmly connected to the base than stems or supports for handles of
the ordinary construction. Although I have only described my Inven-
tion with reference to a frame for holding bottles, yet my Invention

page_text: may be applied to frames for holding other vessels and articles, for
example to egg cup frames and toast racks.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said George Ireland in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
IRELAND, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Manager of
Works, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Ireland, Her special licence,
that I, the said George Ireland, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Ircland, my exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no:
others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter during the term.
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CRUET FRAMES, LIQUOR FRAMES, AND OTHER FRAMES FOR HOLDING BOTTLES
AND VESSELS AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said George Ireland, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Ireland, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performied to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
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My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
the feet, handles, and stems, or supports of the handles of cruet frames,

page_text: quor frames, and other frames for morting and vessels, and RC
articles.
My improvement in the feet of the said frames consists in making the
said feet out of the same piece of sheet metal as the base of the frame,
the said fect being cut out by stamping, or otherwise fashioned in one
piece with the base, and afterwards bent out of the plane in which the
base is situated into a position nearly at right angles to the said plane.
By this improvement the necessity for soldering the feet to the base is
obviated, and the feet are more firmly connected to the base than when
joined thereto by soldering.
My improvements in the handles and stems or supports of the handles
of the said frames consist in arranging the parts of the said handles in
two, three, or more vertical planes instead of making the said handles in
one vertical plane, and in arranging the parts of the stems or supports
in two, three, or more vertical planes instead of making the said handles
in one vertical plane, and the stems or supports of a tubular or columnar
figure. For example, in a frame holding three bottles or vessels I make
the handle of three parts, each of the said parts being of the same figure
as one half of an ordinary handle. The said three parts of the handle
are situated in three vertical planes inclined to each other, and making
with each other angles of 120 degrees. The said parts of the handle
join each other in a line forming the common intersection of the said
three planes. The stem or support for the handle consists of threc
portions, situated by preference in the same vertical planes as the three
parts of the handle described. The said three parts of the stem or
support join each other at top, where they are connected to the han
and widen downwards towards their lower ends, where they join the
base plate of the frame, their lower ends being situated between the
bottles or vessels carried by the frame. By my improvements in the
handles and stems or supports of the handles of cruct frames and other
frames the handle may be more readily laid hold of for the purpose of
lifting the frame, and the stem or support of the handle is stronger and
more firmly connected to the base than stems or supports of handles of
the ordinary construction.
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Having explained the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of a cruet frame constructed

page_text: according to my Invention; Figure 2 is a plan of one half of the base.
of the said frame; and Figure 3 is a plan of the handle of the said
frame.
Figure 4 represents an elevation of a liquor frame constructed
according to my Invention; Figure 5 is a plan of a portion of the base,
and Figure 6 is a plan of the handle.
Figure 7 represents an elevation of a pickle frame constructed
according to my Invention; Figure 8 is a plan of a portion of the
base; and Figure 9 is a plan of the handle; Figure 10 is an eleva-
tion of the handle and stem of the said pickle frame Figures 7 and
separately, the elevation Figure 10 being taken at right angles to
that in which the elevation of the handle and stem in Figure 7
is taken.
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a is the base of the frames in the several Figures of the Drawing, in
which said base the bottles or vessels are supported, and 6 are the feet
of the said base, the said feet b being made out of the same piece of sheet,
metal as the said base a the manner in which the fect b are bent. out
of the plane of the base a into a position nearly at right angles thereto
will be readily understood by an examination of the Drawing. The said
feet may be either plain or ornamented. The handle of the liquor
frame, Figures 4 and 5, is made of three parts marked respectively c, d, e.
The said three parts of the handle are situated in three vertical planes
inclined to each other. The positions of the said parts c, d, e, and the
manner in which they join each other, will be best seen by referring to
the plan Figure 6. The stem or support of the handle c, d, e, is also
made of three parts marked respectively f, g, h, situated in the same
vertical planes as the said three parts c, d, e, of the handle. The three'
parts f, g, h, of the stem or support join each other at top where they
áre connected to the handle and widen downwards towards their lower
ends where they join the base plate a as best seen in Figure 4. The
liquor frame Figures 4 and 5 is fitted to hold three bottles one of which
is omitted in order to exhibit the construction of the stem or support..
The lower ends of the parts f, g, h, of the stem or support are situated
between the bottles placed in the openings in the base a as seen in
Figure 4. The handles, and stems, or supports of the cruet frame,
Figures 1, 2, and 3, and pickle frame, Figures 7, 8, 9, and 10, are each
made of four parts situated in two vertical planes at right angles to each
other. The parts of which the handles of the frames are made are

page_text: marked respectively i, k, l, m, and the parts of which the stems or
supports are made are marked respectively, , P, m³, the part of the
stem or support is only seen in Figure 10. The cruet frame Figures 1
and 2, is fitted to hold four bottles or vessels, two of the said bottles
or vessels being omitted in Figure 1, in order to exhibit the construction
of the stem or support. The pickle frame, Figures 7 and 8, is fitted to
hold two bottles or vessels those parts marked i, 3, and m, m³, of the
handle and stem situated in a plane at right angles to that in which the
_bottles or vessels are situated being used to suspend a fork p and ladle q.
The manner in which the fork and ladle are suspended is best seen in
Figure 10. The parts of which the handles and stems of the frames are
composed may be made of plain continuous bars or plates instead of
ornamented open bars or plates as represented in the Drawing. Instead
of arranging the parts of which the handles are composed in the same
planes as those in which the different parts of the stems or supports are
situated, the parts composing the handle and those composing the stem
or support may be situated in different planes.
Although I have only represented my Invention as applied to frames
the parts of the handles and stems of which are situated in two or three
vertical planes, yet the parts of the said handles, and stems, or supports
may be situated in more than three vertical planes, and although I
have only described and represented my Invention with reference to
frames for holding bottles and vessels, yet my Invention may be applied
to frames for holding other articles, for example, to egg cup frames and
toast racks.
Handles constructed according to my Invention may be used with
ordinary straight stems or supports, and stems or supports, constructed
according to my Invention may be used with ordinary handles.
.
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 do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and
illustrated, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of my Invention.
But I claim as my Invention of improvements in cruct frames,
liquor frames, and other frames, for holding bottles, and vessels, and
other articles,
Firstly. Making the feet of the said frames out of the same piece of
sheet metal as the base, so as to avoid the necessity for soldering the said

page_text: fect to the base, substantially as hercin-before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. Making the handles of the said frames by arranging the
parts of which the said handles are composed in two, three, or more
vertical planes, substantially as herein-before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly. Making the stems or supports of the handles of the said
frames by arranging the parts of which the said stems or supports
are composed in two, three, or more vertical planes, substantially as
herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Ireland, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
GEORGE IRELAND. (L.S.)