An holder for bottles
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY Bowling Green Terrace Worcester
Sauce Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
"An improved holder for bottles." "A bottle holder to hold bottles that require
to be shaken without their being removed from holder; & by so doing to avoid the
liquid reaching the table linen." This it accomplishes as follows, viz. "The
bottle being placed in the lower or bottom part of holder, a collar fits round
the neck of bottle above the shoulder, & it being fastened by means of a screw
passing through the flattened ends of collar, which brings them tightly together
the collar being hinged on to back stay of holder; the stay being a fixture from
bottom of holder; by this means the bottle cannot move when shaken; to remove
bottle it is only necessary to undo the screw when the collar opens & bottle can be
removed; the bottom part of holder being lined with felting, absorbs any moisture
that runs down the bottle; the inside of collar being a perforated grating, to
admit a liquid to run down the neck of bottle."
Dated this 1st day of May 1894.
WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Holder for Bottles.
I, WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY of Bowling Green Terrace, Worcester,
Sauce Manufacturer, 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 holders or carriers for condiment bottles generally, and has
particular reference to bottles for containing Worcestershire sauce, anchovy sauce,
which generally require to be shaken before being used, and my said invention has
for its object first, an improved carrier or cruet which shall hold the bottle firmly
whilst being shaken, and secondly, a carrier or cruet provided with a drip
interceptor.
According to my invention, the apparatus consists essentially of a back stay,
having a handle or holder part, a cupped or dished bottom and a clip upper part,
which embraces and firmly clips the neck of a bottle above the shoulder, at
separate and opposite points, whereby the same is made to take any sized bottle,
within certain limits, and to exert a nipping or firm grip thereon.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in side elevation, a sauce
bottle provided with a holder or carrier cruet constructed according to my
improvements.
Figure 2 represents a like bottle, with parts of the holder cruet in section,
showing more clearly the construction of the cupped base and the hinged clip or
collar parts.
Figure 3 represents a horizontal section of Figure 1 upon the dotted lines x.
Figure 4 represents a horizontal section of Figure 2, upon the dotted lines A and

page_text: Figure 5 represents a like view as Figure 3, but provided with a modified means
of drawing the sections of the clip or collar around the bottle neck.
In Figures 1 to 4, the appliance consists of an upright frame or back stay a,
provided with a handle a', and with the lower part fitted with a cupped bottom or
rest a', wherein the bottom 1, of the bottle 7, rests, either upon the plain inside of
the same, or upon an absorbent felt pad c, placed therein.
The upper portion of the frame or stay carries a collar clip d, consisting of part
band members d', d, transversely corrugated or crinkled so as to form clearances
for liquid to drip through and down the sides of the bottle, and with the inner end
of the band or strap da, being jointed at d³, to the upper part of the stay, whilst
the outer and free ends d, of both halves of the clip are pierced at d³, and where-
through a headed screw pin e, having a fly nut e¹, taking upon one end of it,
passes.
If necessary both of the straps or halves of the clip may be hinged, instead of
one being fixed, and in Figure 5, one end of the screw pin e, is jointed at e³, to the
free end d', of the straps d', whilst the free end d', of the strap d², is slotted or
gapped at, wherethrough the pin laterally passes and wherein the inner side of
the fly nut engages.
Figure 6 represents a modified form of my invention and Figure 7 represents a
further form of clip.
In the arrangement of carrier cruet, Figure 6, a is the frame, with a handle a',
a jointed collar clip d and shallow bottom c, and with the absorbent material f,
placed between the neck of the bottle and the inside of the collar enclosing clip d,
so that liquid dripping or trickling down the neck of the bottle from the lip is
intercepted and absorbed by the felt band f.
In Figure 7, the collar clip d is made in the form of spring side straps d¹, d²,
having free and spring terminations d'
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. A condiment-bottle holder or carrier cruet, consisting of a back stay
frame, having a handle, and being fitted, at its upper part, with a collar clip, or a
corrugated collar clip, and at the lower part, with a cupped or tray-like holder or
rest, upon the bottom or topside of which, a layer of felt or other material rests,
substantially as and for the purpose described and set forth.
Secondly. In condiment-bottle holders or carrier cruets, making the collar clips
corrugated or undulatory, or with gripping contacts arranged at opposite points,
whereby varying sized bottles, within certain limits, can be firmly held, sub-
stantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 30th day of October 1894.
WILLIAM HOVENDON COURTENAY,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.