IMPROVEMENTS IN DECANTERS, BOTTLES, JUGS, AND JARS, AND IN STANDS OR FRAMES THEREFOR."
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward John Collis at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th February 1881.
EDWARD JOHN COLLIS, of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, Mining
Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN DECANTERS, BOTTLES, JUGS, AND JARS, AND IN
STANDS OR FRAMES THEREFOR."
This Invention relates to decanters, bottles, jugs, and jars, which are to be used
with their respective kinds grouped together as in a cruet or other stand or frame;
and relates also to the stands or frames for receiving such decanters, bottles, jugs,
and jars.
This Invention as it relates to the decanters, bottles, jugs, and jars, consists in
forming the said articles to make up one group, each in a segmental shape on plan,
so that when put together they form a complete solid figure, or with narrow
divisions between them; thus when the solid figure is desired to be cylindrical,
each decanter, bottle, jug, or jar, forms on plan a figure bounded by a segment of a
circle, and two radial lines therefrom converging towards a common centre, the
angle however at which the radial lines would otherwise meet being somewhat
flattened or curved, to allow space for the handle bar hereinafter mentioned. When
the solid figure is desired to be square each article forming the group is square also
or triangular. The necks, which are of the usual description, may be placed on
those parts of the articles which are towards the centre of the group when the
segments forming the group are put together, and the upper parts of the articles
are suitably shaped to join into the necks. (The necks also of other than segmental
decanters, etc., may be placed out of centre for a purpose hereinafter indicated.)
The articles may be provided with handles, the said handles being preferably in
positions radial with the group.
Decanters, bottles, jugs, and jars shaped to group into solid figures as described,
present a very neat and compact appearance when grouped, and are capable of
receiving a continuous pattern around their outer surface forming the circumference
or periphery of the group.
This Invention as it relates to stands or frames for receiving decanters, bottles,
jugs, and jars, refers to the reception of those articles when constructed with the
necks brought near to the centre of the stand or frame, and consists in forming

page_text: suitable recesses in the base of the stand or frame to receive the decanters, bottles,
jugs, or jars, in conjunction with a collar sliding upon the handle bar, the said
collar being automatically pressed up by means of a spiral spring around the said
handle bar, and being capable of being pressed down by hand over the stoppers of
the decanters, bottles, jugs, or jars, and held in such position by a catch or locked
by any suitable locking arrangement attached to the upper part of the handle bar.
When the collar is held down by a catch only, it will serve to keep the decanters and
other articles from accidentally falling out of the frame, but when the collar is locked
down over the stoppers the contents of the decanters, bottles, jugs, or jars cannot
be tampered with. The underside of the collar is curved or otherwise suitably
shaped to fit over the stoppers. The necks of the articles being placed as before
described (and whether the articles are segmentally shaped or otherwise) in positions
near the centre of the group, the projection of the collar from the handle bar in
order to cover the stoppers thereof is comparatively small. The handle bar passes
down the axis of the stand or frame and is fixed to the base thereof, the said
handle-bar and base being the only framing required when my segmental
construction of decanters, bottles, jugs, or jars is used in conjunction with the collar
aforesaid, though divisions may be used if desired to mark off the positions of the
different decanters or other articles.
The collar aforesaid may be pressed down automatically by a spiral spring if
desired (instead of being so pressed up), and be raised by hand and held by a catch
when any of the decanters or other articles are to be moved from the stand
containing them.
The segmental decanters, bottles, jugs, and jars may be used without the collar
aforesaid, and with the necks arranged in any convenient position. In this case
the stand or frame may have a framing around the decanters or other articles in
addition to the recesses in the base of such stand or frame.