A Device for Holding Bottles, Jars, Glasses, and other articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th June, 1893-Accepted, 15th July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Device for Holding Bottles, Jars, Glasses, and other articles.
I, JOHANNES MAXIMILIAN LICHTENBERGER, of 280, Markt, Leisnig, in the
German Empire, Apothecary, 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 a device principally intended for holding bottles, jars,
glasses or other articles in order to facilitate their transport by rail or ship.
The device comprises gripping or clamping springs arranged equidistantly and
adapted to retain the article in position; thus rendering it unliable to be broken
during transit. The springs are in the form of bands or arms of sheet steel or
other metal bent into a shape suitable for gripping the bottle or other article.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device containing a bottle.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the springs and their support.
Fig. 3 is a corresponding plan.
In the preferred way of carrying out the invention, the holding device comprises
three bands or flat springs s of steel, bent in such a manner as to fit the shape of
the bottle or article to be packed, and rivetted to a bed or support b, preferably
stamped out of sheet iron. The bed b is screwed to the lid or cover of the packing
case e. Thus each bottle or article is located in a separate small case, and
completely separated from the other bottles or articles. In order that the bottle or
article may be still better protected from shocks produced by rough handling of
the case in loading or unloading, there may be interposed, between the lower part
of the bottle or article and the metal bed b, a washer a of india-rubber, leather,
cork or other suitable material. The insertion and the removal of the bottle or
article are extremely easy, it being only necessary to force the arms or springs s
apart sufficiently far to receive or release the same.
This device offers the important advantage of enabling ordinary packing material
to be dispensed with.
The improved holder may also be employed in putting away bottles, jars, glasses
and the like in cupboards or side-boards, in which case it is screwed to the wall of
the cupboard or side-board in such a position as to permit the bottles or other
articles to be readily put in place or removed. Where the articles or vessels are
of polygonal or other shape, the number of flat springs may be correspondingly
increased, so as in all cases to provide the desired holding power.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
A holder for bottles, jars, glasses and other articles comprising resilient bands
or arms (s) of sheet metal rivetted to a bed or support (b) and capable, owing to
their elastic nature and their shape, of securely retaining the bottle or other
article in position, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 12th day of June 1893.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.