Improvements in the Manufacture of Plates for Cruet Frames or Stands for Holding Bottles, Jars, or Receptacles for Sauces, Liquors, Scents, Pickles, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 15th Oct., 189
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Plates for Cruet Frames or
Stands for Holding Bottles, Jars, or Receptacles for Sauces,
Liquors, Scents, Pickles, and the like.
1 JAMES FREDERICK HOMER of Reliance Works Cecil Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Manufacturer of Cruet Frames do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:—
By a simple arrangement whereby I cover the surface of an ordinary board or
blank with zinc or other metal, fixing the board, or blank and the metal covering
firmly together by a band or bands turned over the edge or edges of the board or
blank I produce the appearance of a solid slab of metal. This slab I use for the
top or bottom plates of cruet or similar stands.
By this new arrangement combine strength with lightness and cheapness
of production.
I claim this combination and the application thereof to cruet frames and stands
similar thereto. I do not claim any of the separate parts thereof.
Dated this 21st day of July 1892.
JAMES F. HOMER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Plates for Cruet Frames or
Stands for Holding Bottles, Jars, or Receptacles for Sauces,
Liquors, Scents, Pickles, and the like.
I JAMES FREDERICK HOMER of Reliance Works Cecil Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Manufacturer of Cruet Frames 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 :--
A new arrangement for securing lightness with strength, and for saving metal
and cost in the manufacture of plates or parts used for cruet frames and similar
articles.
By my invention I produce the appearance of a solid slab of metal minus its
weight using metal of a much lower guage than has been necessary hitherto.
The manner of performing and applying my invention is as follows,-
I take an ordinary piece of wood, papier machie, wood pulp, iron or other
material of which I form a blank or plate either oval, round, square, or any other
shape. I cover the same either on its upper or lower surface, or both, with a
sheet or sheets of inetal which may be silver, nickel, brass, zinc, or other metal.
I secure the said sheet or sheets of metal to the blank or plate either by means of
a band or bands turned over the edge or edges (Figs. 1 & 2, a b c) or else by
simply turning the metal sheet itself over the edge of the blank (Fig. 3).
The slabs thus produced I use for top and bottom plates of cruet frames or
stands similar thereto, as shown in drawing Fig. 1, d. e. The said slabs may be
plain on the edge (a) or moulded (4) or otherwise ornamented; or a single plate
may be so shaped as to form the body of the stand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and the manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is,-
The combination of blanks of inferior material with metal coverings, as part

page_text: or parts of cruet frames or stands similar thereto, such as inkstands, liquor frames,
:scent stands and the like.
I do not claim any of the separate parts specified.
Dated this 13th day of September 1892.
JAMES F. HOMER,
Applicant.