IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH FRAMES OR STANDS FOR BOTTLES OR RECEPTACLES FOR LIQUIDS, SCENTS, JAMS, JELLIES, OR PICKIES ALSO FOR BISCUITS AND THE LIKE. OR FOR CIGARS OR TOBACCO,
Year: 1881

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LETTERS PATENT to George Green, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN OR CONNECTED WITH FRAMES OR
STANDS FOR BOTTLES OR RECEPTACLES FOR LIQUIDS, SCENTS, JAMS, JELLIES,
OR PICKIES ALSO FOR BISCUITS AND THE LIKE. OR FOR CIGARS OR TOBACCO,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Green at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th August 1881.
GEORGE GREEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR CONNECTED WITH FRAMES OR STANDS FOR BOTTLES OR RECEPTACLES FOR
LIQUIDS, SCENTS, JAMS, JELLIES, OR PICKLES, ALSO FOR BISCUITS AND THE LIKE,
OR FOR CIGARS OR TOBACCO, OR OTHER PORTABLE TABLE ARTICLES."
This Invention relates to an improved construction of frame or stand for bottles
or other receptacles for liquids, scents, jams, jellies, or pickles, also for biscuits and
the like, or for cigars or tobacco, or for other portable table articles, such as are
usually handed about at meal or other times, whereby the holders containing the
bottles or receptacles are caused to revolve or turn on their centres without the
bottles or receptacles being moved from their places or positions in the frame or
stand, and so that the same may be enclosed and locked up when not in use.
The Invention consists essentially in making the frame or stand with a central
upright rod, on the top of which is a handle or ring, and the bottom end of the rod
is fixed in the centre of a cog wheel, which is conveniently arranged underneath
the bottom of the frame or stand; this central cog wheel engages with other cog
wheels surrounding it, which are fitted underneath the holders or cases for the
bottles, the number of these surrounding cog wheels being according to the number
of the holders or cases the frame or stand is made for. Or instead of cog wheels
plain metal or wood wheels may be used with an elastic or other band placed on
the outside wheels to create a friction on the central wheel, and so cause it to turn,
or other suitable means may be employed to impart, by turning the rod, revolving
motion to the holders or cases.

page_text: The holders or cases are so made that one half of the holder or case is open, and
the other so much closed that a bottle or other receptacle cannot be taken out
when the frame or stand is locked.
The action of this arrangement of mechanism is that on turning the handle or
ring at the top of the central upright rod the cog or other wheels are set in
motion, and the holders or cases are caused to revolve to the required extent either
to open or close them.
On the top or other convenient part of the frame or stand and adjacent to the
central upright rod a lock (having a removable key) is fitted, so as to lock the rod
and prevent it from turning when it is desired to keep the frame or stand locked
up, to safely keep the contents of the bottles or other receptacles.
It is proposed to make the frames or stands and the holders or cases in all kinds
of metal, or of wood or glass, or of a combination of any one or more of such
materials, and they will be constructed to hold any required number of bottles
or other receptacles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said George Green in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th February
1882.
GEORGE GREEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN OR CONNECTED WITH FRAMES OR STANDS FOR BOTTLES OR RECEPTACLES FOR
LIQUIDS, SCENTS, JAMS, JELLIES, OR PICKLES, ALSO FOR BISCUITS AND THE LIKE,
OR FOR CIGARS OR TOBACCO, OR OTHER PORTABLE TABLE ARTICLES."
The object of this Invention which relates to improvements in or connected with
the construction of frames or stands for bottles or other receptacles for liquids,
scents, jams, jellies, or pickles, or for biscuits and the like, or for cigars or tobacco,
or for other portable table articles, such as are usually handed about at meal or
other times, is to enable the holders containing or supporting the said bottles or
other receptacles being revolved or turned on their centres, or otherwise into such
positions as that the bottles or receptacles cannot be removed from their places or
positions therein, or from the frame or stand, and to enable of them being enclosed
and securely locked in position without possibility of fraudulent removal when not
in use or when required.
In carrying this Invention into practical effect, the frame or stand 1 may be
made of metal or of any desired material, and of any suitable conformation
depending upon the number of bottles or receptacles 2 it is intended to contain.
The example illustrated on the accompanying Drawings is intended to hold three
bottles. The frame 1 is made with a central tube 3 soldered to or otherwise
connecting the upper and lower parts of the frame, and through this tube passes
a rod or spindle 4, which is provided at its top (above the upper part of the
frame) with a ring or other suitably shaped handle 5, and at its lower end (below
the lower part of the frame) with a spur wheel 6, or with a friction wheel, or with
any equivalent means of communicating rotary motion. The holders 7 for
containing the bottles or other receptacles 2 are made with a shallow well 8 at the
bottom, and with a semi-cylindrical enclosure 9 at the top, being quite open
opposite the enclosure 9, and the parts 8 and 9 are connected by vertical
supports 10.
The holders are arranged in the frame or stand in such as that
they can be partly revolved or turned therein by means of the rod 4 and its
gearing 6, each being provided with two centres or centre pins 11, the upper
one of which may be simply screwed through the upper part of the frame into a
semicircular disc 12 at the top of the enclosure 9 of the holder, and the lower one
of which projects from the bottom of the well 8 through the lower part of the
frame, and is thereunder fitted with a spur wheel 13, or with a frictional wheel, or
with any equivalent means of receiving rotary motion, the whole number of
wheels 13 gearing with the central wheel 6, so that as the rod or spindle 4 is
turned or actuated, the position of the holders 7 can be altered and determined at
will, and either so as to fully expose the bottles for removal, or so as by turning the
partly closed side outwards to prevent the bottles from being removed, the positions
of the holders being determined by stops 15 preferably carried by the upper part
of the stand or frame, and against which the diametrical edge of the semicircular
disc 12 catches in each of the two positions of the holders.
The enclosures 9 may be plain or ornamental and only of such an extent as will
attain the desired object, and will when turned outwards in conjunction with the
well 8 prevent the bottles from being removed.
It will of course be understood that the gearing 6-13 may be otherwise arranged
than as hereinbefore described, and it may be at the upper part of the frame or
otherwise conveniently arranged, its exact position not being material to my
Invention.

page_text: At the upper or other convenient part of the frame or stand and adjacent to the
central rod or spindle 4 a lock 14 (provided with a removable key) is fitted in such
a position as that the bolt may be shot across or against.a flattened side of the
spindle 4, so as when required to prevent the rod from being fraudulently turned
when the holders are locked. Fig. 1 is a plan view with the holders shown in
different positions; Figure 2 is a sectional plan; and Fig. 3, an elevation of the
above described arrangement.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that what I claim as the Invention
secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The construction of frames or stands of the nature herein before referred to with
the bottle or other holders made with a bottom well and with an upper semi-
cylindrical enclosure, or in any equivalent manner, and so centred or arranged in
the said frames or stands as that they can be partly revolved or turned about their
respective centres by means of gearing operated by a common or central spindle, or
in any equivalent manner, into such positions as that the enclosed bottles or other
receptacles cannot be removed, and in which positions they can be locked by any
suitably locking contrivance, or can when unlocked be turned into such positions
as that the bottles or other receptacles can be at once removed, substantially as
herein before described and as illustrated on the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Green, have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty-two.