IMPROVEMENTS IN BINS OR RECEPTACLES FOR WINE AND OTHER BOTTLES
Year: 1885

page_text: We, WALTER BEEKEN BURROW, and JOHN SEVERN BURROW, Manufacturers of
Iron Wine Bins, and THOMAS SMITH, Clerk, all of 15, Seething Lane, in the City
of London, do hereby declare the nature of our Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BINS OR RECEPTACLES FOR WINE AND OTHER BOTTLES," 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 certain improvements in bins or receptacles for
wine and other bottles, the improvements having been devised with the objects
of improving, simplifying, and cheapening the construction of such bins, and
economising space.
The improvements are especially applicable to, and are improvements upon that
class of iron bins known as the "Slider" Wine Bins, in using which the bottles are
taken by their necks, rested upon horizontal bars or equivalently disposed parts
arranged from front to back of the bin in the direction of the length of the bottles,
and simply slid into and from their places, as distinguished from lifting or
otherwise placing or removing them in and from the bin, and which in iron bins of
ordinary make causes an amount of breakage and loss which it is most desirable to
avoid.
In such bins as hitherto constructed, a series of parallel horizontal bars or
equivalent parts arranged from front to back of the bin and upon which the bottles
are rested and slid along, have been supported by front and rear upright bars
which are retained in position by a circumscribing framing, not conforming to the
shape of the bottles.
The present Invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings, in Fig; 1,
to, 9, of which Figs; 1, and, 2, represent respectively a front elevation and plan
view of one modification; Fig; 3, is a perspective view thereof more clearly
representing the improved construction.
Figs; 4, and, 5, represent similar views to Figs; 1, and, 2, but of another
modification, Fig; 6, representing a perspective view thereof, and
Figs; 7, 8, and, 9, represent respectively a front and a side elevation and a plan
view of a further modification.

page_text: In carrying out the present improvements, we dispense with the said front and
rear upright bars by which the said parallel and horizontal rester-bars have been
supported as hitherto, and in lieu thereof, according to the modification illustrated
in Figs; 1, to, 3, we construct front and rear framings (and one or more
intermediate framings if the bin is to be made of a depth sufficient to require it or
them) by enclosing within an outer framing, 1, a series of circular, hexagonal or
analogous shaped hoop iron frames, rings, or bands, 2, (preferably one as a receiving
aperture for each bottle,) and which at their adjacent parts (though not necessarily
all thereof) are rivetted or otherwise suitably fastened together, as at, 3, and to the
surrounding framing, 1, as at, 4.
The rings are preferably placed in such a manner as that the bottles of the
successive tiers of bottles, 5, do not lie direct over those next beneath them, but
intermediate thereof or between the adjacent bottles of the row beneath in the
manner clearly illustrated in Fig; 1, whereby we economise space, and are enabled
to get a greater number of tiers of bottles in a given vertical height of bin. We
do not debar ourselves, however, from so arranging the rings as that the bottles
will be supported directly over each other. In the former case, each ring, 2, would
be in contact with six surrounding rings, and in the latter case, each ring would be
in contact with but four surrounding rings.
The resters or horizontal bars, 6, upon which the bottles are rested and slid aro
preferably made of narrow flat iron bars, and are rivetted to the rings of the front
and rear frames preferably in the positions indicated, so that they will support the
bottles without liability of the latter rocking from side to side.
When the bin is made of a depth from front to back sufficient to require any
intermediate frame, such as when made three or four bottles deep, vide Figs; 8,
and, 9, one or more frames, 1, of a similar or analogous formation to that or those
herein described is or are placed intermediately of or between the front and rear
frames, 1, and the bars or resters, 6, are rivetted thereto in like manner.
Other bars, 7, of a usual kind may also be adapted to the sides or other parts of
the frame for facility of fixing the bin to a wall if required.
In the modification represented in Figs; 4, to, 6, the rester bars, 6, are supported
upon horizontal front bars, 2, which are rivetted to the opposite uprights of the
front and rear enclosing framings, one or more intermediate frames being used, if
required, as aforesaid.
These arrangements may be further modified and in a measure combined by
forming the supports, 2, of a waved or corrugated formation of about the
curvilinear formation the adjacent parts of the rings, 2, give, and securing such
corrugated or waved supports to the said frames. Or front and back, or front,
intermediate and back frames constructed according to the various modifications
described may be combined and used in the construction of the same bin.
A development of the foregoing modifications is represented in Figs; 7, 8,
and, 9, as adapted to a bin of a larger formation more especially suitable for storing
wine in large quantities and wholesale use. In such bins as hitherto constructed
the bottles have been supported directly above each other upon or by wooden
laths, series of transverse T-irons supporting sheet iron shelves being interposed at
suitable intervals and carried by side frames, and each layer of laths resting
directly upon the bottles of the rows beneath and supporting an upper row of
bottles.
But, according to the modification of the Invention now being described, we
adapt to the bin in lieu of the said sheet iron shelves, and at preferably every
fourth tier of bottles if the bin be of the dimensions illustrated, a slider grid, 6,
preferably composed of one continuous wire or wire rod, and which may be rivetted,
wired or otherwise suitably secured to the bearing bars, 9, if necessary, and use in
combination therewith in lieu of the said wooden laths, thin removable laths, 2,
preferably made of hoop iron, or they may be made of other suitable material, and
of a wavy or corrugated formation interposing such laths between each tier of
bottles, and the use of which permits of the bottles being placed thereupon in the

page_text: manner hereinbefore referred to and illustrated in Fig; 1, and by which improved
arrangement, as aforesaid, considerable economy in vertical space is attained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and objects of our
said Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim, is
In iron bins or receptacles for wine and other bottles of the kind or class herein-
before referred to
1. The combination with parallel horizontal rester-bars or equivalently disposed
parts or sliders running from front to back of the bin of front and rear frames (and
of one or more intermediate frames, if necessary) each formed of a series of hoop
iron rings or bands of a circular, hexagonal or analogous formation, enclosed within
a circumscribing framing, and rivetted at adjacent parts, and directly supporting
the said rester or slider-bars, and the whole being arranged substantially in the
manner herein before described with reference to Figs; 1, to, 3, of the accompanying
drawings.
2. The like combination of slider-bars and supporting frames, but in which the
supporting frames carry, and the rester or slider-bars are supported upon or by,
transverse horizontal bearer-bars of a straight, or wavy, corrugated or curvilinear
formation, substantially as herein before described with reference to Figs; 4 to 6, of
the accompanying drawings.
3. The like combination of slider-bars and supporting frames, but in which the
front and back, or front, intermediate and back supporting frames may be of
different formation and of any combination or combinations of the various modified
forms of construction herein before described and claimed.
4. The combination with a framing of the character heretofore used, of slider
grids preferably composed of one continuous wire or wire rod suitably secured to
the framing in lieu of the usual sheet iron shelves, and of removable thin hoop iron
or other rester laths of a wavy, corrugated, or curvilinear formation, substantially
as hereinbefore described with reference to Figs; 7, 8, and, 9, of the accompanying
drawings.