Improvements in Boxes for Holding Aërated Waters and other Liquors.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Holding Aërated Waters and other Liquors.
We, DAN RYLANDS, of Shepcote House, near Barnsley, England, Manufacturer,
and JAMES CUTHBUT, of 120 South Street, Perth, North Britain, Grocer and
Aërated Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
As the boxes at present in use for holding aërated waters cannot easily be
cleaned, by frequent use they soon collect a great quantity of foreign matter, and
the months of the bottles get filled with this, and when opened the dirt gets mixed
with the water. Now our invention is to get over this difficulty, and it consists in
making the bottom of the box moveable so as to slide out and in on the principle
of a drawer, in order that it may be taken out and washed whenever so desired. A
spring is provided to keep the bottom of the box in its position, and when it is
required to pull out the bottom of the box with the view of cleaning it, a small rod
or pin acting on the spring and passing through a small hole in the bottom of the
box is pushed in, and so releases the spring, thereby allowing the bottom to be
drawn out.
Dated this 4th day of July 1891.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Holding Aërated Waters and other Liquors.
We, DAN RYLANDS, of Shepcote House, near Barnsley, England, Manufacturer,
and JAMES CUTHBUT, of 120 South Street, Perth, North Britain, Grocer and
Aerated Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
As the boxes at present in use for holding aërated waters cannot easily be cleaned,
by frequent use they soon collect a great quantity of foreign matter and the mouths
of the bottles get filled with this, and when opened the dirt gets mixed with the
water. Now our invention is to get over this difficulty, and it consists in making
the bottom of the box movable so as to slide out and in on the principle of a drawer
in order that it may be taken out and washed whenever so desired. A spring is
provided to keep the bottom of the box in its position.
In order that our invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect we have hereunto appended two explanatory sheets of drawings which we
will now proceed to describe.
Figure is an end view of a box showing one form of a spring for retaining the
movable bottom in its place.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.
Figure 3 is also a longitudinal section with another form of spring.
A is the box, B is the movable bottom of the box which slides out and in in a
similar manner to a drawer, and C is the spring for retaining the sliding bottom in
position.
In Figures 1 and 2 this spring consists of a bent springy piece of metal, one end c'
of which is fixed to the movable bottem B, while the other end e² presses against
the upper side of a small hole a at one end of the box. When it is desired to pull

page_text: out the movable bottom 13 with the view of cleaning it the end e² of the spring is
pressed down by the hand, and the bottom will then slide out.
In Figure 3 one end e¹ of the spring is fixed to the inside of one end of the box.
The other end 2 has a small projection c³ which rests in a groove d on the bottom
of the movable bottom B. When the inovable bottom is to be pulled out the
end with the projection is lifted up by the hand, thus allowing the bottom to
slide out.
Although we have only shown two forms of spring, others might be adopted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is-
In boxes for holding acrated waters and other liquors, the movable bottom B
secured by a spring C of any suitable description operating in the manner and for
the purposes substantially as hereinbefore described and shown on the accompanying
sheets of drawings.
Dated this 5th day of April 1892.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.