AN IMPROVED PORTABLE_BOTTLE HOLDER
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Newton Mappin, of the Firm of Mappin
and Webb, of Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, for the
T
CAT ROME HOLDER "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Newton.Mappin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 20th June 1874.
I, JOHN NEWTON MAPPIN, of the Firm of Mappin and Webb, of
Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE_BOTTLE HOLDER,"
to be as follows:-
The Invention is designed for the purpose of providing wine bottles
with an adjustible self-clasping support and handle, which will enable
wine or other liquor to be poured therefrom without the hands of the
person using the same coming into contact with the bottle.
The improvements consist in constructing a tray or platform upon
which the bottle is to stand in duplicate halves, joined together by a

page_text: hinge in front and a projecting vertical handle behind.
This handle is
split, so that each portion of the tray when separated has its own
projecting half handle, the upper curved terminations of which are
provided with a semicircular clip joined by a hinge in front. The
position of this clip in relation to the lower tray is such that when a
bottle is inserted between the opened split handle so as to rest upon the
tray, and the handle is closed, the semicircular clip will embrace the
sloping shoulder of the bottle. The combined support thus given to
the bottle enables any person taking hold of the closed handle to lift
the same, and pour the liquor therefrom with facility 'without soiling
hand or glove.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Newton Mappin in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th December 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM: THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Jonn
NEWTON MAPPIN, of the Firm of Mappin and Webb, of Queen Victoria
Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Newton Mappin, Her special
licence that I, the said John Newton Mappin, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Newton Mappin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
PORTABLE BOTTLE HOLDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Newton Mappin, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within

page_text: Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Newton Mappin, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to
say :→
The Invention is designed for the purpose of providing wine bottles
with an adjustable self-clasping support and handle which will enable
wine or other liquor to be poured therefrom without the hands of the
person using the same coming in contact with the bottle.
The improvements consist in constructing a tray or platform upon
which the bottle is to stand in duplicate halves joined together by a
hinge in front and a projecting vertical handle behind. This handle is
split, so that each portion of the tray when separated has its own pro-
jecting half handle, the upper curved terminations of which are provided
with a semicircular clip joined by a hinge in front. The position of
this clip in relation to the lower tray is such that when a bottle is
inserted between the split handle when opened so as to rest upon the
tray, and the handle closed, the semicircular clip will embrace the
sloping shoulder of the bottle, and so securely retain the same.
In order that the Invention may be better understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings made about two-
thirds of the full size, similar letters of reference being marked on cor-
responding parts on the Figures.

page_text: tray a, a, at which time the split handle b, b, is brought together, and
the bottle is firmly retained by reason of the clip c and tray a securing
it well between them. The combined support thus given to the bottle
enables any person taking hold of the closed handles (as seen at Fig. 2)
to lift the same and pour the liquor therefrom with facility without
soiling hand or glove.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be
understood in conclusion that I claim, the novel and peculiar construc-
tion, employment, and use of a portable bottle holder capable of receiving
the bottle and retaining the same in the manner and for the purpose as
herein-before described, set forth, and fully illustrated in the Drawings
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Newton Mappin, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of December, in
Witness,
JOHN NEWTON MAPPIN. (L.S.)
ALEX. C. M. PRINCE,
Office for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
London.