AN IMPROVED LIQUEUR FRAME OR STAND FOR CONTAINING LIQUEUR AND OTHER BOTTLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Rhodes, of Freedom Road, Freedom
Terrace, Sheffield, in the County of York, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED LIQUEUR FRAME OR STAND FOR CONTAINING LIQUEUR AND OTHER
BOTTLES."
Sealed the 1st April 1873, and dated the 31st January 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Rhodes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 31st January 1873.
I, JOHN HENRY RHODES, of Freedom Road, Freedom Terrace,
Sheffield, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVED LIQUEUR FRAME OR STAND FOR CONTAINING
LIQUEUR AND OTHER BOTTLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improved liqueur frame or stand
for containing liqueur and other bottles. For this purpose I form a
frame having a number of standards, and between each pair of standards
is a cradle with a base or plate upon which a bottle can stand. This
base or plate is suspended by two side arms from axes carried by the
standards, and to the arms a ring is attached for retaining the bottle in
its place. The side arms are continued upwards above the axes and are
connected together, being arched over the top of the bottle they form

page_text: handles by means of which the inclination of the bottles can be con-
trolled when pouring out their contents. A frame may be constructed
on this method to take a single bottle or for a series of bottles one by
the side of the other. The frame and cradles may be made according
to various ornamental designs without departing from the nature of the 5
Invention.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Henry Rhodes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 31st July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John 1
HENRY RHODES, of Freedom Road, Freedom Terrace, Sheffield, in tho
County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in 1
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Henry Rhodes,
Her special license that I, the said John Henry Rhodes, ny
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Henry Rhodes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should 2
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, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Islc
of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED LIQUEUR FRAME OR STAND FOR 2
CONTAINING LIQUEUR AND OTHER BOTTLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Henry Rhodes, my exccutors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain the naturo
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be pcr- 3
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
"

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
⚫ This Invention has for its object an improved liqueur frame or stand
for containing liqueur and other bottles. For this purpose I form a
frame having a number of standards, and between each pair of standards
is a cradle with a base or plate upon which a bottle can stand. This
base or plate is suspended by two side arms from axes carried by the
standards, and to the arms a ring is attached for retaining the bottle in
its place. The side arms are continued upwards above the axes and arc
connected together, being arched over the top of the bottle they form
handles by means of which the inclination of the bottles can be con-
trolled when pouring out their contents. A frame may be constructed
on this method to take a single bottle or for a series of bottles one by
the side of the other. The frame and cradles may be made according
to various ornamental designs without departing from the nature of the
Invention.
In the annexed Drawing Figure 1 represents a liqueur frame or stand
for liqueur bottles constructed according to my Invention. a is a frame
with standards a¹; b, b, are cradles mounted between the standards, each
having a base or plate 6' upon which a bottle c can stand; *, 62, are side
arms having thic axes & which rest upon the standards upon them. The
bases or plates 6' are suspended from the side arms and the upper parts
of the side arms are arched over the bottles and form handles, as is
shewn; 63, 63, arc rings for retaining the bottles in their places upon the
bases or plates &¹.
Dases of plates
Figure 2 is a frame for holding a single bottle.
What I claim is the construction of an improved liqueur frame or
stand, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Rhodes, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.