AN IMPROVED LOCK UP' SPIRIT OR OTHER LIKE STAND
Year: 1884

page_text: "We CHARLES PEMBROOK and JOHN DINGLEY of No. 43 Hall Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Electro-Plate Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of our invention for "AN IMPROVED LOCK UP' SPIRIT OR OTHER LIKE
STAND" and in what manner the saine is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying
sheet of drawings that is to say :-
Our Invention has for its object an improved "Lock up" stand suitable for such
purposes as spirit bottles cigar box, scent bottles, card boxes or cases and for other
articles requiring to be secured in comparatively open or semi-open positions.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood I have attached
hereunto a sheet of drawings illustrating a stand suitable for the safe deposit of
four square spirit bottles. On reference thereto
Figure 1 will be seen to be a general perspective view about half size of the said
"lock up" stand with the drawers A and B drawn out to their fullest extent.
The drawer A. contains the two divisions 1 and 2 and the drawer B contains the
two divisions 3 and 4 all the divisions being for square bottles. The bottles
are removed from the drawers and placed back again while they are out to their
full extent as shewn and for ease of removal the corners c and d, e and fare slightly
rounded to allow each bottle to be slightly tilted outwardly. When the draws
are slid into their closed position in the manner hereafter to be explained and
which is an important part of our invention the stoppers or tops of the said bottles
are wedged against hollowed tapered blocks or blocks fitted under the top or
entablature of the stand.
The
Now our drawers are operated in the following manner which I will explain by
reference to Figure 2 which is a full sized view of the quadrant the Figure 1 being
half size and also to Figure 3 which is a section on dotted line on Figure 2.
handle K is a lock handle which is self fastening in one position viz: when the
drawers are right home into their closed position. This handle K is fast upon the
vertical spindle M which is securely fastened to the double quadrant N and N' and
it projects through sufficiently to form the pivot M in the socket P which is
secured into the bottom of the stand, the spindlo M itself being finally fastened and
secured by the nut R or other sufficient device. These are also the two pins & and
8 and friction rollers t and t¹ secured to the bottom V of the drawer A and bottom
W of draw B.

page_text: Now the action of closing the drawers is as follows: The handle K being turned
to the left the slots Y and Z gradually draw the drawers inwards until they meet
together at the centre and the self-acting lock snaps into its locked position when
the stand is secured and the spindle cannot be turned until the key is placed in the
hole J and unlocked.
It will be readily understood that more than two drawers could be operated
upon the same principle and just as effectively as the two. It will also be seen
that in adopting the stand to cigars or cards or other similar uses the under part of
the entablature would be made in accordance with the height of the drawers so that
the contents could not be taken out until the drawers were opened. The design
may be of course varied to any extent such for instance as a total change in the
pillars to brass or ivory or china.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
The Improved Lock up Spirit or other Stand operated by a spindle and quad-
rant or quadrants to open and shut the drawers or doors substantially as herein
set forth.