An Improved Bottle Socket or Stand for Bars and similar Places.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 12th July, 1889-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bottle Socket or Stand for Bars and similar Places.
1, LOUIS MAIGNEN, of 65 Great Tower Street, in the City of London, Brandy
merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved socket or stand to hold a bottle, bottles or
other vessel, and glasses or measures upon bars or similar places where liquids are
frequently drawn and consists of an article, simple in design and cheap of construction,
to support the said bottle, bottles or vessel fitted with a tap, and the glasses and
measures to be filled therefrom, and at the same time to provide drainage into an
internal chamber or reservoir for the sake of cleanliness in use and to save the
drippings or overflow of the liquids upon the said bar or counter.
It has lately become a custom to employ large bottles of glass, stone or other ware,
containing spirit or other liquids with taps fitted in the lower side of the bottles or
vessel to withdraw the liquid direct from the bottle into glasses or measures for the
customers at bars and similar places, and it is the object of my invention to provide
an economical, cleanly, and convenient stand for the support of such bottle, bottles
or vessel and glasses or measures which at the same time shall collect and save the
overflow or leakage of the liquid.
To carry out my invention, I form a support conveniently of porcelain, ceramic
ware, or other convenient material, hollow as to the interior, and with two terraces,
the upper one forming a socket and internal flange to receive the base of the bottle
or vessel, and the lower one a shelf or terrace to form a suitable stand for glasses or
measures, and provide suitable drainage from this intermediate terrace by apertures
through the wall of the stand to the interior reservoir or reservoirs.
1 prefer to use a circular form of support as most simple and convenient for the
purpose, with the terrace or shelf for the glasses extending all round. I form a large
aperture through the crown of the stand giving access to the hollow interior, and
leaving merely a ledge all round for the support of the bottle, such aperture
facilitating the construction of the stand and permitting the internal reservoir to be
emptied when desired. I may fix a plug or tap at the bottom or side of the reservoir
to empty out tho waste liquid collected.
I may conveniently enlarge this circular form to receive a ring of bottles and
centre cask, or may make one or two sides of the stand vertical and flat, so as to stand
against a wall or in a square corner, or to be capable of fitting side by side to form
any combined stand of several single stands.
I may fit the upper and lower ledge upon which the bottle and glasses stand, with
india rubber, or other elastic or suitable material, to give a secure footing and grip
to the bottle thereon, to prevent the breaking of glasses, and also to prevent their
rattling upon their supports. I may provide a notch or projection upon the stand
fitting into a recess upon the bottles to give them extra security.
Dated this 12th day of September 1888.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bottle Socket or Stand for Bars and similar Places.
I, LOUIS MAIGNEN, of 65 Great Tower Street, in the City of London, Brandy
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention relates to an improved socket or stand to hold a bottle, bottles, or other
vessels and glasses or measures upon bars or similar places where liquids are frequently
drawn, and consists of a pedestal, simple in design and cheap in construction, to
support the said bottle, bottles, or vessels fitted with a tap and the glasses or measures
to be filled therefrom, and at the same time to provide drainage into an interior
chamber or reservoir for the sake of cleanliness in use and also to save the drippings
or overflow of the liquid upon the said bar or counter.
It has lately become a custom to employ large bottles of glass, stone or other ware
containing spirit or other liquids, with taps fitted into the lower side of the bottles or
vessels in order to withdraw the liquid direct from the bottle, into glasses or measures,
for customers at bars and similar places; and the cbject of my invention is to provide
an economical, cleanly and convenient stand for the support of such bottle, bottles, or
vessels, and the glasses and measures; which shall at the same collect and save the
overflow or leakage of the liquid.
I do not confine myself to any particular shape but in the case of a pedestal for a
single bottle I prefer to make it circular; or I may use a large circular pedestal so
as to support three or more large bottles and glasses and measures; or, again the
pedestal may be made in order to fit against a flat wall or in a corner.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to describe
the same in relation to the drawings hereunto annexed, reference being had to the
letters and figures marked thereon. Like letters refer to like parts throughout the
drawings.
Figure 1 is a sectional view of my invention when used for one bottle showing the
shelf upon which the glasses or measures rest.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Figure 3 shows in plan a pedestal arranged to fit against a flat wall.
Figure 4 shows in plan a large circular pedestal supporting three bottles.
Figure 5 shows an elevation of the pedestal so constructed as to fit into a
corner.
Figure 6 is a plan of the same.
In order to carry out my invention I form, a support or pedestal A conveniently
of porcelain, ceramic ware, or other convenient material, having two shelves or
terraces B and C, the upper one B having an internal flange and a side projection
which forms a socket so as to receive the base of the bottle or vessel D. The lower
terrace C stands out further than the upper one so that glasses or measures K which
may be standing on it can be so placed as to receive the liquor or spirit direct from
the tap when being drawn. The pedestal is hollow in the centre which forms a
suitable receptacle E into which all the liquor or spirit that overflows or is spilt upon
the terrace C runs by a small passage F. When using only one bottle, I prefer to
construct the pedestal, in a circular form as shown in figures 1 and 2 but I may also
construct it of a circular form when using two or more bottles as shown in figure 4.
When using a number of these bottles, the terrace C is divided into the same number
of divisions as there are bottles, and the reservoir within is also divided in the same
proportion, so that the spirit overflowing or leaking from the various bottles used
upon the same pedestal will be collected in the respective reservoirs beneath such
bottles. The hole in the top of the pedestal I make of as large a diameter as possible
in order to facilitate the manufacture and construction of the pedestal. It may some-
times be necessary to have the stand of a considerable length, in which case I
construct it of the section as shown in figure 1 and of any length desired, dividing

page_text: up the terraces and reservoirs into such a number of divisions as there are bottles, I
may also construct the single bottle pedestals of such a shape that a number may be
capable of fitting side by side in order to form any combination of several stands.
In any convenient part of the reservoir EI fix a plug or tap G in order to with-
draw the waste liquids collected in the reservoir. Or I may dispense with a tap in
the case of the single pedestal by removing the bottles and glasses and measures from
the terraces and emptying its contents through the hole in the top by inverting it.
In order to ensure that the bottles and glasses have a secure footing and grip I
use pads of india-rubber or other elastic or similar material upon the terraces so as to
prevent the breaking of glasses when knocked over and also to obviate rattling
which might occur from the vibration of the glasses upon a pedestal of porcelain or
ceramic ware.
Figures 3, 5 and 6 show convenient methods of applying my invention where the
pedestal may be required to stand against a flat wall as shown in figure 3 or to occupy
a corner as shown in figures 5 and 6.
The divisions on the terraces are effected by ribs H and the divisions of the
reservoirs by ribs J. The taps G for withdrawing the waste liquid from the reservoirs
are arranged at any convenient points.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. A bottle stand or pedestal which shall have 2 or more terraces or shelves, the
uppermost terrace or shelf supporting the bottle or bottles each bottle being provided
with a tap, the lower terrace, terraces, or shelves being used for glasses, measures or
other receptacles to stand upon, the interior of the pedestal or stand forming a
reservoir or reservoirs into which will drain any waste liquid that may leak from the
aforesaid bottle or bottles or which may be spilt from the glass, glasses or vessels
standing on the lower terraces substantially as set forth.
2nd. In combination with such a stand or pedestal the use of pads or mats of india-
rubber or other suitable material upon the various terraces or shelves substantially as
and for the purposes described.
Dated this 19th da of Tul. 1000
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.