IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR CABINETS FOR LIQUEUR BOTTLES AND GLASSES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Middleton Chapman, of the Firm of O. Chapman
and Son, of Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CASES OR CABINETS FOR LIQUEUR BOTTLES AND GLASSES."
Sealed the 21st July 1871, and dated the 25th January 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Middleton Chapman at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 25th January 1871.
I, MIDDLETON CHAPMAN, of the Firm of O. Chapman and Son, of
Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR CABINETS FOR LIQUEUR BOTTLES AND GLASSES," to
be as follows:-
My Invention has special reference to those cases or cabinets which
have wings, such wings when closed forming the front of the case or
cabinet.

page_text: The liqueur bottles have usually occupied compartments in the body
of the case or cabinet, while the glasses have been placed in or on
suitable holders on the wings.
Now the first part of my Invention consists in providing the case or
cabinet with shelves or other holders, which are attached to the false
front of the case or cabinet. Some of the glasses are thus carried by
the wings and some by the shelves on the false front, and an elegant
appearance is given to the case or cabinet. The shelves. or holders on
the wings and on the false front are made of serpentine or similar form,
so as to fit one into the other when the wings are closed in; it is thus
impossible for the glasses to become loose or fall out.
My Invention further consists of improved means for preventing the
glasses falling out of their holders when the case is open or is being
opened. The shelves are usually formed with horizontal recesses to
receive the feet of the glasses and with slots to receive the stems. My
improvement consists in making a grooye at the bottom of these recesses,
and in letting into the groove a ring or pad of india-rubber or other
suitable yielding or soft material which projects above the groove. When
the glasses are in place these rings or pads assist in retaining them.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Middleton Chapman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MIDDLETON
CHAPMAN, of the Firm of O. Chapman and Son, of Charterhouse Build-
ings, Goswell Road, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturers, send 2
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give 3
and grant unto me, the said Middleton Chapman, Her special licence
that I, the said Middleton Chapman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Middleton Chapman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
"

page_text: 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CASES OR CABINETS FOR LIQUEUR BOTTLES AND GLASSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Middleton Chapman, 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 per-
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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Middleton Chapman, 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 thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, that is to say:-
My Invention has special reference to those cases or cabinets which
have wings, such wings when closed forming the front of the case or
cabinet.
The liqueur bottles have usually occupied compartments in the body
of the case or cabinet, while the glasses have been placed in or on
suitable holders on the wings.
- Now the first part of my Invention consist in providing the case or
cabinet with shelves or other holders which are attached to the false
front of the case or cabinet. Some of the glasses are thus carried by
the wings and some by the shelves on the false. front, and an elegant
appearance is given to the case or cabinet. The shelves or holders on
the wings and on the false front are made of serpentine or similar form,
so as to fit one into the other when the wings are closed in; it is thus
impossible for the glasses to become loose or fall out.
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Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings is a perspective view of a case or
cabinet constructed according to my Invention. a, a, is the body of the
case, and 6 is the false front; c, c, are the compartments behind the false
front to contain the bottles; d, d, are the wings, which are hinged to the
sides, as shown, and which when closed form the front of the case; e, e,
are shelves or holders on the wings, and f, f, are other shelves or holders
°

page_text: on the false front. These shelves e and fare for the purpose of holding
the glasses, and they are made of serpentine form, as shown, so that
when the wings are closed the shelves e fit into the shelves f.
My Invention further consists of improved means of preventing the
glasses falling out of their holders when the case is open or is being
opened. The shelves are usually formed with horizontal recesses y
to receive the feet of the glasses, and with slots h to receive the
stems, as will be seen more clearly in the detached views, Figures 2
and 3. My improvement consists in making a groove at the bottom of
these recesses, and in letting into the groove a ring or pad of india-
rubber or other suitable yielding or soft material, which projects above
the groove. When the glasses are in place these rings or pads assist in
retaining them; or in place of the groove and ring or pad at the bottom
of the recesses g I have in practice found it preferable to let small india-
rubber tubes into grooves in the top of the recesses for the same
purpose, as seen in the Figures.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
improvements in cases or cabinets for liqueur bottles and glasses,-
First. Forming shelves or holders for glasses on the false front, as
well as on the wings, and making the said shelves or holders on the
wings fit when closed into those on the false front, substantially as
hercin-before described.
Second. Providing means substantially as herein-before described for
preventing the glasses falling out of their holders.
In witness whereof, I, the said Middleton Chapman, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of July, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.