An Improvement or Improvements in Lock Up Liquor Bottle Frames or Stands and other like Frames or Stands.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 2nd Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 3rd May, 1887.
An Improvement or Improvements in Lock Up Liquor Bottle Frames
or Stands and other like Frames or Stands..
I, JAMES BALLENY ELKINGTON of the firm of Elkington and Company of Newhall
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Silversmiths Electro Platers and Art
Metal Workers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
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My invention consists in constructing and arranging in the manner herein after
described the parts of lock up liquor bottle frames or stands and other like frames or
stands whereby great facility and efficiency of action are secured.
I will describe my invention as applied to a frame or stand for liquor bottles.
The base or foot of the frame or stand has a central vertical pillar having at top a
handle by which to lift and carry the frame. At or near the top of the said pillar are
three or other number of radial arms corresponding to the number of bottles carried
in the frame. These arms are at such a height and are so situated that when the
bottles contained in the stand are respectively under the said arins the stoppers of the
bottles are situated immediately under the said arms and cannot be raised and
the bottles cannot be removed from the stand.
The bottles are supported on a rotating base situated on the stationary base or foot
herein before referred to. The said rotating base turns upon the lower part of the
pillar of the frame and is capable of a motion of rotation through such an angle as
will permit the bottles to be brought under the radial arms referred to or into positions
midway between the said arms. In the former position as already stated the stoppers
of the bottles cannot be raised and the bottles cannot be removed from the frame. In
the latter positions the bottles can be lifted from the frame.
The rotating base is furnished with a spring bolt or snap fastening which when the
bottles are under the arms snaps into a recess in the base or foot of the frame or stand
and locks or fixes the rotating base so that the bottles and the stoppers of the bottles
are fixed.
By means of a key the spring bolt can be withdrawn from the recess in
the base or foot of the frame when the rotating base carrying the bottles can be
turned so as to bring the bottles from under the radial arms when the said bottles can
be removed from the frame.
Dated this Tralfth day of August 1886
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: НАС Гтащер от рация.
I JAMES BALLENY ELKINGTON of the firm of Elkington and Company of Newhall
Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Silversmiths Electro Platers and Art
Metal Workers, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 consists in constructing and arranging in the manner hereinafter
described the parts of lock up liquor bottle frames or stands and other like frames
or stands, whereby great facility and efficiency of action are secured.
I will describe my invention as applied to a frame or stand for liquor bottles.
The base or foot of the frame or stand has a central vertical pillar having at top a
handle by which to lift and carry the frame. At or near the top of the said pillar are
threo or other number of radial arms corresponding to the number of bottles carried
in the frame. These arms are at such a height and are so situated that when the
bottles contained in the stand are respectively under the said arms the stoppers of the
bottles are situated immediately under the said arms and cannot be raised and
the bottles cannot be removed from the stand.
The bottles are supported on a rotating base situated on the stationary base or foot
hereinbefore referred to. The said rotating base turns upon the lower part of the
pillar of the frame and is capable of a motion of rotation through such an angle as will
permit the bottles to be brought under the radial arms referred to or into positions
midway between the said arms. In the former positions as already stated the stoppers
of the bottles cannot be raised and the bottles cannot be removed from the framo. In
the latter positions the bottles can be lifted from the frame.
The rotating base is furnished with a spring bolt or snap fastening which when the
bottles are under the arms snaps into a recess in the base or foot of the frame or stand
and locks or fixes the rotating base so that the bottles and the stoppers of the bottles aro
fixed. By means of a key the spring bolt can be withdrawn from the recess in the
base or foot of the frame when the rotating base carrying the bottles can be turned so
as to bring the bottles from under the radial arms when the said bottles can be removed
from the frame.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner.in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation (partly in vertical section) and Figure 2 in

page_text: plan, a lock-up liquor bottle frame or stand constructed according to my invention,
the bottles being represented in their locked positions.
Figures 3 and 4 represent the same views as Figures 1 and 2 after the bottles have
been unlocked.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings.
a is the base or foot of the stand or frame carrying the fixed equi-distant side
pillars or uprights b, b, b surmounted by the radial arms c, c, e the said radial arms
corresponding in number to the number of the bottles d, d, d carried in the said frame.
Each radial arm c has a cross recess c² in it for receiving the upper part of the stopper
of the bottle; e is the rotating base in depressions in which the bottles are placed and
supported. The said rotating base e is situated and turns upon the stationary base or
foot a; f is the central pillar connected to and turning in the fixed foot a and also
passing through and turning in the part c³ at the junction of the several arms c, c, c.
At the top of the central pillar fis a knob or handle g by which to lift and carry the
frame and rotate the moveable base e. The rotating base e is capable of a motion of
rotation through such an angle as will permit the bottles to be brought under the
radial arins c, c, c and into the recesses c³, c, c in the said arms as illustrated in
Figures 1 and 2 or into positions midway between the said arms as illustrated in
Figures 3 and 4.
In the positions Figures 1 and 2 the stoppers of the bottles d, d, d
cannot be raised and hence the bottles are locked in their frame or stand. In the
positions Figures 3 and 4 the stoppers of the bottles being no longer obstructed by
the radial arms ccc the said bottles can be lifted from the frame or stand and
removed.
The rotating base e supporting the bottles is guided and its motion limited by
means of a circular groove h in the fixed base a in which groove a projection i on the
bottom of the rotating base e works. In the said groove h are stops k, 1 for limiting
the motion of the rotating base. When the projection i has been brought against the
stop the bottles are locked in the frame and when the projection i has been brought
against the other stop k the bottles are unlocked and can be removed. The stops,
projection and circular groove are indicated in the plans Figures 2 and 4.
m is the spring bolt or snap fastening carried by the rotating base e by which bolt
or snap fastening the said rotating base is locked in its place when the bottles are
under the radial arms c, c. The spring bolt or snap fastening m is lifted or with-
drawn by a key p and snaps when at liberty to move into a recess q in the stationary
base or foot a of the frame (see Figure 1). To unlock the frame or stand when the
parts are in the positions shown in Figures 1 and 2 the key p is introduced into the
lock carrying the spring bolt or snap fastening m and the said key turned so as to
lift the said bolt or snap fastening from the recess q in the fixed base or foot. The
rotating base e can now be turned by means of the handle g or by the key p in the
direction indicated by the arrows in Figures 1 and 2 until the projection i on the said
rotating stand abuts against the stop k on the fixed foot a. By this motion the parts
are made to take the positions represented in Figures 3 and 4 and the bottles are
unlocked, the stoppers having been withdrawn from the recesses in the radial arms c
and brought midway between the said arms. In order to lock the frame or stand the
rotating base e is moved in the direction indicated by the arrow in Figure 4 until the
projection strikes against the stop 7 as illustrated in Figure 2. The stoppers of
the bottles are thereby made to reënter the recesses c³ in the radial arms c and the
bottles are locked in their frame or stand as hereinbefore described.
Although I prefer to make cross recesses in the radial arms for the stoppers of the
bottles to enter when the frame or stand is locked, yet the said recesses may be
omitted. In this case the stoppers are situated immediately under the radial arms
when the stand is locked.
I apply my improvements to frames or stands containing bottles, other than liquor
bottle stands, such as cruet. frames and scent bottle frames substantially in the manner
herein before described and illustrated with respect to liquor bottle frames or stands.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "An improvement or improvements in lock up liquor bottle frames or
stands and other like frames or stands" ;-
The combination with a fixed base or foot carrying radial arms of a rotating base
supporting the bottles, the said fixed and rotating bases being provided with locking
and stopping appliances and the several parts being arranged and working substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Thirtieth day of March 1887.