Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 19th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 19th Apr., 1887.
THOMAS WILLIAM NORRIS 13, Marion Villas Harringay Road West Green
Tottenham do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The top plate or cap to be jointed at front or back and secured with spring or other
lock at right or left hand side of frame.
I, THOMAS WILLIAM NORRIS 13, Marion Villas, Harringay Road West Green,
Tottenham in the County of Middlesex, Traveller 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:-
The invention has for its object improvements in stands for decanters, bottles and
jars, which improvements are specially applicable to -spirits, liquor and scent bottle

page_text: stands, and relates to means whereby such stands, whilst exposing the decanters,
bottles or jars to view, can be locked up so as to prevent the sureptitious extraction of
jars.
decanters, bet
For this purpose I fix a bar or plate, jointed at the front or back to fall down over
the stoppers of the decanters, bottles or jars, and secured with a lock fixed at the side
of stand, when desired the bar or plate can be unlocked and then opened.
And in order that my invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accompanying drawings more fully to
describe the same.
For this purpose I fix a bar or plate, jointed at the front or back to fall down over
the stoppers of the decanters, bottles or jars, and secured with a lock fixed at the side
of stand, when desired the bar or plate can be unlocked and then opened.
And in order that my invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accompanying drawings more fully to
describe the same.
DISCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. Represents a side elivation.
2.
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37.
3.
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end elivation.
back of bar of side clivation.
The bar or plate A is jointed at B and secured with a lock fixed on one of the
uprights C. of the stand, but when such bar or plate is turned back as represented in
Fig. 2 the bottles, decanters or jars can be readily removed.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
1st. The herein described frame or stand for spirit or other bottles are retained, and
the contents secured from access by fixed or locked bar or plate depending over the
stoppers, or released and the contents rendered accessible by the opening of said bar
or plate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and shown.
2nd. The combination in frame or stand for spirit or other bottles of uprights. C.
cross bar or plate A. and lock fixed on upright C, substantially as and for the purposes
set forth and shown.
3rd. In a stand for spirit or other bottles, the application of the herein described bar.
or plate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and shown.
In witness whereof I the said Thomas William Norris, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 19th day of January in the year of our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and eighty seven.