IMPROVE- MENTS IN STANDS FOR HOLDING GLASSES, AND CONDIMENT RECEPTACLES AND THE LIKE
Year: 1885

page_text: I JOSHUA MORTON Electro Plate Manufacturer 7 New Spring Street, Warstone
Lane Eirmingham, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STANDS FOR HOLDING GLASSES, AND CONDIMENT RECEPTACLES AND THE
LIKE, to be as follows:-
These improvements are more specially applicable to Breakfast Frames, Liquor
Frames, Cruet Frames, Butter Coolers, Marmalade Stands, and Toast Racks, either
separately or combined, as usually made in Silver, German Silver, Brass, Brittania
Metal, Aluminum, and Wood.
The object of these improvements is utility & compactness, and is accomplished
by having such receptacles as are used for holding butter, marmalade, salt, etc,
readily placed for use underneath the bottoms of stands, as above mentioned, &
other stands used for like purposes.
The method of these improvements consists of a receptacle being made to slide
in and out, underneath the bottom of the stand on two parallel bars or bearers,
securely fastened underneath.
The two parallel bars or bearers to be made angular in shape, by preference or
may be made any other shape.
The receptacles may be either metal, or glass, or both, combined, and of any
shape, or size.
In order to prevent the receptacle going too far along the parallel bars or bearers,
a stop or peg may be put at the end of the said bars or bearers, or may be put at
any place or distance, along them, as may be required to suit the size and shape of
the receptacle.
Dated this thirteenth day of Tune 100K

page_text: Improvements in stanⱭs Ior Holding Glasses and Comment
Receptacles and the like.
I, JOSHUA MORTON, Electro Plate Manufacturer, 7 New Spring Street, Warstone
Lane Birmingham, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN STANDS FOR HOLDING GLASSES, AND CONDIMENT RECEPTACLES, AND THE
LIKE, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
These improvements are more specially applicable to Breakfast Frames, Liquor
Frames, Cruet Frames, Butter Coolers, Marmalade Stands, and Toast Racks, as
usually made in Silver, Electro Plate, German Silver, Brass, Brittania Metal, and
Aluminum.
The object of these improvements is utility and compactness, and is accomplished
by having such receptacles as are used for holding butter, marmalade, salt, and the
like, readily placed for use, underneath the bottoms of Stands as above mentioned,
and other Stands used for like purposes.
The method of working of these improvements consists of a receptacle being
made to slide in and out underneath the bottom of the Stand, on two parallel bars
or bearers, fixed underneath in such a manner as to suit the purpose for which the
receptacle is used, or shape it may require.
The two parallel bars or bearers to be made angular in shape, by preference, or
may be made any other shape.
The receptacles may be either metal, or glass, or a combination of the two, and
of any shape or size.
In order to prevent the receptacle going too far along the parallel bars or
bearers, a stop may be placed at the end of the said bars or bearers, or may be
placed at any place or distance along them, as may be required to suit the size and
shape of the receptacle.
Accompanying this specification are drawings of a Cruet Frame with receptacle
for containing salt, and a Toast Rack with receptacle for containing butter,
illustrating the manner of working of my invention. To these drawings I now
refer.
Fig. I represents a Cruet Frame made in metal with a receptacle for containing
salt, A is the receptacle made in metal with glass lining inside, B. B. are two
parallel bars along which receptacle A slides.
Fig. II represents a Toast Rack made in metal, with a receptacle for containing
butter made in metal with glass dish inside, shewing the parallel bars B. B. along
which receptacle A slides.
Fig. III shews Toast Rack and butter receptacle in a partly open form.
Figs. IV and V are Toast Rack and Butter Receptacle respectively, in a totally
separate or open condition, forming distinctly two separate articles.
From the foregoing description it will be manifest that by the application of my
invention the following results will be obtained.
There will be a combination of two or more articles in one; the utility of the
articles will be increased, as they may be used in a partly open form as Fig. III,

page_text: or in a totally separate form as Figs. IV and V respectively; and when not in use
and the receptacle is closed, the two articles being in a compact form as Fig. II,
the bottom of the uppermost article will form a cover for the receptacle under-
neath; and if required as may be the case with receptacles for holding cigars
tobacco and the like, underneath Liquor Frames, the receptacle could be fitted
with lock & key and locked up.
I do not limit the application of my invention to these two articles, as
illustrated by drawings, but the drawings sufficiently indicate how the invention.
is applicable to articles of like utility, as have been before mentioned.
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
The use in the construction of such articles of the nature herein indicated, of
two parallel bars or bearers, which are fixed underneath the bottoms of the said
articles, and along which receptacles are made to slide, substantially as herein-
before described, and as illustrated by accompanying drawings.