IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDS FOR DECANTERS, BOTTLES, AND JARS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO SPIRIT, LIQUEUR, AND SCENT BOTTLE STANDS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Betjemann, George William Betjemann, and John
Betjemann, all of Pentonville Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDS FOR DECANTERS, BOTTLES, AND JARS,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO SPIRIT, LIQUEUR, AND
SCENT BOTTLE STANDS."
Sealed the 28th March 1879, and dated the 10th October 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by said the George Betjemann, George
William Betjemann, & John Betjemann at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 10th October 1878.
"
GEORGE BETJEMANN, GEORGE WILLIAM BETJEMANN, and JOHN BETJEMANN, all of
Pentonville Road, in the County of Middlesex. *IMPROVEMENTS IN STANDS FOR
DECANTERS, BOTTLES, AND JARS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE SPECIALLY APPLICABIE
TO SPIRIT, LIQUEUR, AND SCENT BOTTLE STANDS."
The Invention has for its object improvements in stands for decanters, bottles,
and jars, which improvements are specially applicable to spirit, liqueur, and scent
bottle 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 surreptitious
extraction of the contents of the decanters, bottles, or jars.
For this purpose we form on or in the base of the stand sockets to receive the
decanters, bottles, or jars, and over the tops of such articles is a rod or bar to which
the handle is fixed or which itself may form the handle. This rod or bar is formed
with returned ends which are pivotted or pin-jointed to uprights forming the ends
of the stand, or the returned ends of the rod or bar may be extended to the base of
the stand, and there pivotted or pin-jointed. On the ends or on the base of the
stand is a lock which when required is capable of locking the bar in position over

page_text: the tops of the decanters, bottles, or jars, and thus prevent their extraction from the
stand, or the removal of the stoppers or covers from the same, or if desired the lock
may be carried by the pivotted bar or rod. When desired the rod or bar can be
unlocked and then turned on its pivots or pin joints, thereby enabling the stoppers
or covers to be removed from the decanters, bottles, or jars, or the latter to be
removed from the stand.
The description of lock we have found to answer well for this purpose is a double-
action "Bramah" lock, in which a spring bolt is capable of being moved by moving
the nozzle of such lock, whilst such bolt is capable of being locked by a key as is
well understood.
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page_text: Figure 1 represents a side elevation, and Figures 2 and 3 two end elevations of
one mode of carrying our Invention into effect; and Figure 4 is a side elevation,
and Figure 5 is a vertical cross section of a modification thereof.
Similar parts are marked with similar letters of reforence in all the Figures.
In the arrangement represented at Figures 1, 2, and 3, a is the base of the stand
in which we form deep close fitting sockets a¹ to receive the decanters, bottles, or.
jars b, over the tops of which is a rod or bar c to which the handle c² is fixed, or which
itself may be so shaped as to form the handle.
This rod or bar cis formed with returned ends or descending arms c³, which are
pivotted or pin-jointed at to uprights a², which in this arrangement are at the
ends of the stand. Or the returned ends or descending arms c² of the rod or bar c
may be extended to the base of the stand, and there pivotted or pin-jointed.
On one of the uprights a² of the stand is a lock d, which when required is capable
of locking the bar c in position over the tops of the decanters, bottles, or jars, as
represented at Figures 1 and 2, and thus prevent their extraction from the stand or
the removal of the stoppers or covers from the same, but when such bar c is turned
down as represented at Figure 3, the bottles can be readily removed from the
stand.
If desired the lock may be carried by one end or descending arm c³ of the pivotted
bar c, and may be caused to lock into a recess in a plate carried by one of the ends
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page_text: or uprights a², or in cases where the returned ends or descending arms are extended
and pivotted to the base of the stand the lock may be fixed to the stand, or the
pivotted bar c may be otherwise locked in position.
The description of lock we prefer to use in the arrangement represented at
Figures 1, 2, and 3, is that represented in the Drawing which is a double-action
"Bramah" lock, in which a spring bolt is capable of being moved by moving the
nozzle d of such lock, whilst such bolt is capable of being locked by a key as is
well understood, but other descriptions of lock may be employed.
We also prefer to form the upper part of the uprights a³ as shown in the shape
of parts of circles struck from the axis of motion of the pivotted bar c; this form
whilst being ornamental also permits of the motion of the bar c, and at the same
time furnishes convenient stops to prevent the bar c from falling against the bottles,
decanters, or jars.
We also prefer to form the under side of the bar c in the form of part of a circle,
also struck from the pivots c³, which form increases the security and compactness of 1
the arrangement.
When using a lock with a spring bolt we form the returned ends or descending
arms of the pivotted bar c, as shown in the Drawings, with rounded or curved
ends to enable one of them when the pivotted bar c is being raised over the tops of
the decanters, bottles, or jars, to depress the bolt until it enters the recess in such 2
returned end or descending arm c³, when the bolt may be locked in position by the
key as is well understood.
In the modification represented at Figures 4 and 5 the sockets for the bottles or
decanters are formed partly in the base of the stand, and partly in a frame or gallery
a³ carried by pillars or other supports a¹ from the base or by uprights a², or partly 2
by both.
And in this modification the uprights a² instead of being fixed at the ends of the
stand are placed intermediate of the bottles; and the bar or rod c, which by its
descending arms c² is pivotted or pin-jointed to the uprights or supports as is formed
with projecting parts ex extending beyond the arms cover the tops of the outer 3
bottles, whilst the centre portion thereof passes over the centre bottle or decanter.
In this modification we have also represented a different mode of locking the bar
or rod cin position which consists in extending the arms c³ below the pivots c³,
and continuing them to one side of the stand where they are connected together by
a bar c', which is provided with a hasp capable of being locked in position by a 3
lock d of any suitable construction.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and two modes in which
the same may be carried into effect, we would have it understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the precise details of construction herein shown and described,
as such may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of our Inven- 4
tion, but what we do claim is the employment of liqueur, or bottle, or jars stands,
with close fitting sockets in combination with a pivotted bar passing over the tops
of the bottles, decanters, or jars, and capable of being locked in position by a lock
of any suitable construction, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Betjemany, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand sight hundred and seventy-nine
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