IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FRAMES OR STANDS FOR HOLDING BOTTLES OR OTHER RECEPTACLES OR ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Mallol at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd October 1883.
JAMES MALLOL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FRAMES OR STANDS FOR HOLDING BOTTLES OR OTHER
RECEPTACLES OR ARTICLES
”
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of frames or
stands for holding bottles or other receptacles or articles. The improvements are
especially applicable to what are known as lock-up liquor frames, though they
are also applicable to other lock-up frames of a like nature. The especial objects
of the Invention are to simplify the construction and arrangement of the parts
and to lessen the cost of production.
According to the present improvements the lock or locking contrivance or parts
of it forms or form the means of connection between the parts of the frame or
stand to which the present improvements have especial reference :-These parts
consist of the handle and its attachments, to which part of the lock or locking
contrivance is connected, and which are connected to the stand or frame proper in
a fixed position relative thereto, and admit of the removal or carrying about of
the latter with its contained bottles or other articles; and of a locking bar
guided by parts of the frame, and to which is connected the remaining part of the
lock or locking contrivance.
According to a principal modification of the present improvements, an attach-
ment of the handle is made hollow or with a cavity or recess for the reception
of the case and the fixed or pivotted details of a lock, and which is screwed or
otherwise secured in position. This attachment is fixed by screws or otherwise
to the top ends of vertical squared guides or bars rising from the frame or stand,
and the handle proper is then secured by screws or otherwise to the attachment.
By this means the screws or other fastening means connecting the lock and attach
ment, and the attachment with the frame or stand are so located and protected
as that they cannot be tampered with: and the screws or fastening means
connecting the attachment and handle are also so located as to prevent any
fraudulent disconnection and removal of the bottles or receptacles locked in the
stand. The fixed or pivotted details within the lock case comprise a pivotted
tumbler and catch with a connected spring causing the catch to be self-acting in
locking the frame.

page_text: The said locking bar is made of a sufficient length and breadth to cover the
stoppers of all the bottles the frame or stand is constructed to hold-and it is
curved or made with depending flanges or otherwise to secure and prevent the
removal laterally or otherwise of the bottles or contained articles when the frame
is locked. The bar is made with depending projections which fit about the said
squared guides or bars (which rise from the frame or stand through the said locking
bar) so as to cause the parallellism of the vertical movements of the bar to be
maintained. The bar is connected by screws or otherwise to the depending
projecting ends of a sliding bolt, which has a limited vertical movement within
the lock case, and the bar and sliding bolt partake of a common motion. The bolt
is actuated by the key, and can be raised or lowered thereby; when raised, the
bottle can be released from the stand or frame: when lowered, the bottles are
locked in the frame, and the bolt is automatically secured by the said catch. The
screws or other fastening means connecting the bar and bolt are also so located as
that they cannot be got at when the frame is locked up for any fraudulent removal
of the bottles.
The said squared guides or bars rising from the frame are preferably made in
two parts, united at the part where the frame for surrounding the bottom part of
the bottles is located, by means of an inner screw, and the bottom part of each
guide or bar is formed with an enlargement or head which fits under the top of
the bottom or base of the stand.
The remaining parts of the frame or stand do not differ from the ordinary
construction of liquor frames not locked up.
In applying the improvements to an oaken or similar frame the guiding details
may be located at the ends of the locking bar, and may consist of metallic tubing
and inner rods or of other suitable means carried by adjacent parts of the frame.