AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF IRON WINE BIN."
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Farrow, of the Firm of Farrow &
Jackson, Mechanical Engineers, of Great Tower Street, in the City
of London, for the Invention of " AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF
IRON WINE BIN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Farrow at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th June 1873.
I, CHARLES FARROW, of the Firm of Farrow & Jackson, Mechanical
Engineers, of Great Tower Street, in the City of London, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CON-
STRUCTION OF IRON WINE BIN," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in the construction of iron wine bins, whereby
two tiers of bottles can be placed on the same level, thus economizing
space.
The improved bins are constructed of four rectangular frames of flat
bar iron, each frame being divided into an equal number of spaces

page_text: by vertical bars rivetted to the top and bottom of the frame. These
vertical bars are for separating the bottles sideways, and the distance
between one vertical bar and another is sufficient only to allow a bottle
to be passed freely. The spaces between the vertical bars are divided
horizontally by a length of hoop iron bent into half circles right and
left alternately, and fixed by clips or rivets to the said bars, each half
circle forming a rest for a bottle. Four frames thus constructed are
placed one behind the other at suitable distances apart, and are connected
together by side bars and stays screwed or rivetted to the sides of the
frames. The space between the two middle frames is greater than that
between the middle and outer frames, but sufficiently close to prevent
the bottles falling from their rests.
In a bin thus constructed bottles are first placed in the divisions of
the two hinder frames with their punts against the wall. The two front
frames are then filled with bottles, the punts of which will rest against
or near to the seals of the bottles behind them.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Farrow in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th December 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FARROW, of the Firm of Farrow and Jackson, Mechanical Engineers, of
Great Tower Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Charles Farrow, Her special licence,
that I, the said Charles Farrow, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Farrow, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED

page_text: a, a, a, a, are the four rectangular frames of flat bar iron, each divided
into an equal number of spaces by the vertical bars b, b, b, b, b, rivetted
to the top and bottom of the frame; c, c, c, c, c, are the lengths of hoop
iron bent into half circles right and left alternately, as shewn, for
dividing horizontally the spaces between the vertical bars b, b, b, b, b;
d, d, are the clips for fixing the hoop iron divisions c to the bars b, or
rivets may be employed instead of the clips a. The four frames thus
constructed are placed one behind the other at suitable distance s apart,
as shewn in Figure 2, and are connected together by the horizontal
side bars e, e, and tie bars f, f, fixed by the screws 9, 9, 9, to the
frames a.
In a bin thus constructed bottles 7 are first placed in the divisions of
the two hinder frames with their punts against the wall i, as shewn in
Figure 2, the two front frames are then filled with bottles j, j, tho
punts of which rest against or near to the seals of the bottles / behind
them.
Having thus described my Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, what I claim is, the arrangement and construction of iron
wine bin, substantially as herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Farrow, have hereto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
Witness,
W. A. GILBEE,
4, South St.,
Finsbury.
C. FARROW. (L.S.)