IMPROVEMENTS IN RACKS FOR BOTTLES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Brooker Jackson, of the Firm of Farrow
and Jackson, Mechanical Engineers, of Great Tower Street, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RACKS FOR
BOTTLES."
Sealed the 11th January 1878, and dated the 16th November 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Brooker
Jackson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th November 1872.
I, RICHARD BROOKER JACKSON, of the Firm of Farrow and Jackson,
Mechanical Engineers, of Great Tower Street, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN RACKS FOR BOTTLES," to be as follows, that is to say:—
This Invention consists, firstly, in improvements in the construction
of racks for containing filled bottles whereby the bottles can be placed
lengthways parallel to the wall, thus enabling the racks to be used in

page_text: places where there is not sufficient room for those constructed in the
ordinary manner in which the bottles have to be placed at right
angles to the wall; this mode of construction also allows of the labels
of the bottles being displayed.
The Invention consists, secondly, in the construction of racks for
holding empty bottles.
To carry out the first part of the Invention I construct a frame of
three vertical bars of flat bar iron connected together by cross bars placed
at suitable distances apart. Each of the vertical bars is provided with a
number of curved metal projections or hooks; those on the outer or 1
side bars being to receive the punts of the bottles and those on the
centre bar to receive the necks of the bottles. As the bottles are placed
neck and neck there must be double the number of projections or hooks
on the centre bar to that on each side bar.
The rack for holding empty bottles is constructed of a number of 1
vertical bars placed in a circle or otherwise at short distances apart, and
connected together by iron hoops or cross bars; the lower ends of the
vertical bars are bent outwards so as to form a stand. Each vertical
bar is provided with a number of projections or hooks placed at an angle.
These projections serve to hold empty bottles by entering the openings.
in the necks thereof, thus allowing of their being drained.
Instead of the projections being placed on vertical bars they may be
placed on horizontal hoops placed one above the other at suitable
distances apart; or if the rack is to be fixed to the wall the projections
or hooks may be placed upon horizontal bars bent into a semicircular or
other suitable form as required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Brooker Jackson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th May 1873.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD 30
BROOKER JACKSON, of the Firm of Farrow' and 'Jackson, Mechanical
Engineers, of Great Tower Street, in the City of London, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Richard Brooker Jackson, Her special
licence that I, the said Richard Brooker Jackson, my executors,
administrators and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Brooker Jackson, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN RACKS FOR BOTTLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Brooker Jackson, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal - Patent
Office within six calender months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Brooker Jackson, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, reference being had to the Draw-
3 ing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
This Invention consists, firstly, in improvements in the construction
of racks for containing filled bottles whereby the bottles can be placed
lengthways, parallel to the wall, thus enabling the racks to be used in
O places where there is not sufficient room for those constructed in the
ordinary manner in which the bottles have to be placed at right angles
to the wall; this mode of construction also allows of the labels of the
bottles being displayed.
The Invention consists, secondly, in the construction of racks for
3 holding empty bottles.
To carry out the first part of the Invention I construct a frame of
three -vertical bars of flat bar iron connected together by cross bars

page_text: placed at suitable distances apart. Each of the vertical bars is provided
with a number of curved metal projections or hooks; those on the outer
or side bars being to receive the punts of the bottles, and those on the
centre bar to receive the necks of the bottles. As the bottles are placed
neck and neck there must be double the number of projections or hooks
on the centre bar to that on each side bar.
The rack for holding empty bottles is constructed of a number of
vertical bars placed in a circle or otherwise at short distances apart, and
connected together by iron hoops or cross bars; the lower ends of the
vertical bars are bent outwards so as to form a stand. Each vertical
bar is provided with a number of projections or hooks placed at an angle.
These projections serve to hold empty bottles by entering the openings
on the necks thereof, thus allowing of their being drained.
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Instead of the projections being placed on vertical bars they may be
placed on horizontal hoops placed one above the other at suitable
distances apart; or if the rack is to be fixed to the wall the projections
or hooks may be placed upon horizontal bars bent into a semicircular or
other suitable form as required.
To make my Invention better understood I will proceed to describe
the mode or manner I prefer of carrying out the same, by reference to
the accompanying Drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation, and
Figure 2 an end elevation of my improved rack for holding filled
bottles; Figure 3 a plan, and Figure 4 an elevation of one form of rack
for holding empty bottles; Figures 5 and 6 front and end elevations of
another form of rack for empty bottles; and Figures 7 and 8 front and
end elevations of an empty bottle rack suitable for being fixed against a
wall.
In Figures 1 and 2, a, a¹, a², are the three vertical bars of flat bar
iron connected together by the cross bars b, b, b, and the stay bar c by
the screws e, e; d, d, d, are the curved metal projections or hooks
rivetted to the vertical bars a, a, a³; the hooks or projections on the
outer bars a, a³, serve to receive the punts of the bottles x, x, as shewn
in Figure 1, those on the centre bar a¹ receiving the necks of the bottles;
f, f, are holes in the horizontal or cross bars b, b, b, to allow of the rack
being fixed to the wall by spikes or nails. The parts of this rack
being fixed together by screws as herein-before described may be easily

page_text: and quickly taken to pieces so as to occupy but little space for transpor-
tation or otherwise.
The rack for empty bottles shown in Figures 3 and 4 is constructed of
a number of vertical bars g, g³, arranged in a circle and rivetted to the
rings or hoops h, h, h, the lower ends of the bars marked g¹, are bent
outwards and rivetted to the hoop i and stay bars ; so as to form a
stand; k, k, are the projections or hooks rivetted to the vertical
bars g, g³, and serving to receive the empty bottles by entering the necks
thereof.
Figures 5 and 6 shew another form of rack for empty bottles, and is
constructed of two rectangular frames, each consisting of two side
bars 7, 1, connected together by a number of horizontal bars m, m, the two
frames are connected together at top by the links n, n, and are opened
outwards from one another at the bottom, as shown in Figure 6, being
kept in this position by the bars o, o, and screws p, p; in this con-
struction of rack the projections k, k, for entering the necks of the
bottles consist of straight pieces of flat bar iron rivetted to the horizontal
bars m, m.
By removing the screws p, p, the two frames may be
folded together so that the rack will occupy but little space when not
in use.
Figures 7 and 8 show a rack suitable for being fixed against a wall
and is constructed of a number of vertical bars q, q, connected together
by horizontal bars r, "; the projections or hooks k, k, being rivetted to
the said vertical bars q, q.
Having thus described my Invention and the best means I am
acquainted with for carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be under-
stood that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein laid down
and shewn in the Drawing, as the same may be varied without de-
parting from the principle of my Invention, but what I claim is,—
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Firstly. The construction of racks for containing filled bottles with
a number of hooks or projections arranged on three vertical bars placed
at suitable distances apart, as herein-before described and represented in
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. The construction of racks for holding and draining empty
bottles, with projections or hooks fixed on a series of vertical or hori-

page_text: zontal bars suitably connected together as herein-before described and
represented in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Brooker Jackson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of May One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
W. A. GILBEE,
4, South St.
Finsbury.
R. B. JACKSON.
(L.S.)