US359438A

US359438A - David getlesoe

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Publication number: US359438A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-03-15
Anticipated expiration: 1904-03-15

Description

(No Model.)

D. GETLESON.

BOTTLE SAFE.

No. 359,438. Patented Mar. 15,- 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

DAVID GETLESON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE-SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,438, dated March 15, 1887.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, DAVID GETLEsoN', of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Safes for Bottles; and I hereby declare the fol lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a safe for bottles, or means for incasiug and protecting the same for transportation, and a means for allowing it to be removed from its safe and protecting envelope for the purpose of washing and cleansing or examining and filling it, all of which will be more fully described by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view showing the bottle within its safe. Fig. 2shows the safe opened and the bottle or demijohn removed therefrom.

Demijohns and bottles are usually made of various sizes, of glass, and in order to protect them to a certain extent from breakage they are incased in woven wicker-work, and in some cases demij ohns have been inclosed in exterior woodencases, the upper part of which might be open to obtain access to the mouth of the demijoh'n only; hutin both of these cases itis impossible to get at the interior of the demijohn and ascertain whether it is perfectly clean, or to discover any cracks or flaws in the glass.

In my invention, A is the demijohn or bottle, which is made of glass, and B is an exterior safe of wood, having a top and bottom made of grooved material, so that when the safes are stacked up they will stand more The interior upper portion of the safe is re-enforcedby transverse strips of wood 0 upon the sides and top,

and around the bottom I have shown guidingstrips D, between which the bottom board or support, E, for the demijohn may be made to slide. This bottom board has a chamber or depression formed in its upper surface of such a shape as to receive the bottom of the'demijohn, and is provided with an elastic packing,

' upon which the bottom of the demijohn sits,

being retained centrally upon I this bottom board and protected from injury in this mannor.

by any suitable means, tule or other porous or elastic material-such as is used for protecting WVithin the safe, upon three sides, I fix,

glassware for transportation-and the corners are filled with larger masses or pillars, so as to approximately shape the interior of the safe to the form of the bottle or dcmijohn to be contained therein.

F is a cylindrical wrapper, made of tule, straw, or other elastic packing material,which is stitched together, having the upper and lower edges securely bound, as shown, so as to make a hollow cylinder of just sufficient size to slip over the bottle or demijohn and rest upon the false or sliding bottom E, so that the whole may be pushed into the safe from one side, and be held securely between the walls with their elastic packing.

G is a piece of board having a hole made through the center, so as to slip down over the neck of the bottle or demijohn centrally to set it within the safe.

H is a door which forms one side of the safe, having hinges at the bottom and a spring lock orcatch at the top, as shown at I. Upon each of the sides of the safe, near the top, are pins J, and corresponding depressions or holes are made in the door, which close against these pins, thus holding it firmly and steadily in place.

If desired, the door may be also fastened by nails or screws temporarily for transportation; or it may be simply fastened by the spring or other lock, as may be desired.

By this construction the bottles or demijohns may be made of any desired size, and without exterior wicker or woven cover, so that they may be examined to see whether there are any cracks or flaws. Where they have been employed for wines of different colors and characters, and especially for red wines, where a sediment is apt to become incrusted around the bottom,which would afterward change the color and spoil the flavor of white wine or light wines that may be afterward placed in the same demijohn, it will be possible to thoroughly cleanse the demijohn before it is used and be sure that it is clean.

In use the demij ohn is filled, corked, the exterior elastic case is slipped over it, it is set into the false bottom E, and the guide-piece is put about the neck of the demijohn. The whole is then slipped into the safe and the door closed up, being secured by the spring or other means of fastening. The safe will then be ready for transportation.

In order to protect the side of the bottle next the door, I preferably employa separate packing material, K, which is fitted upon that side, and has an enlargement or corner pieces similar to those in the opposite side of the safe, so that when the door is closed the bottle or demijohn is retained within the safe between the elastic walls, which will make it impossible to break it. There being no projecting screws or lugs from either side of the safe, it is possible to pack these safes in a car or other place very closely without any lost room.

By reason of the fluted top and bottom, the safes will stand lnorefirinly than if made plain. In order to handle these safes conveniently, I have made handlioles upon each side, which pass through the outer thickness of the wood, but not through the inner supplemental or stud pieces, 0, before described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The exterior safe having the hinged door, lock, and handles, as shown, in combination with the sliding removable bottom chambered to receive the bottom of the demijohn, and the perforated top piece to receive the neck of the demijohn and guide it so that the whole may be slipped into or outof the safe when the door is opened, substantially as herein described.

2. The exterior safe having the fixed packing fitted to its sides, an elastic socket or chamber to receive the bottom of the demijohn, and a guide-plate centrally perforated to receive the neck of the demijohn, in combination with a supplemental cylindrical removable packing fitted to the dcmijohn, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereofI have hereunto set my hand.

DAVID GETLESON.

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