US664117A - Bottle-holder. - Google Patents

Description

No. 664,II7.

Patented Dec. I8, |900. T. C. BATES.

BOTTLE HOLDER.

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THEODORE C. BATES, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,117, dated December 18, 1900.

Application led December Z3, 1899. Serial No. '741,349- (No model.)

T0 ttZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE C. BATES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Worcester, county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Bottle-Holders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel bottle-holder adapted to be set into a pail or other receptacle of usual shape and material containing ice, to thus keep the contents of the bottle cool.

My novel holder consists of a body of reticulated material, preferably Wire-cloth, and a bottom, preferably of wood, the bottom presenting an extension or Iiange against which the ice may act to prevent the holder from being lifted from the ice when removing a bottle from the holder.

Figure l shows one of my novel bottle-holders in vertical section, it being set in ice in a pail, the holder containing a bottle; and Fig. 2 represents the holder detached and in side elevation.

The pail or receptacle A may be of any usual shape or material commonly employed to contain ice.

The holder consists of a body b, represented as composed of wire-cloth bent into cylindrical shape, the ends of the wire in 'the line of junction of the cloth being suitably soldered, as at b', adjacent crossings of the wire in the Wire-cloth at the junction of the wire-cloth being preferably encircled by a binding-wire b2, the binding-wire and the vertical wires and the ends of the horizontal wires being united, preferably, by solder. Preferably the wire entering into the body will be galvanized or coated with zinc or similar material, the zinc Vacting not only to protect the wire from rust, but also to maintain the wire entering into the holder in locked contact at the crossing-point. ,Y

Fig. 2 shows some of the crossing-points with the galvanizing material in position to lock the same.

It has not been considered necessary in the drawings to show all the crossing-points of the wire so united by galvanizingmaterial; but it will be understood that that is the preferable construction.

Were it not for the zinc o`r material used for galvanizing applied to the wire, the latter would rust quickly and would not therefore be available for a holder to be used in an icepail.

To complete the holder, it must have a bottom. This bottom d will be preferably made of wood, which may be painted or otherwise treated, so that it will longer resist the penetration of water into its pores. The Wood is very desirable, not only because the bottle may be dropped upon it without being broken, but also because staples or other suitable fasteningsf may be readily driven into it and cooperating with the body connected with the head. The head has a suitable extension or flange g, which may be of Wood or other material, it extending beyond the bottom and the body sufficiently to receive upon it the ice c in the pail, the weight of the ice acting to prevent the holder from being lifted from the ice when lifting the bottle from the holder.

To use the holder, it preferably containing a bottle, it is set preferably central in the pail and the ice is applied, the ice wedging against the body and resting upon the extension, thus seating the holder properly in the pail.

The bottle containing the water or other fluid to be cooled is separated from the ice nly by the thickness of the walls of the holder.

Preferably the holders will be of different sizes to enable them to practically iit the exterior of the bottles having the water or other liquid to be cooled.

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

1. A bottle-holder composed of reticulated material, a non-metallic bottom to receive suitable fastenings by which to secure the body to the bottom, said bottom having an extension extended outwardly beyond the walls of the body on which ice may rest.

2. A bottle-holder composed of Wire-cloth, and a binding-wire encircling portions of the wire where the ends of the cloth are abutted .in bringing the cloth into cylindrical shape,

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