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Application filed December 26,1893. Serial Ho. 494,672. (Komodel.) ’’

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, Frank McLaughlin, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oroville, in the county of Butte and State of Cali5 fornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elevating Devices for Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, such as will enable others skilled to in the art to which it most nearly appertains to njake, use, and practice the same.

. The present invention relates to a device for raising fruits, olives, or other condiments, to the surface of a jar or bottle, so as to en-, r 5 able the same to be easily removed therefrom, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and' described.

My invention is designed more especially for use in connection with bottles or jarscon20 taining olives, although it maybe equally as well worked in conjunction with such as hold fruits, pickles or any class of condiments, and its purpose is to take the place of the fork or knife now brought into use for extracting 25 these articles from the bottle or jar. As, is well known, the olive is generally removed from the jar or bottle by moans of a fork designed for this purpose, which not only consumes. considerable time to safely extract 30 one, but likewise patience.

In order to more fully understand my invention, reference must be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings,· wherein—

- Figure 1, is a perspective view of a bottle, 35 partly in section, showing my device located therein; Fig. 2, a top plan of the supporting plate or disk; Fig. 3, a cross sectional view of Fig. 2, ghowing the handle or lift rod separated from the disk; Fig. 4, a top plan 40 view showing Hie supporting plate or disk made in sections; and Fig. 5, is a front elevation of Fig. 4, showing the sections united by the lift rod.

The letter A is used to indicate the jar or 45 bottle, which holds or contains the olives, and B, the mouth thereof, which is of considerable less diameter than the body of the bottle or jar. Within tho bottle is placed the disk or plate C, to which is secured the lift rod D. The 50 lower end of this rod is reduced and screwthreaded, as shown at a, which fits into the screw-threaded.countersunk (joss, b. The upper eudof the rod is provided with a knob c, which not only serves as a handle, but as an ornament to the lift rod. 55

In view of the fact that the plate or disk C, must equal the internal diameter of the bottle or jar, it becomes necessary that the same must, in order to permit of insertion through the contracted mouth of the bottle or jar, be 60 constructed of an elastic or flexible material or be made in sections. When constructed of an elastic material, I make the same of gutta percha and mold the disk C, with a series of radial arms E. These arms may be 65 bent downward, the gutta pereha being, of sufficient ductility to permit of this without breaking, until the diameter of the support is reduced sufficiently to permit of the same being inserted into the bottle through the 7α mouth. When the pressure is removed from the radial arms they will resume their,normal position by their own elasticity.

. After the plate is placed within the jar or bottle the same is filled with olives or other 75 condiments, or fruits,and is then ready for tho market. The top of the lift rod is supposed to come about even with the undersurface of tho cover or stopper for the jar or bottle.

In order to extract an olive it is only noc- 80 essary to remove the top or cover of the bottle and take hold of and lift the rod D, which carries the supporting plate therewith and thus causes tho olives to bo raised to the top of the bottle, when the same may be easily 85 removed, by the fingers or otherwise.

In Fig. 3 of the drawings, I have shown the. supporting plate and rod as being made separate, but this is immaterial as the supporting plate and rod may be made .in tegral.' 90

In Fig. 1,1 have shown tho supporting plato made in sections F, F', each- section being perforated and formed with a section of Si boss, which, when tho sections are brought to^l gather, form a screw-threaded boss/, see Fig./195 5. When tho plate is thus formed the sections! are placed in the bottle or jar and are held together by the rod D,the lower end of which is enlarged, see/', which enlarged portion is countersunk and screw-threaded, see/², into 100 which screw-threaded countersunk portion the boss /, fits and is retained. This is the form of construction I prefer to employ when the lifting device is made of porcelain, glass, enameled-iron, or similar material. ,