New or Improved Apparatus for Indicating and Checking the Supply of Beer or other Liquors in Glasses, Tankards, or the like.
Year: 1897

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Application, 4th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 10th Apr., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus for Indicating and Checking
the Supply of Beer or other Liquors in Glasses, Tankards,
or the like.
1, LOUIS BEYER, of Giebichenstein, near Halle, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner.
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a device for indicating and checking the number of
glasses of beer or other liquor supplied to a customer, whereby any fraud on the
part of the waiter or the customer is prevented.
The said device is contained within the stand on which the beer glass, tankard,
or other drinking vessel is placed before the customer.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing:-Figure 1 is a
horizontal section of the lower part of the stand for the beer glass, with the
checking mechanism contained therein; Figure 2 is a side view of such stand;
Figure 3 a cross section of the same; Figure 4 another side view; Figure 5 a
partial plan; Figure 6 a modification of the stand; and Figure 7 a mark or token
in plan and side view.
The stand for the beer glass consists of an upper part A and a lower part B,
which are correspondingly shaped and firmly connected together. In the centre of
the lower part B a pin n is fixed and to this pin a spring is attached which
constantly bears on the part a' of a metal counting band or indicating riband a,
running in the groove l.
The upper part A of the stand is provided with a slot o, furnished with a spring
cover h. When a glass of beer for example is delivered to the customer a token
or counter (Figure 7) is placed in the slot o and extends into the groove / pushing
the above mentioned counting band or indicating riband a certain distance forward.
The indicating riband is furnished with numbers, one of which is constantly visible
through the aperture 9 (Figure 1). Supposing the apparatus to be set at zero, and
a mark or counter is inserted, the latter will push the indicating band so far as to
cause the numeral 1 to be visible through the aperture g; this action will be repeated
every time a glass of beer is delivered to the customer so that the number of glasses
delivered can be visibly and accurately noted.
For the purpose of preventing any fraud, that is to say rendering impossible any
unauthorised tampering with the indicating band, the latter is provided on its upper
edge with teeth or indentations, in which a pawl c is pressed by a spring d. In order
to remove the counters or tokens from the apparatus the flap i, which is hinged at k,
should be unfastened from the under part B of the stand, and folded back. The
ratchet pawl c is now released, and the spring b, which engaged with the indicating
rihand a at a', will push all the tokens or counters towards, and allow them to fall out
through the aperture produced by the turning back of the flap i.
If the tokens are to be used as beer tokens (that is to say, in paying for the beer),
the apparatus is charged with a number of the tokens before the first glass of beer
is delivered to the customer and the spring 6 thereby put in tension. When the
waiter delivers a glass of beer, he takes away one of the counters (Figure 6)
projecting from the opening o (the spring cover h not being used in this case).

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whereby the spring 6 causes the indicating band a to move forward and a number
corresponding with the number of glasses supplied appears through the aperture g.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
The new or improved apparatus for indicating or checking the number of glasses,
tankards, or the like, of beer or other liquor supplied to a customer, the distinguishing
feature of which apparatus is an indicating band arranged in the interior of the beer
glass stand, and furnished with numerals which appear in succession at an opening in
the stand, the said band being operated by the insertion or removal of marks or tokens
and furnished with indentations in which a ratchet pawl engages, for the
purpose
preventing the indicating, band from being tampered with, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of March 1897.
of
Per W. H. Beck,
L. BEYER,
115 Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.