Improvements in Devices or Attachments for Drinking Glasses, for Indicating the Number of Times such Glasses have been Filled.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1898-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices or Attachments for Drinking Glasses, for
Indicating the Number of Times such Glasses have been Filled.
I, JOHANNES KREUTZMANN, of No. 7A, Herbartstrasse, Koenigsberg, Eastern
Prussia, in the Empire of Germany, Provincial Secretary, 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 counting device, arranged on saucers or salvers for
beer glasses of chalice- or cup shape, that is to say, for glasses, which are pro-
vided with a foot or with a bottom flange or rim.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 represents the device applied to a glass, provided with a foot.
Figure 2 is a top view of the counting device in its closed position, and
Figure 3 an inverted plan of the same in its open position.
The device, which is held in position on the foot of the glass, during drink.ug,
is composed of a box A, closed at its top by a metallic plate and enclosing an
internally toothed ring R retained in the box by means of claws c.
The edge of the foot of the glass is held in a bipartite casing or cover the one
half N of which is fixed to the box, while the other half L is adapted to turn with
a pivot-pin b in an opening provided in the box. At the one end of the pivot b,
a lever K is fixed, which when the half L of the case or cover is caused to turn,
actuates a bell-crank lever H by the aid of the pin or screw S engaging a slot h
in the lever. To the arm h¹ of the bell crank lever is connected a pawl k, which
is acted upon by a spring h² and causes the toothed ring R to advance to the
extent of one tooth, each time the half L of the case or cover is closed.
The top of the toothed ring R is provided with the Figures 1 to 12, which are
visible through openings provided in the top cover of the box, and which conse-
quently as the ring R is turned-appears successively opposite the said openings,
thus indicating the number of glasses of beer, that have been drunk. Two stop-
springs F, f prevent the ring R from being moved back.
The device operates in the following manner:
When a glass is to be refilled, the movable part L of the cover is turned sideways.
by unfastening the friction-knob closing device a and the glass is removed from
the device. The pivot b and simultaneously therewith the lever K are turned
and the pin or screw S, guided in the slot h of the bell-crank lever H, carries the
latter along with it and causes the pawl k to advance upon the ring R to the extent
of one tooth. When the re-filled glass has again been placed in the device and
the movable half L of the capsule closed, the toothed ring R will have advanced
one tooth in the direction, indicated by the arrow, and in the holes upon the surface
of the box will appear the figures which indicate the number of glasses of beer,
that have been drunk.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
A counting device arranged on the saucers, salvers or feet of chalice- or cup-
shaped beer-glasses the said device being characterized by a cover L N, embracing

page_text: the foot of the glass and formed by two halves, one of which is fixed and the other
movable; the movable half L being so constructed, that, when a fresh glass is
placed in the device, it will-by the aid of a pivot pin b and of a lever K, rigidly
fixed to the latter-actuate a bell crank lever H h and with the latter a pawl k
which causes the toothed ring R to advance to the extent of one tooth, when the
half L of the capsule is being closed, so that the figures of a scale, arranged on
the toothed ring R, successively appear in front of openings, provided in the top
cover of the box, and indicate the number of glasses of beer, that have been drunk
substantially as above described with reference to the drawing.
1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.