An Improved Lip Guard or Protector for use on Drinking Vessels.
Year: 1898

page_text: An Improved Lip Guard or Protector for use on Drinking Vessels.
I, WILIBALD EYDAM, of 25, Kattreppeln, Brunswick, in the Empire of Germany,
Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In public houses and inns and at springs and the like, it is frequently necessary
to drink from imperfectly cleansed glasses which have been just previously used
by others. This is not only unappetising, but in consequence of a possibility
of infection also insanitary. It is therefore useful to have an arrangement which
prevents the lips coming in contact with the glass.
For this object a bent or easily bendable plate of metal, celluloid, paper, vul-
canite, or the like is employed which may be attached to the rim of the glass hy
means of a spring hook or clip which may be as broad in width as the whole plate
or may be narrower than it and therefore may be used in duplicate or triplicate.
Other means of fastening may of course be employed instead of a fastening
hook. For instance a tight fitting indiarubber ring arranged on the rear side
of the plate will be found very suitable for the purpose, a vacuum being produced
in the well known manner by the ring being pressed on the glass so that the
plate is pressed against the glass and firmly held thereon by the pressure of the
outside air.
05042
1909
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
An Improved Lip Guard or Protector for use on Drinking Vessels.
I, WILIBALD EYDAM, of 25, Kattreppeln, Brunswick, in the Empire of Germany
Doctor of Medicine, 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 has for its object an improvement in plates or shields for pre-
venting the lips coming directly in contact with the frequently insufficiently
cleansed drinking glasses used in inns, public houses and the like, and thus avoid-
ing any possible danger of infection.
Such protective shields or plates for glasses and drinking vessels are in them-
selves not unknown but they have been hitherto so arranged that they could
only be used for drinking vessels, the diameters of which lie within certain limits.

page_text: This improved shield may however be used with glasses of any diameter and is
shown in the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 is an elevation of the shield;
Figure 2 an end view of same;
Figure 3 an elevation of part of a glass showing the shield in position;
Figure 4 a plan view of same.
Figure 5 an elevation of a whole glass with the shield attached to the inside.
The shield consists of a plate a of any suitable flexible material such as cellu-
loid, sheet metal, paper, vulcanite or the like, and of suitable form, on one side
of which two or more hooks or hook-shaped springs or clasps 6 are arranged.
By means of these spring hooks or clasps which do not affect the flexibility
of the plate the latter is attached to the glass, or the like, d as shown in Figures 3
and 4, and thus fits itself to the curve of the glass which is not the case in the
shields hitherto known which latter are attached by means of india-rubber bands
or in which for purposes of attachment a portion of the plate itself is bent round.
In order to prevent any liquid escaping between the glass and the plate a washer
cord or band c of resilient material, such as indiarubber tubing or sheet india
rubber may be inserted in the latter.
This improved shield or guard has also the further advantage of being capable
of being attached to the inside as well as the outside of the glass. The attach-
ment on the inner side of the glass (as shown in Figure 5) is necessary where
the outside of the same is not absolutely round and smooth but where the glass
is of irregular shape for instance as in the so-called "cut glass" tumblers, and
the like.
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-
1. An improved guard or shield for preventing the lips coming in contact with
a drinking vessel, consisting of a flexible plate (a) of suitable material such as
metal, celiuolid, paper, vulcanite or the like, and provided with two or more
springs or hooks (d) for attaching said plate (a) to the drinking vessel substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a guard or shield for use with drinking vessels substantially as described,
a washer band, or strip (c) of resilient material such as indiarubber tubing or sheet
indiarubber inserted between said plate, and the glass to which it is attached,
thus forming a tight joint for preventing any leakage between the glass and plate,
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of August 1898.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.