An Improved Absorbent Mat for Glasses, Tankards and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1899-Accepted, 1st July, 1899
I, JAMES BACON, of 81, Northumberland Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Photo-
grapher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved absorbent mat for glasses, tankards
and the like and my invention consists in a mat made of thick blotting or other
absorbent paper or of paper pulp or other suitable absorbent material upon which
glasses, tankards, or other liquid-containing vessels may be stood so as to absorb
any moisture that may be on the bottom of such vessel and prevent the table or
counter being made wet or any drippings falling on the clothes of a person
drinking therefrom; my improved absorbent mat being also adaptable to have
an advertisement or other matter printed, impressed or otherwise marked thereon.
Preferably the bottom of my improved mat is provided with a disc or sheet of
non-absorbent material, or the lower face of my improved mat may be painted or
otherwise rendered non-absorbent, and said mat may if desired be contained in a
suitable case.
An Improved Absorbent Mat for Glasses, Tankards and the like.
I, JAMES BACON, of 81, Northumberland Avenue, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Photo-
grapher, 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 reference to an improved absorbent mat for glasses, tankards
and the like, and my invention consists in a mat made of thick blotting or other
absorbent paper or of paper pulp or other suitable absorbent material upon which
glasses, tankards or other liquid containing vessels may be stood so as to absorb
any moisture that may be on the bottom of such vessel and prevent the table or
counter being made wet or any drippings falling on the clothes of a person
drinking therefrom, my improved absorbent mat being also adapted to have
an advertisement or other matter printed, impressed or otherwise marked thereon.
Preferably the bottom of my improved mat is provided with a disc or sheet of
non-absorbent material which may be turned up at its edges to form a rim or the

page_text: lower face of my improved mat may be painted or otherwise rendered non-
absorbent.
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:-
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1. An improved absorbent mat for glasses, tankards or other vessels said mat
bearing an advertisement or other matter and being adapted to absorb moisture
which may be on the bottom of such vessel substantially as set forth.
2. An improved absorbent mat for glasses, tankards or other vessels said mat
having its under surface rendered non-absorbent all for the purposes and sub-
stantially as set forth.
3. The combination of an absorbent mat and a non-absorbent lower disc or sheet
having its edges turned up substantially as set forth.
Dated this 1st day of March 1899.
JAMES BACON.
By his Agents,
Horn, Son & Co.,
151, Strand (next to Somerset House), London.