A NEW METHOD OF INDICATING OR STAMPING WITH THE STANDARD MARK OR OTHERWISE CRYSTAL OR GLASS MEASURES FOR CONTAINING SPIRITS, BEER, AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Haden Richardson, of Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, for the Invention of "A NEW
METHOD OF INDICATING OR STAMPING WITH THE STANDARD MARK OR OTHERWISE
CRYSTAL OR GLASS MEASURES FOR CONTAINING SPIRITS, BEER, AND OTHER
LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 28th June 1870; and dated the 31st December 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Haden Richard-
son at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 31st December 1869.
I; WILLIAM HADEN RICHARDSON; of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of
"A NEW METHOD OF INDICATING OR STAMPING WITH THE STANDARD MARK OB
OTHERWISE CRYSTAL OR GLASS MEASURES FOR CONTAINING SPIRITS, BEER, AND
OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object the affixing of the standard stamp
to crystal or glass measures for spirits, beer, and other liquids in such

page_text: manner that they may be used in substitution of the ordinary pewter
or metallic measures, and it consists under one modification in drilling
or perforating one or more holes through the neck of the measure at
or near the exact point to which the standard measurement of the
contained liquid reaches, into which hole or holes a piece of metal or
other material having the standard stamp upon it may be fixed by solder
or otherwise. This piece of metal or other material may be made of
any form or dimensions suitable for receiving the impression of the
armorial bearings or other device of the particular locality where
such measures are to be used, and from the piece of metal or other
material referred to one or more projections or studs extend inwards
through the hole or holes above mentioned, and are soldered or otherwise
secured either inside or outside the neck of the measure, or the metal
or other composition may be poured into the hole or holes in a liquid
or semi-liquid or plastic state, and the stamp afterwards impressed
thereon.
Under a second modification the hole or holes may be only partially
drilled through the neck of the measure and the stud or studs fixed
therein by cement, or a cavity or cavities may be partially drilled or
otherwise formed in the measure at the proper position into which
molten metal or other substance may be poured and the stamp impressed
thereon.
Under a third modification the vessel may be formed with or without
an annular indentation or groove round its neck or lip, into or on to
which a metallic or other "composition" ring may be fixed, with the
standard stamp soldered or otherwise affixed thereto, or the stamp
may be impressed upon the ring of metal or composition itself.
Under a fourth modification the vessel may be formed or cut to the
exact dimension necessary for containing any desired standard quantity,
and a ring of metal or other material capable of receiving the impressed
stamp may be fixed by solder or otherwise upon the top of it.
It is to be understood that under any of the foregoing modifications
the standard stamp may be impressed cither before or after the piece
of metal or other material for receiving it has been affixed to the
measure.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Haden Richardson, in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 29th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HADEN RICHARDSON, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Haden Richardson, Her special
license that I, the said William Haden Richardson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Haden
Richardson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "A NEW METHOD OF INDICATING OR STAMPING WITH THE STANDARD MARK
OR OTHERWISE CRYSTAL GLASS MEASURES FOR CONTAINING SPIRITS, BEER, AND
OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Haden Richardson, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Haden Richardson, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters and figures. marked thereon, that is to
say:
°
This Invention has for its object the affixing of the standard stamp

page_text: manner that they may be used in substitution of the ordinary pewter
or metallic measures, and it consists under one modification in drilling
or perforating one or more holes through the neck of the measure,
at or near the exact point to which the standard measure of the con-
tained liquid reaches, into which hole or holes a piece of metal or other
material having the standard stamp upon it may be fixed by solder or
otherwise. This piece of metal or other material may be made of any
form or dimensions suitable for receiving the impression of the standard
stamp (and the armorial bearings or other device if desired of any
particular locality where such measures are to be used), and from the
piece of metal or other material referred to one or more projections or
studs extend inwards through the hole or holes above mentioned, and
are soldered or otherwise secured either inside or outside the neck of
the measure, or the metal or other composition may be poured into the
hole or holes in a liquid or semi-liquid or plastic state, and the stamp
afterwards impressed thereon.
Under a second modification the hole or holes may be only partially
drilled through the neck of the measure and the stud or studs fixed
therein by cement, or a cavity or cavities may be partially drilled or
otherwise formed in the measure at the proper position, into which
molten metal or other substance may be poured and the stamp im-
pressed thereon.
Under a third modification the vessel may be formed with or without
an annular indentation, or groove round its neck or lip, into or on to
which a metallic or other composition ring or wire may be fixed with
the standard stamp soldered or otherwise affixed thereto, or the stamp
may be impressed upon the ring of metal or composition itself.
Under a fourth modification the vessel may be formed or cut to the
exact or near to the exact dimension necessary for containing any
desired standard quantity, and a ring of metal or other material capable
of receiving the impressed stamp may be fixed or adjusted by solder
or otherwise upon the top of it..
It is to be understood that under any of the foregoing modifications
the standard stamp may be impressed either before or after the piece
of metal for receiving it has been affixed to the measure.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood
I now proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or

page_text: manner in or under which the same is or may be used or practically
carried into effect, that is to say:-
On the Sheet of Drawings hereunto appended, Figures 1, 2, and 3.
are respectively side views of three different shapes or forms of crystal
or glass measures for containing spirits, beer, or other liquid, and on
these Figures the method of stamping the measure with the standard
mark (which method constitutes this Invention) is shown applied.
Under one modification this Invention consists in drilling or perforating
a hole through the neck or upper part of the measure into which hole
a piece of metal or other material is fixed, as shown at a, Figures 1
and 2. On that part of the metal which projects to the outside of the
measure, the standard stamp is impressed, and such part is made of any
form or dimensions suitable for receiving the said impression. The
piece of metal or other materiał a is inserted into the measure by pre-
ference at or about the level to which the standard measurement of
the contained liquid reaches, and such point is indicated by a line or
ring b, scratched, cut, engraved, or etched on the measure as shown
at Figures 1 and 2. In lieu of attaching the piece of metal or other
composition a to the measure by means of one projection or stud as
shown at O, Figure 2, any other suitable number of such projections
or studs may be formed on the piece of metal or other material, and
inserted through a corresponding number of holes or perforations drilled
in the neck of the measure and thereafter soldered or otherwise secured,
or the metal or other composition may be poured into the hole or holes
in a liquid or semi-liquid or plastic state, and the standard stamp (and
other device if desired) may be afterwards impressed thereon, or the
hole or holes may be only partially drilled through the neck of the
measure and the stud or studs fixed therein by cement, or molten metal
or other substance may be poured into a cavity or cavities formed in
the measure at the proper position and the standard stamp (and other
device if desired) thereafter impressed thereon.
Under another modification the measure is formed with an annular
indentation or groove round its neck into which a metallic or other
ring is fixed as shown at e, Figure 3, and to the ring e a piece of
metal or other material x with the standard stamp impressed thereon
is soldered or otherwise affixed, or the standard stamp may be impressed
on the ring itself. In lieu of employing any of the arrangements

page_text: herein-before set forth the measure may be formed of the exact
dimensions or near to the exact dimensions necessary for containing
any desired standard quantity of liquid, and a ring of metal or other
material with the standard stamp impressed thereon fixed by solder,
cement, or otherwise on the top of the measure as shown at f, Figure 4.
It is to be understood that under any of the modifications herein-before
set forth the standard stamp may be impressed either before or after
the piece of metal or other material for receiving it is affixed to the
measure, and that I do not confine myself to the particular arrange-
ments herein-before described of affixing the piece of metal or other
material with the standard stamp impressed thereon, as such arrange-
ments may be further modified.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the system,
mode, or manner in or under which the same is or may be used or
practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion, that what
I consider novel and original and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the affixing to or combining with crystal or glass measures of a piece
of metal or other material having the standard stamp impressed thereon,
as herein-before described and shown on the appended Sheet of
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Haden Richardson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June
One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
WILLIAM HADEN RICHARDSON. (L.s.)