Improvements in Apparatus for Registering the Number of Glasses: of Beer Consumed by any Party of Customers and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Registering the Number of Glasses:
of Beer Consumed by any Party of Customers and the like.
We BRUNO QUIETZSCH and CARL ROBERT GLASS, residing at Chemnitz, in
the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention for improvements in apparatus for registering the number of
glasses of beer consumed by any party of customers and the like has for its object
to provide an apparatus to be attached to a table or other place where the customer
is supplied, which can readily be operated for each glass or article supplied to
register it and so obviate errors; and consists essentially of a ratchet wheel adapted
to be rotated through one division at a time by means of a knob and spring lever
and pawl and attached to a consecutively numbered disc wheel, the whole being
mounted in a case provided with an opening opposite which the numbers on the
disc wheel are successively brought on operating the knob. A spring pawl serves
to retain the disc in its proper position after it has been operated. A projection on
the ratchet wheel when the disc wheel shows the highest number comes in contact
with a sliding catch on the case and prevents it from being further rotated until the
catch has been withdrawn by a special key.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1893.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Registering the Number of Glasses
of Beer Consumed by any Party of Customers and the like.
We BRUNO QUIETZSCH and CARL ROBERT GLASS residing at Chemnitz in the
Empire of Germany, 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 for improvements in apparatus for registering the number of
glasses of beer consumed by any party of customers, and the like has for its object
to provide an apparatus to be attached to a table, or other place where the customer
is supplied, which can readily be operated for each glass or article supplied to
register it and so obviate errors.
In the annexed sheet of drawings:
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Fig. 1 is a front view of the stand with dial.
Fig. 2 is a plan of same with cross piece to take a mat or cloth &c.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a counter, with cover and figure dial removed.
In dotted lines is shown the position of the mechanism when the hand knob is
depressed.
Fig. 4 is a cross section through a-b Fig. 3.
The abovementioned object is attained by means of a counter the knob c of which
is depressed with each glass of beer received, whereby, by means of the ratchet
wheel da corresponding number is shown through the opening e¹ of the cover
plate e (Fig. 1) such numbers being arranged in the direction of rotation round the
numbered dialf which is connected to the ratchet wheel d.
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page_text: For this purpose the counter is constructed as follows
In the case ga central hole carries the spindle on which is fastened the ratchet
wheel d and on the outer end by the screw f¹ the numbered dial f.
Above the ratchet wheel dis arranged a lever pressed upwards by means of
the spring and being forced down by pressure on the knob c. By means of the
catch projecting downwards therefrom the ratchet wheel d is moved round by one
tooth and the numbered dial thereby rotated to the extent of one figure from left
to right. This position is maintained by a spring whilst a spring ¹ fitted to the
lever lightly presses the catch against the ratchet wheel d. When the dial has
rotated from 0 to 10 a projection n fitted to the ratchet wheel d strikes against
a stop pressed sideways by a spring. This stop, in order to allow 0 to be displayed
again is drawn back by a key which (as shown in Fig. 3) is inserted through an
opening in the case and engages in the notch of the stop whereupon, by pressing
down the knob 6, the rotating wheel d and the numbered dial f can be again
set at 0.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A beer-glass stand with counter dial, in which, by pressing down the knob c
the lever connected thereto and its spur & rotates the toothed wheel & and the
numbered dialf by one figure whilst a spring d prevents the backward rotation of
the dial, and the reappearance of the first number can only take place by the
withdrawal of a stop by means of a key m.
2. An apparatus for registering the number of glasses of beer consumed by any
party of customers, arranged, constructed and operating substantially as described
with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 19th day of February 1894.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.