IMPROVEMENTS IN JUGS OR VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Sands Sidney, of the Willows,
Brixton Road, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN JUGS OR VESSELS FOR CONTAINING
LIQUIDS."
Sealed the 19th August 1853, and dated the 24th June 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Sands
Sidney at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th June 1853.
I, GEORGE SANDS SIDNEY, of the Willows, Brixton Road, in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JUGS OR VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS'
to be as follows:-
The Invention consists in making indices or means of ascertaining
the quantity contained in the vessels. When making china, carthen-
ware, and metal jugs and drinking cups, I introduce windows or
transparent parts, with or without graduations, in order that the
quantity of liquid contained shall be seen through such windows or
transparent parts; and when it is desired to ascertain the quantity of

page_text: liquid in a jug or drinking vessel by looking into it from above, I form
such vessel with a small estuary or hollow, which is bent down at the
handle, so that when the liquid flows into such estuary the desired
measure is obtained, the vessel not being filled, but admitting of being
carried without spilling the liquid.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Sands Sidney, in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 10th September 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE SANDS SIDNEY, of the Willows, Brixton Road, in the County
of Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said George Sands Sidney, Her
special licence that I, the said George Sands Sidney, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Sands
Sidney, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN JUGS OR VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Sands
Sidney, 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 George Sands Sidney, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):

page_text: When making china, earthenware, and metal jugs and drinking
cups, I introduce windows or transparent parts, with or without gradua-
tions, in order that the quantity of liquid contained shall be seen
through such windows or transparent parts; and when it is desired to
ascertain the quantity of liquid in a jug or drinking vessel, by looking
into it from above, I form such vessel with a small estuary or hollow,
which is best done at the handle, so that when the liquid flows into
such estuary the desired measure is obtained; the vessel not being filled,
but admitting of being carried without spilling the liquid. And in
order that my said Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued
cups, I introduce windows or transparent parts, with or without gradua-
tions, in order that the quantity of liquid contained shall be seen
through such windows or transparent parts; and when it is desired to
ascertain the quantity of liquid in a jug or drinking vessel, by looking
into it from above, I form such vessel with a small estuary or hollow,
which is best done at the handle, so that when the liquid flows into
such estuary the desired measure is obtained; the vessel not being filled,
but admitting of being carried without spilling the liquid. And in
order that my said Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued
by me.
DESCRITTION
THE DRAWING.
Figures 1, and 2, show two jugs or vessels for containing beer or other
liquid; and Figures 3, and 4, are sections of the two vessels shown at
Figures 1, an 2. The vessel shown at Figures 1, and 3, is of metal;
and that shown by Figures 2, and 4, is of earthenware or china; and
each of these vessels is made with two windows or transparent
places a, b; the lower one b, showing when the vessel is half full,
and the other one a, showing when the vessel is filled to that extent
which will admit of the vessel being carried conveniently without spilling
the liquid.
The object of the Invention is to provide a means for measuring and
ascertaining the quantity of liquid, such as beer, drawn into a jug or
vessel, notwithstanding any head of froth which may be poured, and
at the same time to avoid that disgusting practice, so prevalent, of
blowing into the vessel to ascertain the extent to which a vessel is filled.
Thus, if a vessel be made of a size suitable for containing somewhat
more than a pint or a quart, or other measure, the windows a, b, may
be marked to show the half and the whole measure, by which means
the purchaser and seller of the beer or liquid will at once be able to
see whether the quantity contained in a jug or vessel is the proper
quantity. The parts a, b, are, by preference, of glass, and they may be
fixed in suitable openings in any convenient manner; those which I
Figures 1, and 2, show two jugs or vessels for containing beer or other
liquid; and Figures 3, and 4, are sections of the two vessels shown at
Figures 1, an 2. The vessel shown at Figures 1, and 3, is of metal ;
and that shown by Figures 2, and 4, is of earthenware or china; and
each of these vessels is made with two windows or transparent
places a, b; the lower one b, showing when the vessel is half full,
and the other one a, showing when the vessel is filled to that extent
which will admit of the vessel being carried conveniently without spilling
the liquid.
The object of the Invention is to provide a means for measuring and
ascertaining the quantity of liquid, such as beer, drawn into a jug or
vessel, notwithstanding any head of froth which may be poured, and
at the same time to avoid that disgusting practice, so prevalent, of
blowing into the vessel to ascertain the extent to which a vessel is filled.
Thus, if a vessel be made of a size suitable for containing somewhat
more than a pint or a quart, or other measure, the windows a, b, may
be marked to show the half and the whole measure, by which means
the purchaser and seller of the beer or liquid will at once be able to
see whether the quantity contained in a jug or vessel is the proper
quantity. The parts a, b, are, by preference, of glass, and they may be
fixed in suitable openings in any convenient manner; those which I

page_text: have made have been fixed by metal burnished down, as shown; but
the mode of fixing may be varied.
Figure 5, shows a section, and Figure 6, a plan of another form of
vessel, having the same object in view; but in place of seeing through a
transparent window, there is an estuary d, opening at the bottom into
the vessel; by which arrangement or construction, notwithstanding any
head of froth which may rise, the same will not flow into the estuary,
but the clear beer or fluid only will, which will at once show when the
proper measure has been drawn into the vessel.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not
confine myself to the shapes of the vessels shown; but what I claim
is :-
First, the manufacture of jugs and such like vessels with windows or
transparent parts, to indicate or show the extent to which such vessels
are filled with liquid; and,
Secondly, I claim the manufacture of jugs, and such like vessels,
with estuaries for indicating when such vessels are filled to the proper
extent.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Sands Sidney, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
GEO. SANDS SIDNEY. (L.S.)
GEO. SANDS SIDNEY.
L.S.)
Witness, JNO. ALCOOK.