A NEW METHOD OF INDICATING OR STAMPING WITH THE STANDARD OR OTHER MARK CHINA, EARTHENWARE, AND METALLIC MEASURES FOR CONTAINING BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1870

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Haden Richardson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 28th July 1870.
I, WILLIAM HADEN RICHARDSON, of Glasgow, in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion of "A NEW METHOD OF INDICATING OR STAMPING WITH THE STANDARD OR
OTHER MARK CHINA, EARTHENWARE, AND METALLIC MEASURES FOR CONTAINING
BEER AND OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to a method of marking with a standard or
other stamp vessels, which are used for holding beer or other liquids, and
which vessels are made of china, earthenware, or of metal.
Hitherto it has been the practice to construct such vessels to hold the
measured quantities of the said liquids by cutting, grinding, or turning
down the brim or lip thereof so that no more than the measured quantity
can be placed in the said vessels; but under the present Invention in
place of cutting, grinding, or turning down the brim or lip a ring or line
is formed on the interior, exterior, or both, of the vessel at a height
which exactly corresponds to the measured quantity of liquid desired, or
the rivet itself may indicate the measurement.

page_text: In the case of china or earthenware measures it is preferred to
partially or entirely enamel the interior thereof with an enamel or
material of a different colour to that of the measure itself, and to cut or
etch a line round the same at the precise level to which the measured
liquid reaches, or a gilt or coloured line or band may be drawn around
the inside, outside, or both, and upon the body glaze or enamel, and in
either case the standard stamp or mark is affixed or impressed upon a
metallic stud or pin which is passed through or into a hole formed in the
neck of the measure at the height of the ring, line, or belt already
referred to.
In the case of metallic measures the ring, line, or belt is cut, etched,
or turned out, soldered, or brazed at the desired position, and the
standard mark affixed or impressed in the usual manner by punching or
otherwise, but in contradistinction to the present system of stamping
metallic measures at any convenient part they are under this Invention
stamped at the line referred to, or if stamped at any other part the mark
itself or the measure may bear the words necessary to show that the
ring, line, or belt is the true indicator of the measurement.
In cases where the china or carthenware measures have corrugations
or annular rings or grooves inside or outside the mouth the standard
stamp may be fixed at the particular corrugation, groove, or ring to
which the measured liquid reaches.
In lieu of employing any of the arrangements herein-before set forth
the china or earthenware measure may be formed of 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
si fixed by solder, cement, or otherwise on the top of the measure.
It is to be understood that measures composed of other substances
than those mentioned may be stamped by the method herein described,
and the stud bearing the standard mark may be composed of material
other than metal, and may be affixed or inserted under any of the modes
described in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to William Haden
Richardson on the 31st day of December 1869, No. 3777.