A New or Improved Detachable Moustache Guard for Glasses, Cups, Spoons, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 20th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Detachable Moustache Guard for Glasses, Cups,
Spoons, and the like.
1, WILLIAM ROBERT GODLONTON ROEBUCK, of 31 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch,
London, E.C., Cabinet Maker do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is to construct a new or improved moustache guard
for glasses, tankards, cups, spoons and analogous drinking vessels, so that it can be
readily applied or detached, whereby the glasses, cups and the like are rendered more
easily cleaned than when formed integral with the moustache guard, my moustache
guard being interchangeable.
According to my invention, I stamp out or otherwise form the moustache guard of
a shape so that when the ends are bent down they will act as a clip between which
ends the glass or other vessel is clamped.
The guard is preferably formed of a strip of flexible material (such as metal,
vulcanite and the like,) the ends being extended transversely, bent down and curved
approximately to the shape of the smallest glass, cup, spoon or the like to which the
guard will be applied. The strip, connecting the ends, is preferably curved,
inwardly or outwardly to permit of one guard being used on glasses and the like of
varying diameters or sizes and also to accomodate the moustache.
Dated 20th January 1896.
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
A New or Improved Detachable Moustache Guard for Glasses, Oups,
Spoons, and the like.
I WILLIAM ROBERT GODLONTON ROEBUCK, of 31 New Inn Yard, Shoreditch
London, E.C. Cabinet Maker, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to construct a new or improved moustache guard for
glasses, tankards, cups, spoons and analogous receptacles, so that it can be readily
applied or detached, whereby the glasses, cups, and the like are rendered more easily
cleaned than when formed integral with the moustache guard.
According to my invention, I stamp out or otherwise form the moustache guard of
a shape so that when the ends are bent down they will act as a clip between which
ends the glass or other vessel is clamped.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the improved
moustache guard fitted to a glass.
a is the bridge or guard, the ends of which are bent down at b. so as to form
jaws c. c. between which the glass is clipped or clamped.

page_text: The guard is preferably formed of a strip of flexible material, such as metal,
vulcanite, and the like, the bent down ends or jaws of which are curved approximately
to the curve of the smallest glass, cup, spoon, or the like to which the guard will be
applied. The bridge or guard a is preferably curved, inwardly or outwardly to permit
of one guard being used on glasses and the like of varying diameters or sizes and also
to accommodate the moustache.
In applying my improved moustache guard to spoons and other vessels of a shape
other than circular, the jaws are shaped to suit the article and bent under as well
as round the vessel in such a manner as to prevent the guard becoming accidentally
detached while in use.
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 :-
1. A new or improved detachable moustache guard, in which the bridge or guard a
is provided with two jaws cc between which the receptacle is clamped, substantially
as described and illustrated by the drawing.
2. The new or improved detachable moustache guard for glasses, tankards, cups,
spoons, and analgous drinking vessels or receptacles, substantially as set forth.
Dated 20th October 1896
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.