AN ARRANGEMENT OR APPLIANCE APPLICABLE TO CUPS, GLASSES, SPOONS, AND OTHER DRINKING VESSELS OR UTENSILS, THE SAME BEING SPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR THE USE OF PERSONS WEARING MUSTACHES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Lewis Lyne, of South Lambeth, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "AN ARRANGEMENT OR APPLIANCE
APPLICABLE TO CUPS, GLASSES, SPOONS, AND OTHER DRINKING VESSELS OR
UTENSILS, THE SAME BEING SPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR THE USE OF PERSONS
WEARING MUSTACHES"
Sealed the 20th January 1865, and dated the 26th July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Lewis Lyne at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition on the
26th July 1864.
I, FREDERICK LEWIS LYNE, of South Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN ARRANGEMENT OR
APPLIANCE APPLICABLE TO CUPS, GLASSES, SPOONS, AND OTHER DRINKING VESSELS OR
UTENSILS, THE SAME BEING SPECIALLY APPLICABLE FOR THE USE OF PERSONS WEARING
MUSTACHES," to be as follows:-
My Invention (the object of which is to prevent the mustache getting wet
in the act of a person's drinking) consists of a plate or piece of glass, earth-
enware, metal, or other suitable material provided with an aperture (herein-
after called "the said plate cr piece,") to be placed or fixed over the top or
over part of the top of the cup, glass, spoon, or other drinking vessel or
utensil, or it may if required be made with and form part of the said cup,
glass, spoon, or other drinking vessel or utensil, the aperture in "the said
plate or piece" to be of such convenient size and shape that in the act of
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page_text: drinking the liquid will flow into the mouth of the person drinking, whilst
the mustache being covered or protected by the said plate or piece need
not come in contact with the liquid.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Lewis Lyne in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
LEWIS LYNE, of South Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Frederick Lewis Lyne, Her special licence that I, the said
Frederick Lewis Lyne, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Frederick Lewis Lyne, my executors, administrators, and
assigus, 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" AN ARRANGEMENT OR APPLIANCE APPLICABLE TO CUPS, GLASSES,
SPOONS, AND OTHER DRINKING VESSELS OR UTENSILS, THE SAME BRING SPECIALLY
APPLICABLE FOR THE USE OF PERSONS WEARING MUSTACHES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Lewis Lyne, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, 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 Frederick Lewis Lyne, 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:-
My Invention (the object of which is to prevent the mustache getting wet
in the act of a person drinking) consists of a "plate or piece" of glass, china,
earthenware, porcelain, ebonite, wire gauze, gold, silver, copper, steel iron,

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brass, tin, or other metal, ivory, bone, slate, stone, papier machier, wood,
india-rubber, gutta percha, oilskin, or other suitable material, the said
plate or piece" to be capable of being adjusted or fixed either over the
whole of the top or upper portion, or over part of the top or upper portion
of a cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or other drinking vessel or utensil, which
may be done by means of spring clips, elastic band or bands, a screw or
screws, a hinge or hinges, or by having grooves cut in the said "plate or
piece" to fit the rim of the cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or other drinking
vessel or utensil, or if thought desirable the said "plate or piece" may be
made with and form part of the said cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or other
drinking vessel or utensil. The said "plate or piece" is furnished with an
opening or aperture at its external edge, of such convenient size and shape
that in the act of drinking the liquid will flow into the mouth of the person
drinking, whilst the mustache being covered or protected by the said "
plate
or piece" need not come in contact with the liquid.
In order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I will now pro-
ceed more particularly to describe the saine, and for that purpose I will
refer to the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
which set forth the various forms and arrangements I prefer to adopt for
fastening or attaching the said "plate or piece " to the rim or edge of the cup,
glass, spoon, tankard, or other drinking vessel or utensil; the same letters
of reference indicating corresponding parts throughout all the Figures.
Fig. 1 shows a top view or plan of one arrangement, and Fig. 1a an edge
view of the same. In this arrangement the said "plate or piece" P, having
the portion A cut away, thereby forming the opening or aperture herein-before
described, is attached or adjusted to the top of the cup, glass, spoon, tankard,
or other drinking vessel or utensil by means of the steel springs S, S¹. These
Said springs S and S₁ being made to grasp the top of the cup, glass, spoon,
tankard, or other drinking vessel or utensil, retain the plate P in its proper
place. In Fig. 1a is shown the means by which these said springsare attached
to the "plate or piece "P, namely, by the rivets or screws R, R₁, passing
through the rim of the "plate or piece," which fits the rim of the cup, glass,
spoon, tankard, or other drinking vessel or utensil. In Figs. 2 and 2a a
different arrangement is adopted. Two eyelet screws or rivets C, C', are
fixed into the rim of the "plate or piece" P, an elastic cord or baud B, B,
being passed through the eyelets C, C', and which being drawn over the
further edge of the rim of the cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or other drinking
vessel or utensil, retaius the said "plate or piece" P in its proper position.
The said elastic band or cord may be secured by having knots tied on its ends

page_text: or by other suitable means. In all cases the rim of the said "plate or piece
may be bevelled off, so as to be more convenient in drinking, as is shown in
the various views, Figs. 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 4c, 5a, 6a, 7a. In Figs. 2 and 3a a
somewhat similar arrangement is represented; the elastic band or cord B, B,
being attached to pins D, D', fixed in the rim of the said "plate or piece "P,
as shown in the edge view, Fig. 3a. The said pins D, D¹, are furnished with
heads to prevent the elastic band or cord B, B, from slipping off. In. Figs. 4,
4a, 4b, and 4c the said "plate or piece" is adjusted to the top of the cup,
glass, spoon, tankard, or other drinking vessel or utensil, and retained in its
position by means of springs S, S¹, which may be arranged either to press
against the inside or the outside of the cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or other
drinking vessel or utensil, the shape and position of the said springs when
inside being represented in the edge view, Fig. 4a, and when outside by
Fig. 4c. In Figs. 5 and 5a the said "plate or piece" P is adjusted and
retained in position by means of an elastic band or cord, as in Figs. 2 and 3,
the said band or cord having its ends secured by plugs p, p', as shown. In
Figs. 6, 6a, and 6b the said "plate or piece" P is shown as being secured to
the rim of the cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or other drinking vessel or utensil
g, g, by means of a wire hook W, which binds over and grasps the rim of
the cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or other drinking vessel or utensil, the said
wire hook being secured by a hinge H riveted or cemented to the external
edge of the said "plate or piece" P, as shown. Figs. 7 and 7a show a
similar clip arrangement with a screw X, whereby the said "plate or piece"
may be drawn tightly round the rim of the cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or other
drinking vessel or utensil. Fig. 8 shows my appliance or arrangement
adapted to a spoon, the said "plate or piece "being hinged on to the bowl
of the spoon at any convenient point, the apperture being either on one side
or at the other end.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention for an arrangement or appliance applicable to cups, glasses, spoons,
tankards, and other drinking vessels or utensils, the same being specially
applicable for the use of persons wearing mustaches, together with the
best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical
effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details or relative dimensions, proportions, forms, or materials berein-before
set forth, as it will be readily seen that the same may be considerably
varied without departing from the Invention; but what I claim is, an
apparatus or appliance constructed so as to be capable of being adjusted
on or over or fixed to or of forming part of a cup, glass, spoon, tankard, or

page_text: other drinking vessel or utensil substantially and in the manner herein-before
described and illustrated by the Drawings accompanying this Specification, or
any mere modification of the same, the said apparatus or appliance having as
herein-before described an opening or apperture therein of such convenient
size and shape that in the act of drinking the liquid passes readily into the
mouth of the person drinking, whilst his mustache is protected and prevented
by the said apparatus or appliance from coming in contact with the liquid.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Lewis Lyne, have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my seal, this Fourth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness to the signature and seal of the
said Frederick Lewis Lyne,
CHARLES S. BAKER,
Gen. Patent Comp*., Limited,
71, Fleet Street.
FRED. L. LYNE. (L.S.)