Improvements in Vessels or Receptacles for Holding and Measuring Liquids, or Powders and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1891-Accepted, 18th July, 1891
COMPLETE SIECITTALION.
Improvements in Vessels or Receptacles for Holding and Measuring
Liquids, or Powders and the like.
We, JOHN SCHOLES of Clough House, Huddersfield, in the West Riding of
Yorkshire, Gentleman and HENRY CHARLES SCHOLES of Clematis Villa,
Stoneygate Road Knighton, in the County of Leicester, Gentleman 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 has reference to improvements in vessels or receptacles for holding
and measuring liquids, or powders and the like, that is to say; granular sub-
stances of any kind, and consists in providing for medicinal or general uses a
drinking folding cup that can be carried in the pocket, or carried in a case, purse,
band or the like, being an outcome and further development of the application
for Patent No. 12197, of 1890, by Henry Charles Scholes. Which said cups are
capable of being applied in a variety of ways, and useful for all drinking, advertising
and measuring purposes.
That our invention may be well understood reference is made to the annexed
sheet of drawings, in which:
Figure 1, is a plan of a folding cup blank A.
Figure 2, is the cup folded from the said blank (dotted lines for folds.)
Figure 3, shows the cup to be applied for medicinal use.
Figure 4, is another cup blank A folding from dotted line to cup shown in
Figure 5.
Figure 6, is an alternate way of folding the cup.
Figure 7, another form of cup adapted to fit in the holder a', seen in Figure 8.
Figure 9, represents a folded cup, the design of which compares with an ordinary
drinking glass, the bottom a², being forced inwards after folding, by pressure.
may or may not employ the holder a', "dotted line."
We
Figure 10, this form of conical cup A, is made from strips, or a length of any
suitable material useful for the purpose, spirally wrapped on a cop tube machine,
and
Figure 11 shows another form of a spirally made drinking or measuring cup
in the shape of a goblet to which may be put a paper pulp base or column, not
shown.
The object of this our invention as before stated is to provide a drinking folding
cup, made in the following or equivalent manner. We take lengths of thin rolled
metal or paper such as cream laid note, vellum, parchment, transparent waterproof
paper, of any suitable color or kind, or paper made from any fibrous substances,
linen lined, ramie, pulp, china silk or the fibrous paper made in Japan and elsewhere,
linen or any other waterproofed textile tissue or fabric, light, opaque or trans-
parent, which is alike flexible and waterproof without smell, they are then cut out
either singly, or in quantities into blanks, as shown or their equivalents. Before
or even after the said blanks are folded we cause trade advertisements to be
painted, printed, stuck, or embossed therein or thereon, they are then capable of
holding hot or cold beverages, hot or cold drinks, or liquids of all kinds except
concentrated acids. From the blank A seen in Figure 1, we proceed by bringing
down the left hand top corner 1, at diagonal right inclined line 2 to 1, over to
vertical broken line 1 to 2, then fold right inclined line over to the left inclined
line 2, then bring over the end 3, to centre, 4, turn flap 5, and make the whole secure
by the glued, gummed or cemented edge 6, "dotted line," when a cup is produced
as seen in Figure 2, the points a³, are then trimmed to produce straight edge seen

page_text: in Figure 3 the dotted lines b, Figure 2 show different ways of folding the cups
that they may be carried in the pocket, or pocket case, purse, or encircling band
"not shown." It will be seen on the cup or medicinal vessel A Figure.3, measure
is denoted from a minim up to a pint, or any other quantities may be put according
to the size of the cup required, this can be used by nurses or doctors and is easily
destroyed after use in infectious or contagious cases have been tended by being
burnt, any other suitable scale, guage or measure can be put on the outside or
inside of the cup such as lines, e, Figure 4, folds into Figures 5 or 6. Advertise-
ments may appear thereon; the shaded lines c', represent the cup in imitation of
glass, for we may employ in producing this effect, any specially tinted paper, or
other useful substitute that will so represent glass, opaque or not. Or different
colored papers or material to imitate Haked, streaked or Bohemian, china, stone,
porcelain, or other colored or ornamental glass ware, which imitations may be
further carried out by embossing, printing, or produce patterns in relief, by any
well known means, and by ordinary machinery used for such purposes. The
embossed or indented parts "see Figure 9" for example which is to imitate or
represent any ordinary glass ware more perfectly. We may use only half the
blank shown in Figure 1, where one thickness of material only is necessary,
according to the texture or thickness of material we employ, and instead of only
cementing or gumming the edge 6, we may cover the whole of the folding parts
entirely with glue, gum, cement, or other useful preferably transparent sticking stuff,
that will resist heat, or harden under heat; the spiral wrapped cups seen in Figures 10
and 11, or any such shapes are produced as before stated upon cop tube machines
such as produce paper cops or tubes for holding yarn, any of the aforesaid cups may
also be used with advantage for holding and measuring granular substances,
powders, and the like. We do not confine ourselves to the particular shapes
as shown for they may be varied in a many ways without departing from our
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :
1. A drinking cup of the character described capable of holding hot or cold
liquids.
2. The means herein set forth for producing a paper or other such folding cup or
vessel for the purposes referred to.
3. A medicinal or other guage, or measuring vessel as herein shown and
described.
4. A liquid proof folded drinking cup that by reason of its construction can be
carried in a pocket case, purse, band or the like.
5. A combined drinking or measuring cup, and advertising media.
6. Improvements in vessels or receptacles for holding and measuring liquids, or
powders and the like, substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1891.
WILLIAM BESTWICK MAXFIELD.
"The Central" Patent Office, No. 19, Bowling Green Street, Leicester,
Applicants' Agent.