Improvements in Moustache Guards for Drinking Vessels.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date crammed for ratent under sect. 10 OF ACL,
being date of first Foreign Application (in 16th July, 1890
United States of America),
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 10th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Moustache Guards for Drinking Vessels.
I, LEMUEL SWAIN WARE, residing at Camden, in the County of Camden and
State of New Jersey, United States of America, 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 relates to a removable moustache guard applied to drinking vessels
when in use and so arranged that when not in use it can be carried in the vest
pocket or otherwise put away.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is an elevation of a cup to which
the removable moustache guard is applied. Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is
an enlarged sectional view of the cup and guard taken on the line a b Fig. 2,
together with the elastic or spring clamps (represented in heavy black lines) which
clasp the sides of the cup and hold the guard in place. Fig. 4 is an enlarged
sectional view of the guard and also the clamps (which are again represented in
heavy black lines) when not in use, and Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the guard taken
on the line a b Fig. 2 and the elastic or spring clamps folded and thrown back on
the guard for convenience in putting away or carrying in the pocket. Fig. 6 is a
detail view showing the hinge between the clamp and the guard-plate.
Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.
A is the cup.
B is a moustache guard which may be of any suitable shape
preferably that shown, fitted into the cup at or near its top edge for preventing the
moustache of the drinker from dipping into the liquid of the vessel which liquid is
drawn by the mouth through the opening e Fig. 2, of the guard. The guard is
removable and is held in place by elastic or yielding clamp strips d d' which are
fastened together at their top ends and pivotted to the guard at e. The strips d d
are kept closed together by the elasticity of the material of which they are
composed and by embracing and clasping the surfaces of the cup these clamps hold
the guard firmly in place as in Fig. 3. When the guard is removed from the cup
the clamps d d close together as shown in Fig. 4 and may afterward be folded back
on to the guard as shown in Fig. 5 for convenience in carrying.
Other devices can be used for clamping the guard within the cup and still carry
out the end and design of this invention which consists of a removable moustache
guard in combination with a drinking cup or vessel. I therefore do not confine
myself to the shape and conformation of the guard shown in the drawings and to
the clamps d d but will use such as convenience or necessity may suggest.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A moustache guard consisting of a plate such as B and elastic or spring
clamns such as d die nivotally connected to the plate whereby the clamps are

page_text: adapted to depend from the plate when in an operative position or to be folded upon
said plate substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. A moustache guard comprising a plate having a recess such as c in one edge
thereof and elastic or spring clamps such as d d' e pivotally connected to the plate
at the edge thereof and at opposite sides of the recess therein to enable said clamps
to be folded upon the plate or to depend therefrom substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. As a new article of manufacture a moustache guard comprising a recessed
plate such as Bc and clamps such as d de having spring or elastic members
pivotally connected to the plate at the edge thereof substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of January 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.