A NEW METHOD OF PROVIDING A MEANS OF AFFIXING THE GOVERN- MENT STAMP TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AND OTHER GLASSES USED FOR THE SALE OF MALT AND OTHER LIQUORS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Abraham Cox, of Number 9, Margaret
Terrace, Paddington Green, in the County of Middlesex, Wholesale
Licensed Victuallers' Glass and China Manufacturer, for the Inven-
tion of "A NEW METHOD OF PROVIDING A MEANS OF AFFIXING THE GOVERN-
MENT STAMP TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AND OTHER GLASSES USED FOR THE
SALE OF MALT AND OTHER LIQUORS."
Sealed the 14th March 1873, and dated the 18th September 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Abraham Cox.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 18th September 1872.
⚫I, JAMES ABRAHAM Cox, of Number 9, Margaret Terrace, Paddington
Green, in the County of Middlesex, Wholesale Licensed Victuallers'
Glass and China Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW METHOD OF PROVIDING A MEANS OF AFFIXING THE
GOVERNMENT STAMP TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS' AND OTHER GLASSES USED FOR THE
SALE OF MALT AND OTHER LIQUORS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide a means of affixing the
Government stamp on licensed victuallers' and other glasses in such a.

page_text: way as to prevent its being removed and made use of for other glasses
which have not undergone the proper Government inspection, without
its being detected, and I accomplish this by placing a band of copper,
brass, or other suitable metal round the stem or handle of the glass
which is fixed in the following way:-One end of the band is punched
or cut out so as to form one or more tongues which are passed through
one or more holes in the other end of the band and bent down, after
which a large drop of solder is placed in a melted state on the ends of the
band, so as to adhere to and cover the junction, and the Government
stamp is to be impressed on the solder. The band being placed round
the stem or handle, it cannot be removed without separating the ends or
cutting the band; the former cannot be done without melting or cutting
the solder, which would obliterate the stamp, and if the band is cut it
cannot be fixed to another glass without the cutting and subsequent
joining of the ends being detected.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Abraham Cox in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
ABRAHAM Cox, of Number 9, Margaret Terrace, Paddington Green, in
the County of Middlesex, Wholesale Licensed Victuallers' Glass and
China Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said James Abraham Cox, Her special
licence that I, the said James Abraham Cox, my executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Abraham Cox, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, 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 "A NEW
METHOD OF PROVIDING A MEANS OF AFFIXING THE GOVERNMENT STAMP TO LICENSED
VICTUALLERS' AND OTHER GLASSES USED FOR THE SALE OF MALT AND OTHER

page_text: LIQUORS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Abraham Cox, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should par-
ticularly 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 James Abraham Cox, 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, reference being had to the several Drawings
therein referred to and hereunto annexed :-
1. The object of my Invention is to provide a new means of affixing
the Government standard stamp to licensed victuallers' and other glasses
used for the sale of malt and other liquors in such a way as to prevent
such stamp from being afterwards, and without detection, removed and
applied to or used for any other glass measure which has not in fact been.
tested by the proper Government inspector or officer.
2. For this purpose I employ a band of copper, brass, or other suitable
metal. Such band should be so thin as to be readily punched and bent;
a third of an inch is a convenient width for such band; but it may be
made wider or narrower, as desired, and its length should be such that
when drawn as tightly as may conveniently be round the stem or handle
of the glass measure to which it is intended to be affixed, one end of the
band will overlap the other so far as may be required for fastening the
band, as herein-after mentioned.
3. According to one modification of the band which I employ, one or
more hole or holes are punched in the band near one end thereof, and
one or more tongue or tongues are cut or punched in it near the other
end thereof corresponding to and so as to admit of being inserted into
the aforesaid hole or holes. One hole may be used although there are
more tongues than one. The band is then put round the stem or handle
of the glass measure to which it is to be affixed, that end of such band
which carries the tongue or tongues being placed underneath the other
end thereof in which the hole or holes are punched, and such tongue, or
one or more of such tongues, if more than one, having been drawn
through such hole or holes is or are then bent or doubled back so as to:

page_text: clinch the band round the stem or handle, and the fastening is after-
wards completed by placing a large drop of solder in a melted state so
as to cover the hole or holes and tongue or tongues when clinched as
aforesaid, and so in fact as to entirely cover the joining of the band. The
solder when cool adheres to those portions of the band on which it is
placed, and the Government standard stamp can be impressed on such
solder when cooling, or after it has cooled, by striking a die with a
hammer against the solder, or by pressure.
4. If the metal band is to be affixed to the stem of the glass measure
the circumference of such stem should of course be smaller than that
either of the bowl or of the foot of the glass measure, as the glass
measure is represented in Figs. 3 and 4. If it is to be affixed to the
handle of the glass measure, such handle must be joined at each end
thereof to the glass measure, as in Fig. 5. It is usual to have words or
letters indicating the capacity of the glass measure, for instance, "imp'.
half-pint," "half-pint," "imp'. pint," "pint, &c.," cut in, or impressed,
embossed, or marked on the glass measure before the stamp is impressed
by the Government inspector or officer.
5. In the annexed Drawing, Fig. 1 represents a metal band such as I
employ before it has been punched or cut.
Fig. 2 represents the band when punched with one hole and with one
tongue, which I find sufficient and as I think the best modification,
a, a, being the hole, and 6 being the tongue.
Fig. 3 represents the band placed round the stem of a glass measure,
the tongue 6 being inserted from underneath through the hole a, a, and
afterwards doubled back so as to clinch the band; and Fig. 4, c, c, c, c,
represents the band when the drop of solder has been placed upon and so
as to cover the hole and tongue and the joining, as aforesaid, and the
Government stamp has been impressed.
Fig. 5, d, d, represents a band affixed in similar manner to the handle
of a glass measure.
Fig. 6 represents a band punched with one hole e, e, and with four
tongues, ff, being the longer tongues, and f, f, being the shorter
tongues.
Fig. 7 represents the same band in the form of a hoop, the tonguesƒ,ƒ,
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page_text: doubled back, while the tongues f", f¹, simply remain in their position,
and are afterwards covered with the solder.
Fig. 8 represents another modification of band which I sometimes
employ, and which carries at one end thereof a flap or flange on either
side. When the last mentioned band is affixed to the stem or handle of
a glass measure, the flaps or flanges are bent over so that their edges
follow the dotted lines h, h, and the tongue k is passed between the band
and the flaps or flanges so bent over, and is then itself doubled back-
wards over the flaps or flanges as in Fig. 9, so as to clinch the metal
band, and the fastening is completed by placing a large drop of solder
when in a melted state so as to cover the flaps or flanges bent over, as
aforesaid, and the tongue doubled back, as aforesaid, and so as in fact to
entirely cover the joining of the band. The solder when cool adheres to
those portions of the band on which it is placed, and the Government
standard stamp can afterwards be impressed on such solder by the
Government inspector or officer in manner herein-before mentioned.
6. I am aware that with regard to glass measures it has been proposed
to stamp metal poured into a cavity formed in the glass, or to stamp a
stud fixed on metal which is passed through a hole drilled in the glass,
or to place a ring round or near the neck or rim of the glass measure
and to affix a stamp to such ring. Such metal stud or ring can how-
ever be removed and applied to other glass measures without detection,
and such ring cannot be affixed round the stem or handle of a glass
measure when such stem or handle is of the character herein-before
described.
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7. But according to my Invention the band and stamp can be readily
affixed to the stem or handle of the glass measure, as may be required,
and when the fastening thereof has been completed, as aforesaid, it
cannot be removed from such stem or handle without detection, inasmuch
as it cannot be removed unless either the band is itself cut, or else its
ends are separated. Now such ends cannot be separated unless the lump
of solder is cut, or melted, or otherwise destroyed, and in each of these
cases the stamp on the solder must be obliterated, while, if on the other
hand, the band is itself cut, such band cannot be affixed to any other
glass measure without detection, as the fresh junction of the new
extremities formed by the cutting can readily be seen.
8. It is obvious that alterations and modifications may be made in the
sizes of the metal band employed, the form of the ends thereof, and the

page_text: manner in which such ends are to be fastened to each other and clinched,
provided always that such band is affixed either round the stem or handle
of the glass measure, and that the fastening of such band is completed
by the application of a drop of solder, as aforesaid, which is stamped by,
the Government inspector or officer, as aforesaid.
9. I claim for my Invention the affixing, in manner herein-before
described, of the Government standard stamp to licensed victuallers' and
other glasses used for the sale of malt and other liquors, but I do not
claim the exclusive use of metal bands, or of solder, respectively, except
when used and applied in combination and for the purpose aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Abraham Cox, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.