US801564A - Glass-bottom mug. - Google Patents

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No. 801,564. PATENTED OCT. l0, 1905. H. H. ALLEN & E. P. GOLDEN.

GLASS BOTTOM MUG.

APPLIOATIoN FILED APR.27.1905.

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HOEAOE II. ALLEN, on sAN EEANeIseO, oALIEonNL/I, AND EUGENE r. ooLnEN, OE MEEIDEN, ooNNEcrIeU'r, AssIe-Nons 'ro IN'IEENATIONAL sILvER OO., OII` MERIOEN, cONII'Ec'rIoUT, AeonroRArIoN or NEW JERSEY.

GLASS-BOTTOM iviiue.

No. 801,564 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 10, 1905,

Application filed April 27, 1905. Serial No. 257,792.

Be it known that we, HORACE H. ALLEN, responding in internal diameter to the external siding at San Francisco, in the county of San diameter ofthe lower end of the body 2. Se 50 Franciscoand Stateof California, and EUGENE cured to the iiange is a hard-metal bushing 5 P. GOLDEN, residing at Meriden, in the county 1Q, forming a Seat for the lower edge of the of New Haven and State of Connecticut, citibody and externally threaded for engagement '/.ens of the United States. have invented a with the ring-3 and extending up to the proper new and useful Vimprovement in Glass-Bottom height, so that it will bear against the under 55 Mugs; and we do hereby declare the followface of the glass bottom 'T and force the same io ing, when taken in connection with the aceom i into close contact with the lip i, causing the panying drawings and the numerals of referrib to be forced into the washer 8. At the ence marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and same time the collar 11 will overlap the lower exact description of the same, and which said end of the body. If the cup be made from 6o drawings constitute part of this specification, hard metal, the Iing 3 and bushing 12 may be I5 and represent. inf formed integral with the body and base re- Figure l, aside view, partially in section, oi' spectively. [f the glass bottom becomes a glass-bottom mug constructed in accordance broken, it is only necessary to unscrew the with our invention; Fig. Q, an underside view base from the body and remove the bottom 65 of the mug with the base and bottom removed. and substitute another one therefor. The

2O This invention relates to an improvement in base may then be again screwed into position, glass-bottom mugs, and particularly such as the washer packing a joint between the ring are formed from metal. In the use of such and the bottom so as to make a water-tight mugs the glass bottoms become broken and joint, the bushingand-collaralsocoactingwith 7o so that unless provision is made .for removing the lower edge of the mug for the same object.

the bottoms the mugs are discontinued. Yalt will thus be seen that by a very simple arrious devices have been arranged to permit rangement of parts glass-bottom mugs may the removal of the bottom; but thus far such be produced the bottoms of which may be devices have a tendency to leak. readily removed and replaced, and at the same 75 'ilheobject of this invention is to construct a time the possiiiiility of leakage is practically mug with a removable bottom and make the avoided.

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and an upwardly-extending collar ll, corresame water-tight; and the invention consists ilaving fully described our invention, what in the construction hereinafter described and g we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letparticularly recited in the claim. l ters Patent, is- 8o The main body 2 of the Inug may be of any 1. A glass-bottom mug consisting ofa body ordinary design. These are usually formed open at the bottom and having an internallyfrom pewter or britannia-ware and are open threaded ring at its lower edge, said ring at the bottom. If formed from soft metal, a formed with aninwardly-extending lip having ring 3, of hard metal, is located at the bottom a rib in its under face combined with a glass 85 of the body, and the face of this ringis formed bottom adapted to set inside the ring, a washer with threads i. The upper edge of this ring located between the upper face of the bottom is formed with an inwardly-extending lip 6 and the said lip, and a base adapted to be conformed in its under face with an annular rib nected with said bottom and having` a bushing 5. Between the upper face of the glass boti engaging with said ring and holding the bot- 90 tom 7 and the under face of the lip 6 a washer tom in place, substantially as described.

8, of cork or other suitable material, is located. 2. A glass-bottom mug consistingof a body, The base 9, also usually of soft Inetal, is a ring located at the lower edge thereoialip formed with an inwardly-extending flange l0 projecting inward from the upper edge of said ring', en annuler rib in the under face of said specification in the presence ot' tWo subscriblip, a glass bottom adapted to set Within said ing Witnesses.

ring, a washer arranged between the upper 1 face of said bottom and the said lip, a base E' 5 having an inwardly-extending Harige, and an upwardly-extending collar, a. bushing secured vWitnesses for Allen: to said flange and adapted to engage with said C. C. BROOKS, ring and hold the bottom in place, said collar GEO. W. DOYER.

extending upward over the lower edge of said l/Vitnesses for Golden: IO body, substantially as described. C. K. DECHERD,

In testimony whereof we have signed this SAML. SIMPSON.

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