Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-06
BLASTED ON GLASS.
SECRETS OF A PROCESS OF WHICH
LITTLE Is KNOWN.

An Art Manufacture in Which Chicago
! Occupies "a Prominent PIace-Chat with
i a sand Blast Man--Naking Rub"
Another Process.
| A costly folding bed stood in the front
| hall of mansion on Washington boule-
ward. The furniture men had just LETT it
| and had returned to the store to secure
! the additional help required 10 handle it.
| The lady of the house had callers in the
! parlor who rose 10 go before the furniture
! handlers returned. IL was an elegant
bed, and as the ladies passed TO admire it
! the mistress pulled the gilded handle at
/ the side, and the couch magically unyoked
| itself from the perpendicular part and
( slowly descended. The good lady had
I intended To show her friends how easily
/ ii worked, but had miScalculated the dis
| lance between the bed and the inner
/ lights of the vestibule door Result a
/ crash, half bushel Of fragments of deco
/ rated glass, and $50 job for the sand
/ blast man. The smashed doOrlightF had
/ borne an original design the central figure
| being monogram formed by the initials
Of the name Of the master of the house.
| and when the sand blast man asCertained
/ this he turned 10 his books and found this
entry:
| Peter Wintringham, rub, Sept. A,
| 1884, folio o, page 152."
lie touched an electric bell, had folio 8
brought in, in which, at page 1J2, he
/ fognd proof Of Peter Wintringha1n
door lights. On the proof was the legend:
stencil 8, 1854" He touched another cleo
/ trio bell; to the workman who answered it
/ he sai3 duplicate 1854" and Peter
/ Wintrlngham' vesti5ule presented its
| normal appearance the following week.
HOW TO MAKE \ rub
Before the sand blaster sent the lights TO
Wintringhanl's residence in 1884, he made
rub Of them, and this is how it is
done:
| Put piece of paper on the glass you
wish to get the pattern from, and rub the
paper with n piece Of "heehall' such rs
is commonly used by shocInakers. The
paper must he held firmly in its place. SC
as not 10 slip, il you wish TO get correct
copy. If necessary, get assistance in hold
| ing ii.
'.What is sand blastings'' asked the
writer of a Chicago man whose life has
been spent III decorating glass. The
grinding or decorating Of glass with sand
"A secret process. the inside facts OF
which we cannot disclose. Come up stairs
and see a sand blast machine The ma
chine suggests a cider mill in shape or "A
cheese press. At any rate it's novel
creation, which the artist faithfully rep
resents. The glass is laid on rubber belts
at the side and is then fed into the ma
chine. As soon as IL disappears from
view some rubber flaps come down and
prevent the pressure in the interior from
escaping This pressure If excrted by
wind and saud--a twenty horse power
engine being required to raise the blow"
which drives the sand 20 the glass. Look
ing through the window in the center Of
The machine gun Is disclosed II has
n large, mouth shaped opening. at which
it is loaded with twenty horse power am
munition OF wind and sand Before the
ammunition Is allowed 10 leave the gun
the aperture narrows 10 about one-sixth
the width Of the loading point This con
denses the sand 80 that when II leaves the
gun il strikes the SASS with such force
a. To eat into the surface When the glass
has been thus exposed Il passes out Of the
machine on rUbier belts at the opposite
side. This process IS called grinding and
one machine VIII g-lnd about 800 square
feet in day.
THE DECORATIVE PART.
Vow for the decorative part Suppos.
the sanGbIaster wi he's TO present On a
SQUARE Of glass a certain design. Re sim
Pr covers the surface with beeswax and
y certain mixture laid On over the glass
n exact duplicate q the design desired
TIE glass passes into the machine. The
sand IS fred from the gun. bat this time
i grinGs only the exposed parts. TIE
portion covered with teeswsx and tie
secret mixture i not touched b. tke ssBa.
and when the plate eIle.Ees from re
machine and the wax etc are washed
CT, behold the design standing cot n
sharp coDtTas; % the ground surface
which the S2ad has scaT.Sgd.
This IL the i y c g! sand blasting Tie
process Is susceptible q murh elaboration.
and one Improvement, Syfseh was patented
last year by Chicago gentleman, Is called
Tire 'AIamo-raph The pictures are FIRST
drawn On the back 4 tie glass by tie
artist wfth p coi0r which viii resss: 80
artion o. the sand blast II l. then s1b-
jected 20 the sirsasn q sand which cuts
The glass in al parts which are not covered
mere CT les by the Resistant The resist
II. E. then washed Ct clear, leaving tie
g2s2uces cat INFO the glass. Ihey are next
eflvered over. II desired. 20 give greater
brsIlia8cy. Ire sfcrt l. that Of = raul.i.
plicsty q colors. 0ut no paint or coIorlng
- anr kind il szesI. TIE elect tssns on
tssaesl b. the eilEerprt shades IF TIE glnss
.tsesf &C s.tcaaso ueral4