IMPROVEMENTS www.LARDAR OREANFRED ARTICLES OF GLASS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas George Webb, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Glass Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
www.LARDAR OREANFRED ARTICLES OF GLASS."
Sealed the 15th August 1865, and dated the 22nd February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas George Webb at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd February 1865.
I, THOMAS GEORGE WEBB, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Glass Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED ARTICLES OF GLASS," to be
as follows:-
My Invention consists in the production of ornamented articles of glass by
combining the usual processes of blowing and pressing; ornamental designs
being produced by the latter operation, and attached to the article by the
former.
In order to illustrate the manner in which my Invention is performed, I
will suppose it desired to produce a decanter with an ornamental band or ring

page_text: around it. This band or ring I make by the usual method of pressing, and
then blow the decanter within the said band or ring, whereby the parts
become fixed to each other. In like manner detached devices may be
adapted.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas George Webb in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GEORGE WEBB, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Glass Manufacturer,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas George Webb, Her special license that I, the said Thomas
George Webb,.my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Thomas George, Webb, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTED ARTICLES OF GLASS," upon the
condition, amongst others, that I, the said Thomas George Webb, by an
instrument in writing under my hand, and seal, should particularly 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 Thomas George Webb, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is, to say) :-
My Invention consists in the production of ornamented articles of glass by
combining the usual processes of blowing and pressing; ornamental designs
being produced by the latter operation, and attached to the article by the
former.

page_text: In order to illustrate the manner of carrying my Invention into effect I
will suppose it desired to produce a wine glass or decanter with an ornamental
band around it. In the first place I produce the said ring by pressing in
moulds after the ordinary manner. This ring is then held in a heated state
by pincers or any convenient supports, and the workman inserts the partly
blown article, technically called the paraison, within the heated ring, and then
completes the operation of blowing in the usual manner, by which means the
two parts become united. In like manner detached pieces of ornamental
pressed glass, such as medallions, crests, et cetera, may be adapted in such
cases; however, I prefer, as a matter of convenience, to use moulds within
recesses in which the said detached pieces are placed; and the wine glass,
decanter, or other article is then blown into this mould so as to become
attached to the separate ornamental pieces of pressed glass.
Another application of my Invention may consist in forming a cup-shaped
piece of pressed glass, and then blowing another part on to it, which part may
constitute the upper portion of a wine glass or decanter.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I desire it to be understood
that I claim as secured to me under the above in part recited Letters Patent,
the production of ornamented articles of glass by combining the processes
of "pressing" and "blowing."
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas George Webb, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
THOMAS GEORGE WEBB.
(L.S.)