IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTS FOR LAMPS. CHANDELIERS. AND ARCHITECTURAL PURPOSES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Hulett, of High Holborn, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTS FOR
LAMPS. CHANDELIERS. AND ARCHITECTURAL PURPOSES."
Sealed the 28th June 1853, and dated the 3rd January 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Hulett
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 3rd January 1853.
I, DAVID HULETT, of High Holborn, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNA-
MENTS FOR LAMPS, CHANDELIERS, AND ARCHITECTURAL PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
My Invention in ornaments for lamps, chandeliers, & similar fit-
tings consists in manufacturing them from stamped iron or tin instead
of stamped brass, as heretofore, by which a considerable saving is
effected. The ornaments I so propose to manufacture are of various
kinds, such as the tops and ends of chandeliers, lamps, and similar
fittings, and they are to be stamped out of tin plate or galvanized sheet
iron by means ordinarily used for stamping. The impressions pro-

page_text: duced will be fully as sharp and effective as those stamped in brass,
and at much less cost. For architectural purposes I propose to manu-
facture rosettes or patera, which are ornaments for the ceilings of
rooms and other places, from similar materials, manufacturing them of
tin, iron, and also of zinc. Hitherto these rosettes or patera have been
made of plaster of paris, papier maché, compo, and other materials.
And my Invention as to this part consists in stamping such rosettes or
patera out of tin plates,.galvanized sheet iron, or rolled zinc plates.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Hulett in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 2nd July 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
DAVID HULETT, of High Holborn, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said David Hulett, Her special licence
that I, the said David Hulett, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said David Hulett, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTS FOR LAMPS, CHANDELIERS, AND ARCHI-
*TECTURAL PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said David Hulett, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Hulett, 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 (that is to say):
Ornaments for lamps, chandeliers, pendants, and like purposes are
ordinarily made from brass, ormolu, or bronze, and are cither cast, cut
out by hand, or stamped, and are expensive in price. Now the object
of my Invention is to cheapen their cost, and I effect this purpose by
stamping such ornaments either in one or more pieces, and in any
required design, out of sheet iron. Any of the well-known stamping
presses or machines may be employed for the purpose, and, if desired, an
embossed or raised surface may be given to such ornaments by the use
of dies. The sheet iron may be tinned or galvanized. To heighten the
effect of these ornaments I purpose in some instances to use brass or
copper in connection, and after the stamping process the ornaments may
be bronzed or coated, as may be found convenient; the same process
is applicable to the manufacture of gas fittings of various kinds,
brackets, lamps, tops and ends of chandeliers, &c. Instead of sheet or
plate iron I propose to use, for the manufacture of some of these
articles, tin plate; from both of these materials ornaments may be
made of any design, effective and sharp, by stamping as herein-before
described.
My Invention further consists in manufacturing ornaments for
architectural and other purposes. For architectural purposes the
principal articles are patera or roses or rosettes for the ceilings of
rooms, halls, and other places, in the centre of which it is usual to
suspend a lamp or chandelier, mouldings for rooms, doors, and other
like purposes, entablatures, frames for doors, mirrors, pictures, &c.
The whole of such articles being manufactured by me from sheet iron
or tin plate by pressing, stamping, or embossing, in manner similar to
the process herein-before described.
And.now having described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it understood
that I do not confine myself to the precise details hereof. But what I
claim is, the manufacture of ornaments for lamps, chandeliers, gas

page_text: fittings, brackets, pendants, and other like purposes, together with
ornaments for the ceilings of rooms, halls, and other places, mouldings,
entablatures, frames for mirrors, and other like purposes, from sheet or
plate iron or tin.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Hulett, have hereunto set 5
my hand and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
D. HULETT. (L.S.)