Improvements in Reflectors and in the Production of Reflecting Surfaces for Decorative and other Uses.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in Reflectors and in the Production of Reflecting
Surfaces for Decorative and other Uses.
I, MARGUERITE HEALE of 46 Netherwood Road, West Kensington in the County
of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN REFLECTORS AND IN THE PRODUCTION OF REFLECTING SURFACES FOR
DECORATIVE AND OTHER USES," to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in reflectors and in the production
of reflecting surfaces for decorative and other uses.
For the manufacture of my improved reflectors I employ thin sheets of mica and
I silver these sheets-Thus prepared the sheets reflect light as perfectly as a glass
mirror whilst at the same time they are very pliable and can be fashioned and bent
to any form required.
The thin sheets of mica when silvered are cut to any form which may be
required and they are then set in a frame which may be of tin plate or other
material and which holds the silvered strips of mica in the form curvature and
position required for the reflector.
Mica prepared as I have described is applicable for use in decoration, also to
produce ornamental effects in stage dress and for many like purposes.
:
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Surfaces for Decorative and other Uses.
I, MARGUERITE HEALE of 46 Netherwood Road, West Kensington in the County
of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:—
This invention has for its object improvements in reflectors and in the production
of reflecting surfaces for decorative and other uses.
For the manufacture of my improved reflectors I employ thin sheets of mica and
I silver these sheets. Thus prepared the sheets reflect light as perfectly as a glass.
mirror whilst at the same time they are very pliable and can be fashioned and bent
to any form required.
The thin sheets of mica when silvered are cut to any form which may be
required and they are then set in a frame which may be of tin plate or other
material and which holds the silvered strips of mica in the form curvature and
position required for the reflector.
Mica prepared as I have described is applicable for use in decoration, also to
produce ornamental effects in stage dress and for many like purposes.
There are many well known silvering processes hitherto employed to give a
metallic reflecting surface to glass, and by any of these processes I cause mica to be
silvered. Or in place of thus obtaining a metallic deposition by a chemical process
the plates of mica may be "silvered" with mercury and tin by the process
commonly employed in the production of mirrors. The mica when it has thus
received a reflecting coating is employed in the manner already described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
A reflector or reflecting surface of mica having a closely adherent coating or
covering of metal substantially as described.