CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND MATERIALS USED IN REPRESENTING THE GLASS PARTS OF GAS AND LAMP FITTINGS AND CHANDELIERS, AS WELL AS THE REPRESENTING OF LUSTRES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS ON SHOW CARDS, PATTERN BOOKS, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS RELATING TO THE SAME
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Thomas Stroud, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, General Lamp and Chandelier Manufacturer, for the Inven-
tion of CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND MATERIALS USED IN
REPRESENTING THE GLASS PARTS OF GAS AND LAMP FITTINGS AND CHANDELIERS,
AS WELL AS THE REPRESENTING OF LUSTRES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS
ON SHOW CARDS, PATTERN BOOKS, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS RELATING TO THE
SAME."
Sealed the 21st March 1865, and dated the 24th September 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Thomas Stroud at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th September 1864.
I, JOHN THOMAS STROUD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
General Lamp and Chandelier Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of my said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND MATERIALS
USED IN REPRESENTING THE GLASS PARTS OF GAS AND LAMP FITTINGS AND CHANDE-
LIERS, AS WELL AS THE REPRESENTING OF LUSTRES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS
ON SHOW CARDS, PATTERN BOOKS, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS RELATING TO THE SAME,"
to be as follows (that is to say):-
My improvements relate to the means of representing glass or the glass

page_text: parts of lamps, chandeliers, lustres, or other articles on paper for pattern books,
pattern sheets, or general trade illustrations, and this I effect in the following
way, assuming that such designs are wholly or partly produced by lithography
or other such like convenient means of printing or producing the desired
article or articles either in colours or in outline to be afterward coloured by
hand.
I purpose printing or otherwise coating or partially coating the parts
intended to represent glass with some suitable glutinous preparation or muci-
lage, after which I purpose applying over the part thus printed, or on which
the glutinous mixture or mucilage has been applied, silver or other bronze or
leaf, or other suitable fine metallic powder, which after being applied a little
time is to be brushed over with a soft or suitable brush, which will not only
sweep away the superfluous coating, but with its pressure fix on-the-glutinous
material used a sufficient coating of the said silver, bronze, leaf, or other
metallic powder, leaving the design keen or soft on its outline as may be
desired. Thus produced, the design will present a soft, silvery, glass-like
appearance, which will be attractive. and effective for the object before
expressed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Thomas Stroud in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th March 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Join
THOMAS STROUD, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, General Lamp
and Chandelier Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousaud eight hundred and sixty-four, in. the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for- Herself, Her heirs and successors,, give and grant unto me,
the said John Thomas Stroud, Her special license that I, the said John Thomas
Stroud, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John Thomas Stroud, my executors, administrators, or 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

page_text: "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND MATERIALS USED IN REPRESENTING
THE GLASS PARTS OF GAS AND LAMP FITTINGS AND CHANDELIERS, AS WELL AS THE
REPRESENTING OF LUSTRES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS ON SHOW CARDS,
PATTERN BOOKS, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS; RELATING TO THE SAME," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Thomas Stroud, 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 John Thomas Stroud, 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:
My improvements relate to the means of representing glass or the glass
parts of lamps, chandeliers, lustres, or other articles on paper or other suitable
substance for pattern books, pattern sheets, or for general trade illustrations or
display, and this I effect in the following way, assuming that such designs
are wholly or partly produced by lithography or other such like convenient
means of printing or producing the desired article or articles either in colours
or in outline to be afterwards coloured by hand.
65
I purpose printing or otherwise coating or partially coating the parts
intended to represent glass with some suitable glutinous preparation or muci-
lage, or the oil varnish generally used by lithographers, and designated by them
lithographic varnish," a material which is inexpensive and well suited for
the purpose; after which I purpose applying over the part thus printed, or on
which the glutinous mixture, mucilage, or varnish has been applied, silver or
other bronze or leaf, or other suitable fine metallic bright or silver-like powder,
which after being applied a little time is to be brushed over with a soft or
suitable brush, which will not only sweep away the superfluous coating,
but with its pressure fix a sufficient amount of the said silver, bronze, leaf,
or other metallic powder on the glutinous material or lithographic varnish
used in the printing beneath, leaving the design keen or soft on its outline as
may be desired. Thus produced, the design will present a soft, silvery, glass-
like appearance, which will be attractive and effective for the objects and
purposes herein-before named.
Having now given a concise description of my Invention, together with its
object, purpose, and use, I wish it understood that what I claim as of my

page_text: Invention, and wish protected by these my in part recited Letters Patent is,
the representing of glass for show cards, pattern sheets, and other illumined
productions by the use of bronze or leaf as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Thomas Stroud, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM LOACH,
Clerk to James S. Cockings,
Patent Agent,
Birmingham.
JOHN THOS. STROUD. (L.S.).