AN IMPROVED METHOD OR METHODS OF COMBINING GLASS WITH METAL, METALE, OR OTHER SUBSTANCES APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES
Year: 1831

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JoHN
GUNDY, of George Street, Sand Pitts, Birmingham, Artist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eleventh day of February, in the first year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Gunby, His especial licence, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
John Gunby, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said
John Gunby, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OR METHODS OF COMBINING GLASS WITH METAL, METALE,
OR OTHER SUBSTANCES APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John
Gunby, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Gunby, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and the following
description thereof (that is to say) :-

page_text: The object of my said method or methods of combining glass with metal,
metals, or other substances, is to form therewith useful and ornamental vases,
fonts, or other vessels fitted for communion or other religious services, baths,
desert services, ice pails, wine coolers, &c., and also decorations for toilet and
other tables, candelabras, lamps and lustres, compartments or pateras for
ceilings, cornices, and piers, and also for pagodas, chess boards, and for many
other purposes, which need not be more particularly mentioned here, the
method or methods being capable of application in an infinato variety of
ways.
In order however to furnish an example of my method or methods of com-
bining glass with metal, metals, or other substances, I shall proceed to describe
the Figures contained in the Drawing hereunto annexed, in which A, Fig. 1,
represents a vase formed or framed of metal, metals, or any other fit and proper
material or materials, and the body of which vase may be either made of one
or more parts combined in a substantial manner, and either solid or in the
manner of frame or open work as may be required. This body I decorate
with glass in the following manner :-B, in Fig. 1, represents one of a
series of similarly shaped pieces, which are constructed and combined as
follows: In Fig. 2, B is a section of the said piece, which is composed of a
metal plate C, C, properly fitted to that part of the vase where it is to be
applied; D, D, are two metal studs firmly affixed by soldering or otherwise
to the inner surface of the said metal plate, and having holes through them to
receive pins, by means of which pins the said plate can be secured to the body
A of the vase, holes being provided therein to receive the said studs; E, E,
is a plate of glass shaped to the form of the metal plate B, and made to fit it
accurately by means of heat applied in the usual manner of glass bending.
The inner side of this glass plate may then be cut or ornamented in the usual
It may
manner of glass grinding or cutting, and either be polished or not.
then be decorated by the application of gold, silver, platina, bronze, and other
metals either in the form of leaves or powders by means of a weak solution of
isinglas or other size, and the interstices be ornamented with colours mixed
with oil, varnish, or gold size; previous to this, however, the exterior surface of
the glass plate may if necessary be also ornamented by cutting and polishing,
and either conformably to the design executed on the interior surface of it, or
otherwise as may be required. The decorations upon the interior of the glass
plate must now be secured by repeated coats of oil colour applied over them,
cach coat being dried in a stove, when it will be ready to be affixed upon the
metal plate B either by means of resinous or oil cements applied between them,
and with the assistance of heat. Or, otherwise a border of soft metal may be

page_text: affixed by soldering or otherwise around the plate B, and which may be turned
over the edges of the glass plate, or in place of a border of soft metal, detached
parts only may be affixed to the edges of the plate B for a similar purpose.
These combined glass and metal plates may then be affixed around the body
of the vase A, Fig. 1, by means of the studs D, D, Fig. 2, which must be
passed through the holes made in the body of the vase to receive them, as
before mentioned, and be then secured by the pins being driven into the holes
made in the said studs, or the studs may screwed and secured by screwed
nuts. In like manner other series of glass and metal plates combined in the
above method must be formed to clothe the different parts F, G, and H of the
vase A, Fig. 1, and also the decorated collars I and J, which may be con-
structed in a similar way, and be firmly combined with the body of the vase
by means of screws with screwed nuts or otherwise, and instead of forming the
body of the vase in one pieco only, I sometimes construct it of several parts
combined together by means of screws in the usual manner.
Having thus afforded an example of carrying my said Invention into effect, I
hereby declare that I do not mean or intend thereby to limit myself to the
employment of that method only; but to claim the liberty of varying my said.
methods of combining glass with metal, metals, or other substances in any
other fit and proper manner, and according to the nature and objects of the
several purposes it is to be applied to.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Gunby, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One