Improvements in the Manufacture of Looking-glasses.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Looking-glasses.
I, GEORGE SMITH BIGLEY, of 6, Great Saint Helens, in the city of London, in the
county of Middlesex (a communication from abroad by Elias Jacob Elias, of Rangoon,
Burmah, Merchant) 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 :-
The present invention is intended to supply an improved means of securing the
frames of looking-glasses together and for firmly binding veneers to such frames for
use in countries where the climate is hot and much moisture prevails.
In my Patent No. 3218 of 1889 I described an improved method of attaching
veneers to looking-glasses and the invention I am now about to disclose may be
employed as a modification of such former Patent.
In order to render the frames of looking-glasses capable of resisting the climatic
influences to which they are exposed in such countries as Burmah, I use strips or
bands of brass or other metal of a suitable thickness, which I place over the corners
and other parts of looking-glasses where two pieces of the framework are glued
together, and require to be more firmly joined for the reason stated.
The strips or bands of metal are made to conform to the shape of the parts as
joined, whether they be used for corners or for any other part of the framework. By
using small screws or nails driven through holes made for the purpose in the metal
strips or bands and thence into the parts of the framework required to be held
together, it will be seen that a very secure jointure will be effected. In the employ-
ment of metal strips or bands for binding veneers to looking-glasses I place said strips
or bands at suitable distances apart over the veneers. The ends of the strips or bands
next the glass are tucked under the ledge of woodwork which keeps the glass in place
from the front, the other ends of the strips or bands being secured by screws or nails
driven through the metal and veneer and into the framework from the front. Or the
metal strips or bands may be carried round to the side or back of the framework and
there secured with screws or nails.
In order that my invention may be more readily understood I have attached hereto
a sheet of drawings having letters of reference.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the looking-glass, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view
of the stand therefor.
In the figures A refers to the metal strips or bands binding the parts of frame-
work B. together, the said strips or bands being affixed by screws or nails. C. indicates
the metal strips or bands used in binding the veneers D to the framework secured by
screws or nails a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In the manufacture of looking-glasses the employment of metal strips or bands
n addition to the usual adhesive with which to bind together the pieces of wood
orming the framework, the said strips or bands being secured to the framework with
crews or nails to render the jointure more secure substantially as and in the manner
ereinbefore set forth.

page_text: 2. In attaching veneers to looking-glasses the employment of metal strips or bands
in addition to the usual adhesive the said strips or bands being affixed with screws or
nails and by bending under the ledge of framework which holds the glass in place
from the front substantially as and in the manner hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this Ninth day of September 1889.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Agent on behalf of Applicant.