Improvements in Glazed Panels for Furniture and Interior Decorative Work.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Glazed Panels for Furniture and Interior
Decorative Work.
I, THOMAS JAMES of High Street, Merton, in the County of Surrey, Joiner
and Cabinet Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to the ornamental tracery or sash bars by which the glass
is usually fixed in panels such as the doors of bookcases, cabinets, partitions, and
other ornamental furniture or decorative work for interiors.
It is usual to first fix the tracery or sash bars in the frame of the panel and then
to fill the spaces in with pieces of glass of shapes corresponding to the apertures
between the bars or tracery.
According to my invention, which is designed to cheapen the cost of making this
class of work, I first fill the whole panel with a single sheet of glass and then
apply on opposite sides thereof imitation sash bars or fillets whereby an exactly
similar appearance to ordinary glazed panels is obtained.
These imitation sash bars or fillets may be made of wood, with or without a
metal or tortoiseshell facing, ivory, bouc, celluloid, or other material, and they are
fixed to the glass by a glue or cement which will not be affected by moisture.
To make a panel or door of this description, the pattern is first drawn on paper
upon which the sash bars or fillets are fitted together by mitreing in the ordinary
way and numbered, after which the pane of glass is laid over the paper pattern and
the fillets again fitted together and applied on the glass by glueing, as above
mentioned.
Similar sash bars would be applied upon the inside of the glass so as to complete
the resemblance to ordinary sash bars which would be puttied all round, as usual in
glazing.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Glazed Panels for Furniture and Interior
Decorative Work..
I, THOMAS JAMES of High Street, Merton, in the County of Surrey, Joiner
and Cabinet Maker, 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 :-
My invention relates to the ornamental tracery or sash-bars by which the glass
is usually fixed in panels such as the doors of book-cases, cabinets, partitions, and
other ornamental furniture or decorative work for interiors or exteriors.
It is usual to first fix the tracery or sash-bars in the frame of the panel and then
to fill the spaces in with pieces of glass of shapes corresponding to the apertures
between the bars or tracery.
According to my invention which is designed to cheapen the cost of making this
class of work, I fill the whole panel with a single sheet of glass (which may either
be plain, colored, or embossed) having applied on opposite sides thereof imitation
sash-bars, mouldings, or fillets, whereby an exactly similar appearance to ordinary

page_text: glazed panels is obtained without the trouble of cutting to various shapes and
separately fixing a number of pieces of glass. These imitation sash-bars or fillets
may be made of wood with or without metals or tortoise-shell facing, ivory, bone,
celluloid, or other material and. they are fixed. to the glass by a glue or cement
which will not be affected by moisture.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein
Figure 1 is a face view of a glazed panel or door, say for a bookcase, made
according to my invention and Figure 2 is a cross-section of same on line 1-1
Figure 1.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in both figures.
To make a panel or door of this description, the pattern is first drawn on paper
upon which the fillets a are fitted together by mitreing in the ordinary way and
numbered to facilitate replacement in the same positions after which the pane
of glass c (which has already been fixed in the frame of the panel) is laid over the
paper pattern and the fillets a again fitted together within the panel frame and fixed
on the glass by gluing, as above mentioned. The operation is similar with respect
to the fillets which conjointly with those a, represent the complete sash-bars these
fillets being applied upon the inside of the glass so as to coincide in position with
the fillets a and complete the resemblance to ordinary sash-bars, the marginal fillets
being glued to the frame d.
In the example illustrated, the fillets a represent the moulded front portions and
those the back portions of sash-bars but in certain cases, for glazed partitioning
for example, the fillets may be alike on both sides. The frame d containing the
glass with the fillets applied on the front and back thereof, is fitted by suitable
rebates between the stiles and cross-bars of the door, partition, window-frame, or
other structure to which it is to be applied.
My invention may be applied for the ornamentation of existing fan-lights, side
lights of porticoes, over doors. and windows at present glazed with a plain sheet of
glass to which the false bars and tracery may be applied in the manner above-
described without removing the glass from its frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare. that .what I
claim is :
The manufacture of glazed panels for furniture, partitions, windows, and
decorative work, of a single glass sheet fixed in a frame in combination with false
fillets applied on its two faces to represent the tracery or sash-bars, substantially as
specified.
Dated this 17th now av
THOMAS JAMES,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent-Agents.
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