A NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS OF TREATING GLASS AND GLASS- WARE, BY WHICH MEANS A NOVEL AND ORNAMENTAL EFFECT IS PRODUCED
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Wilkes Webb, of the Firm of Thomas Webb and
Sons, of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, Glass Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS OF TREATING GLASS AND GLASS-
WARE, BY WHICH MEANS A NOVEL AND ORNAMENTAL EFFECT IS PRODUCED."
Sealed the 11th March 1879, and dated the 12th October 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Wilkes Webb at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th October 1878.
THOMAS WILKES WEBB, of the Firm of Thomas Webb and Sons, of Stourbridge,
in the County of Worcester, Glass Manufacturer. "A NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS
OF TREATING GLASS AND GLASSWARE, BY WHICH A NOVEL AND ORNAMENTAL
EFFECT IS PRODUCED."
The object of this Invention is by the means herein-after explained to produce a
new and ornamental appearance on the surface of such glassware to which it may
be applied.
The means employed to produce the desired result are substantially as follows:→
In the first place, the surface of the glassware is broken up by immersing the
glass, when in a molten state, in water until the outer surface is a mass of crackles
and irregular forms; it is then blown into the shape desired, and being submitted
to the iridescent process, particularly explained in my Patent, No. 3280, of the
Twenty-ninth August, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, a very
beautiful effect is produced.
It is proper to explain that the immersion in water before referred to as the first
part of my process dues not consist merely in a trifling or single immersion, as is the
case when s
iced" glass is produced, but the immersions in the carrying into effect
of my Invention are necessarily many and frequent, and the molten glass itself is
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page_text: placed in the water in a hotter state than when merely iced glass is desired to be
produced, and it is kept in the water longer, in order to produce the effect desired
by my Invention. Thus, I desire it to be understood that mine is substantially a
distinct and different process, apart from its combination with the iridescent process
already patented by me as before explained.
My Invention is intended to be applied to the ornamentation of articles of colored
glass.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Wilkes Webb in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th
April 1879.
THOMAS WILKES WEBB, of the Firm of Thomas Webb and Sons, of Stourbridge,
in the County of Worcester, Glass Manufacturer. "A NEW OR IMPROVED MEANS
OF TREATING GLASS AND GLASSWARE, BY WHICH A NOVEL AND ORNAMENTAL
EFFECT IS PRODUCED."
The object of this Invention is, by the means herein-after explained, to produce a
new and ornamental appearance on the surface of such glassware to which it may
be applied.
The means employed to produce the desired result aro substantially as follows:-
In the first place, the surface of the glassware is broken up by immersing the
glass, when in a hot or molten state, in water until the outer surface is a mass of
crackles and irregular forms. It is then blown into the shape desired, and being
submitted to the iridescent process particularly explained in my Patent of the
Twenty-ninth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, a very
beautiful effect is produced.
It is proper to explain that the immersion in water before referred to as the first
part of my process does not consist merely in a trifling or single immersion, as is the
case when "iced" glass is produced, but the immersions in the carrying into
effect of my Invention are necessarily many and frequent, and the molten glass
itself is placed in the water in a hotter state than when merely iced glass is desired
to be produced, and it is kept in the water longer, in order to produce the effect
desired by my Invention. Thus, I desire it to be understood that mine is substan-
tially a distinct and different process, apart from its combination with the iridescent
process already patented by me, as before explained.
My Invention is intended to be applied to the ornamentation of articles of colored
glass.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be carried into effect, I desire it to be understood that what I claim
as the Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent
is, the new or improved means for producing the novel and ornamental effect on

page_text: glass and glassware herein-before explained, and which consists substantially in first
breaking up the surface of the glass by immersion, as described, and after blowing
it into the desired shape, submitting the surface to the iridescent process already
patented by me; and I accordingly claim such combined means as aforesaid for the
purposes aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Wilkes Webb, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord 1879.
Witness,
WILLIAM JOHN PELLOW,
Clerk to Mr. G. R. Holland,
Birmingham.
THOS. WILKES WEBB. (L.S.)