IMPROVED ECCLESIASTICAL DECORATIONS FOR SCREENS AND OTHER PARTS OF CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES, APPLICABLE 24 PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hugh Reginald Haweis, of 16, Welbeck Street,
Cavendish Square, in the County of Middlesex, a Clerk in Holy
Orders, for the Invention of "IMPROVED ECCLESIASTICAL DECORATIONS
FOR SCREENS AND OTHER PARTS OF CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES, APPLICABLE
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hugh Reginald Haweis
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th March 1873.
I, HUGH REGINALD HAWEIS, of 16, Welbeck Street, Cavendish
Square, in the County of Middlesex, a Clerk in Holy Orders, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED ECCLESIASTICAL
DECORATIONS FOR SCREENS AND OTHER PARTS OF CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES,
APPLICABLE ALSO TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS," to be as follows:-
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This Invention consists of a smooth or cut globe or sphere of crystal
or glass, either hollow or solid, empty or filled with liquid; or instead of
an entire globe or sphere a semi-globe or semi-sphere, or a lens, or a
magnifying glass may be employed.

page_text: The aforesaid globe or semi-globe may either be suspended from or
fixed against a wall, door, or other surface in such a manner as to allow
light to pass into or through the aforesaid globe or semi-globe through
an aperture or perforation in the said wall or other like surface, the said
hole or perforation being situated immediately behind the globe or semi- t
globe.
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I also place or arrange at a few inches from the back of the said
globe, semi-globe, lens, or magnifying glass pieces of stained or colored
glass, transparent enamel, talc, or a vitreous or diaphinous paper, glazed
or otherwise prepared; or I arrange in a movable, rotating, or fixed 1
slide in one or more pieces of divers colors arranged in such a way as to
exclude the passage of all light in any other way than through the
aforesaid colored medium, and thence through the globe, semi-globe,
lens, or magnifying glass.
The aforesaid colored medium may be composed of single pieces, or 1
any number of mixed pieces of the above-named materials, the fragments
of which in such case may be put into motion and caused to rotate or
otherwise move in the stationary or fixed slide, or they may be at rest,
or the slide itself may be caused to rotate or move transversely or other-
wise; or both the slide and its contents may be in motion, or both at ?
rest or fixed.
The aforesaid movement may either be effected similarly to that of the
well-known kaleidoscope, or by a clockwork movement for the rotating
slide, or the slide may be worked simply by strings or pulleys, or be
merely adjusted by the hand. The light may be either natural or a gas
jet, candle, or lamp, or reflected light behind the slide or colored
medium.
I would here observe that I do not intend to limit this Invention to
globes, spheres, semi-spheres, lenses, or magnifying glasses, but employ..
other shapes than those above mentioned; and instead of using stained a
or colored glass, as above stated, the magnifier or globe may be filled
with colored fluid, or the light may be made to pass through a vessel
containing colored fluid placed between the light and the globe, or lens,
or simple disc of plain glass, tale, or other suitable substance or material.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Hugh Reginald Haweis in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 17th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HUGH
REGINALD HAWEIS, of 16, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, in the
County of Middlesex, a Clerk in Holy Orders, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Hugh Reginald Haweis,
Her special licence that I, the said Hugh Reginald Haweis, my ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Hugh Reginald Haweis, my executors, administrators, and 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 "IMPROVED ECCLESIASTICAL DECORATIONS FOR
SCREENS AND OTHER PARTS OF CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Hugh Reginald Haweis, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, 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 Hugh Reginald Haweis, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :—

page_text: an entire globe or sphere a semi-globe or semi-sphere, or a lens, or a
magnifying glass may be employed.
The aforesaid globe or semi-globe may either be suspended from or
fixed against a wall, door, or other surface in such a manner as to allow
light to pass into or through the aforesaid globe or semi-globe through
an aperture or perforation in the said wall or other like surface, the said
hole or perforation being situated immediately behind the globe or semi-
globe.
I also place or arrange at a few inches from the back of the said
globe, semi-globe, lens, or magnifying glass pieces of stained or colored
glass, transparent enamel, tale, or a vitreous or diaphinous paper, glazed
or otherwise prepared; or I arrange in a movable, rotating, or fixed
slide, in one or more pieces of divers colors, arranged in such a way as
to exclude the passage of all light in any other way than through the
aforesaid colored medium, and thence through the globe, semi-globe,
lens, or magnifying glass.
The aforesaid colored medium may be composed of single pieces or any
number of mixed pieces of the above-named materials, the fragments of
which in such case may be put into motion and caused to rotato or
otherwise move in the stationary or fixed slide; or they may be at rest,
or the slide itself may be caused to rotate or move transversely or other-
wise, or both the slide and its contents may be in motion, or both at rest
or fixed.
The aforesaid movement may either be effected similarly to that of the
well-known kaleidoscope, or by a clockwork movement for the rotating
slide ; or the slide may be worked simply by strings or pulleys, or be
merely adjusted by the hand. The light may be either natural, or a gas
jet, candle, or lamp, or reflected light behind the slide, or colored
medium.
I would here observe that I do not intend to limit this Invention to
globes, spheres, semi-spheres, lenses, or magnifying glasses, but employ
other shapes than those above mentioned; and instead of using stained
or colored glass, as above stated, the magnifier or globe may be filled
with colored fluid, or the light may be made to pass through a vessel
containing colored fluid placed between the light and the globe, or lens,
or simple disc of plain glass, talc, or other suitable substance or material.

page_text: Figure 1 represents a front elevation of this Invention partly in
section; Figure 2 is a transverse and vertical section through the
line A, B, at Figure 1. At each of these Figures similar letters of
reference are placed upon corresponding parts.
A marks a screen, wall, partition, or door, with a hole B made through
it; C is a solid or hollow globe of crystal or glass, supported by the fixed
claw D; E is a revolving disc of metal, formed in compartments a, a,
fitted with glass, between which loose pieces of glass of different colors
are placed similar to a kaleidoscope, or the glass of the compartments
may be colored and fixed, each of a different color or combination of
colors; the disc E is caused to revolve on an axis F by clockwork in the
case G fixed to the top of a case H, which is also fixed to the back of
the screen A; I is a sliding piece of wood, held in grooves in the back of
the case H; and K is a polished metal reflector fixed to I; L is a gas
jet or burner for reflecting the rays of light from the jet L on to the
globe C; M is a daylight reflector, hinged to the [case H at b. When
daylight is used the reflector K is slidden on one side to allow the rays
of natural light to pass through colored glass in the compartments of the
rotating disc E. By this arrangement varied colored rays will be made
to pass through the globe C and produce a beautiful effect, which may
be altered as desired.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my
said Invention for "Improved Ecclesiastical Decorations for Screens and
other parts of Cathedrals and Churches, applicable also to Public and
Private Buildings," and the means by which it may be effected, I would
remark in conclusion that I do not claim the exclusive use of any of the
separate parts above mentioned and referred to except in so far as the
same may be employed in combination and for the purposes of my said
Invention, which I hereby declare to consist in and I claim, the
arrangements and combinations, above described, in and for the construc-

page_text: tion of ecclesiastical decorations, as above stated, and represented by the
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hugh Reginald Haweis, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.