IMPROVEMENTS IN DOOR, SHUTTER, AND BELL KNOBS AND FURNITURE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Cross Sanders, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DOOR,
SHUTTER, AND BELL KNOBS AND FURNITURE."
Sealed the 21st July 1868, and dated the 23rd January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cross Sanders.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 23rd January 1868.
I, JOHN CROSS SANDERS, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DOOB, SHUTTER, AND BELL KNOBS AND FURNITURE," to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain improvements in the manufacture
of door, shutter, and bell knobs and furniture, whereby the orna-

page_text: mentation of such articles according to any desired pattern is greatly
facilitated. A mould of metal or other suitable material is prepared of
the shape which it is desired the exterior of the knob or other article
shall possess, and glass, either coloured or colourless, is poured therein
in a molten state. Any desired pattern is then impressed upon the
upper surface of the molten glass whilst the latter is in the mould, by
means of suitable stamps or dies. When cold and hard the glass is
removed from the mould, the edges trimmed, and such portions of the
impressed pattern as it is desired shall be of a different colour or colours
from the rest of the glass are painted. The glass is then placed in a
metallic mounting in the manner well understood by persons conversant
with the manufacture of such articles. The effect of brilliancy being
given to the pattern by placing metallic foil or other suitable burnished
or polished material of any desired colour between the glass and the
metallic back or mounting.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Cross Sanders in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CROSS SANDERS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Cross Sanders, Her special
licence that I, the said John. Cross Sanders, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Cross Sanders, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DOOR, SHUTTER, AND BELL KNOBS AND FURNITURE," upon

page_text: the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Cross Sanders, 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 John Cross Sanders, 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 :-
My said Invention consists in certain improvements in the
manufacture of door, shutter, and bell knobs and furniture, whereby
the ornamentation of such articles according to any desired pattern is
greatly facilitated. A mould of metal or other suitable material is
prepared of the shape or form which it is desired the exterior of the
knob or other article shall possess, and glass, either coloured or
colourless, is poured therein in a molten state. Any desired pattern
is then impressed upon the upper surface of the molten glass whilst
the latter is in the mould by means of suitable stamps or dies. When
cold and hard the glass is removed from the mould, the edges trimmed,
and such portions of the impressed pattern as it is desired shall be of
a different colour or colours from the rest of the glass are painted.
The glass is then placed in a metallic mounting in the manner well
understood by persons conversant with the manufacture of such articles.
The effect of brilliancy being given to the pattern by placing metallic
foil or other suitable burnished or polished material of any desired colour
or colours between the glass and the metallic back or mounting.
By means of my said Invention articles of all such kinds as come
within its scope are produced possessing great attractiveness and beauty
of colour and design, whilst such results are obtained at a very
small cost.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which it is to be performed, I would
observe in conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and
therefore claim as constituting the Invention secured to me by the said
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the method of manu-

page_text: facturing door, shutter, and bell knobs and furniture, substantially as
herein-before set forth, or any mere modifications thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Cross Sanders, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
JOHN CROSS SANDERS. (L.S.)