IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL VASES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS."
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Wilkes Webb, of Dennis Hall, in the County of
Stafford, Glass Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL VASES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS."
ed the 28th November 1876, and dated the 9th June 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Wilkes Webb at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1876.
THOMAS WILKES WEBB, of Dennis Hall, in the County of Stafford, Glass Manu-
facturer. ** IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL VASES AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS."
My Invention consists in the production of designs in leaves, ribbons, and other
forms on the surface of vases and other articles of glass in the process of blowing
without the necessity of enamelling or painting as usual after the articlo has been
blown.
For this purpose pieces of glass of varied forms and lengths to suit the required
design are applied in a heated state to the outer surface of the ball of glass intended
to form a vase or other article. While the mass of glass is in this ball form the
said external pieces are drawn in the direction required for the particular design
intended to be produced; the ball of glass is then blown in the usual way into
the form of a vase or other desired shape, by which process of blowing the said
external pieces of semi-fluid glass will become expanded so as to form the intended
design on the surface of the vase or other article, which is then finished in the
usual way.
By means of the process above described vases and other articles in glass may
be produced with their external surfaces ornamented with designs of various forms
and colours without enamelling or painting.
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 8th
December 1876.
THOMAS WILKES WEBB, of Dennis Hall, in the County of Stafford, Glass Manu-
facturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL VASES AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS."
My Invention of "Improvements in the Manufacture of Ornamental Vases and
other Articles of Glass" consists in the production of designs in leaves, ribbons,
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page_text: and other forms on the surface of vases and other articles of glass in the process of
blowing without the necessity of enamelling or painting as usual after the article
has been blown.
For this purpose pieces of glass of varied forms and lengths to suit the required
design are applied in a heated state to the outer surface of the ball of glass intended
to form a vase or other article. While the mass of glass is in this ball form the
said external pieces are drawn in the directions required for the particular design
intended to be produced, the ball of glass is then blown in the usual way into
the form of a vase or other desired shape, by which process of blowing the said
external pieces of semi-fluid glass will become expanded so as to form the intended
design on the surface of the vase or other article, which is then finished in the
usual way.
By means of the process above described vases and other articles in glass may
be produced with their external surfaces ornamented with designs of various forms
and colours without enamelling or painting.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I hereby declare that what I claim as of my Invention is,
the manufacture of vases and other articles in glass in the manner described,
whereby ornamental designs are produced on the surfaces of the same, such designs
being developed as required by the process of blowing from pieces of glass applied
in a heated state to the mass of glass (intended to form a vase or other article)
while on the ball form, thereby dispensing with the necessity of enamelling or
painting as usual after the article has been blown, in order to produce such orna-
mental effects on the surface of the said articles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Wilkes Webb, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
WILLIAM SPENCE,
8, Quality Court,
Chancery Lane.
THOS. WILKES WEBB. (L.S.)