IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Kent, of Chichester, in the County of
Sussex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Kent at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th October 1852.
I, ALFRED KENT, of Chichester, in the County of Sussex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of employing grooved rafters or frames.
through which screws pass, and the plates or sheets of glass, in place
of being fixed by putty or cement, are fixed by screw nuts, there being
felt, india-rubber, or such like elastic soft materials to bed the sheets
ou, and to prevent the screw nuts or fastenings coming in contact with
the glass.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Kent in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 7th April 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ALFRED KENT, of Chichester, in the County of Sussex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Kent, Her special licence
that I, the said Alfred Kent, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Alfred Kent, my excentors, adminis-
trators, 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 GLAZING,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Kent, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Alfred Kent, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of employing grooved rafters or frames
through which screws pass, and the plates or sheets of glass, in place of
being fixed by putty or cement, are fixed by screw nuts, there being
felt, india-rubber, or such like elastic soft materials to bed the sheets
on, and to prevent the screw nuts or fastenings coming in contact with
glass.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, shows the section of a rafter or part of a frame such as I
employ. Figure 2, shows two of such rafters or bearers, with three
plates of glass thereon, together with screws, by which such sheets or
plates of glass are fixed; these screws pass from the under side up
through the rafters or bearers to such a height as to receive thereon
the covering fillets or plates, Figure 3, and the screw nuts. The
rafters or bearers A, A, are made with grooves or gutters, as shown;
c, c, are the screws. The plates of glass B, B, are bedded on felt, vul-
canized india-rubber, or other soft material. C, is the form of screw
nuts used; and d, is the covering fillets.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is, the mode of glazing herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Kent, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
EDWARD WARREN, of Chichester.
ALFRED KENT. (L.S.)