IMPROVED MEANS OF PRODUCING DESIGNS AND DEVICES UPON THE SURFACE OF GLASS AND GLAZED WARE
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Rees, of Holloway, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MEANS OF PRODUCING
DESIGNS AND DEVICES UPON THE SURFACE OF GLASS AND GLAZED WARE."
Sealed the 18th June 1869, and dated the 24th February 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said 'George Rees at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th February 1869.
I, GEORGE REES, of Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED MEANS
OF PRODUCING DESIGNS AND DEVICES UPON THE SURFACE OF GLASS AND GLAZED
WARE," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to produce ornaments or devices by
vitrifying pounded glass upon glass and glazed ware, or by cementing
together fragments of coloured glass or glazed ware arranged in patterns
or not, by vitrifying a layer of pounded glass on to and amongst such
fragments. The glass after it is pounded is sifted through sieves, the
meshes of which correspond to the sizes of the particles of glass intended

page_text: to be used on the surface of the glass or glazed ware. By way of
example I take a sheet of glass, whether polished or not, and prepare
the surface by brushing or otherwise applying a gummy or other
adhesive liquid thereon; I then sprinkle pounded glass over the gum
which adheres to it; the glass thus prepared is placed in a furnace or
under heat in any suitable manner in order to vitrify the pounded glass
upon the surface of the sheet glass. The pounded glass may be of one or
a mixture of colours, or the sheet glass may be of a white or other colour.
When I require to form a pattern on the surface of the sheet of glass I
cover the intended part or parts with gum, and then sprinkle the required
coloured pounded glass on it, then the other portions of the pattern are
likewise similarly prepared and pounded glass of a different colour is
sprinkled on those. These operations are repeated until the required
number of colours are sprinkled on, the sheet of glass is heated to the
required degree to reduce the pounded glass to almost a liquid state;
when the sheet of glass is removed from the furnace the pounded glass
is found to have fixed itself into or on to the surface and forms a rough
face. Sometimes I leave the sprinkled sheet of glass under heat for a
longer time to enable the pounded glass to run and intermix itself in the
surface, and thus produce a more smooth face.
In carrying out the second of the above described methods of this
process I take broken or shaped fragments of colored glass or glazed
ware or other substances, such as bars or scrolls of any metal, and arrange
them in any desired pattern or device, placing them on a tray or plate or
on paper or in a metal mould or frame, and I then dust or spread over
them a layer of pounded glass or other vitreous substance, either dry or
mixed moist into a paste, with or without a mixture of suitable fluxes, in
such a manner that the powder shall to a certain extent enter the
interstices between the fragments or portions of glass or other substance
forming the pattern, and shall cover the entire back surface of the
pattern to such a depth as may be convenient. I then remove the whole
to a furnace and vitrify the mass, thus cementing together with a
thoroughly vitrified cement my coloured device and giving it a solid
back.
The above method of producing ornaments and devices upon the
surface of glass is applicable to producing the same upon all kinds of
glass vessels or articles and upon glazed ware generally.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Rees in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th August 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
REES, of Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS
Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Rees, Her special licence
that I, the said George Rees, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Rees, 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 MEANS
OF PRODUCING DESIGNS AND DEVICES UPON THE SURFACE OF GLASS AND GLAZED
WARE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Rees, 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 George Rees, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to produce ornaments or devices by
vitrifying pounded glass upon glass and glazed ware, or by cementing
together fragments of colored glass or glazed ware, arranged in patterns
or not, by vitrifying a layer of pounded glass on to and amongst such
fragments. The glass after it is pounded is sifted through sieves, the

page_text: meshes of which correspond to the sizes of the particles of glass intended
to be used on the surface of the glass or glazed ware. By way of
example I take a sheet of glass whether polished or not, and prepare
the surface by brushing or otherwise applying a gummy or other
adhesive liquid thereon; I then sprinkle pounded glass over the gum
which adheres to it; the glass thus prepared is placed in a furnace or
under heat in any suitable manner in order to vitrify the pounded glass
upon the surface of the sheet glass. The pounded glass may be of one
or a mixture of colours, or the sheet glass may be of a white or other
colour. When I require to form a pattern on the surface of the sheet of
glass I cover the intended part or parts with gum, and then sprinkle the
required coloured pounded glass on it, then the other portions of the
pattern are likewise similarly prepared and pounded glass of a different
colour is sprinkled on those; these operations are repeated until the
required number of colours are sprinkled; on the sheet of glass is heated
to the required degree to reduce the pounded glass to almost a liquid
state; when the sheet of glass is removed from the furnace the pounded
glass is found to have fixed itself into or on to the surface and forms a
rough face. Sometimes I leave the sprinkled sheet of glass under heat
for a longer time to enable the pounded glass to run and intermix itself
in the surface, and thus produce a more smooth face.
In carrying out the second of the above described methods of this
process I take broken or shaped fragments of coloured or plain glass or
glazed ware or other substances, such as bars, or scrolls, or sheets of any
metal, and arrange them in any desired pattern or device, placing them
on a tray, or plate, or on paper, or in a metal mould or frame, and I then
dust or spread over them a layer of pounded glass or other vitrious
substance either dry or mixed moist into a paste, with or without a
imixture of suitable fluxes, in such a manner that the powder shall to
a certain extent enter the interstices between the fragments or portions
of glass or other substance forming the pattern, and shall cover the
entire back surface of the pattern to such a depth as may be convenient.
I then remove the whole to a furnace and vitrify the mass, thus
cementing together with a thorough vitrified cement my coloured device
and giving it a solid back.

page_text: surface of glass is applicable to producing the same upon all kinds of
glass vessels or articles and upon glazed ware generally.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Rees, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.
GEORGE REES. (L.S.)