A NEW OR IMPROVED. METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CHANDELIERS, PENDANTS, AND BRACKETS FOR GAS AND OTHER LAMPS, WHICH METHOD OF ORNAMENTING IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO. CURTAIN BANDS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Alfred Fussell, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick. Manufacturer. for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED.
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CHANDELIERS, PENDANTS, AND BRACKETS FOR GAS
AND OTHER LAMPS, WHICH METHOD OF ORNAMENTING IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO.
CURTAIN BANDS."
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CHANDELIERS, PENDANTS, AND BRACKETS FOR GAS
AND OTHER LAMPS, WHICH METHOD OF ORNAMENTING IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO.
CURTAIN BANDS."
Sealed the 8th October 1858, and dated the 13th July 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Alfred Fussel at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th July 1858.
I, JAMES ALFRED FUSSELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CHANDELIERS, PENDANTS, AND BRACKETS.
FOR GAS AND OTHER LAMPS, WHICH METHOD OF ORNAMENTING IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO.
CURTAIN BANDS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in applying small mirrors or pieces of looking glass.
to those parts of chandeliers, pendants, and brackets for gas and other lamps,;
and curtain bands, which I wish to ornament, the said mirrors being inserted
and fixed in a framing formed in the article, and defended at back, so as to
prevent injury to the silvered surface.
I will explain my Invention as applied to the ornamenting of a curtain band,.
by which description I believe my Invention will be sufficiently understood.
I form the upper end of the curtain band of the figure of an ornamental frame,.,

page_text: and I insert in the said frame, and by preference at the back thereof, a mirror
or piece of silvered glass, so as to fill up the said frame. I secure the said
mirror in the frame and defend its back from injury in any convenient
manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Alfred Fussell in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th January 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
ALFRED FUSSELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
James Alfred Fussell, Her special licence, that I, the said James Alfred
Fussell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Alfred Fussell, 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 "A NEW OR IM-
PROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING CHANDELIERS, PENDANTS, AND BRACKETS FOR GAS
AND OTHER LAMPS, WHICH METHOD OF ORNAMENTING IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO CURTAIN
BANDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James Alfred
Fussell, 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 James Alfred Fussell, 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:-
My Invention consists in applying small mirrors or pieces of looking glass
to those parts of chandeliers, pendants, and brackets, for gas and other lamps,

page_text: and curtain bands, which I wish to ornament, the said mirrors being inserted.
and fixed in a framing formed in the article, and defended at back so as to
prevent injury to the silvered surface.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents a gas chandelier orna-
mented according to my Invention; Figure 2 represents a gas bracket.
ornamented according to my Invention; and Figures 3 and 4 represent curtain.
bands ornamented according to my. Invention. The mirror or looking glass
is marked a in the said Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the frame in which the.
mirror or looking glass a is fixed is marked in the said Figures..
The manner in which I prefer to fix the mirror or looking-glass in the
frame is illustrated in Figures 5, 6, and 7, of the accompanying Drawings,
Figure 5 representing a curtain band in back view without the mirror,
Figure 6 representing a section of the frame, and mirror, and backboard,
and Figure 7 a back view of the curtain band, shewing the manner in which,
the mirror is secured in the frame. The same letters indicate the same parts
in Figures 5, 6, and 7. The frame c is made of an ornamental tube, bent
into an elliptical form. An ornamental rim d is attached, by soldering or
otherwise, to the front of the frame c. The mirror or looking-glass e is inserted
in the frame c, the said mirror or looking-glass being put in the said frame
from the back. The silvered surface of the mirror is protected by a back-
board f, and the mirror and backboard are kept in their places by the
tongues g, which are soldered to the frame c, in a position perpendicular to
the plane of the mirror, and after the insertion of the mirror and backboard
in the frame are bent down upon the backboard, in the manner shown in
Figures 6 and 7. The frame in which the mirror or looking-glass is inserted
may have any desired ornamental figure; and although I prefer inserting
the mirror in the back of the frame, yet in some cases it may be desirable to
insert it in the front, and secure it by tongues similar to the tongues g,
Figures 6 and 7, but of an ornamental form. In the gas chandelier, Figure 1,
I prefer to introduce a mirror at each of the angles between the arms of the
chandelier; but I do not limit myself to any particular number of mirrors,
nor to the positions which they occupy, nor to their size, and although I prefer
to ornament gas brackets and curtain bands by the use of a single mirror
or looking glass applied to each, and in the positions represented in the
Drawings, yet I do not limit myself thereto, as more than one mirror may
be applied to each bracket and curtain band, and when ono only is employed,
its form and position may be different from the form and position represented
in the Drawings.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of

page_text: carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention; but I
claim as my Invention the method herein described, and represented in the
accompanying Drawings, of ornamenting chandeliers, pendants, and brackets
for gas and other lamps, and also curtain bands, that is to say, ornamenting.
the said articles by the application thereto of mirrors or pieces of looking glass
inserted in metal frames at such part or parts of the said articles as it is wished
to ornament.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Alfred Fussell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
JAMES ALFRED FUSSELL. (L.S.)