AN IMPROVEMENT IN GLOBES AND SHADES FOR GAS AND OTHER LIGHTS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS. PATENT to. Henry Giller, of Southampton Street, in the City of
Westminster, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
GLOBES AND SHADES FOR GAS AND OTHER LIGHTS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Giller at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th
October 1855.
I,..HENRY GILLER, of Southampton Street, in the City of Westminster,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
IMPROVEMENT IN GLOBES AND SHADES FOR GAS AND OTHER LIGHTS" to be as
follows:
My improvement consists in forming globes and shades of prisms of glass,
known in the trade as spangles, or other like pieces of glass, similar to those
used in the construction of lustres. These spangles are strung together or
otherwise attached, and are made to assume any form and size by being shaped
over a suitable frame. By varying the color and shape of the prisms, very
elegant and novel effects will be obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Giller in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
April 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
GILLER, of Southampton Street, in the City of Westminster, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of, October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Giller, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Giller, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Giller, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
GLOBES AND SHADES FOR GAS AND OTHER LIGHTS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that 1, the said Henry Giller, 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. Oflice within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Giller, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
(that is to say)
My improvement consists in forming globes and shades of prisms of glass,
known in the trade as spanglés, or other like pieces of glass, similar to those
used in the construction of lustres. These spangles are strung together or
otherwise attached, and are made to assume any form by being shaped over a
suitable frame. By varying the color and shape of the prism, very elegant
and novel effects will be obtained.
In the Drawings annexed I have exemplified the manner, in which my
Invention is carried into effect.
Figure is an elevation of a shade constructed-according to my improve

page_text: ment. A, A, is the frame; B, B, are the glass prisms or spangles, connected
to the frame and to each other by wires. and made to assume the form shewn.
Figure 2 is an elevation of a shade, in which the rows of spangles B, B. are
alternated with prisins, forming pendants C, C, so as to produce a very elegant
effect.
The Invention may of course be carried into effect in a variety of ways by
shaping the frame and arranging the spangles, prisms, or pieces of glass accord-
ing to fancy or taste, so as to produce a number of shapes or designs. The
foregoing are merely given as illustrations.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as constituting my
said Invention, the forming of globes and shades for gas and other lights of
glass prisms and spangles, or other like pieces of glass, similar to those used
in the manufacture of lustres, as herein-before described, and represented in
the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Giller, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six.
HENRY GILLER. (L.S.)