A New or Improved Combined Process for Working Designs in or upon Plate, Sheet, or other Flat Glass.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Loft 21st Dec 1820 Accented
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Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1899
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A New or Improved Combined Process for Working Designs in or
upon Plate, Sheet, or other Flat Glass.
We, THE GATESHEAD STAINED GLASS COMPANY LIMITED, of East Street, Gates-
head-on-Tyne, in the County of Durham, Manufacturers, and JOHN EDWARD SNEE,
of East Street, aforesaid, Manager to said Company, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to a process of working designs in or upon plate, sheet
or what may be commonly termed flat glass, such as may be used for windows,
panels or other flat decorative glass transparencies, and the object of our inven-
tion is to secure rich and effective colourings which become more generally
blended, in combination with figures patterns or shapes which will appear more
prominent, distinctive or to better advantage than is possible to obtain in plate
or flat glass decorations hitherto commonly known as stained glass windows; to
attain which we employ a new or improved combined process consisting first in
cutting or cutting or grinding or pressing into or partly pressing cutting and
grinding into the plate, sheet or flat glass, on one or both sides thereof, or partly
on one side and partly on the other, any whole or parts of a figure pattern or
shape, and where preferred, subsequently polishing, frosting or buffing any part
or parts of said figure pattern or shape, or the surrounding thereof.
After which we apply colours and shades to said figures, patterns or shapes,
either by stain or otherwise and fix such colours by burning or fusing as required.
Our invention therefore consists essentially in combining the process of cutting
pressing or otherwise working figures patterns or shapes into bas-relief in flat
glass, and then colouring and shading such patterns shapes or figures, by which
combination a stereographic appearence to the figures produced, and the pat-
terns and shapes stand out prominently and become very effective, and by the
variety of pyramidical angles in the glass so formed these create a variety of
reflectors and the rays therefrom become so interspersed that they assist generally
in the effective blending of the various colours used and a very striking and
effective result is produced.
In order that the scope of our invention may be more carefully defined we
would here point out that we limit it to the two processes described when com-
bined only, and not in each process per se, inasmuch as we are fully aware that
the mere cutting or pressing of figures or shapes on glass is old, so also is the
mere colouring of flat glass, but that which we would point out as novel and
which is essentially our invention herein is the shaping of figures and patterns in
plate sheet or flat glass so that such figures form a die as it were, and are not
merely superficial, and then colouring or staining any parts of such figure so
as to produce the effect described.
For instance we will take a sheet of flat or plate glass decorated with the
figure of a draped man therein. In accordance with our improved process this
figure may be impressed in glass during the process of manufacture or it may

page_text: be cut therein subsequently, then we apply the colouring and shading to the folds
of the drapery and the exposed features in such a way that the partly bas-relief
of the figure so cut or impressed assists in blending the colours and shades and
so produces a more striking decoration than is possible to be obtained by the
ordinary process of stain glass windows.
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H. F. BOUGHTON,
Patent Agent, Barnsley.
A New or Improved Combined Process for Working Designs in or
upon Plate, Sheet, or other Flat Glass.
We, THE GATESHEAD STAINED GLASS COMPANY LIMITED, of East Street, Gates-
head-on-Tyne, in the County of Durham, Manufacturers, and Jonx EDWARD SNEE,
of East Street, aforesaid, Manager to said Company, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a process of working designs in or upon plate, sh.et
or what may be commonly termed flat glass, such as may be used for windows,
panels or other flat decorative glass transparencies, and the object of our inven-
tion is to secure rich and effective colourings which become more generally
blended, in combination with figures patterns or shapes which will appear more
prominent, distinctive or to better advantage than possible to obtain in plate
or flat glass decorations hitherto commonly known as stained glass windows; to
attain which we employ a new or improved combined process consisting first in
cutting or cutting or grinding or pressing into or partly pressing cutting and
grinding into the plate, sheet or flat glass, or one or both sides thereof, or partly
on one side and partly on the other, any whole or parts of a figure pattern or
shape and where preferred, subsequently polishing frosting or buffing any part
or parts of said figure pattern or shape, or the surrounding thereof.
After which we apply colours and shades to said figures, patterns or shapos
either by stain or otherwise and fix such colours by burning or fusing as required.
Our invention therefore consists essentially in combining the process of cutting
pressing or otherwise working figures patterns or shapes into bas-relief in flat
glass and then colouring and shading such patterns shapes or figures by which
combination a stereographic appearance to the figures is produced and the pat-
terus and shapes stand out prominently and become very effective and by the
variety of pyramidical angles, in the glass so formed these create a variety of
reflectors and the rays therefrom become so interspersed that they assist generally
in the effective blending of the various colours used and a very striking and
effective result is produced.
In order that the scope of our invention may be more carefully defined we
would here point out that we limit it to the two processes described when com-
bined only, and not in cach process per so inasmuch as we are fully aware that
the mere cutting or pressing of figures or shapes on glass is old, so also is the
mere colouring of flat glass, but that which we would point out as novel and
which is essentially our invention herein is the shaping of figures and patterns in
plate sheet or flat glass so that such figures form a die as it were, and are not
merely superficial and then colouring or staining any parts of such figures so
as to produce the effect described.

page_text: For instance we will take a sheet of flat or plate glass decorated with the
figure of a draped man therein. In accordance with our improved process this
figure may be impressed in glass during the process of manufacture or it may
be cut therein subsequently then we apply the colouring and shading to the folds
of the drapery and the exposed features in such a way that the partly bas-relief
of the figure so cut or impressed assists in blending the colours and shades and
so produces a more striking decoration than is possible to be obtained by the
ordinary process of stain glass windows. Or in referring to the accompanying
drawing which is representative of a design in sheet, flat or plate glass manu-
factured in accordance with our invention. The black lines L may be impressed
during the process of manufacture or they may be cut therein subsequently,
then colourin or colouring and shading is applied to the projecting or exposed
parts p, of the design in such a way that the partly bas-relief of the design so cut
or impressed assists in blending the colours, and further a design is apparent ou
the same side as the light, and therefore a window so made has a better effect on
the outside of a building not lit within than is possible in stained glass windows
as hitherto manufactured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
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1. The combination in the process for working designs in or upon plate, sheet
or other flat glass of cutting pressing or grinding into said glass, on one or both
sides thereof, or partly on one side and partly on the other, any whole or parts
of a figure, pattern or shape, and applying colours or colours and shades to said
figures, patterns or shapes, either by stain or otherwise, and subsequently fixing
said colours by burning or fusing substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of December 1899.
H. F. BOUGHTON,
Agent, 114, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.