IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING LETTERS IN GOLD, SILVER, AND OTHER METALS ON GLASS, AND IN IMPLEMENTS EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Joseph Brean, of Bristol, in the County
of Gloucester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING LETTERS
IN GOLD, SILVER, AND OTHER METALS ON GLASS, AND IN IMPLEMENTS EMPLOYED
FOR THAT PURPOSE."
Sealed the 26th November 1867, and dated the 29th May 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Joseph Brean
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th May 1867.
I, FREDERICK JOSEPH BREAN, of Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRODUCING
LETTERS IN GOLD, SILVER, AND OTHER METALS ON GLASS, AND IN IMPLEMENTS
EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE," to be as follows:-
I construct type or stencil plates of thin metal or other suitable material,
and of the form of the letters to be produced, which type, after the surface of
the glass bas been coated with gold, silver, or other thin metal leaf are placed
upon such coated surface in positions corresponding with those in which it is
desired to produce the letters on the glass. The type being held securely in
these positions by means hereafter described the metal on the glass surrounding
each letter is brushed off by means of a stiff brush, thus leaving the metal
beneath the type in the form of the required letters, which have perfectly sharp
edges and merely require to be trimmed off at the top and bottom after the
type have been removed.

page_text: The type employed are of two different kinds, namely, "loose type" con-
sisting of separate letters, and "set type" consisting of complete words or
sentences. The loose type are provided with "ties" or projecting pieces of
metal at top and bottom, by means of which, when placed in position, they are
connected together by fastening strips of metal or other suitable material
thereto, which strips pass from the "tie" of one letter to that of the next, as in
brushing off the gold or other leaf from between the letters as above described
that underneath the "ties" and the strips will remain, it will be necessary after
removing the type and ties to take off such superfluous gold or other leaf at
the top and bottom of the letters, which is readily effected by band. In the
"set type" the letters are all connected together by a portion of the same metal
plate of which the type are formed, and in order rapidly to take off the metal
leaf under such connecting portions it is. preferred to employ a second plate
with set type, which is placed over the letters after the first type are removed,
and which is so formed that the gold or other leaf previously covered by the
connecting pieces of the first type is now uncovered and can readily be brushed
off
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Joseph Brean in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
JOSEPH BREAN, of Bristol, in the County of Gloucester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Frederick Joseph Brean, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick Joseph
Brean, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Frederick Joseph Brean, 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
night 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 PRODUCING LETTERS IN GOLD, SILVER, AND OTHER METALS
ON GLASS, AND IN IMPLEMENTS EMPLOYED FOR THAT PURPOSE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Joseph Brean, my executors or

page_text: dministrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
tair hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of tue 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 Frederick Joseph Brean, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing,
and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say:-
I construct type or stencil plates of thin metal or other suitable material
and of the form of the letters to be produced, which type, after the surface of
the glass has been coated with gold, silver, or other thin metal leaf, are placed
upon such coated surface in positions corresponding with those in which it is
desired to produce the letters on the glass. The type being held securely in
these positions by means hereafter described the metal on the glass surrounding
each letter is brushed off by means of a stiff brush, thus leaving the metal
beneath the type in the form of the required letters, which have perfectly sharp
edges, and merely require to be trimmed off at the top and bottom after the
type have been removed.
The type employed are of two different kinds, namely "loose type" consisting
of separate letters, and "set type" consisting of complete words or sentences.
The loose type are provided with "ties" or projecting pieces of metal at top
and bottom, by means of which, when placed in position, they are connected
together by fastening strips of metal or other suitable material thereto, which
strips pass from the "tie" of one letter to that of the next; or, by preference,
in place of using the connecting strips, I fix the loose type in their required
position merely by dropping hot wax partly upon the "tie" and partly on the
glass. As in brushing off the gold or other leaf from between the letters, as
above described, that underneath the "ties and the strips when employed
will remain, it will be necessary after removing the type and ties to take off
such superfluous gold or other leaf at the top and bottom of the letters, which
is realily effected by hand. In the "set type "the letters are all connected
together by a portion of the same metal plate of which the type are formed,
and in order rapidly to take off the metal leaf under such connecting portions,
it is preferred to employ a second plate with set type, which is placed over the
letters after the first type are removed, and which is so formed that the gold or
other leaf previously covered by the connecting pieces of the first type is now
uncovered and can readily be brushed off.

page_text: Figure 1 on the accompanying Drawing shows the mode of applying the
loose type.
A, A, are the ties by which the type B, B, are held on the gilt or other
surface by dropping thereon small quantities of melted wax at x, x. After the
gold or other leaf has been brushed away as described between and round the
type, these are removed, and the gilding underneath the ties is removed by
hand as indicated by the dotted lines. Figure 2 shows the application of set
type in which all the letters B, B, are connected together by the ties A, and
are held in place by dropping hot wax at x, x. After the metal leaf between
and surrounding the type has been brushed away, and the type removed, I place
by preference a plate over the gilt or other letters of such a form as to cover
these and to leave the metal leaf left under the ties uncovered, so that this
may then be brushed away as indicated by the dotted lines; or the metal leaf
under the ties may in this case also be removed by hand.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and in what manner it
is to be performed, what I claim is, producing letters in gold, silver, and other
metal leaf on glass by means of loose or set type constructed and applied in
manner herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Joseph Brean, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of November, in the year
of our Lord Oue thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.