AN IMPROVED REFLECTOR GLOBE OB SHADE FOR GAS, CANDLE, OIL, AND OTHER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Cundy, of Carrington, in the Parish of Basford,
in the County of Nottingham, Mechanic, one of a Company called "The
Improved Reflecting Light Company," at Nottingham aforesaid, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED REFLECTOR GLOBE OB SHADE FOR GAS, CANDLE,
OIL, AND OTHER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT."
Sealed the 7th November 1854, and dated the 11th May 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cundy at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
May 1854.
I, JOHN CUNDY, of Carrington, in the Parish of Basford, in the County of
Nottingham, Mechanic, one of a Company called "The Improved Reflecting
Light Company, at Nottingham aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED REFLECTOR GLOBE OR SHADE FOR GAS,
CANDLE, OIL, AND OTHER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in coating a part or parts of glass globes with some
reflective substance for increasing the light in any desired direction. The
globes may be of various sizes, and ornamented with colours of different hues
over the reflective part or parts; and I propose to apply the reflective sub-
stance and colours in various parts, according to circumstances. The light
will be thrown with increased brilliancy upon any required spot without any
additional consumption of gas or other source of artificial.light.
My Invention is also applicable to glass bells fixed over gas burners or other
artificial light.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Cundy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
November 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CUNDY, of Carrington, in the Parish of Basford, in the County of Nottingham,
Mechanic, one of a Company called "The Improved Reflecting Light
Company," at Nottingham aforesaid, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Cundy, Her special licence that I, the said John Cundy,
my executors, 'administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Cundy;, 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 IMPROVED REPLECTOR GLOBE OR
SHADE FOR GAS, CANDLE, OIL, AND OTHER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Cundy; by an instrument in writing
under, my hand and seal, 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 John Cundy, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed; that is to say:
My Invention-consists in coating a part or parts of glass globes with some
reflective substance for increasing the light in any desired direction. The
globes may be of various sizes, and ornamented with colours of different hues
over the reflective part or parts; and I propose to apply the reflective substance
and colours in various parts; according to circumstances. The light will be
thrown with increased brilliancy upon any required spot without any additional
consumption of gas or other source of artificial light.
My Invention is also applicable to glass bells fixed over gas burners or
other artificial light: The reflective substance I prefer to employ is silver and
gold leaf, and I apply and cause it to adhere to the glass by the use of gum

page_text: but any reflective substance or composition which will adhere to glass may be
made use of.
Figure 1 represents a gas-light shade, with a reflecting composition applied,
to reflect the light forward, downward, and upwards. Figure 2 represents
another glass shade, with the composition applied, to reflect the light down-
wards, around, and upwards; Figure 3 represents a ceiling shade; the whole
of the upper surface being covered with a reflecting substance, the light is
reflected downward. The tinted parts represent the reflective substance.
These glasses, when used for gas, may be put over the chimney glasses of the
Argand or other burners.
I do not confine myself to the application of the composition in the shapes
here shewn, but I reserve to myself the right of applying the reflecting sub-
stance to such parts as may be most desirable; also to apply it in the shape
.of diamonds, squares, rings, flowers, or other ornament, and to every shape and
size of glass globe, tube, shade, and other description of glass suitable for the
purposes of my Invention.
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 the manufacture
of reflectors for gas and other artificial light composed of glass and rendered
reflective in parts by the means and in manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Cundy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Tenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-four.
Witness,
GEORGE JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.
JOHN CUNDY. (L.B.)