IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATING AND ORNAMENTING LOOKING GLASSES, MIRRORS, PICTURE FRAMES, AND SIMILAR ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS AND SURFACES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Evans, of Racquet Court, Fleet Street, London,
and James Noah Lee, of Hillmarton Road, Camden Road, London, for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATING AND ORNAMENTING LOOKING
GLASSES, MIRRORS, PICTURE FRAMES, AND SIMILAR ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS
AND SURFACES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Evans and James
Noah Leo at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th July 1880.
EDMUND EVANS, of Racquet Court, Fleet Street, London, and JAMES NOAH LEE,
of Hillmarton Road, Camden Road, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATING
AND ORNAMENTING LOOKING GLASSES, MIRRORS, PICTURE FRAMES, AND SIMILAR
ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS AND SURFACES."
Our Invention has for its object the decoration and ornamentation of looking
glasses, mirrors, and picture frames, and consists in placing under the glass various
designs in colour printing, so as to form a decorative or ornamental border or frame
which shall be visible through the glass, and which may, if desired, be used in place
of the ordinary mirror or picture frames.
In the case of mirrors or looking glasses, to which our Invention chiefly applies,
the quicksilver is either removed where the design is to be placed, or the design
is placed upon the under surface of the glass before the silvering process is
commenced.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edmund Evans and James Noah Leo in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 8th January 1881.
EDMUND EVANS, of Racquet Court, Fleet Street, London, and JAMES NOAH LEE,
of Hillmarton Road, Camden Road, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATING
AND ORNAMENTING LOOKING GLASSES, MIRRORS, PICTURE FRAMES, AND SIMILAR
ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS AND SURFACES."
Our Invention has for its object the decoration and ornamentation of looking
glasses, mirrors, and picture frames, and consists in-placing-under the glass various-
designs in colour printing, so as to form a decorative or ornamental border or frame
which shall be visible through the glass, and which may, if desired, be used in place
of the ordinary mirror or picture frames.
In the case of mirrors or looking glasses, to which our Invention chiefly applies,
the quicksilver is either removed where the design is to be placed, or the design
is placed upon the under surface of the glass before the silvering process is
commenced.
Having described the nature and object of our Invention, we shall now proceed
to ascertain more particularly some of the methods or modes in which our said
Invention may be performed or carried into practical effect.
According to one method or mode the quicksilver is removed by any well known
and suitable means from such parts or portion of the back of the mirror as it is-
intended the design shall occupy.
The design is printed in colours on paper in the ordinary manner, and is either
laid upon the glass and secured by wood or other suitable backing, or mado to
adhere to the glass.
In applying our Invention to glass frames for pictures the foregoing method is
employed, with the exception of the removal of the quicksilver, which is of course
unnecessary.
By another method the design is fixed to the glass by means of varnish or other
adhesive liquid before the process of silvering is commenced, and a coat of varnish
or paint is laid over the back of it in order to protect it during such process.
Designs inay also be applied in accordance with our Invention by means of
transfers, in which case the design is printed in colors upon ordinary transfer paper
and transferred to the glass; a coat of varnish is then laid over the back of it and
allowed to dry before the process of silvering is commenced.
Our Invention will be used chiefly for the purpose of forming ornamental borders
or frames around mirrors and pictures, but we do not limit ourselves to the use of
it in this way as it may also be applied to mirrors in various ways for ornamental
purposes, but what we claim is,―
The application and use of designs in colour printing, in the manner and for the
purposes substantially as herein before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Edmund Evans and James Noah Lee, have
hereunto set our hands and scals, this Fourth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
EDMUND EVANS.
(L.S.)
JAMES NOAH LEE. (L.S.)