AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES IN GLASS SO AS TO PRODUCE PECULIAR ORNAMENTAL
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Richardson, of Wordsley Flint Glass
Works, near Stourbridge, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES IN GLASS SO AS TO PRODUCE PECULIAR ORNAMENTAL
"
Sealed the 26th January 1858, and dated the 27th July 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Richardson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th July 1857.
I, BENJAMIN RICHARDSON, of Wordesley Flint Glass Works, near Stour-
bridge, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES IN GLASS, SO AS TO PRODUCE PECULIAR ORNA-
MENTAL EFFECTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
articles in glass so as to produce peculiar ornamental effects. For this pur-
pose the workman takes a quantity of glass on to an ordinary pipe or iron,
and blows the same into a mould, on the inner surface of which are produced
numerous projections in such forms and arranged according to such pattern
as may be desired, by which means numerous indents will be produced on
the exterior of the glass so blown. The workman then dips the glass into
fluid "metal," in order to get the exterior thereof coated with a further surface
of glass, or else he places it in a cup of glass blown to receive it, and then
goes on blowing and shaping the glass into the article desired. The several
layers of glass in each case may be of the same or of different color, according
to the effect desired to be obtained.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benjamin Richardson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th January 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
RICHARDSON, of Wordsley Flint Glass Works, near Stourbridge, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Benjamin Richardson, Her special licence that I, the said
Benjamin Richardson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Benjamin Richardson, 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES IN GLASS SO AS
TO PRODUCE PECULIAR ORNAMENTAL EFFECTS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Benjamin Richardson, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
aud 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 Soal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Richardson, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
articles in glass so as to produce peculiar ornamental effects. For this pur-
pose the workman takes a quantity of glass on to an ordinary pipe or iron,
and blows the same into a mould, on the inner surface of which are produced
numerous projections in such forms and arranged according to such pattern
as may be desired, by which means numerous indents will be produced on
the exterior of the glass so blown. The workman then dips the glass into
fluid "metal," in order to get the exterior thercof coated with a further surface
of glass, or else he places it in a cup of glass blown to receive it, and then
goes on blowing and shaping the glass into the article desired. The several

page_text: layers of glass in each case may be of the same or of different color, according
to the effect desired to be obtained.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
more fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
In order to produce a device or ornamental appearance on the interior of
the substance of a glass vessel or article a mould is used, having formed on
the interior surface thereof projecting parts according to the design desired;
thus, supposing it be wished to arrange for producing numerous air bubbles
arranged according to design, such bubbles being of the same or different
sizes, the mould is to have formed thereon several projections, according to
the design desired to be produced on the interior of the substance of the
glass of which any vessel or article is to be composed. The workman takes a
quantity of "metal" (fluid glass) on to the end of an ordinary pipe or iron,
and blows the same in the mould, by which there will be produced nume-
rous indentations on the exterior surface of the blown glass, which, when the
articlo is finished, will give the appearance of numerous air bubbles or hollow
places arranged according to design. The workman then dips the glass so
blown into fluid "metal," in order to get the exterior thereof conted with a
further surface of glass of the same or of a different color; or the workman
places the blown glass into a cup of glass blown to receive it, as is well
understood when making a glass articlo of several thicknesses, or layers of
glass, he then continues the blowing till he has formed the desired article.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is tho
manufacture of articles of glass with peculiar ornamental effects, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Richardson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
JOHN EDGE, Clerk.
THOMAS PRICE, Clerk.
BENJAMIN RICHARDSON. (L.S.)