AN IN- PROVED METHOD OF PREVENTING DAMP, INSECTS, AND VERMIN FROM ENTERING DWELLING HOUSES, WALLS, AND OTHER ERECTIONS OR BUILDINGS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Franz Feichtinger, of No. 7, Montague Place,
Islington, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IN-
PROVED METHOD OF PREVENTING DAMP, INSECTS, AND VERMIN FROM ENTERING
DWELLING HOUSES, WALLS, AND OTHER ERECTIONS OR BUILDINGS."
Sealed the 21st February 1865, and dated the 22nd August 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Franz Feichtinger at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with bis Petition, on the 22nd
August 1864.
I, FRANZ FEICHTINGER, of No. 7, Montague Place, Islington, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PREVENTING DAMP, INSECTS, AND VERMIN FROM
ENTERING DWELLING HOUSES, WALLS, AND OTHER - ERECTIONS OR BUILDINGS," to be
as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the prevention of damp.in dwelling houses
and other similar erections, and also preventing insects and other vermin from
entering the same, and consists in an arrangement of glass cases or walls to
be fixed either inside or outside of houses or buildings as circumstances
may require.
In erecting a house or building, a sheet of glass; either plate or other glass,
of any suitable size, is fixed by cement or mortar against the interior of the
walls, running the entire-length of the building, in fact, every apartment has

page_text: a glass wall, which can be ornamented or papered as may be required. In
the case of a house already built, the glass is bent and inserted at the top of
the room, meeting the glass which is inserted from the room above, and over-
lapping each other, by this means there is no possible entry or escapement
either into the apartment or from the apartment. This Invention will be
found equally applicable to tunnels, bridges, or other places where damp
arises.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Franz Feichtinger in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
22nd February 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, FRANZ
FEICHTINGER, of No. 7, Montague Place, Islington, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Franz Feichtinger, Her special licence that I, the said Franz Feich-
tinger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Franz Feichtinger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 IM-
PROVED METHOD OF PREVENTING DAMP, INSECTS, AND VERMIN PROM ENTERING
DWELLING HOUSES, WALLS, AND OTHER ERECTIONS OR BUILDINGS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Franz Feichtinger, my execu-
tors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office on or
:before the First day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Franz Feichtinger, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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:-

page_text: This Invention has for its object the prevention of damp in dwelling houses
and other similar erections, and also preventing insects and other vermin from
entering the same, and consists in an arrangement of glass cases or walls to
be fixed either inside or outside of houses or buildings as circumstances may
require.
In erecting a house or building, a sheet of glass, either plate or other glass,
of any suitable size; is fixed by cement or mortar against the interior of the
walls, running the entire length of the building, in fact, every apartment has a
glass wall, which can be ornamented or papered as may be required. In the
case of a house already built, the glass is bent and inserted at the top of the
room, meeting the glass which is inserted from the room above, and over-
lapping each other, by this means there is no possible entry or escapement
either into the apartment or from the apartment. This Invention will be
found equally applicable to tunnels, bridges, or other places where damp
arises.
Having thus described the nature and object of this Invention, I declare that
what I claim and desire to be secured by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the improved method of preventing damp, insects, and
vermin from entering dwelling houses, walls, and other erections or buildings,
substantially as herein-before described, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Franz Feichtinger, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
FRANZ FEICHTINGER. (L.S.)