A NEW IMPROVED MODE OF IMPARTING ORNAMENTAL EFFECT TO CHANDELIERS, BRANCHES, AND OTHER ORNAMENTAL GAS FITTINGS, AND WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO CHANDELIER AND GENERAL FITTINGS, THE MEANS OF ILLUMI- NATION BEING OTHERWISE THAN THAT OF GAS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Platt, of the Firm of George Platt and Co.,
Chandelier and Fancy Gas Fitting Manufacturers, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "A NEW IMPROVED
MODE OF IMPARTING ORNAMENTAL EFFECT TO CHANDELIERS, BRANCHES, AND
OTHER ORNAMENTAL GAS FITTINGS, AND WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO
APPLICABLE TO CHANDELIER AND GENERAL FITTINGS, THE MEANS OF ILLUMI-
NATION BEING OTHERWISE THAN THAT OF GAS."
Sealed the 29th July 1873, and dated the 1st February 1873.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Platt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st February 1873.
I, GEORGE PLATT, of the Firm of George Platt and Co., Chandelier
5 and Fancy Gas Fitting Manufacturers, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
"A NEW IMPROVED MODE OF IMPARTING ORNAMENTAL EFFECT TO CHANDELIERS,
BRANCHES, AND OTHER ORNAMENTAL Gas Fittings, AND WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS
ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO CHANDELIER AND GENERAL FITTINGS, THE MEANS OF

page_text: ILLUMINATION BEING OTHERWISE THAN THAT OF GAS," to be as follows (that is
to say) :-
In giving effect to my Invention I purpose casting or raising the
scroll, filigree, or other open ornamental parts of chandeliers or similar
ornamental fittings so as to form a recess between them, that colored or
figured glass or other suitable transparent or semi-transparent material
will lay between them, the parts being so arranged as to admit of being
suitably united together, as well as the attaching such open scroll or
filigree work to the body or other primary parts of such fittings. This
may be readily effected by so fashioning tho parts that one of them may
be brazed or soldered in position for receiving the glass, while the counter-
part is laid on and united to the fixed part by pins, screws, rivets, or
other means of retention for holding the glass or other suitable material
between them. The ornamental parts and branches of chandeliers, side
branches, ornamental standards, or other parts or fittings for illumination
thus treated will derive a pleasing and an agreeable effect from the color,
transparency, or ornamental effect of the glass or other suitable material,
and the light derived from the gas or other source of illumination lighting
up and reflecting through and from the said transparent or semi-
transparent intermediate parts.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Platt in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 31st July 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, George
PLATT, of the Firm of George Platt and Company, Chandelier and Fancy
Gas Fitting Manufacturers, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Platt, Her special license, that
I, the said George Platt, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Platt, my executors, adminis-
strators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,

page_text: from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully miglit make, use, excrcise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ircland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW IMPROVED MODE
OF IMPARTING ORNAMENTAL EFFECT TO CHANDELIERS, BRANCHES, AND OTHER
ORNAMENTAL GAS FITTINGS, AND WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE
TO CHANDELIER AND GENERAL FITTINGS, THE MEANS OF ILLUMINATION BEING
OTHERWISE THAN THAT OF GAS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said George Platt, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
scal, 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar
mouths next and immediately after the date of the said Letters

page_text: But in order that I may be better understood as to the nature and
character of my' Invention, I will describe the Drawings hereunto
annexed, reference being made to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say.
Fig. 1 represents a branch, cither as part of a central pendant, i
chandelier, or a side branch or bracket, just as taste or requirement may
decide, and of course may be diversified as the artistic skill of the
designer may dictate. The open parts A, A, A, are cast or otherwise
produced, the reverse side being finished in relief, and the side shewn
formed with a raised edge or flange around it for receiving the coloured
panel of transparent or semi-transparent material, for which purposo
coloured or stained glass will answer well, and if preferred, the said
transparent panel may be made of glass in parts and variously coloured,
or of one piece stajned in various colours, and if the said glass be stained
on its surface it may be cut in various designs by a skilled artist to:
increase the effect, and the glass panel thus prepared either singly or
compound is laid on the recess A, A, A; and next I place in a
corresponding position the open mictal panel, shewn detached at Fig. 2,
securing it to the permanent fixed part by small screws passing through
the circular holes b, b, or by other equivalent means. This treatment
will express and illustrate my Invention, as it is evident the open and
vacant parts of the metalwork being filled with the transparent panel
before described placed between them, the effect I desire will be produced
by the ordinary light from the window or windows of the room by day,
or the light from the source of illumination by night, which source of
illumination may be gas, oil, or other convenient material, for tho
burning or consumption of which the fittings so ornamented may be
specially adapted.
Fig. 3 is merely a section taken through the dotted lines c and d of
Figure 1. The parts E, E, and F, F, F, are treated as at A, A, the
transparent panel, either simple or compound, that is to say, either in
one or more parts are retained in position by the application of the
detached parts represented at Figs. 4 and 5, and retained in like
manner as before described by small scrows going through the circular
holes g. 9, 0, and 1, h, or otherwise, as may be preferred, according to
the design used.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and given a
detailed description of the Drawings hereunto annexed, it will be seen

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that this mode of treatment for imparting artistic or ornamental effect
be claborated in extent and greatly diversified in character under
the treatment of skilled labour and good designs, producing a novel and
good effect with economy and durability, and without limiting myself
to the design of the metal parts or to the treatment of the glass or other
suitable transparent material used, I simply claim, the application as
herein described and set forth of colored transparent material placed
between the open filigree or ornamental parts of the metal fittings for
gas or other illuminating purposes, and which I claim to be new and of
my Invention, and wish protected by these my in part recited Letters
Patent.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Platt, have hereunto set my
hand and seal. this Twenty-eight day of July, in the year of our
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Witness,
JAMES S. COCKING,
Patent Agent,
Birmingham.
GEORGE PLATT. (L.S.)