ORNAMENTING THE EXTERNAL WALLS OF HOUSES AND BUILDINGS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard John Cole, of No. 11, Pembridge Gardens,
Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, for the Invention of
"ORNAMENTING THE EXTERNAL WALLS OF HOUSES AND BUILDINGS."
Sealed the 15th March 1861, and dated the 18th September 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard John Cole at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on. the
18th September 1860.
I, RICHARD JOHN COLE, of No. 11, Pembridge Gardens, Bayswater, in the
County of Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "ORNAMENTING THE EXTERNAL WALLS OF HOUSES AND BUILDINGS,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the ornamenting of the external walls or partitions
of houses, buildings, garden walls, or other such like surfaces, where plain
bricks or the material forming the wall or partition are objectionable.
I propose covering such walls or partitions with a thin coat of suitable
cement, and forming thereon the desired device with ornamented or illuminated
glass, either vitrified, painted, or otherwise coloured or transferred; or the walls
or partitions themselves may be so coloured in fresco, forming the groundwork
for the illuminated glass surface; or the desired patterns or devices may be

page_text: placed upon the walls or partitions by any suitable means, and covered with
plain, vitrified, or other description of ornamented glass, thus producing upon
such walls or partitions an ornamental surface.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard John Cole in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th March 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
JOHN COLE, of No. 11, Pembridge Gardens, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard John Cole, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
John Cole, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Richard John Cole, 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 "ORNA-
MENTING THE EXTERNAL WALLS OF HOUSES AND BUILDINGS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard John Cole, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
bands and 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 Seal Patent Office within six calender
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard John Cole, 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 follow-
ing statement, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the ornamenting of the external walls or partitions
of houses, buildings, garden walls, or other such like surfaces, where plain
bricks, or the material forming the wall or partition, or the exterior of the walls
are objectionable.

page_text: In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect, as follows:-
The walls or partitions are to be covered with a thin coating of cement, and
thereon, fixed in suitable frames, or imbedded therein, is to be glass ornamented
in stencilled designs, or by painting with oil or varnish colors in any desired
device; or the designs may be burnt in or transferred to the under surface of
the glass, and thus fixed to the walls or partitions, as above described. In
some cases it may be desirable to have the device painted in fresco or other-
wise on a properly prepared wall or partition, and then to cover such design
with plain or colored glass, so as to present an ornamental exterior protected
by the surface of glass from atmospheric and other influences.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention of " Ornamenting
the External Walls of Houses and Buildings," and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, I would remark, in conclusion, that what I claim
as my Invention, intended to be secured to me by the herein in part recited
Letters Patent is, the ornamenting of external walls in the manner herein
described for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard John Cole, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
R. J. COLE. (L.S.)