IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL TILES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Gibbs, of No. 397, Kingsland Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Glass Embosser, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL TILES."
"
aled the 18th February 1879, and dated the 7th December 1878
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Gibbs at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th December 1878.
WILLIAM GIBBS, of No. 397, Kingsland Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Glass Embosser, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL TILES."
These tiles consist of small pieces of plate glass in various sizes, and to form
various geometrical designs or patterns, when fixed, colored at the back with water,
spirit, or varnish colors, taking a stencil plate and brushing various patterns thereon,
after backing the clean parts with oil, varnish, or water color, covering the whole
of the works with a solution composed of schellack and covered with tin foil, oiled
silk, linen, or paper; they can however be used without the last mentioned
coverings, penciling or outlining an ornament or figures, and painting or coloring
the same, finished as above described; gilding in embossed gold or burnished gold,
and taking a pattern or patterns out with stencil plates, coloring the same, finishing
or preserving as above; transferring various designs and illustrations from
printed paper and gilding, silvering, or coloring the same.
Cutting and polishing with a wheel various patterns in glass; silvering, gilding,
coloring, and backing the same. These tiles are bevelled, groved, or fluted, or plain
edges. These tiles are affixed to walls, ceilings, furniture, and other places in the
following way, with buttons, metal or wood screws, pins, cement, plaster, putty, or
lead.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Gibbs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st May
1879.
WILLIAM GIBBS, of No. 397, Kingsland Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Glass Embosser. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ORNAMENTAL TILES."
These tiles consist of small pieces of plate glass in various sizes, and to form
various geometrical designs or patterns when fixed, colored at the back with water,
spirit, or varnish colours. Taking a stencil plate and brushing various patters
thereon, after backing the clear parts with oil, varnish, or water color, covering the
whole of the works with a solution composed of schellack and covered with tin foil,
oiled silk, linen, or paper. They can however be used without the last mentioned
coverings, pencilling or outlining an ornament or figures, and painting or coloring the
same, finished as above described, gilding in embossed gold or burnished gold, and
taking a pattern or patterns out with stencil plates, coloring the same, finishing or
fine-scoring as above, transferring various designs and illustrations from printed
papers, and gilding, silvering, or coloring the same, cutting and polishing with a
wheel various patterns in glass, silvering, gilding, coloring, and backing the same.
These tiles are bevelled, grooved, or fluted, or plain edges. These tiles affixed to
walls, ceilings, furniture, and other places in the following way, with buttons, metal
or wood screws, pins, cement, plaster, putty, or lead,
Witness,
WH, E. LAING,
Clerk to Mr. H. A. Lovett,
Solicitor,
48, King William Street,
E.C.
W. GIBBS. (L.S.)