Improved Method of and Means for Securing Glass Plates to Walls, Ceilings, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of and Means for Securing Glass Plates to Walls,
Ceilings, and the like.
1, CARL LEWY of 33 Schloss Strasse, Charlottenburg, Kingdom of Prussia,
German Empire, Glass-painter do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide means for firmly securing smooth glass
plates to walls and ceilings, which plates hitherto could not be fixed directly to the
latter by means of plaster of Paris, cement, or mortar.
My invention consists, therefore, in affixing to the back side of said smooth glass
plates, irregular pieces of glass or any other suitable hard material. The plates,
when prepared in such manner, can be readily and firmly secured to walls and
ceilings by means of plaster of Paris, cement or any suitable mortar.
To the back of the smooth glass plate there are secured in any manner a number
of irregularly shaped pieces of hard material, preferably glass. These pieces must
be plane on one side at least, and this plane place is in contact with the glass
plate. As a rule, I prefer to employ plane pieces of broken glass, and the edge
of these pieces will be most suited for the result sought to attain, if it is provided
with irregular indents, and if it is inclined at various angles to the back of the
glass plate. As a rule I secure the pieces of hard material by means of any suit-
able flux, preferably a glass flux, so that, when heating the plate in a muffle, the
said pieces become strongly united to the plate. The plate when prepared in the
described manner, may be secured to the wall or the ceiling by means of plaster
of Paris, cement or mortar. This adhesive substance fills the indents of the pieces
fixed to the back of the glass plate, and, as it indurates, sticks very strongly to
the said pieces. The glass plate is thus firmly secured to the wall or ceiling and
cannot be disengaged from the latter unless it is broken to pieces.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
:-
1. The method of securing smooth glass plates to walls, ceilings and the like,
cousisting in affixing to the back of said plates, pieces of hard material having at
least one plane surface, and effecting the firm connection of the plate and the wall
or ceiling by means of a suitable adhesive substance, for the purpose as described.
2. The method of securing smooth glass plates to walls, ceilings and the like,
consisting in affixing to the back of said plates irregular pieces of hard material
having at least one plane surface and an irregular indented edge, and effecting the
firm connection of the plate and the wall or ceiling by means of a suitable
adhesive substance, for the purpose as described.
3. As an article of manufacture: A smooth plate of glass having pieces of hard
material affixed to its back, one surface at least of said picces being smooth, for
the purpose as described.
4. As an article of manufacture: A smooth plate of glass having irregular
pieces of hard material affixed to its back, one surface at least of said pieces being
smooth, and the edge of the same being irregularly indented, for the purpose as
described.
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GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.