Improvements in Panels for Painting and Decorative Purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Panels for Painting and Decorative Purposes.
I, BENJAMIN JOSIAS BREARLEY, of Prescot Road, St. Helens in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in panels for painting and decorative
purposes. According thereto I form a panel suitable for painting on or otherwise
decorating, of plate glass of any convenient shape, size and quality.
The edges of the panel are bevelled and polished while the back is polished and
by preference is silvered after the manner of a mirror. That part of the front side
of the panel within the bevelled edges is not polished but is left with a dull, ground
or obscured surface to receive the painting or decoration thus giving an agreeable
matted surface to the work, which surface is moreover slightly transparent and
allows a small amount of light to pass.
The bevelled edges form a kind of frame or border and being polished admit rays
of light freely. Instead of silvering the back of the panel, a somewhat similar
result may be obtained by placing an ordinary mirror or separate piece of silvered
glass behind the panel or for cheapness tinfoil or tinsel or any other suitable
reflecting medium may be used.
It will be understood that a dim reflection of the decoration can be seen through
the glass which gives the painting or decoration a peculiar depth of body and adds
to the artistic effect. The surface being left ground or roughened greatly facilitates
painting or transferring objects thereon.
Dated thin 15th d...
Daha 1905
B. J. BREARLEY,
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Panels for Painting and Decorative Purposes.
I, BENJAMIN JOSIAS BREARLEY, of Prescot Road, St. Helens in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, 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 :—
This invention relates to improvements in panels for painting and decorative
purposes. According thereto I form a panel suitable for painting on or otherwise
decorating, of plate glass of any convenient shape, size and quality.
An example of panel according to my invention is illustrated in the annexed
drawings,
Fig. being a front elevation and
Fig. 2 a side or edge view thereof.
The edges A. of the panel are bevelled and polished while the back B is polished
and by preference is silvered after the manner of a mirror. The front side C of
the panel within the bevelled edges A is not polished but is left with a dull, ground
or obscured surface as shewn to receive the painting or decoration thus imparting
an agreeable surface to the work, which surface is moreover slightly transparent or
translucent and allows a small amount of light to pass.
The bevelled edges A form a kind of frame or border and being polished admit
rays of light freely. Instead of silvering the back of the panel, a somewhat similar
result may be obtained by placing a separate piece of silvered glass behind the panel

page_text: as indicated by the dotted line D, or for cheapness tinfoil or tinsel or any other
-suitable reflecting medium may be used instead of silvered glass.
It will be understood that a dim reflection of the decoration can be seen through
the glass which gives the painting or decoration a peculiar depth of body and adds
to the artistic effect. The surface C being left ground or roughened greatly
facilitates painting objects thereon or transferring objects thereto.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A glass panel for painting and decorative purposes having polished bevel edges a
dull ground or translucent front surface and a polished rear surface, whether or not
this latter surface be silvered or be provided with a reflecting backing substantially
as herein described.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1892.