CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHANDELIERS AND OTHER GAS FITTINGS, HAVING ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PULLEY WHEELS, ROSETTES, AND BALANCE WEIGHTS, SMOKE SHADES, ARGAND BURNERS, AND SIMILAR PARTS USED THEREIN
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Horton, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Gas Chandelier, Maker, for the Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHANDELIERS AND OTHER GAS
FITTINGS, HAVING ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PULLEY WHEELS, ROSETTES,
AND BALANCE WEIGHTS, SMOKE SHADES, ARGAND BURNERS, AND
SIMILAR PARTS USED THEREIN."
Sealed the 25th March 1869, and dated the 30th September 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Horton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th September 1868.
"
I, EDWARD HORTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gas
Chandelier Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHANDELIERS AED OTHER
GAS FITTINGS, HAVING ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PULLEY WHEELS, ROSETTES,
AND BALANCE WEIGHTS, SMOKE SHADES, ARGAND BURNERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
PARTS USED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists substantially in making the pulley wheels,,
rosettes, balance weights, ceiling plates, and the other parts used in the

page_text: construction of chandeliers and gas fittings herein-after mentioned of
earthenware, china, jasper, or other vitreous substance instead of making
the same parts of metal as is now customary. In this manner the gas
fitting is rendered more ornamental than at present and can be produced
at a less cost. Besides the articles above mentioned my Invention has
reference to the centres of bodies for chandeliers and coronas or smoke
shades for globes, all of which I propose shall be wholly composed of
carthenware or other vitreous substance instead of being partly or
wholly of metal as at present. I propose also to make argand burners
of earthenware or other vitreous substance instead of metal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Hortou in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th March 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HORTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gas Chandelier
Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS
Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Horton, Her special licence
that I, the said Edward Horton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Horton, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHANDELIERS AND OTHER GAS FITTINGS, HAVING
ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PULLEY WHEELS, ROSETTES, AND BALANCE WEIGHTS,
SMOKE SHADES, ARGAND BURNERS, AND OTHER SIMILAR PARTS USED THEREIN,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Horton, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Horton, 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
following statement (that is to say):-
My Invention consists substantially in making the pulley wheels,
rosettes, and balance weights, and the other parts used in the con-
struction of chandeliers and gas fittings herein-after mentioned of glazed
vitreous earthenware instead of making the same parts of metal as is
now customary.
(In my Provisional Specification I desired to claim the construction
of these parts of china or jasper, but as I am advised that these parts
may have been already made of china or jasper I desire to withdraw this
claim, and I also desire to disclaim the use of earthenware or other
vitreous substance in the construction of ceiling plates.) In this manner
the gasfitting is rendered more ornamental and can be produced at the
same or even at a less cost than at present. Besides the articles above
mentioned to which I now desire to apply my Invention I desire to apply
the same material for the centres of bodies for chandeliers and other
gasfittings and for water cups; but I desire to disclaim the use of the
said material both for coronas or smoke shades for globes and for argand
burners, for I am advised that the use of the said material for these
articles may not be entirely new. It will be evident that the material
which I desire to protect for the purposes herein named can be decorated
or ornamented to any desired extent, and upon the body of the said
material may be painted flowers or any other desired designs; or it may
be gilt; or if desired a ground laid, or enamel colors may be permanently
fixed into the glaze, so that the articles to which my Invention may be
applied will not tarnish or change color in the manner that articles made
of brass, bronze, or any other metal will do; or the said material may
be moulded or turned when in a plastic state into any desired form, and
when fired the design or shape will be permanently preserved.
Having now described my said Invention, and the manner in which
the same may be carried into effect, I desire to claim as the Invention to
be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, the
adaptation of glazed vitreous earthenware in the construction of pulley

page_text: wheels, rosettes, balance weights, centres of bodies, and water cups, used
in the manufacture of chandeliers and other gasfittings, substantially as
herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Horton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine.
EDWARD HORTON. (L.S.)