IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW GLASS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Vincent Baines, of High Wycombe, in
the County of Bucks, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
WINDOW GLASS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Vincent
Baines at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd May 1871.
I, WILLIAM VINCENT BAINES, of High Wycombe, in the County of
Bucks, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN WINDOW GLASS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is the production of ornamental window
glass, more particularly applicable for use where blinds or curtains
are now used, and of a cheaper and more useful description than
heretofore.
Plain glass can now be produced in lengths, and panes of frosted glass
are also produced with ornamental borders or other ornamentation upon
them.

page_text: But according to this Invention I make ornamental window glass in
lengths and of various widths with an ornamental border or edge at or
near the top side thereof, and with the lower part or greater portion
thereof plain, but by preference frosted. When thus made pieces can
be cut off the size required for a pane or blind instead of their being i
specially made the size required as heretofore.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Vincent Baines in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 2nd November 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
VINCENT BAINES, of High Wycombe, in the County of Bucks, send
grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said William Vincent Baines, Her special licence,
that I, the said William Vincent Baines, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or. such others as I, the said William Vincent Baines, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN' WINDOW GLASS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Vincent Baines, my executors. or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Vincent Baines, 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;

page_text: by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon, that is to
say:
The object of my Invention is the production of ornamental window
glass more particularly applicable for use where blinds or curtains
are now used, and of a cheaper and more useful description than
heretoforc.
Plain glass can now be produced in lengths, and panes of frosted glass
are also produced with ornamental borders or other ornamentation upon
them..
But according to this Invention I make ornamental window glass in
lengths and of various widths with an ornamental border or edge at or
near the top side thereof, and with the lower part or greater portion
thereof plain, but by preference frosted. When thus made pieces can be
cut off the size required for a pane or blind instead of their being
specially made the size required as heretofore.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawings shew sufficient of two.
ornamental pieces of glass made according to my Invention to illustrato
how it is carried into effect.
a is the top or ornamental border of the glass, which may be
ornamented in any desired way as fancy or taste may dictate. The
glass is made in lengths of varying widths and of sizes found most
convenient.
Figure 3 shows a window fitted with glass ornamented according to
my Invention. In this case cach piece of glass has been cut from a
length to fit each pane and is placed on the ordinary glass.
Figure 4 shows a window where the glass extends from end to end of
the sash frame. The lower part of the glass below the border is frosted,
figured, or otherwise rendered opaque.
Glass of very ornamental appearance is made by my Invention as
a substitute for blinds or curtains, and is more durable and clean
because it can be easily washed without being removed from the window
as is necessary to be done with blinds or short curtains of the ordinary
kind.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the

page_text: construction and employment of window glass with an ornamental border
at top, and made in lengths, whereby pieces (may be cut off to suit the
width of any window or separate pane of glass, and so form substitutes
for short blinds or curtains, substantially as herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof I, the said William Vincent Baines, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of October, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
WILLIAM VINCENT BAINES. (L.S.)