IMPROVEMENT IN SPECTACLES AND EYE GLASSES
Year: 1885

page_text: I ROBERT GALLAND-MASON of Hambleton House The Promenade Douglas, Isle
of Man, Schoolmaster do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN
IMPROVEMENT IN SPECTACLES AND EYE GLASSES to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to enable a person wearing my improved spectacles
or eyeglasses to see objects which are behind him or her as well as those in front
and spectacles and eyeglasses thus improved are applicable for a variety of useful
as well as amusing purposes.
The invention consists in the application to or combination with a pair of
ordinary spectacles or eyeglasses, of reflectors of any suitable forin and material,
attached in any convenient manner to the glasses or frames of the said spectacles
or eyeglasses and so arranged as to reflect objects which are behind the person
wearing them.
For example I take an ordinary pair of spectacles and onto the inner face of
each glass at the outside edge thereof, close to the hinge of the side or temple
I cement by means of Canada balsam or other suitable adhesive material or com-
pound, a flat piece of silvered glass. A person wearing these spectacles can see
through them in the ordinary way, and also by looking slightly outwards into
either reflector can also see objects which are behind him, or by standing or sitting
with the back towards a large mirror can obtain a back or side view of himself.
GEORGE DAVIES,
Agent for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.

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I ROBERT GALLAND-MASON of Hambleton House The Promenade Douglas Isle
of Man, Schoolmaster do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN
IMPROVEMENT IN SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES" 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 enable a person wearing my improved spectacles
or eyeglasses to see objects which are behind him or her or out of the direct line
of vision as well as those in front, and spectacles and eyeglasses thus improved are
applicable for a variety of useful as well as amusing purposes.
The invention consists in the application to or combination with a pair of
ordinary spectacles or eyeglasses, of reflectors of any suitable form and material,
attached in any convenient manner to the glasses or frames of the said spectacles
or eyeglasses and so arranged as to reflect objects which are behind the person
wearing them, or out of the direct line of vision.
For example, I take an ordinary pair of spectacles and onto the inner face of
each glass at the outside edge thereof, close to the hinge of the side or temple,
I cement by means of Canada balsam or other suitable adhesive material or com-
pound, a flat piece of thin silvered glass. A person wearing these spectacles can
see through them forwards in the ordinary way, and also by looking slightly
outwards into either reflector can also see objects which are behind him or out of
the direct line of vision, or by standing or sitting with the back towards a large
mirror can obtain a back or side view of himself.
In the annexed drawing Fig. 1. shows the application of my invention to a pair
of spectacles, a, a being the reflectors of thin silvered glass, which may be either
circular as shown or oval, square, octagonal or of any other convenient form.
Fig. 2. illustrates the same as applied to a pair of folding eye-glasses, and Fig. 3
shows the silvered glass reflector a, a as applied to a single eye-glass.
These improved spectacles and eyeglasses would be useful to organists to see the
choir behind them, and to leaders of orchestras to see audience without turning
round;
to captains of river boats, to military and naval officers in action; to cyclists
or drivers in crowded thoroughfares; to detectives and others for watching
criminals and other persons whilst apparently unobservant; to huntsmen or other
horsemen to ladies in arranging their back hair, and for a variety of other useful
as well as amusing purposes.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
An improvement in spectacles, and in single and double eyeglasses consisting of
reflectors or pieces of thin silvered glass attached thereto in the manner and for the
purpose hereinbefore set forth and described.
Secondly. I claim a pair of spectacles or eyeglasses, or a single eyeglass with
reflectors or pieces of silvered glass attached which enable the wearer to see the
reflection of objects behind him or out of the direct line of bis vision.
GEORGE DAVIES,
Agent for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.