IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATING GLASS WITH STRIPES
Year: 1885

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I WILLIAM WEBB BOULTON of Audnam in the parish of Kingswinford in the
County of Stafford Glass Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATING GLASS WITH STRIPES" to be as
follows:-
My invention consists in decorating Glass with stripes by preparing a mass of
decorating metal in the manner that one such mass shall be available for decorating
by way of stripes many masses of glass or articles of Glass intended to be decorated
by Stripes.
It is a common and well known practice of Glassmakers to prepare a mass of
glass or an article of glass for decoration by stripes and then to prepare for each
mass or article intended to be decorated a stripe or two or more stripes (as may be
required) of decorating glass metal and to apply the stripes singly one by one by
several successive acts to the mass or article to be decorated.
My invention enables me to prepare a mass of decorating metal in such a
manner that
1stly I can apply two or more stripes (as may be required) by a single act to the
mass or article to be decorated.
And 2ndly I can divide a single large mass of decorating metal into two or more
smaller masses each of which smaller masses may be used for the production of a
mass or article to be decorated.
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The manner in which I prepare the mass of decorating metal is as follows-
I gather a mass of molten glass at the end of a glassmakers iron to form a central
mass and I fashion the same into a shape appropriate for the application to it and
around it of stripes of molten glass-Then I gather masses of molten glass at the
end of other glass makers' irons and fashion them into stripes of molten glass Then
I apply the stripes of molten glass to and so as to lie lengthwise on the above
mentioned central mass and I roll the whole mass consisting of the central mass
and the applied molten stripes on the glassmakers-marver so that the central mass
and the stripes applied to it become one single mass of molten glass.

page_text: Then I elongate this mass by further rolling it on the marver in the way in which
molten glass is usually elongated and I cut off from the end of this elongated mass
a portion or portions of it to be used as the decorating metal Then I take one of
these portions or masses of decorating metal and place it at the nose-end of a glass-
maker's iron as a nucleus and I gather up around this nucleus a mass of molten
glass fitted to be formed into the article to be decorated; the nucleus and the mass
gathered around it then form together one mass and I fashion this mass into the
decorated article.
Decorated with Stripes.
I WILLIAM WEBB BOULTON of Audnam in the Parish of Kingswinford in the
County of Stafford Glass Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN DECORATING GLASS WITH STRIPES and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists in decorating Glass with stripes by preparing a mass of
decorating metal in such a manner that one such mass shall be available for
decorating by way of stripes many masses of Glass or articles of Glass intended to
be decorated by stripes.
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It is a common and well known practice of Glassmakers to prepare a mass of
Glass or an article of Glass for decoration by stripes and then to prepare for each
mass or article intended to be decorated a stripe or two or more stripes (as may be
required) of decorating glass metal and to apply the stripes singly one by one by
several successive acts to the mass or article to be decorated.
My invention enables me to prepare a mass of 'decorating metal in such a manner
that firstly I can apply two or more stripes (as may be required) by a single act to
the mass or article to be decorated-and secondly I can divide a single large mass
of decorating metal into two or more smaller masses each of which smaller masses
may be used for the production of a mass or article to be decorated.
The manner in which I prepare the mass of decorating metal is as follows:
I gather a mass of molten glass at the end of a Glassmakers iron to form a central
mass and I fashion the same into a shape appropriate for the application to it and
around it of stripes of molten glass. Then gather masses of molten glass at
the end of other Glassmakers irons and fashion them into stripes of molten glass.

page_text: Then I apply the stripes of molten glass to and so as to lie lengthwise on the
above mentioned central mass and I roll the whole. mass consisting of the central
mass and the applied molten stripes on the Glassmakers marver so that the central
mass and the stripes applied to it become one single mass of molten glass. Then
I elongate this mass by further rolling it on the marver in the way in which '
molten Glass is usually elongated and I cut off from the end of this elongated inass
a portion or portions of it to be used as the decorating metal. Then I take one of
these portions or masses of decorating metal and place it at the nose end of a
Glassmakers iron as a nucleus and I gather up around this nucleus a mass of
molten Glass fitted to be formed into the article to be decorated; the nucleus and
the mass gathered around it then form together one mass and I fashion this mass
into the decorated article.
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
1. That I prepare a mass of decorating metal in such a manner that
1st I can apply two or more stripes (as may be required) by a single act to
a mass or article to be decorated.
2ndly I can divide a single large mass of decorating metal into two or more
smaller masses each of which smaller masses may be used for the
production of a mass or article to be decorated.
Dated this thirtieth day of October One thousand eight hundred and