IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF JEWELLERY, ORNAMENTAL WINDOWS, AND OTHER ARTICLES FORMED OF GLASS, AND OF TRANSPARENT OR OPAQUE ENAMELS IN COMBINATION, AMONGST THEMSELVES OB WITH METAL OR OTHER MATERIAL
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I PAUL RAOUL DE FAUCHEUX D'HUMY of 2 Carlton Mansions Clapham Rise
in the County of Surrey, Electrical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF JEWELLERY,
ORNAMENTAL WINDOWS, AND OTHER ARTICLES FORMED OF GLASS, AND OF
TRANSPARENT OR OPAQUE ENAMELS IN COMBINATION, AMONGST THEMSELVES OB
WITH METAL OR OTHER MATERIAL to be as follows:-
In carrying my invention into effect, I take a piece of any kind of metal of any
desired shape which is perforated with spaces forming any required design.
I submit the metal to an intense flame from a blow pipe or other flame, then I
pass through the empty spaces a rod or bar of glass or enamel; the glass or enamel
in becoming soft fills the empty space of the metal and becomes rounded upon the
entire contour of the space and hermetically closes it.
I repeat the operation with transparent or opaque glasses of various colors.or
combined or with transparent or opaque enamels until all the spaces have become
filled.
Then I submit the entire to an annealing furnace and then to a galvanic bath to
gild or plate the metal.
If I desire to obtain articles of large dimensions I take plates of metal of any
required form pierced with holes forming any desired design.
These spaces are filled with colored or other glass or with transparent or opaque
enamels in pouder or pasta.
The piece of metal thus filled with glass or enamel is supported by a plate of
metal the surface of which is covered with an insulating coat of whiting or with
chalk or other material in order to prevent the glass or enamel from adhering to
the lower plate.
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The entire is then placed in a muffle or other furnace and heated until the
glass or enamels are melted and have occupied the empty spaces of the piece
of metal.

page_text: I employ also plates or pieces of opaque enamels which I melt, or which I render
plastic by heat then with a die which I force into the paste, or with a mould
having a drawing on its surface, I form or I cut out a drawing in the body of the
plastic enamel, then I fill the empty spaces with transparent enamel powder and
submit the same to heat after which I polish its two surfaces in order to render it
smooth and polished. Or I use transparent enamel for the base and opake enamel
for the design.
I thus obtain opaque and transparent enamels forming regular designs of several
colors. of which the body is either opaque or transparent.
If I desire to make very large pieces for architectural purposes, for houses, or for
the manufacture of plates of metal with openings for lighting basements and other
dark places which require lighting or for marine purposes; I employ for this
purpose pieces of metal or other material with openings therethrough and of the
required substance.
This piece of metal or other openwork rests upon a plate of metal or other
suitable material.
This second piece has formed on its surface and to the required depth the design
of the openwork piece and corresponds geometrically with it. Then I take in a
ladle melted glass which I pour into the openings, I then place the first piece of
metal or other material in an annealing furnace and I thus obtain when the piece
is cold plates or slabs of perforated metal or other material the openings of which
are fitted with glass of a great thickness and forming with the metal or other
material a single solid piece ready for use.
One surface of this metallic or other piece is of flat glass which entirely or
partially covers it, and this may be a walking surface, the other surface has the
glass passing completely through the holes and projecting therefrom in relief of
prismatic or other forp.
Thus as the entire becomes in effect one piece if the glass should happen to be
fractured it will always remain hermetic.
This system dispenses with joints and cement which are frequently the causes of
the fracture of the glass which latter rarely beds correctly in the spaces in which it
is placed.
In a similar manner I can manufacture portions of stained glass very light which
when united form harmonious designs and avoid the use of lead joints and produce
the same effect.
Dated thin 17th Cambah 1004

page_text: I PAUL RAOUL DE FAUCHEUX D'HOMY of 2 Carlton Mansions Clapham Rise
in the County of Surrey, Electrical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of
the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF JEWELLERY,
ORNAMENTAL WINDOWS AND OTHER ARTICLES FORMED OF GLASS AND OF
TRANSPARENT OR OPAQUE ENAMELS IN COMBINATION AMONGST THEMSELVES OR
WITH METAL OR OTHER NATERIAL and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
In carrying my invention into effect I take a piece of any kind of metal of any
desired shape which is perforated with spaces forming any required design.
I submit the metal to an intense flame from a blow pipe or other flame, then
I pass through the empty spaces a rod or bar of glass or enamel; the glass or
enamel in becoming soft fills the empty space of the metal and becomes rounded
upon the entire contour of the space on both sides thereof and hermetically
closes it.
I repeat the operation with transparent or opaque glasses of various colors, or
combined or with transparent or opaque enamels until all the spaces have become
filled.
Then I submit the entire to an annealing furnace and then to a galvanic bath to
gild or plate the metal.
If I desire to obtain articles of large dimensions I take plates of metal of any
required form pierced or formed with holes forming any desired design.
These spaces are filled with colored or other glass or with transparent or opaque
enamels in powder or paste.
.
The piece of metal thus filled with glass or enamel is supported by a plate of
metal the surface of which is covered with an insulating coat of whiting or with
chalk or other material in order to prevent the glass or enamel from adhering to
the lower plate.
The entire is then placed in a muffle or other furnace and heated until the
glass or enamels are melted and have occupied the empty spaces of the piece
of metal.
I employ also plates or pieces of opaque enamels which I melt or which I render
plastic by heat, then with a die which I force into the paste, or with a mould
having a pattern on its surface I form or I cut out a drawing in the body of the
plastic enamel then I fill the empty spaces with transparent enamel powder and
submit the same to heat, after which I polish its two surfaces in order to render it
smooth and polished.
Or I use transparent enamel for the base and opaque enamel for the design.
I thus obtain opaque and transparent enamels forming regular designs of several
colors of which the body is either opaque or transparent,

page_text: If I desire to make very large pieces for architectural purposes, for houses, or
for the manufacture of plates of metal with openings for lighting basements and
other dark places which require lighting or for marine purposes I employ for this
purpose pieces of metal or other material with openings therethrough and of the
required substance.
This piece of metal or other openwork rests upon a plate of metal or other
suitable material.
This second piece has formed on its surface and to the required depth the design
of the openwork piece and corresponds geometrically with it.
Then I take in a ladle melted glass which I pour into the openings, I then place
the first piece of metal or other material in an annealing furnace and I thus obtain
when the piece is cold, plates or slabs of perforated metal or other material the
openings of which are fitted with glass of a great thickness and forming with the
metal or other material a single solid piece ready for use.
One surface of this metallic or other piece is of flat glass which entirely or
partially covers it, and this may be a walking surface, the other surface has the
glass passing completely through the holes and projecting therefrom in relief of
prismatic or other form.
Thus as the entire becomes in effect one piece if the glass should happen to be
fractured it will always remain hermetic.
This system dispenses with joints and cement which are frequently the causes of
the fracture of the glass which latter rarely beds correctly in the spaces in which
it is placed.
In a similar manner I can manufacture portions of stained glass very light
which when united form harmonious designs and I thereby avoid the use of lead
joints and produce the same ornamental and useful effect.
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. The various modes of applying and combining glass with metal or other
material as also the combination of perforated enamels filled with other enamels of
various colors either transparent or opaque substantially as herein shown and
described.
2. The employment of pieces of perforated metal or other material combined
with glass, for architectural building and marine purposes substantially as herein
shown and described.
3. The manufacture of jewellery of perforated metal the spaces of which are
filled with glass or enamels of various colors substantially as herein shown and
described.