Ar IMPROVED MODE OF EXHIBITING AND PROTECTING CERTAIN COLORED FABRICS, ORNA- MENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER DESIGNS
Year: 1847

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRÉSENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PIDDING, of Bernard Street, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present inmost Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of February,
One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in the tenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Pidding, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial
license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William
Pidding, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Pidding, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also in all
Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "Ar
IMPROVED MODE OF EXHIBITING AND PROTECTING CERTAIN COLORED FABRICS, ORNA-
MENTAL INSCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER DESIGNS;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, that I, the said William Pidding, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to

page_text: be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Pidding, have ascertained and set forth the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into effect, in and by the
following description thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists,―
Firstly, in inclosing between two plates of glass certain colored transparent
or semi-transparent fabrics, herein-after named, or designs or inscriptions
produced or made upon certain transparent or semi-transparent substances
herein-after named, and afterwards puttying, luting, or cementing the edges of
the plates of glass together. By this means the articles so inclosed are protected
from the effects of the atmosphere, dust, and insects, and the articles have in
a great measure the effect or appearance of stained glass, or of designs or
paintings upon glass. The colored fabrics which I prefer for this purpose are
colored gelatine, or thin colored gauze or colored paper rendered transparent
or semi-transparent by any of the processes ordinarily employed for that
purpose; and these substances, plain or colored, may be employed to receive
any required design or inscription which may be printed, drawn, impressed or
embossed upon them.
Secondly, as regards protecting inscriptions or designs,-in lieu of placing a
colored transparent or semi-transparent fabric, or design printed or drawn
upon a transparent or semi-transparent fabric, between two plates of glass, as
before described, I paint in transparent colors the inscription or design upon
one sheet of glass, and I then apply another sheet of glass in as close contact
as possible to the painted face of the first sheet of glass, and lute or cement
the edges of the two sheets together, so as to exclude the air, dust, and
insects, as before described.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim as
my Invention is,-
Firstly, the exhibiting and protecting certain colored transparent or semi-
transparent fabrics herein-before described, or inscriptions or designs made or
produced upon certain transparent or semi-transparent fabrics, herein-before
described, by enclosing them between two plates of glass, having their edges
connected together, as herein-before described. And,
Secondly, the protecting of a sheet of glass upon which an inscription or