IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF PRESSED GLASS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas George Webb, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Glass Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF PRESSED GLASS."
Sealed the 29th August 1868, and dated the 6th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas George Webb
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th March 1863.
I, THOMAS GEORGE WEBB, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Glass Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF PRESSED GLASS," to be
as follows:-
My Invention refers to those articles of pressed glass which are made with
handles, and consists in forming a midfeather between the handle and the
body of the glass article, for which purpose I form the moulds with cavities
into which the said midfeather may be pressed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas George Webb in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th September 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GEORGE WEBB, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Glass Manu-
facturer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas George Webb, Her special license, that I, the said
Thomas George Webb, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Thomas George Webb, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF PRESSED
GLASS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas George
Webb, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, 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 Thomas George Webb, 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 by the
following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to those articles of pressed glass which are provided
with handles, such as "custard cups " and a variety of others, and consists in
forming such handles, and which are usually hollow, with a midfeather,
uniting the outward part of the handle to the body of the article. By this
means I am enabled to secure greater strength and to avoid that roughness
which exists in such handles made after the ordinary manner and without
losing the appearance of lightness existing in hollow handles.
In the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1 represents a part of a custard cup
vertical section, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section through the handle.
The handle a as usually made is hollow at the part 6, but according to my
Invention I continue the glass from the body c of the article to the outward
part of the handle a by means of the midfeather d, such midfeather being only
a small portion of the thickness, and affording, therefore, the appearance in
great measure of the usual hollow handle.
Fig. 3 represents another example of my Invention. In this instance the
article is supposed to be the lid of a butter cooler, and at d is a thin midfeather
connecting the handle a to the cover c. The moulds for making the articles

page_text: according to my Invention are the same as those in ordinary use excepting
that the metal thereof which would on the old plan pass entirely through the
handle as at b, b, in Fig. 1, for instance, is cut away sufficiently to allow
the glass to be pressed through and form the connecting midfeather. I have
above given but two examples, and these will be sufficient to explain to all
practical persons the nature of my Invention and to enable them to apply it to
a variety of other forms.
Having thus described my said Invention and the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I desire it to be understood that I claim assecu red to be
under the above in part recited Letters Patent, and as applied to such articles
as aforesaid, the application of a midfeather to the handle or handles thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas George Webb, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
THOMAS GEORGE WEBB. (L.S.)