IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE ORNAMENTATION OF ARTICLES OF
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Charles March, of Ambassadors' Court,
Saint James' Palace, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE ORNAMENTATION OF ARTICLES OF
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Sealed the 8th March 1870, and dated the 17th December 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Charles March
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 17th December 1869.
I, THOMAS CHARLES MARCH, of Ambassadors' Court, Saint James'
Palace, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO THE ORNAMENTATION OF
ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND TO THE INTERIOR DECORATION OF HOUSES," to be as
follows:-
These improvements refer principally to a portion of my Specification,
for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the 12th of June 1863,
No. 1471. The portion of the Specification to which I allude relates to

page_text: the cementing of circular or other suitably shaped glass knobs or pieces
of glass on to looking-glasses, mirrors, or other glass surfaces.
My first improvement is to impart or add colour to the glass pieces
which I cement on to looking-glasses, mirrors, or other glass surfaces.
In my ordinary mode of proceeding the pieces of glass are moulded or
made of the required pattern by any known mode of glass working, and
are composed of any known description of glass, and having been ground
quite smooth on the reverse side of the pattern are fastened by a thin
coating of transparent cement on to the glass surfaces before described.
According to my present improvement I impart or add colour to such
glass pieces by mixing paint with the transparent cement which fixes
those pieces to the glass surfaces, or I paint the pieces of glass on the
reverse side of the pattern with any suitabe colour, let them dry, and
then cement them to the glass surfaces. In either case I obtain pieces
of glass of various hues and colours, which may be so arranged as to
produce different patterns on a ground of looking-glass or mirror.
My second improvement is to cement flat glass pieces obtained or
colored as described in the foregoing portion of this Provisional Speci-
fication to slabs of porcelain, baked clay, wood, or other surfaces
sufficiently smooth to allow the pieces of glass to adhere by means of
the cement, and sufficiently strong to hold them in their places.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Charles March in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
CHARLES MARCH, of Ambassadors' Court, Saint James' Palace, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
. Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Charles March, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Charles March, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Charles March,

page_text: 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
APPLICABLE TO THE ORNAMENTATION OF ARTICLES OF FURNITURE AND TO THE INTERIOR
DECORATION OF HOUSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Thomas Charles March, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Scal 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 Charles March, 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 :-
These improvements refer principally to a portion of my Specification,
for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the 12th June 1863,
No. 1471. The portion of the Specification to which I allude relates to
the cementing of circular or other suitably shaped glass knobs or pieces
of glass on to looking-glasses, mirrors, or other glass surfaces.
My first improvement is to impart or add colour to the glass pieces
which I cement on to looking-glasses, mirrors, or other glass surfaces.
In my ordinary mode of proceeding the pieces of glass are moulded or
made of the required pattern by any known mode of glass working, and
are composed of any known description of glass, and having been ground
quite smooth on a portion of the reverse side of the pattern are fastened
by a thin coating of transparent cement on to the glass surfaces before
described.
According to my present improvement I impart or add colour to such
glass pieces by mixing paint with the transparent cement which fixes
those picces to the glass surfaces, or I paint the pieces of glass on the
reverse side of the pattern with any suitable colour, let them dry, and
then cement them to the glass surfaces. In either case I obtain pieces
of glass of various hues and colours, which may be so arranged as to
produce different ornamental patterns, such as flowers, leaves, and fruits
on a ground of looking-glass or mirror.

page_text: My second improvement is to cement flat glass pieces obtained or
colored as described in the foregoing portion of this Specification to
slabs of porcelain, baked clay, wood, slate, or other surfaces sufficiently
smooth to allow the pieces of glass to adhere by means of the cement,
and sufficiently strong to hold them in their places.
A's it is difficult to obtain glass of every required shade or color, or
even in all instances to produce the desired color by painting the glass
in the mode I have described, I sometimes use small pieces of porcelain
of various shapes and color, and I treat these in the same manner as the
glass pieces, flattening a portion of their surface, and fixing the flattened
portion by cement to the smooth surfaces described.
The surfaces which I ornament are usually slabs, that is to say, flat
pieces of glass or of other suitable material, but I sometimes ornament
vessels having curved or globular surfaces; in which case it becomes
necessary either that the various ornamental pieces of glass or porcelain
should be flattened or ground to a curve corresponding with the surfaces
to which they are to be attached, or that a number of flat places should
be ground on the globular vessel, so that the ornamental pieces likewise
flattened may be cemented to these flat places. In either case orna-
mental patterns in relief can be made on vases of any shape or curve.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Charles March, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.