A NEW METHOD OF APPLYING GLASS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF CHANDELIERS AND OTHER FITTINGS REQUIRED FOR GAS CANDLE OIL OR OTHER ADIFICA Loum
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Chambers Hine, of Regent Street, in the
Town of Nottingham, Architect, for the Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF
APPLYING GLASS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF CHANDELIERS AND OTHER FITTINGS
REQUIRED FOR GAS CANDLE OIL OR OTHER ADIFICA Loum"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Chambers Fine at
the Office of the Commissiouers of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th May 1854.
I, THOMAS CHAMBERS HINE, of Regent Street, in the Town of Nottingham,
Architect, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
METHOD OF APPLYING GLASS IN THE ORNAMENTATION OF CHANDELIERS AND OTHER
FITTINGS REQUIRED FOR GAS, CANDLE, OIL, OR OTHER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of glass in the form of beads,
and in threading or stringing the same on to metal or other tubes, chains,
rods, or wires, so as to form a complete continuous covering thereto, each bead
being separate and detached; by this means furnishing a novel and peculiar
mode of ornamenting chandeliers, wall brackets, lamp stands, or other fittings
required in the use of gas, candle, oil, or other artificial light. Glass thus
employed combines more substantial construction, with brilliancy and effective-

page_text: ness, in ornamentation, and the novelty of the Invention consists in the
arrangement and combination of the parts in the manner referred to; whereas
heretofore glass has been suspended to chandeliers or other fittings merely by
metal hooks and eyes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Chambers Hine in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th November 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
CHAMBERS HINE, of Regent Street, in the Town of Nottingham, Architect,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Chambers Hine, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Chambers Hine, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Thomas Chambers Fine, 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
"A NEW METHOD OF APPLYING GLASS IN THE ORNAMENTATION CP CHANDELIERS
AND OTHER FITTINGS REQUIRED FOR GAS, CANDLE, OIL, OR OTHER AKTIPICIAL LIGHT,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Chambers Hinc,
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 Chambers Hine, 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, that is to say:
Heretofore, when glass has been employed for the ornamentation of
chandeliers and other fittings required for gas, candle, oil, or other artificial
light, the glass has been suspended to the chandeliers or other fittings merely

page_text: by metal hooks and eyes, which constitute both an insecure and in many
cases an unsightly fastening. Now, my Invention consists in the employment
of glass in the form of beads and other like objects, and in threading or
stringing the same on to metal or other tubes, chains, rods, or wires, so as to
form a complete continuous covering thereto, each bead or other like object
being separate and detached from the others. By this means I furnish a novel
and peculiar mode of ornamenting chandeliers, wall brackets,, lamp stands, and
other fittings required in the use of gas, candle, oil, or other artificial light, the
glass thus employed combining more substantial construction, with brilliancy
and effectiveness, in ornamentation."
The foregoing description will be sufficient to enable my Invention to be
carried into effect by workmen and others familiar with the construction of
chandeliers and other fittings, such as before mentioned. I would observe,
however, that I do not confine myself to the use of any particular description of
glass beads or other like objects; but I employ them plain or ornamented, by
silvering or colour, applied internally or otherwise, according to the effect desired
to be produced.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as "A New
Method of Applying Glass in the Ornamentation of Chandeliers and other
Fittings required for Gas, Candle, Oil, or other Artificial Light," the employ-
ment of glass beads or other like objects threaded or strung on to metal or
other tubes, chains, rods, or wires, so as to form a complete continuous.covering
thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Chambers Hine, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
THOMAS CHAMBERS HINE. (L.S.)
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.