IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING OR ILLUMINATING GLASS FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard John Cole and Mary Scarvell Cole, both
of Pembridge Gardens, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMEN
Sealed the 18th June 1861, and dated the 19th December 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard John Cole and
Mary Scarvell Cole at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 19th December 1860.
We, RICHARD JOHN COLE and MARY SCARVELL COLE, both of Pembridge
Gardens, Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING OR ILLUMINATING GLASS
FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the ornamentation or illumination of glass in
such a manner that it can be applied to the decoration of the interior of houses
and buildings in parts where such decorations are or may be most suitable, also
for furniture and such like purposes.
We propose placing on the surface of glass any desired design, pattern, or
device in plain or various intermixed colours; in some instances it may be
found desirable to emblazon such colored devices with gold, silver, bronze, or
other suitable metals, or a device may be placed upon the glass and a plain
color either filled into the interstices or laid over the entire back, all of which
devices showing through the glass in front thereof.
The colors may be applied either by a stencil plate, printed, painted,
transferred, or otherwise attached to the glass in a liquid state and left to dry
and harden, the back thereof being coated with oil color, varnish, or suitable
cement to prevent any injury thereto by damp, heat, or other atmospheric

page_text: chimney pieces, pilasters, panels, and all other such like internal decorations.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard John Cole and Mary Scarvell Cole in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 19th June 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
JOHN COLE and MARY SCARVELL COLE, both of Pembridge Gardens, Bays-
water, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Richard John Cole and Mary Scarvell Cole, Her special licence that
we, the said Richard John Cole and Mary Scarvell Cole, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Richard John
Cole and Mary Scarvell Cole, our 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 ORNAMENTING OR ILLUMINATING GLASS FOR
DECORATIVE PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
Richard John Cole and Mary Scarvell Cole, our executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, 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 we, the said Richard John Cole and Mary
Scarvell Cole do hereby declare the nature of our 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:―
This Invention relates to the ornamentation or illumination of glass in such
a manner that it can be applied to the decoration of the interior of houses and
buildings in parts where such decorations are or may be most suitable, also for
furniture and such like purposes.
In order to explain our said Inventiom as completely as possible we wil

page_text: now proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying
the same into practical effect as follows:-
We apply to the glass any desired design, pattern, or device in plain or
various intermixed colours, and in some instances it may be found desirable
to emblazon such colored devices with gold, silver, bronze, or other suitable
metals, or a device may be placed upon the glass, and a plain colour either filled
into the interstices or laid over the entire back, all of which devices showing
through the glass in front thereof. The colours may be applied in a liquid state
either by a stencil plate printed, painted, transferred, or otherwise attached to
the glass, the back thereof being coated with oil colour, varnish, or suitable
cement to prevent any injury thereto by damp, heat, or other atmospheric
influence, such decorations being equally applicable to the ornamentation
of chimney pieces, pilasters, panels, furniture and other such like internal
decorations.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention of ".
"Improvements
in Ornamenting or Illuminating Glass for Decorative Purposes," and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, we would remark in conclusion
that we do not confine ourselves to any particular design or device, nor to
the mode of applying the designs, as there are many known methods for
attaining the same object without in any way departing from the principle of
our Invention, but what we claim as our Invention intended to be secured to us
by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is, ornamenting or illuminating
glass in the manner herein described for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard John Cole and Mary Scarvell
Cole, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth day
of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
R. J. COLE. (L.S.)
M. S. COLE. (L.S.)