Year: 1885

page_text: I LEWIS JOHN MURRAY of the Soho & Vesta Glassworks Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Glass Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:---
.
My invention relates to a new or improved method of manufacturing ornamental
glass ware.
I take a body of glass of any suitable colour or colours, adapted to be formed to
the article to be produced and this body being coated or lined or both, with a layer
or layers of glass of another or other colour or colours, or shade or shades of colour
in manner analogous to that at present practised, is then painted with or otherwise
has applied to its surface, a design or markings, in a protecting composition or
resist, to taste and then the piece of glassware bearing the design is submitted
to the action of an acid, or acids, or chemical means, adapted to remove a part, or
parts, or the whole of the over lying layer or layers of glass and leave exposed to
view the under glass .except where by reason of the application of the aforesaid
protecting composition, or "resist" material in design the overlaying layer is
preserved to the figure of the design or pattern and then this preserved part or
portions of it may be treated with Gold, Bronze or other effects and .then
submitted to heat in a muffle or other heating means to burn in the applied
effect.
In place of removing the unreserved or unprotected part or portions of the
superposed layer or layers of the body of glassware by the action of an acid or
acids or chemical means these parts may be removed by the employment of
mechanical means such as by the aid of engraving by sandblast using stencils
or other reserving media. Or a combination of the chemical and mechanical
methods of removing a part or portions of the superposed layer or layers upon the
body of glass may be utilized.
.
Or a portion may be effected by the one means and a portion by the other, or
the operation commenced by the one method may be completed by the other the
subsequent ornamentation being effected as before stated.
As a suggestion for one amongst many applications for iny method of manu-
facturing glassware say a vase in a harmonious or well contrasted selection of
overlay and underlay layers removed at parts and the raised parts representing
leaves of plants flowers and stems the veinings of the leaves the pickings out of
the flowers or the heightening of effects of petals or other parts being attained by
the application of the Gold or other colour.or effect afterwards burned in.
Dated this Oth day of November 1885
'
W BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the said Lewis John Murray.

page_text: I LEWIS JOHN MURRAY of the Soho & Vesta Glassworks Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Glass Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of iny
invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLASSWARE, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
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My invention relates to a new or improved method of manufacturing ornamental
glassware.
I take a body of glass of any suitable colour or colours, adapted to be formed to
the article to be produced and this body being coated or lined or both, with a layer
or layers of glass of another or other colour or colours, or shade or shades of colour
in manner analogous to that at present practised, is then painted with or otherwise
has applied to its.surface, a design or markings, in a protecting composition or
resist, to taste and then the piece of glassware bearing the design is submitted
to the action of an acid, or acids, or chemical means, adapted to remove a part,
or parts, or the whole of the overlying layer or layers of glass and leave exposed
to view the under glass except where by reason of the application of the aforesaid
protecting composition, or "resist
material in design the overlaying layer is
preserved to the figure of the design or pattern and then this preserved part
or portions of it may be treated with Gold, Bronze or other effects and then
submitted to heat in a muffle. or other heating means to burn in the applied
effect.
"
In place of removing the unreserved or unprotected part or portions of the
superposed layer or layers of the body of glassware by the action of an acid or
acids or chemical means these parts may be removed by the employment of
mechanical means such as by the aid of engraving by sandblast using stencils
or other reserving media. Or a combination of the chemical and mechanical
methods of removing a part or portions of the superposed layer or layers upon the
body of glass may be utilized.
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Or a portion may be effected by the one means and a portion by the other, or
the operation commenced by the one method may be completed by the other the
subsequent ornamentation being effected as before stated.
As a suggestion for one amongst many applications for my method of manu-
facturing glassware say a vase in a harmonious or well contrasted selection of
overlay and underlay layers removed. at parts and the raised parts representing
leaves of plants flowers and stems the veinings of the leaves the pickings out of
the flowers or the heightening of effects of petals or other parts being attained by
the application of the Gold or other. colour or effect afterwards burned in.
Besides the means already described there are other known means of operating
by which patterns may be produced substantially as described and therefore I do
not confine myself to any one particular method of proceeding to effect that part
of the process an essential feature of which is the determining the pattern to be

page_text: attained by the use of Gold, Bronze, colours or other effects applied and treated
as described,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
The manufacture of glassware ornamented as described in the manner herein
set forth.