Imitation OI the Lead or Metal Mountings Used for Stained Glass.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1887
Complete Left, 19th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 25th May, 1888
Imitation OI the Lead or Metal Mountings Used for Stained
Glass.
I CHARLES TOFT of Rowley Park Stafford in the county of Stafford Potter's Designer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say:-
The application to the ornamenting and decorating of Pottery and Porcelain
of an imitation of the lead or other metal mountings used for stained glass such
imitation mountings being arranged on the surface of the articles of Pottery or
Porcelain in the various geometrical and other designs applied to windows and other
articles inade of stained glass, and the intervening spaces between the imitation metal
mountings on the surface of the Pottery or Porcelain being coloured either by the
use of the ordinary coloured glazes now applied to majolica wares or by means of
enamel colours so as, in combination with the imitation mountings to give the articles
of pottery and porcelain the appearance of being made of stained glass.
As to the manner in which the invention may be performed it is considered best to
have a raised bead or rounded moulding about the usual height and thickness of the
mountings of stained glass either moulded or modelled on the surface of the Pottery
or Porcelain when in the clay state the bead or moulding being arranged in any
required pattern usually applied to articles of stained glass.
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When required, also, the intervening spaces between the bead or moulding may be
so moulded or modelled in the clay state as to represent in shape the "bull's-eyes
used in stained glass decoration, or the spaces may be embossed with any suitable
pattern, or fluted, or roughened in a variety of ways so as when glazed to represent
as near as may be the different kinds of glass used for decorative purposes.
After being fired in the ordinary way the raised bead or moulding is covered with
glaze or enamel of such a colour as to represent or imitate as near as may be in
colour the lead mountings of stained glass or the bead or moulding may if required
he gilded in imitation of the gilt or polished brass mountings used for articles of
stained glass.
As already mentioned the spaces intervening between the beading or moulding
may in pottery be painted with majolica glazes or enamels of different colours so as

page_text: n combination with the imitation mountings to produce as near as may be the effect
or appearance of being made of stained glass.
It should be mentioned that for articles made of porcelain enamel colours would
generally be most suitable as well for the beading or moulding as for the intervening
spaces.
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A similar effect may also be produced in a cheaper manner by painting or printing
the imitation mountings as well as the intervening spaces in different colours without
the raised beading or moulding but these methods are not considered to be so well
adapted for the purpose as the one first described.
My invention is particularly applicable to the ornamenting and decorating of tiles
used for wall decoration and other purposes but may also be applied to a variety of
other articles in Pottery and Porcelain.
CHARLES
TOFT,
Rowley Park, Stafford,
in the county of Stafford,
Potter's Designer.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
The Ornamenting and Decorating of Pottery and Porcelain by an
Imitation of the Lead or Metal Mountings Used for Stained
Glass.
I CHARLES TOFT of Rowley Park Stafford in the county of Stafford Potter's
Designer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The nature of my invention consists in the application to the whole of the outer
surface of articles of Pottery and porcelain and other like substances of an imitation
of the lead or other metal mountings used for stained glass such imitation mountings
being arranged on the outer surface of the articles of Pottery and porcelain and other
like substances in such geometrical and other designs as are usually applied to
Windows and other articles niade of stained glass so that when the intervening spaces
on the outer surface of the articles of pottery and porcelain and other like substances
are coloured by the ordinary means with suitable colours the articles have the
appearance of being made of different coloured stained glasses.
My invention may be best performed by having a raised bead or rounded moulding
(of about the usual height and thickness of the inetal mountings of stained glass)
either moulded or modelled over the whole of the surface of the articles of pottery
and porcelain and other like substances when in the clay or unfired state. The raised
bead or rounded moulding may then be moulded or modelled in any design usually
applied to articles of stained glass. Any of the intervening spaces may then also be
embossed with any suitable pattern or they may be fluted roughened or waved in
any variety of manner so as when glazed to represent or imitate as near as may be
the different kinds of glass. Some of the spaces may also be so moulded or modelled
as to represent in shape the "Bull's-Eyes" used in stained glass decoration. After
the articles of pottery and porcelain and other like substances have been fired in the
ordinary way the raised bead or moulding is coloured so as to imitate as near as may
be the colour of the metal mountings of stained glass and this may be done either
by the use of ordinary majolica glazes or by the use of enamel colours after the
articles have been glazed.
The spaces intervening between the raised bead or moulding on the surface of the
articles of Pottery and porcelain and other like substances are at the same time
covered in the ordinary way with a variety of different colours such as are used for
stained glass either by the use of majolica glazes or by enamel colours after being
glazed.
The combination of the different coloured spaces with the imitation metal mounting
arranged over the whole of the outer surface of the articles of pottery and porcelain and
other like substances in designs such as are usually applied to stained glass give the
articles the appearance of being made of different coloured stained glasses and

page_text: constitutes a novel and effective method of decoration and ornamentation which admits
of unlimited variation both as to the combination of colours in the intervening spaces
and the designs of the imitation metal mounting.
For articles made of porcelain enamel colours would generally be most suitable as
well for the imitation metal mountings as for the intervening spaces.
Although the method just described is considered the most effective manner in which
my said invention may be performed it should be stated that a similar effect may be
produced by simply painting or printing the design of the metal mounting in colours
as near as may be like the metal mountings used for stained glass without having the
raised bead or moulding as already described.
For most articles this would not be so effective but my said invention may be
applied to the decoration of porcelain and painted glass shades or coverings for
artificial lights and it is in such cases considered best to have the imitation metal
mountings painted so as to avoid having the thickness increased by the raised
beading.
When applied to the decoration of "Fairy Lamps and other small articles the
imitation metal mountings should not be so thick or heavy as the ordinary metal
mounting for glass.
When my said invention is applied to the decoration of encaustic tiles the raised
beading has to be dispensed with as it is necessary for the surface to be perfectly
even and the colour and design of the metal mountings are then obtained by the use
of suitable coloured clay.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The application in the manner substantially hereinbefore described to the orna-
menting and decorating of the whole of the outer surface of articles of Pottery and
porcelain and other like substances of an imitation metal mounting as near as may be
in colour and design to the metal mountings used for stained glass so as in combination
with the suitable colouring and ornamenting of the intervening spaces to give the
articles the appearance of being made of different coloured stained glasses.
Dated this Eighteenth day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighty eight.
CHARLES TOFT,
Rowley Park, Stafford,
Potter's Designer.