An Improved Tile for Decorative Purposes, also applicable for Signs.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Tile for Decorative Purposes, also applicable
for Signs.
I, THOMAS WEARDEN, 7, Westgate, Bradford, in the County of York, Plumber,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved tile particularly applicable for covering
walls, ceilings and other parts requiring a cheap and light tile which tile is also
suitable for making signs.
The said improvements consist in employing glass of various shades cut in the
form of tiles and fixed in position by cement. In this way either simple or
elaborate designs in tile work may be cheaply and permanently executed and owing
to the comparative cost of glass and the facility with which it may be cut to form
the cost is very considerably below that of ordinary tiles.
Dated this 4th day of February 1895.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
An Improved Tile for Decorative Purposes, also applicable
for Signs.
I, THOMAS WEARDEN, of 7, Westgate, Bradford, in the County of York,
Plumber, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved tile particularly applicable for covering
walls, ceilings, and other parts requiring a cheap and light tile which tile is also
suitable for making signs.
The said improvements consist in employing glass of various shades cut in the
form of tiles and fixed in position by cement. In this way either simple or
elaborate designs in tile work may be cheaply and permanently executed and owing
to the comparatively small cost of glass and the facility with which it may be cut
to form the cost is very considerably below that of ordinary tiles.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents one letter of a sign made in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2, represents a cross section of the same on the broken line y. z in the
former figure.
Figure 3, represents a portion of glass tile work in two shades of glass.
In Figures 1 and 2 the letter R is made up of pieces A, A 2, A3, A4 and A 5
of opal glass cemented to the back board or backing B; and the ground is covered
with pieces of transparent glass C cemented by means of dark cement on to the
board B. In this way a distinctive white letter on a dark background is produced.

page_text: A border of opal or opaque glass A 6 may be made round the background and a
wooden beading D is fixed around the back board. The letters may be made of
coloured glass or of transparent glass fixed with light or coloured cement; and the
background may be made of pieces of coloured glass.
In Figure 3, the pattern is produced by two shades of glass G and H cut in the
shape of tiles and cemented in position. By the use of more than two shades of
glass and using pieces of various shapes more elaborate designs may be produced.
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:
1. Tile-work formed of two or more shades of glass cut in the form of tiles and
cemented in position.
2. A sign consisting of letters formed of pieces of glass cemented to a suitable
backing and surrounded by other pieces of glass distinguished from the glass
forming the letters either by the colour of the pieces of glass or the cement
employed to secure them.
Dated this 4th day of November 1895.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.