ILLUMINATED FORNITHER B FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DECORATION
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederic Barnett, of No. 6, Caroline Street, Bedford
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of
46 ILLUMINATED FORNITHER B FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DECORATION"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederic Barnett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
April 1854.
I, FREDERIC BARNETT, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "ILLUMINATED FURNITURE, &C., FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DECORATION," to be
as follows:-
The illuminated furniture is a new application of various materials capable
of forming trees and all description of foliage; also figures of all kinds which
can be used in the manufacture of looking glass frames, cornices, mouldings,
&o.; and all description of shrubs, trees, foliage, &c., bearing in colored glass
or any other transparent material the representation of fruit, flowers, and
figures capable of illumination by gas conduits introduced in the course of
construction both for the supply of gas and for the escape of the rarified air,
smoke, &c., occasioned from the gas, so that by night-time, by means of color,
shape, and transparency, to represent the appearance of fruit, flowers, and
figures of all kinds on the stems of trees, cornice mouldings, &c., whether as
trees to be used as candelabrum or introduced in the foliage of all kinds of
ornamental work.

page_text: The conduit pipes for the gas and for the escape of the rarified air, smoke,
&c., are introduced into the glass globes at the top, as shewn by Drawing,
Sheet 1, Figure 2, thus presenting the appearance of the fruit dependant on
the stems, the ventilation being secured by the perforation of the globe-
supporting screw in form of the husk of the fruit beneath, and the pipe to carry
off the rarified air, smoke, &c.; and where it would not damage the ornamental
work, it would only be necessary to have one pipe for the supply of the gas, a
hole at the ton for ventilation
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederic Barnett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th October 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERIC
BARNETT, of No. 6, Caroline Street, Bedford Square, in the Parish of Saint
George, Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April, 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
Frederic Barnett, Her special licence that I, the said Frederic Barnett, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederic
Barnett, 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

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "ILLUMINATED FURNITURE FOR
INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DECORATIONS," upon the conditions (amongst others)
that I, tho said Frederic Barnett, by an instrument in writing under my hand.
and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 Frederic Barnett, 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 state-
ment, reference being made to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
An application of various materials capable of forming trees and all descrip-
tions of foliage; also human and animal figures of all kinds which can be used
in the manufacture of looking glass frames, picture frames, cornices, mouldings,
&c.; and all descriptions of shrubs, trees, foliage, and fountains, &c., bearing in
colored glass or any other transparent material the representation of fruit,
flowers, and figures, &c., capable of illumination by gas conduits introduced in
the course of construction for the supply of gas, for the escape of the rarified
air, smoke, &c., and for the supply of fresh air in cases of fountains, so that by
night-time, by means of color, shape, and transparency, to represent the
appearance of fruit, flowers, and figures of all kinds on the stems of trees,
cornices, mouldings, fountains, &c., whether as trees to be used as candelabrum,
medallions, &c., or introduced in the foliage of all kinds of ornamental work.
The conduit pipes for the gas and for the escape of the rarified air, smoke,
&c., are introduced in the glass globes at the top, as shown by Drawing,
Sheet 1, Figure 2, thus presenting the appearance of the fruit dependant on
the stems, the ventilation being secured by the globe-supporting screw in form
of the husk of the fruit beneath, and the pipe to carry off the rarified air,
smoke, &c.; and where it would not damage the ornamental work, it would
only be necessary to have one pipe for the supply of gas, a hole at the top for
the ventilation.
In cases of fountains, or where illuminations would be required under water
to form any different objects, such as fruit, flowers, trees, shrubs, rocks, &c., by
means of glass shapes or forms (or any other transparent material), concave
or convex, &c., above or beneath the water, another pipe could be introduced, if
required, to supply air, similar to that shewn on Sheet 3, Figure 2.
Having described my Invention fully, to the best of my belief, in the fore-

page_text: going Specification, the parts which I claim for the illuminated furniture for
interior and exterior decorations is, the introduction and application of colored
glass or any other transparent material to the forms before described for
illumination; also for the application of suspending the globes or forms to the
pipes; and also the supply pipes for gas and air, and for removing the rarified
air &c.
Sheet 1, Figure 1, shews a candelabrum, fruit and figure. Figure 2 shews
the suspension of the globe or fruit.
Sheet 2 shews a looking glass or picture frame, with fruit for illumination.
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3 shews a fountain with fruit and figures for illumination, as Figure 1.
Figure 2 shews a globe with a third pipe for the supply of fresh air.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederic Barnett, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
FREDERIC BARNETT. (L.S.)