IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING BOTTLES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS OR CRYSTAL
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of Robert-
son, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING
BOTTLES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS OR CRYSTAL."-A communication
from abroad by Charles Julien Aubertin, of 28, Boulevard de Strasbourg,
Paris, France.
Sealed the 5th May 1868, and dated the 16th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 16th November 1867.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and
Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTING BOTTLES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS OR CRYSTAL," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to ornament or decorate bottles and other
articles of glass or crystal. This decoration which is applied to the exterior
of the bottle has the peculiar property of being diaphanous, or of preserving
the transparency of the glass. The ornamentation consists in a special layer
of gilding, silvering, or coloring applied to the exterior, and the property just
mentioned constitutes a chief point of the Invention. It will be readily
understood that it is an advantage to have a bottle containing wine or other

page_text: liquor covered, with an adherent envelope of gold, silver, or other colour, which
envelope being seen only by reflection, and disappearing entirely when the
bottle is held to the light allows by means of this transparency of the liquid in
the bottle being seen very distinctly. The matter employed as the gilding or
diaphanous coloring is fine powder of gold, silver, bronze, tin, lead, or other
colouring matter. This powder should be reduced to an impalpable state; it
is to the extreme division of the matter that the tenacity of the coating
applied is due, and consequently its almost complete transparency. The
agglutinant substance to cause this powder to adhere to the bottle is copal
varnish.
To coat the bottle I proceed as follows:-I take from the cellar or other-
wise the champagne or other bottle filled, corked, and ready for delivery or
I
put it in a dry place at a temperature of from 60° to 65° Fabrenheit
to drive off the moisture. After some days when. it is well dried the surface
is wiped to clean the exterior of the glass, then the copal varnish is applied
upon all the apparent surface of the glass with a brush, it is left to dry for a
few instants, then the gold powder is sprinkled or dusted upon the surface
coated with the varnish. The powder is spread regularly with a soft brush
or otherwise. When the bottle is thus uniformly covered with the gold
powder it is removed carefully to a position where the temperature is from
60° to 65° Fahrenheit, and it is left for a few days to dry. After this the
preparations of the bottle are finished, the capsule is put on, and the label,
trade mark, or other device of the merchant or dealer is gummed or otherwise
applied upon the gilt coating. Instead of gilding silvering may be applied by
powdered silver, tin, or lead, or any other colour, metallic or mineral, in the
state of impalpable powder. Any other analogous varnish, essence, or gum
may be substituted for the copal varnish.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year

page_text: of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
nnto me, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special licence that I,
the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, 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 vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING
BOTTLES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF GLASS OR CRYSTAL," (Communicated to me from
abroad by Charles Julien Aubertin, of 23, Boulevart de Strasbourg, Paris,
France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Clinton
Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to ornament or decorate bottles and other
articles of glass or crystal. This decoration which is applied to the exterior
of the bottle has the peculiar property of being diaphanous, and of preserving
the transparency of the glass. The ornamentation consists in a special layer
of gilding, silvering, or coloring applied to the exterior, and the property just
mentioned constitutes a chief point of the Invention. It will be readily
understood that it is an advantage to have a bottle containing wine or other
liquor covered with an adherent envelope of gold, silver, or other color, which
envelope being seen only by reflection, and disappearing entirely when the
bottle is held to the light, allows by means of this transparency of the liquid
in the bottle being seen very distinctly. The matter employed as the gilding
or diaphanous coloring is fine powder of gold, silver, bronze, tin, lead, or
other coloring matter. This powder should be reduced to an impalpable state;
it is to the extreme division of the matter that the tenacity of the coating
applied is due, and consequently its almost complete transparency. The
agglutinant substance to cause this powder to adhere to the bottle is copal
varnish.

page_text: To coat the bottle I proceed as follows:-I take from the cellar or other-
wise the champagne or other bottle filled, corked, and ready for delivery or
use; I put it in a dry place at a temperature of from 60° to 65° Fahrenheit
to drive off the moisture. After some days, when it is well dried, the surface
is wiped to clean the exterior of the glass, then the copal varnish is applied
upon all the apparent surface of the glass with a brush, it is left to dry for a
few instants, then the gold powder is sprinkled or dusted upon the surface
coated with the varnish. The powder is spread regularly with a soft brush or
otherwise. When the bottle is thus uniformly covered with the gold powder
it is removed carefully to a position where the temperature is from 60° to 65°
Fahrenheit, and it is left for a few days to dry. After this the preparations of
the bottle are finished, the capsule is put on, and the label, trade mark, or
other device of the merchant or dealer is gummed or otherwise applied upon
the gilt coating. Instead of gilding silvering may be applied by powdered
silver, tin, or lead, or any other color, metallic or mineral, in the state of
impalpable powder. Any other analogous varnish, essence, or gum may be
substituted for the copal varnish.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, ornamenting
bottles and other articles of glass or crystal, substantially in the manner and
by the means herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have here
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-eight.