IMPROVED GLASS ORNAMENTS FOR ORNAMENTING GARDENS, SUMMER HOUSES, DINNER AND OTHER TABLES, AND FOR OTHER ORNAMENTAL OR DECORATIVE PURPOSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Anthony Charles Vetter de Doggenfeld, of Trinity
Square, Brixton, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
GLASS ORNAMENTS FOR ORNAMENTING GARDENS, SUMMER HOUSES, DINNER AND
OTHER TABLES, AND FOR OTHER ORNAMENTAL OR DECORATIVE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 14th January 1857, and dated the 19th August 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Anthony Charles Vetter
de Doggenfeld at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th August 1856..
I, ANTHONY CHARLES VETTER DE DOGGENFELD, of Trinity Square, Brixton, in
in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED GLASS ORNAMENTS FOR ORNAMENTING GARDENS, SUMMER HOUSES,
DINNER & OTHER TABLES, & FOB OTHER ORNAMENTAL OR DECORATIVE PURPOSES,'
to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the application of masses or forms of glass suitably
shaped or formed for the purposes of ornamentation, which may either be used
in ornamenting or decorating flower beds, summer houses, arbours, or amongst
flowers on tables, or in groups by themselves, or in addition to other articles of
ornament, or otherwise. I use chiefly bulbs or hollow ornaments of glass, of
suitable, ornamental, and various colours and. shapes. For garden purposes
form them so as to receive a stick or stem, on which each is placed and fixed
in the ground. To give effect, I mingle numbers of these colored bulbs or
forms with the flowers or shrubs, so as to give the best effect, which will be
enhanced by the sun's rays or artificial light reflected therefrom. Where these
I

page_text: ornaments are for decorating summer houses, arbours, pagodas, as principals or
other terminals, they will be of a larger size, shape accordingly, and colour,
adapted for the purpose. Instead of hollow bulbs, these ornaments may be
solid masses of glass, shaped or formed and coloured accordingly to the purpose
of ornamentation required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Anthony Charles Vetter de Doggenfeld in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 19th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANTHONY
CHARLES VETTER DE DOGGENFELD, of Trinity Square, Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Anthony Charles Vetter, Her special licence that I, the said Anthony
Charles Vetter, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such, others as I,
the said Anthony Charles Vetter, 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
"IMPROVED GLASS ORNAMENTS FOR ORNAMENTING GARDENS, SUMMER HOUSES,
DINNER AND OTHER TABLES, AND FOR OTHER ORNAMENTAL OR DECORATIVE PURPOSES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Anthony Charles Vetter,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Anthony Charles Vetter, 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 statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto
annexed (that is to say):-

page_text: My Invention consists in the application of masses or forms of coloured glass
suitably shaped or formed for the purposes of ornamentation, which may either
be used in ornamenting or decorating flower beds, summer houses, con-
servatories, arbours, or amongst flowers on tables, or in groups by themselves,
or in addition to other articles of ornament, or otherwise. I use chiefly hollow
bulbs of glass of suitable ornamental color and shape. For garden purposes I
form them so as to receive a stick or stem, on which each ornament is placed
and fixed in the ground. To give effect, I mingle numbers of these colored
bulbs or forms with the flowers or shrubs, so as to produce the best effect,
which will be enhanced by the sun's rays or any artificial light impinging upon
them. Where these ornaments are for decorating summer houses, arbours,
pagodas, and other garden structures, I use them for the terminals of the upper
parts; they should be of large size, and of shape and color adapted for the
purpose intended. Instead of hollow bulbs, these ornaments may be solid
masses of glass, shaped or formed and coloured according to the purpose of
ornamentation required.
In manufacturing these ornaments, the glass is coloured and worked in the
ordinary way of glass manufacture, as well understood.
any
In the Drawing annexed examples of these ornaments are given at
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, and L. A is of the larger kind, and adapted
for the upper part of any structure decorated with flowers or plants, or it may
be used otherwise as ornament. It is represented of a bright blue colour, but
other color may be adopted. The colour should harmonize and contrast
with the floral decoration. B is simply a spherical bulb of an orange colour,
fitted on. a stick a, for insertion into the ground, or otherwise supporting it. The
larger articles are made hollow, and have a hole b, into which grubs and insects
may creep and be afterwards destroyed. C is a bulb of another shape, of deep
blue, fitted on a stick a, with a cavity and hole for insects. D, another shaped
buld, of another colour, with stick a and hole b, as before. These or any other
forms of bulbs may be of different and various colours and size, or in various
shades of the same colour, which in the manufacture of glass can be beautifully
rendered, and so as to have great effect, more especially in a strong light. The
glass of the bulbs is made thin in order to reduce the quantity of material
used, and to render them as light as possible. E is an example of a smaller
ornament in glass of different colours combined, and either of solid or hollow
form. F is a small bulb, somewhat different in form. G, H, K, and L
illustrate these ornaments of colored glass in a solid form; H and K being
each composed of parts of different colours, such as may be thought to har-
monize with or contrast the colours of the flowers, plants, or natural productions

page_text: with which they are to be blended. The several parts of different colours are
made separately, and afterwards united, as well understood by glass blowers or
workers. I represents bulbs or hollow forms of glass united in one ornament,
and are made separately and united by their stem a. These ornaments are
all represented on stems a of wood, adapted for fixing in the ground; they may,
liowever, be otherwise supported, according to the purpose of ornamentation for
which they are required.
The shapes and varieties of these ornaments are infinite, and require some
little care in selecting the shape and colour to be used with each particular
flower or plant, both when in bloom or out of bloom. With flowers in bloom
it may be selected as a contrast to the colour of the flower, or to-be-of-some
like colour, or colour that will harmonize and blend with it, or as a contrast to
the colour or shape of the leaves or foliage of a flower or plant either in bloom
or out of bloom.
. In this way these glass ornaments may either be used in the open garden,
or in conservatories, hothouses, or mingled with flowers in flower pots or
otherwise, when placed on tables or other positions for ornamentation.
Fig. 1 represents a flower pot in illustration of the use of these glass orna-
ments. Instead of the bulbs being elevated so far above the plant, they may be
lower and smaller, and more numerous, if necessary, according to taste or fancy.
Having described the nature of my Invention, I wish it to be understood
that what I claim as my Invention, to be secured to me by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent, is, the manufacture and use of glass bulbs or
forms in colours for the purposes of ornature or decoration combined with
flowers or plants, as herein-before described. I also claim such coloured glass
bulbs or forms when grouped of themselves for ornamental purposes, as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Anthony Charles Vetter, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
W. CLARK,
A. C. VETTER DE DOGGENFELD. (L.S.)
53, Chancery Lane, London.