A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEESTEADS AND WASH-HAND STANDS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Horne, junior, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEESTEADS AND WASH-HAND STANDS."
Sealed the 8th May 1857, and dated the 13th March 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Horne, at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th March 1857.
I, THOMAS HORNE, junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED METHOD OF ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND WASH-HAND
STANDS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in ornamenting metallic bedsteads and wash-hand
stands, by fusing on the several parts of the said bedsteads and wash-hand
stands, or on such parts as it is wished to ornament, the kind of glass called
enamel, that is to say, an opaque or semi-opaque vitreous compound, whether
coloured or colourless. In applying the said enamel, I clean the portions
which I wish to ornament, and apply thereto and fuse thereon the said enamel
by methods well known and commonly practised, and which constitute no part
of my Invention. The essence of my Invention consists in ornamenting
metallic bedsteads and wash-hand stands by fusing enamel on the said
bedsteads and wash-hand stands, or on parts of the said bedsteads and wash-
hand stands.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Horne, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th September 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HORNE, junior, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Horne, Her special. licence that I, the said Thomas Horne,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Thomas Horne, 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, usc, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and, Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
METHOD OF ORNAMENTING METALLIC BEDSTEADS AND WASH-HAND STANDS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Horne; 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 Thomas Horne, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formned, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in ornamenting metallic bedsteads and wash-hand
stands, by fusing on the several parts of the said bedsteads and wash-hand
stands, or on such parts as it is wished to ornament, the kind of glass called
enamel, that is to say, an opaque or semi-opaque vitreous compound, whether
coloured or colourless, or worked into various patterns or designs. I prefer to
make those parts of metallic bedsteads and wash-hand stands which it is
intended to ornament of wrought or cast iron, although I do not limit myself
thereto, as my Invention is applicable to metallic bedsteads and wash-hand
stands made of any metal or alloy to which enamel can be attached by fusion.

page_text: In applying the said enamel, I clean the portions of the bedstead or wash-hand
stand which I wish to ornament, and apply thereto and fuse thereon the said
enamel by methods well known and commonly practised, and which constitute
no part of my Invention, I therefore do not think it necessary to describe the
said methods of cleaning the bedsteads and wash-hand stands and applying
and fusing thereon the said enamel. Those parts of metallic bedsteads which
my Invention is specially applicable to are the pillars and head and foot rails;
and the parts of wash-hand stands which my Invention is specially applicable
to are the table or horizontal part on which the wash-hand basin is placed, and
the lower table or shelf on which the water jug is commonly placed, as well as
the legs, which said parts must be made of iron or other metal or alloy to
which enamel will attach itself by fusion. Where wash-hand stands are made
wholly of metal, every part of the said wash-hand stands may be ornamented
by being coated with enamel according to my Invention.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I no not limit
myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my said Invention; but I claim as my
Invention the method of ornamenting metallic bedsteads and wash-hand stands
herein-before described, that is to say, ornamenting metallic bedsteads and
wash-hand stands by fusing enamel on the said bedsteads and wash-hand
stands or on parts of the said bedsteads and wash-hand stands.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Horne, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
THOMAS HORNE, JUN. (L.S.)