IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF GLASS TO DECORATIVE PURPOSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Bach, of Sheffield, in the County of York,
Hosier, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF GLASS
TO DECORATIVE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 27th June 1856, and dated the 4th January 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Bach at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th
January 1856.
I, HENRY BACH, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Hosier, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE APPLICA
TION OF GLASS TO DECORATIVE PURPOSES" to be as follows :-
My Invention consists, in the first place, in adapting and applying
hollow glass pillars or facings gilded or coloured at the back, (as described
in a Patent granted to me, and bearing date March 15th, 1855,) to the
decoration of cabins in vessels, show-cases for exhibiting goods, the
interior of shops and rooms, whether in private houses or public clubs, or
other similar places; also, to the decoration of furniture, the formation of
cornices and plinths for dwelling-houses, shops, &c., and the frames of
pier glasses; also facias and pilasters, staircases and banisters.
And my Invention consists, in the second place, in adapting and apply-
ing fluted, corrugated, diapered, or otherwise suitably decorated sheet
glass, gilded or coloured at the back, as above, to the above uses, either
alone or in combination with the hollow glass pillars or facings above
referred

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Bach in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
July 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BACII, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Hosier, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me; the said Henry Bach, Her special license that I, the said Henry Bach,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Bach, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE APPLICATION OF GLASS TO DECORATIVE PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Henry Bach, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 Henry Bach, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement (that is to say):-
My Invention of "Improvements in the Application of Glass to Decora
tive Purposes" consists, in the first place, in adapting and applying
hollow glass pillars or facings, gilded or colored at the back, (as described
in a Patent granted to me, and bearing date Fifteenth March, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five,). to the decoration of cabins in
vessels, show-cases for exhibiting goods, the interior of shops and rooms,
whether in private houses or public clubs, or other similar places; also, to
the decoration of furniture, the formation of cornices and plinths for
dwelling-houses, shops, &c., and the frames of pier glasses; also facias and
pilasters, staircases and banisters.
And my Invention consists, in the second place, in adapting and apply-
ing fluted, corrugated, diapered, or otherwise suitably decorated sheet
glass, gilded or coloured at the back, as above, to the above uses, either

page_text: alone or in combination with the hollow glass pillars or facings above
referred to.
As, however, my Invention does not relate to any particular mode of
gilding or colouring the hollow glass pillars or facings above referred to
under the first head thereof, nor to any particular mode of decorating or
variegating the surface of the sheet glass referred to under the second
head thereof, nor of gilding or colouring the same at the back, I have not
found it necessary to specify particular modes of accomplishing these
objects.
It is intended, under the first head of my Invention, merely to extend
the application of the hollow glass pillars or facings contained in my
former Patent to the several uses herein-before referred to; and as such
applications do not involve any particular mode or modes of adaptation of
the pillars or facings, or of the parts of buildings, furniture, &c. to which
they are to be applied, otherwise than would be well understood by a com-
petent workman, it is not necessary for me to point out any particular
mode or modes of applying such pillars or facings to the different uses
above referred to.
It is intended also, under the second head of my Invention, merely to
extend the application of sheet glass variously embossed or decorated
on the surface in a manner already well known, either alone or in com-
bination with the pillars or facings, to the several uses herein-before
referred to, which application does not involve any particular mode or
modes of adaptation either of the glass or of the parts to which it is to be
.applied, otherwise than would be well understood by the competent work-
man; it is not, therefore, necessary for me to describe such mode or modes
of adaptation of the parts intended thus to be combined.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that what I claim
as of my Invention is,―
First, the application of the hollow glass pillars or facings to the several
uses referred to.
And, secondly, the application of decorated sheet glass, either alone or
in combination with the said glass pillars or facings, to the same uses' as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Bach, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Second day of July, One thousand eight hun-
HENRY BACH. (L.S.)
Witness,
JOSIAH WRIGHT,
10, St. George's Terrace, Sheffield, Clerk: