Improvements in the Manufacture of Blown Glass Articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1893—Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Blown Glass Articles.
LIONEL HARVEY PEARCE Coȧlbournbrook Stourbridge Staffordshire Artist do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of making blown glass articles
"such as jugs, decanters, water and wine glasses, vases and like articles" with>
feet and must not be confused with "pressed glass."
Hitherto the method employed in the blown glass trade in the case of articles.
standing on feet, is to blow the body of the jug, decanter, vase and the like,
and then attach separately its three, four, or more feet.
My method is to vary the form of the dip-moulds ordinarily in use by shaping.
the bottom to form three, four, or more depressions; now when the glass is dipped
in this kind of mould, it will come out forked; the blowing and making is then
done in the ordinary way, the forks ultimately becoming the feet; these feet.
can be lengthened, shortened, spread in, or out, twisted, curved, or pinched, during
the making process, according to the design or taste of the workman.
Feet made in this way have the advantage of being mechanically accurate, of
not being stuck on, consequently not liable to fly off, and of having a better
appearance.
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This same method applies to handles, and stems, in the following way. The
forked end of the hot glass being properly “dabbed on the article, will attach
only at the ends of the forks, the subsequent pulling out to make the handle its
proper thickness, lengthens these prongs, and simply and at once, forms a handle
of a complicated appearance, especially in twisted handles, or stems, which will
appear to have been made by separately sticking on three or four pieces and then
twisting them together, which is a very difficult thing to do in glass.
I here wish to make provision for ornamenting the surface of my dip-moulds
"which hitherto for simplicity I have only spoken of as producing prongs" by
reeding, fluting, beading, or they may take the form of claws holding balls, or
animals feet, or be scrolled.
Dated this 8th day of October 1892.
LIONEL HARVEY PEARCE,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Blown Glass Articles.
I LIONEL HARVEY PEARCE, of Coalbourubrook, Stourbridge, Staffordshire,
Artist do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved method of making blown glass articles,
such as jugs, decanters, vases, and like articles with feet; and consists of the use
of dip-moulds with special depressions designed in such a way that they shall form
divided feet.
Having previously described the object and manner of carrying out my invention
I will now explain the diagrams.
Sheet 1. Fig. 1. A shows an ordinary dip-mould, sectioned at A Fig. 2, such as
is commonly used in the trade; B shows my addition to moulds, shaped so as to
form separated feet; in Fig. 1 a side view of it may be seen, and in Fig. 2
its plan.

page_text: Fig. 3 represents a glass article slightly blown into since leaving my dip-mould,
and shows its four glass feet.
The above description will answer for Figures 4, 5, & 6, which only show a
different pattern of mould (i.e., one with eight ribs) altered at its inside bottom by
my addition B.
Sheet 2 Fig. 7 shows the finished article shaped originally in a mould similar to
Fig. 1 Sheet 1 but with the addition of beads or ornament, the handle is formed
at its pronged end by a similar but smaller mould.
Having now particularly described and ascertain the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1st. The improved method of making articles that their several feet shall for
strength and ornament be formed out of, and at the same time, the one single piece
of glass, as herein described.
2nd. The improved means of making articles that their several feet shall for
strength and ornament be formed out of, and at the same time, the one single piece
of glass, as herein described.
3rd. The improvement of dip-moulds by shaping them inside so as to form
articles with three, four, or more feet, in the manner herein described.
4th. The use in the blown glass trade of dip moulds that make articles with three
four or more feet in the manner herein described.
Dated this 21st day of June 1893.
LIONEL HARVEY PEARCE.