Improvements in Pressed Glass Dishes and in their Manufacture.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 14th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pressed Glass Dishes and in their Manufacture.
I, THOMAS DAVIDSON of Teams Glass Works Gateshead in the County of Durham
Glass Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
According to this invention I form in pressed glass a hollowed glass dish with a
raised division or partition passing centrally across its interior from one side to the
other and with a loop handle standing up from the top of this division. This 1 effect
by making the body of the mould by which the inside of the dish and the handle are
shaped in two or more sections meeting together in a plane passing through the
longitudinal central line of the handle. Whilst a dish is being moulded the sections
are held together at the top by a ring.embracing them and the plunger which moulds
the greater part of the underside of the dish descends through the ring.
When the dish has been moulded the plunger is raised the ring is taken off from
the top of the sections and the dish is freed from the two or more sections of the body
by turning the sections somewhat outwards away from one another at the top, the
two sections then turning about the central line where they meet together at the
bottom the inside of the dish is made of such form as to permit of the two sections
being so turned outwards. In this way the two parts of the sections which meet
together and mould the interior of the loop handle are moved apart from one another
and the dish can be lifted away from the mould.
When the dish has been removed from the mould its concavity may be increased
and its outer edge moulded into waves or corrugations by laying it in an inverted
position on to a block of the form desired to be given to its interior and by keeping
the glass heated and in a plastic condition until the dish fits to the block.
Dated this 13th day of May 1889.
THOS. DAVIDSON.
COMPLETE. SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pressed Glass Dishes and in their Manufacture.
1, THOMAS DAVIDSON of Teams Glass Works Gateshead in the County of Durham
Glass Manufacturer, 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 :-
According to this invention I form in pressed glass a hollowed glass dish
with a raised division or partition passing centrally across its, interior from one side to
the other and with a loop handle standing up from the top of this division. This I
effect by making the body of the mould by which the inside of the dish and the handle
are shaped in two or more sections meeting together in a plane passing through the
longitudinal central line of the handle. Whilst a dish is being moulded the sections
are held together at the top by a ring embracing them and the plunger which moulds
the greater part of the underside of the dish descends through the ring.
When the dish has been moulded the plunger is raised the ring is taken off from
the top of the sections and the dish is freed from the two or more sections of the body
by turning the sections somewhat outwards away from one, another at the top the two
sections then turning about the central line where they meet together at the bottom
the inside of the dish is made of such form as to permit of the two sections being so
turned outwards. In this way the two parts of the sections which meet together and
mould the interior of the loop handle are moved apart from one another and the dish
can be lifted away from the mould.

page_text: When the dish has been removed from the mould its concavity may be increased
and its outer edge moulded into waves or corrugations by laying it in an inverted
position on to a block of the form desired to be given to its interior and by
keeping the glass heated and in a plastic condition until the dish fits to the block.
Figure 1 of the drawings hereunto annexed is a vertical cross section of the mould
formed in sections as above described. Figure 2 is a side view and Figure 3 an end
view and Figure 4 a vertical cross section of the dish as shaped in this mould.
Figure 5 is a cross section and Figure 6 a perspective view of the dish after its
concavity has been increased and its edge corrugated.
In Figure 1 A A are two sections of the body of the mould. B the ring by
which they are held together at the top and C the plunger which descends through
the ring.
The block used for giving greater concavity to the dish is not shewn in the drawing-
its upper surface is shaped to conform to the shape required to be given to the interior
of the dish.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A pressed glass dish having a raised division passing across its interior from one
side to the other and with a loop handle standing up from the top of the division sub-
stantially as described.
2. The manufacture of pressed glass dishes with raised division and loop handle in
moulds divided into two or more sections meeting in a plane passing. through the
central line of the handle.
3. The manufacture of pressed glass dishes substantially in the manner. herein before
described.
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