IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRAMES FOR LOOKING GLASSES, PICTURES, AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Maria Ross, of Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FRAMES FOR LOOKING
GLASSES, PICTURES, AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS."
Sealed the 15th October 1858, and dated the 21st April 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Maria Ross at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the 21st April
1858.
I, MARIA Ross, of Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
FRAMES FOR LOOKING GLASSES, PICTURES AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS," to be
as follows:-
The Invention consists in the adaptation of glass, porcelain, and earthenware
in substitution of wood and other materials hitherto employed for the manu-
facture of frames of pictures or other representations, and looking glasses.
The glass, porcelain, or earthenware for smaller frames may be cast or
formed in one piece in suitable moulds, their being grooves, recesses, or
cavities adapted to receive the picture or glass to be framed.
Larger frames inay be made in several pieces, united together by suitable
cement or connections, or there may be a foundation of wood or other material'
upon which the glass, porcelain, or earthenware is cemented or fastened in
any suitable manner.

page_text: The glass may also be cut and ornamented by the adaptation of various
colors, and the application of gilding or other metallic effects.
Variations in the design may be obtained by casting, or in the case of glass
also by cutting or otherwise, as desired:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Maria Ross in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
October 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARIA
Ross, of Gallowtree Gate, Leicester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Maria Ross, Her special licence that I, the said Maria Ross, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Maria
Ross, 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 expresset 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF FRAMES FOR LOOKING GLASSES, PICTURES, AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Maria Ross, 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 Maria Ross, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention consists in the adaptation of glass, porcelain, and earthen-
ware, in substitution of wood and other materials hitherto employed for the
manufacture of frames of pictures or other representations, and looking glasses.
The glass, porcelain, or earthenware for smaller frames may be cast or formed

page_text: in one piece in suitable moulds, there being grooves, recesses, or cavities
adapted to receive the picture or glass to be framed.
Larger frames may be made in several pieces, united together by suitable
cement or connections, or there may be a foundation of wood or other material
upon which the glass, porcelain, or earthenware is cemented or fastened in
any suitable manner.
The glass may also be cut and ornamented by the adaptation of various
designs and colours, either in painting or glass, and the application of gilding
or other metallic effects, encased or otherwise.
Variations in the design may be obtained by casting, or in the case of glass
also by cutting or otherwise, as desired..
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to any particular method of carrying
the same into effect, but what I do claim is the manufacture of frames for
looking glasses, pictures, and other representations of glass, porcelain, and
earthenware.
In witness whereof, I, the said Maria Ross, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
BENJ J. B. MILLS,
73, Chancery Lane,
London.
MARIA ROSS. (L.S.)