IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF ORNAMENTING OR EMBELLISHING GLASS, AND FOR PROTECTING SUCH
Year: 1881

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LETTERS PATENT to John Welch Savage, of 260, Fulham Road, in the
County of Middlesex, for an Invention of IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD
OF ORNAMENTING OR EMBELLISHING GLASS, AND FOR PROTECTING SUCH
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Welch Savage at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th October 1881.
JOHN WELCH SAVAGE, of 260, Fulham Road, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF ORNAMENTING OR EMBELLISHING GLASS, AND
FOR PROTECTING SUCH ORNAMENTATION OR EMBELLISHMENTS THEREON."
The object of this Invention is an improved means or process of ornamenting
or embellishing devices, or designs, or other indications upon glass, and for
protecting the painted or other prepared body by an air proof and a waterproof
compound.
For the purposes of my Invention I paint, by ordinary oil colour, any device,
mark, or design upon one side of a sheet of glass, and when the colours are dry I
coat the surface with a glutinous and saccharine body, in which colours of the
desired tints have been mixed. This coating, after becoming dry, has a layer or
other oil colour or varnish applied to represent the soft shades, and to blend
with the previous colours to ensure an artistic appearance from the front of the
glass.
These layers of colour are then protected by a backing of cement, air proof and
water proof, to produce boldness of design and to protect the picture.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Welch Savage in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th April 1882.
JOHN WELCH SAVAGE, of 260, Fulham Road, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVED MEANS OR METHOD OF ORNAMENTING OR EMBELLISHING GLASS,
AND FOR PROTECTING SUCH ORNAMENTATION OR EMBELLISHMENTS THEREON."
The object of this Invention is an improved means, method, or process of orna-
menting or embellishing glass with devices, designs, writings, marbling, graining,
or other indications suitable and as a substitute for expensive woods, marbles, and
stones, as panels in doors, or for walls or ceilings, articles of furniture, or other-
wise; also for panelling the saloon and other parts of ships; for screens, table tops,
and sides, boxes, covers for books, brush backs, pillars, picture mounts and frames;
shop fixtures and fittings; name plates, facias, and signs; tablets, monumental and
otherwise; panels for carriages, coaches, vans, and other vehicles; and in
protecting the painted or other prepared body by an air proof and a waterproof
compound.
For the purposes of my Invention I paint by ordinary oil colours any device, mark,
ór design upon one side of a sheet of glass, and when the colours are dry I coat the
surface with a glutenous (say, malt liquor) and saccharine (say, grape sugar) body,
or one of them only, in which colours of the desired tints have been mixed. This
coating after becoming dry has a layer of other oil colour or varnish applied to
represent the soft shades, and to blend with the 'previous colours to ensure an
artistic appearance from the front of the glass. These layers of colour are then
protected by a backing of cement, air proof and water proof, composed of, say,
Portland cement and plaster of Paris, to produce boldness of design and to protect
the picture, but I do not limit myself to these bodies, as any other cement or
cements having similar properties will suffice.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,--
The improved means, method, or process hereinbefore described, composed of,-
1. Painting or otherwise putting the first colour or colours on the surface of
glass.
2. Coating the same with a gluten or a saccharine liquid with tint blend
admixed.
3. Again coating with an oil colour, and
4. Cementing the last colour coating over to protect the first three to render
them unaffected by atmospheric changes, solar heat, winds, dampness, mists, and
rain, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Welch Savage, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.