IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING HORTI- CULTURAL BUILDINGS, THE ROOFS OF RAILWAY STATIONS, AND OTHER ERECTIONS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Goode Messenger, of High Street, Lough-
borough, in the County of Leicester, Horticultural Builder and Plumber
and Glazier, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING HORTI-
CULTURAL BUILDINGS, THE ROOFS OF RAILWAY STATIONS, AND OTHER
ERECTIONS."
Sealed the 4th March 1862, and dated the 6th September 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Goode Messenger
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th September 1861.
I, THOMAS GOODE MESSENGER, of High Street, Loughborough, in the
County of Leicester, Horticultural Builder and Plumber and Glazier, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING
HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS, THE ROOFS OF RAILWAY STATIONS, AND OTHER EREC-
TIONS," to be as follows:-
My improvements consist in laying glass in such wise that each edge of the
glass of any required shape or size shall lie on one side of an open gutter,
which said gutter may form a gutter only, or it may form a gutter and rafter,
either cast or rolled in one or two parts. The said gutter is made to carry
off all the condensed vapours from the interior, as well as the rain, eto.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Goode Messenger in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
GOODE MESSENGER, of High Street, Loughborough, in the County of Leicester,
Horticultural Builder and Plumber and Glazier, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year
of IIer reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Goode Messenger, Iler special licence that I, the said
Thomas Goode Messenger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Goode Messenger, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GLAZING HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS, THE ROOPS OF RAILWAY
STATIONS, AND OTHER ERECTIONS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Thomas Goode Messenger, 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 Thomas Goode Messenger, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My improvements consist in laying glass in such wise that each edge of the
glass (which glass may be of any required shape or size) shall lie on one side
of an open gutter, which said gutter may form a gutter only, or it may form
a gutter and rafter, either cast or rolled in one or two parts. The said gutter
is made to carry off all the condensed vapours from the interior, as well as the
rain, etc.
I now proceed to explain my said Invontion more particularly with

page_text: Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of a roof glazed according to my Invention ;
Figure 2 is a section of bar B and gutter A; Figure 3, section of screw E and
plate to secure glass; Figures 2 and 3 are on a larger scale than Figure 1.
A, A, A, represents the metal gutter to convey the water from the glass;
B, B, is the sash bar made of wood or other material, but when made of
other material than wood may have the gutter A formed in it; C, C, C, C, is
the glass, with the edges bent downwards into gutters, and consequently
requiring neither putty nor paint to render the glazing waterproof. If it is
required to be air-proof, I bed it with putty on the edge of the gutter; tho
glass is cut (where one square laps over the other) so as to convey the con-
densed water into gutters; D, D, is a brass plate, to which are attached india-
rubber pads to press upon two edges of squares of glass; E represents a screw
passing through brass plate and india-rubber into the bar B to secure two
edges of glass; F is a tube secured to the bottom of a gutter in order to
prevent the water from passing out of the gutter to the wood bar B.
To make a flat glass roof I propose to bend the four edges of each square
of glass downwards, and to form four gutters to intersect each other to carry
away the water.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same may be performed, I declare that I claim the method of glazing
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Goode Messenger, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
5
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.
THOMAS GOODE MESSENGER. (L.S.)