Patent ID: 8042246

Claim:
A method for repairing a bulge in a stained glass window of the type having a plurality of glass pieces held in place by metal caming and cement, said stained glass window having an original glass plane and first and second planar sides disposed opposite to one another, said stained glass window having a thickness being the distance between said first and second planar sides of said original stained glass window, said bulge having sides and a thickness being the distance of the bulge away from said original glass plane, comprising the steps of: forming first and second apertures in said metal caming in said original glass plane of said window, said first and second apertures passing through said first and second sides of said window, said first and second apertures disposed one on each side of said bulge; providing first and second elongated members, each of said first and second elongated members having a flat face, first and second ends, a thickness and a width; providing first and second elongated slots, respectively, at said first and second ends of said flat faces of said first and second elongated members; positioning said flat faces of said first and second elongated members, respectively, opposite one another on said first and second sides of said stained glass window with said flat faces facing one another; providing elongated first and second threaded rods, each of said first and second threaded rods having a length longer than the combined thickness of said bulge, said original stained glass window; and said first and second elongated members; passing said elongated first and second threaded rods, respectively, through said first and second apertures; passing said first and second ends of said elongated first and second threaded rods, respectively, through said first and second elongated slots defined in said first and second elongated members; providing two pairs of first and second tightening means having threading therein; threading one pair of said first and second tightening means, respectively, on each of said first and second ends of said elongated first and second threaded rods; tightening one pair of said two pairs of first and second tightening means; tightening said other pair of said first and second tightening means; pulling said first and second elongated members toward one another while maintaining said first elongated member adjacent to said plane of said original stained glass window; continuing to alternate said steps of tightening each of said pairs of first and second tightening means to force said second elongated member against said bulge; compressing said glass pieces of said bulge into alignment with said original plane of said stained glass window; removing said tool from said stained glass window; cementing said metal caming to said realigned glass pieces now disposed in said original glass plane of said stained glass window; and filling in said first and second apertures in said metal earning.