US112877A - Improvement in glass for the manufacture of spectacles - Google Patents

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US112877A
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    • C03CCHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES OR VITREOUS ENAMELS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS, MINERALS OR SLAGS; JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS
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  • the coloring ingredients are then mixed with the glass when in the state of fusion, because, if the coloring matter had been added before, the glass "would have been too deeply and irregularly colored; but it is most essential to first get the sand or above-specified mass of the finest andclearest character possible, as a superior colored glass cannot be produced unless this part of the process isqperi'ect.

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ttni'tzt sate TnoMAs-ATWooo WILLSON, on READING, PENNSYLVANIA.
Letters Patent No. 112,877, dated March 21, 1871.
, IMPROVEMENT lN- GLASS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SPECTACLES.
The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the name.
.ner, to wit:
In the first place I use red lead, eighty-nine parts; nit-er, fifty parts; whitechalk, one part; and white optical sand, sixty parts,
I first calcine and wash the white sand with mnriatic acid, and then put the above-named ingredients with it into a crucible holding double its capacity, by weight. After aboutthirty-six hours it will be fused. It is then taken out and poured into fresh cool'water,
,which granulates it, afterward dried and reduced to a fine powder, then washed again with acid, (should there be any appearance of iron, which is known by the discoloration it produces in the glass,) and the mass'is again fused.
The coloring ingredients are then mixed with the glass when in the state of fusion, because, if the coloring matter had been added before, the glass "would have been too deeply and irregularly colored; but it is most essential to first get the sand or above-specified mass of the finest andclearest character possible, as a superior colored glass cannot be produced unless this part of the process isqperi'ect.
At this stage of the process, which is the thirdmelting, I introduce the ingredients for producing the proper shade of pink or amethyst colors.
These ingredients are mixed as follows: oxide of manganese, nine parts; oxide of chromium, three parts. To these I add eighty-eight parts of the above mass of optical glass.
The use ofv the oxide of chromium in combination with the manganese at this stage of the process is important for-the purpose of forming a perfect flux to unite the. glass and manganese,,w'hich, without the chromium, (in the process of putting the mixture in the mold,) the heavier of the two would sink to the bottom in cooling and leave the mass streaked or with an irregular color.
1 I now cast the whole composition into a mold about two and a half inches square by four inches long, in
stead of as usually done blowing it into sheets.
After the annealing of the mass it is ready to he cut into spectacle-lenses; and it is cut crosswise, at right angles with the grain, and afterward polished in the usual manner employed in polishing spectaclelenses. This cutting process across the grain renders the colored glass apparently white to the eye of the wearer when set in a spectacle-frame, thus producing lease and comfort to the eye, and relieving theeye from the effect of the bright penetrating rays of light. What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-
I The alloy and process of making pink or colored glasses which will render the colored glasses apparently white to the eye of 'the wearer and relieve the eye from the effect of the bright penetrating rays of light, as herein described and set forth.
THOMAS ATWOOD WILLSON. Witnesses:
EDM. 1 BROWN, J. FRANKLIN REIGART
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