US8651A - Improvement in ornamental painting on glass - Google Patents

Description

-. I UNITED S A ES PATENT OF IC JNO. W. BOWERsjQQF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specificationformiug part of Letters PatentNo. 8,651, dateddanuary 13, 1852.

.To all whom it may concern:

9 Be it known-that I, JOHN W. BowERs, of Brookline, inthe county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Method, Art,or1?r'ocess of Ornamenting Glass orotheriTransparent Medium; and

I do hereby'declare that the same is fully .de-

fication. v

My process imparts toa painting on glass an appearance very much like those figures which are executed on wood or papier-mach, and which are more or less or in part made up of pieces of mother-of-pearl let into the wood; The paintingsor figures produced by my said method have, very-beautiful properties of reflectinglight-sdch as are often exhibited by 'silvered, prismatic, orcrystalline surfaces.

a In order that the principle of my invention may be understood, I will proceed to explain the application of the same to a plate of glass.

' Abunch of flowers or 'any'ornainental figure to be painted is first to' be'outlined'on the I back side or surface of the sheet or plate of glass, and all such parts as compose thefigure are to be coloredin transparent colors of various shades and lines, as maysuit the taste of the painter, the background being next laid on in an opaque color, and so as to extend up 1 to the outer boundariesof the various parts of v the-design.- This having been done, or the picture prepared in any other suitable manner so as to exhibit more or less transparency of color, I take silver-foil or other proper metallic leaf-foil and crush o'rdoubte' it up or com pressit together in "such manner that when it is spread out unopened its whole surface, shall present irregular doubl in gs, crossing one another iu'various directions, and so as to impart to the piece of foil an appearance of in- V regular crystallization, or, 'instead of such a method of producing the double or proper figuredappearance of the foil,;any other more suitable or convenient process of etfectingthe I place or lay on and over the colored figure on the glass and secure it in place" by a light glutinous size or by any other suitable means,

'finaliy'protecting the whole by a backing of paper or any other proper material pasted or p otherwise fi'xed'over the same. .scribe'd and represented in the following speci- I mach, forinstance-Lfirst cover the surface to be ornamented with a varnished or other proper background or prepare the background by any desirable means. 1- next draw-out or outline upon such background the figure-to be produced. I next lay over such partsof it as-are to have the sparkling .metallized appea-rance the corrugated or criinped foil cut up into the necessary shapes. I next paint .on the foil with transparent or semi-transparent colors the light parts'of the figure, the darkershades'or coloring being ett'ected' by more opaque colors ormatter's. I next put the plate of glass or the transparent medium or one or more coats of varnish or japanning over the whole, and by such means I produce a figure or figures having, when exposed to strong" light,notonly a metallic luster, but a most beautiful sparkling or scintillated-appearance. What [claim as my improvementin. nienting surfaces consists in- Combining with theprocess'ot' painting and ornameuting by metallic foil that of corrugating or crimping the foil so as to impart to the figure or figures a'power of reflecting light so asto produce the sparkling scintillated appearance, as specified. V 1 In testimony, whereof I have hereto set my signature this 27th day of October, A. D. 1851.

JOHN W. BOWERS.

Witnesses:

R, H. EDDY, GEo. W. CUTLER,