Specification of Charles Christian Reinhardt : fastening metallic backs to truss pads of glass, &c.

  • Reinhardt, Charles Christian.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Charles Christian Reinhardt : fastening metallic backs to truss pads of glass, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reinhardt's Impt. in Fastening Metallic Backs to Truss Pads of Glass, $c. SPECIFICATION in pursuance of tlie conditions of tlie Letters Patent, filed by the said Charles Christian Reinhardt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st July 1857. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Charles Christian Reinhardt, of the City of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, 5 United States of America, send greeting. WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles 10 Christian Reinhardt, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Christian Reinhardt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Christian Reinhardt, or 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 15 make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Ivingdom of Great Biitain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for “ Ah Improvement ih the Manner of Fastening Metallic Backs to Truss Pads of Glass, Porcelain, or other Analogous Substances,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Christian Reinhardt, or my executors 20 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 25 Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Christian Reinhardt, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of 30 Drawings, in which Figure 1 is a back view of the pad; Figure 2 is a section on line x, x, of Figure 1 ; and Figure 3 is a representation of the ordinary mode of attachment. Similar letters of reference denote the same part. The Invention refers to the manner of attaching glass or porcelain pads to their metallic backs, and is designed to obviate defects existing in the 35 ordinary mode of securing the glass within a shallow brass cup. It consists in constructing the back with a flange extending around its edge, so as to slip within the rim constituting the edge of the glass pad, whereby the back is