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V. A. FERNHOUGH.

GLASS SIGN! No. 577,017; Patnted Feb. 16, 1897.

WITNESSES: 6

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

' VINCENT A. FERNHOUGH, OFPl-IILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO EDWARD H. PYLE, OF SAME PLACE.

GLASS SIGN.

V SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,017, dated February 16, 1897.

Application filed December 17, 1895. Serial No. 572,412. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LVINCENT A. FEENHOUGH, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Glass Signs or Tablets, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of an improvement in glass signs or tablets embodying the format-ion of the letters or design, primarily, of

water enamel or color and the conversion of the same into oil, paint, or color, thus producing a bright, attractive, sharply-outlined, durable, and comparatively inexpensive article.

Figure 1 represents a View of the back of a sign in primary condition embodying my invention. Figs. 2, 3, and 4. represent successive operations of producing the sign. Fig. 5 representsa face viewof the sigrnproduped.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, in carryingout my invention I apply to the back of a piece of glass A a coating Blot" water enamellor color. Ithen place onsaid coating or coloring the-pattern of the design to be formed, the same in the present case being the word sign in astenci lfthe letters of which are solid, so that the coating Bflis covered to/the extent of said letters, while the spaces between the letters leave the corresponding portion of the coating uncovered. (Illustrated by the horizontal stripes in Fig. 2T)" "Ln ow remoye the said nncoveredmpprtion .ofi;the coatingbymeans ofasandblast, a ms-chinebrush, or other suitable appliance, which in the present case will leave the shaped letters of the word sign composed of the undisturbed enamel or color, the remainder of the coating having been removed, as will be seen in Fig. 3. The pattern is then withdrawn.

A fla nsgr il l-nairtis non pp Over thesletters, and the backbttheglass. between the letters asshown in 4,. wherebythe enamel .or.color of the letters, owing to their nature,,absorb some ,of the oil of the paint, and isthus converted into an oil, composition which produces all of the advantages of oil: painted designs without the expense thereof, the letters being a1soprntectedhythelm ing said letters andthe backing asthe grgund being visible-in front, as'shown in Fig. do

It is to be noticed that I can cut or outline water-color letters or designs with sharpness and rapidity, which is not the case with oilcolor letters or designs, and that when a letter or design is made it"requires no special skill to form a sign or tablet therefrom in accordance with my improvement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by-Letters Patent, is-

1. A sign consisting of a transparent plate having letters or designs on the back thereof, the same being formed of Water-color, and backing of oil-paint 011 the spaces between said letters or designs, and on said letters or designs, the oil of said paint having been absorbed by the water-color, substantially as described.

2. The method of making a sign, consisting in coating a transparent plate with a color material, adapted to absorb oil, placing a pattern over said material, removingtheexposed portion.ois iclmat nienbtedisplacing .thepattern, and.11QlL9ll11gMith oil-paint theshapedmaterial that 'remainson the plate and the uncovered part of said plate, thus producing the ground, and having some of the oil of the paint absorbed by the shaped color material, as set forth.

VINCENT A. FERNHOUGH. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDEESHEIM, WM. 0. WIEnEnsHEIM.

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