US Patent: 5,537X
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| Manufacture of Chandeliers, Lamps, &c. In Imitation of Glass, Produced From the Crystallization of Salts
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Patentee:
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| Frederick B. Merrill (exact or similar names) - Buffalo, Erie County, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jun. 13, 1829 |
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| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“For the manufacture of ornamental articles of Furniture, such as Chandeliers, Lamps, Candlesticks, Mantel Ornaments, &c.; Frederick B. Merrill, Buffaloe, Erie county, New York, June 13.
Skeletons of chandeliers, candlesticks, &c. are to be made of wire, wood, &c., and these are to be suspended in saturated solutions of alum, or other permanent salts, which crystallizing upon the skeleton so formed, is to supply a cheap substitute for drops, and other ornaments of cut glass.
Ornaments made in this way are familiar to most of our readers. The chemist has frequently exhibited them to illustrate the formation of crystals to his pupils. Ladies have decorated their mantels, and confectioners their windows, with baskets, columns, and colonnades, resplendent with the tints of the rainbow, by the reflection and refraction of natural and artificial light.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 6, Sept. 1829 pg. 188
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