US1207841A - Fiber picture and process of making the same. - Google Patents

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C. S. BENTLEY. FIBER PICTURE AND PROCESS 0F MAKING THE SAME.

APPLICATIONA FILED FEB. I7. 1916.

Patented Deo. T2, 1916;

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FIBER PICTURE AND PRGCESS 0F MAKING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented nee.. ia, rare.

Application filed February 17, 1916. Serial No. 78,968.

To all whom t may concern: i

Be it known that l, CHARLES S. BENTLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plattsburg, in the county of Clinton and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Fiber Pictures and Processes of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the fine arts, and particularly to the productionof pictures by novel means dispensing entirely .with paint, and yet giving pictures having the soft, mellow appearance and distance effects of oil paintings.

My object is to produce pictures by the use of colored fibrous material instead of paint.

Another object 'is to produce mounts for entomological specimens nand the like, with the fibrous material forming the back of the mount, utilized to form a picture, preferably illustrative of the environment and scenery of the natural habitat of the specimen.

Other objects will appear in the subj oined description.

The invention consists in the novel method of employing colored "fiber to form a picture, and of the picture thus formed; and also in the utilization of a fiber picture as a backing for a specimen mount, as hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating a picture formed of colored fiber. view showin@ substantially the same picture utilized as the backing of an entomological specimen mount, the clouds being omitted for the sake of clearness. Fig. 3 is a broken section illustrating a liber picture and the case containing the same; and, Fig. 4C illustrates a slightly modified way of forming a picture.

As is well known, the finest pictures are ordinarily formed with paint of suitable colors and tints properly spread with brushes on canvas or other desired backing; but in the production of my pictures, instead of paint, i employ fragments of ber of different colors and shades, said fragments being placed in proper relation to each other to produce the desired e'ects.

In the production of my pictures, l find it Fig. 2 is a greatly convenient to have at hand, not only a supply of fiber of all the different colors needed, but also graduated shades of each individual color used. The reason of this becomes at once apparent when we consider that whilepaint of any given color can be mixed with white to tone it down to a lighter shade, or with other colors to variously modify its shade, that colored ber cannot be mixed into a homogeneous mass with other liber of different color to give any different shade or color that may be desired.

ln order to produce all the different shades of any given color, l have invented a method of coloring ber, which method forms the subject matter of another application.

Of course l can produce many beautiful effects in fiber pictures and introduce many different shades of color by taking fiber of a given color and spreading it in films of different thicknesses on top of fiber or other backing of different color. But filming the fiber in this way to obtain different shades of a color, is a slower process than my usual method, as referred to above. For instance, suppose I desire a dash of sunlight in a niinute portion of a picture; l can obtain the exact effect desired by taking a suitable portion of fiber of the exact shade of the particular color required, and gently superimposing the same in its proper position on the picture; whereas, to produce the same effect by filming the fiber as indicated above, would be much more difcult.

ln the production of my pictures l can use any and every known kind of fibrous material-cotton, fiax, silk-weed, wool, silk, asbestos, etc. rfhese pictures may be produced by bringing the different portions of variously colored fiber into proper relation to each other to form the pictures, and then securing or holding said parts together in any desired manner; but l have found in practice that the clearness and beauty of these pictures is much enhanced by pressing them under glass. The smooth, even surface of the glass brings the visible part of the fiber, forming the pictures, into an even plane, with the portions of the separate fiber which have come into contact with the surface of the glass disposed parallel with said surface, thereby exposing to view the glossy sides of the visibleportions of the various fibers. This serves the double purpose of bringing a great number of fibers into an evenv plane so that a glance of the eye will catch the reflection of more of them at one time than would otherwise be possible, and also of disposing the individual fibers in a way topresentthe greatest possi le area of reflecting surface to the eye. This pressure ofthe glass upon the different colored fibers, lforcing them into an even plane, thereby effects" such a delicate shading of one tone into another, that the illusion of distance and atmosphere may be obtainedfby the use of comparatively few colors; As soon as theglass is pressed into engagement with the fiber, the colors at once take' on new life and beauty, and produce pictures much softer and endowed with .greater atmospheric effects thaneither pastels' or water colors. of thedrawings, I have illustrated a convenient way 'of holding thes'e'fiber pictures in engagement with the glass which also forms a cover for the picture. Referring to these figures of the drawings, the numeral lr indicates a-box, having cover 2, with the top of the cover all removed except the inwardly extending ange 2a around its margin. Interposed between the top of the boX l and the Vflange 2a, is the glass 3, 'which in reality forms the top of the cover. In the bcX is placed the colored fiber il which forms the picture'. The lid 2 may be suitably secured on the boX 1n any preferred manner.

In the'cas'e ofspecimen mounts, when it is desired to have a considerable depth of fiber in order to permit the butterflies or other specimens to become easily embedded in the fiber -wlien'the glass is pressed down upon them,"I provide somewhat deeper boXes and fill vtheir bottoms with layers of plain fiber 5. Each kind of fiber haslits own peculiar qualities, and hence each has its peculiar adaptability for bringing out the diderent effects rdesired in these fiber pictures. i For instance7 in subjects to'which a certain style of painting would" be applicable dyed sheeps wool-whenpressed undera plate of glass or other transparent material produces so'me very interesting' brush marks. It counterfeits to a nicety the apparently hap-v hazzard yet remarkable style Yof a Turnerfor Claude Monet.

The fiber of wool is fiat so thin that it has irregular init. This accounts'in l effects. Silk and spiders web, and many other kinds of fiber, are quite different in structure from wool, and so produce correspondingly different dfec'ts in a picture. In making thesevpictures I`. use whatever kind curls Vand kinks of fibel-fis best suitedto the particular sub! jectV inhan'd, andin some' cases .many differf Inthe different figures andl glossy, and

ent kinds of fiber are used in the same picture. 0f all the different kinds of fiber, cotton is perhaps the cheapest and most abundant, and I have found that by the use of cotton batting properly colored very satisfactory results may be obtained.

In certain kinds of pictures, as for instance, landscape pictures, very striking dis- ,marthe general effect; but such is not the case with the different portions of fiber, lsince their edges have no well defined outlines, and therefore each portion seems to merge imperceptibly into that which is beneath it, so that the unitary effect produced is complete. In Fig. Ll of the drawings, I have vshown a fragmentary view of a picture formed in this way. In this view, the box 1 with'its lid 2 is made Within the box are the transparent plates 6, 7, 8, 9, and l0, with the several portions a of colored fiber suitably placed between the plates to form the picture desired. These plates may all be of an equal thickness, or their thickness may be varied according to the distance effects desired to be produced. In the drawings the plates are all shown as of different thicknesses.

Having thus described my invention, what 'i I claim as new and desire ters Patent, is

Y l. A picture formed of portions of colored fiber placed together in proper relation to each other relatively the picture; and means for holding said portions of colored fiber in the desired relation to each other.

" 2. The process of forming to protect by Letpictures by placing together portions of variously colored fibrous material in proper relation to each other relatively to their colors to produce the pictures desired.

3. The process of forming pictures by placing together portions of variously colored fibrouspmaterial in proper relation to each other, relatively to their colors to produce the pictures desired, and superimposing upon the surface of the ber thus arranged a plate: of transparent material pressed into engagement with said surface to bring the surface of the picture into an even plane coincidentwith the under surface of the transparent plate.

l., A, specimen mount comprising a deeper thanin Fig. 3. l

t0 their colors to form liibrous backing; and a holder for said backengagement With the colored fiber forming ing, said backing being formed of portions the picture. lf"

oit' variously Colored fiber placed together ln testimony whereof I aix iny signature in proper relation to each other relatively to in the presence of two Witnesses.

their colors to form a picture illustrative of CHARLES S. BENTLEY. the environment and scenery of the natural Witnesses: habitat of the specimen; said holder having Lucius A. WILSON, a transparent top adapted to loe pressed into DOUGLAS EDWARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

` Washington, D. C.

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