US1295956A - Paint set. - Google Patents

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H. BERSON.

PAINT SET.

APPLICATION HLED SEPT. 25. ms.

Patented Mar. 4,1919.

HYMAN BERSON, or BRQOKLYN,.NIEW YORK.

iiaamasoi Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Mar. 4, 1919.

Application filed September 25, 1918; Serial No. 255,706.

To all hom if may concern:

"Be it known that HYMAN Bn'esoN, a. citizen of the l nited States of America, residing at Brooklyn, Kings county, and State of New York. have invented certain new and useful lniproven'ients in Paint Sets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in pnint-sets and has for an object to provide a paint set consisting of a box, preferably cardboard. having depressions in which paint in liquid form is poured in and allowed to dry. the paint being held in the said depressions in a manner hereinafter described. My invention is mainly directed to an inexpensive structure'of the character above mentioned, as owing to the difficulty of obtaining suitable metal and also owing to the high cost of same, I preferably form the box or container and its cover out of cardboard.

A further object of the invention is to provide a knock-down aint-set structure that can be packed Within a comparatively small space, that is to say, a number of containers can be placed one upon the other and also the covers in fiat condition, and shipped or stored away.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail, the novel features of which will be pointed out in the appended claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a top plan view of the blank out of which the body of the box is formed;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the body of the box after having been formed;

Fig. 3 is a side view of the body of the box, the cover therefor being illustrated in section;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional detail view the Section being taken on a line 44 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary detail view illustrating the manner of securin the turned over portions of the body-blan and cover-blank to retain them in box-forma tion;

Fig. 6 is a similar view illustrating a or,-

tion of the blank for the cover of the ox,

and

Fig. 7 is an enlarged sectional. view illustrating a modified form of well to retain paint.

My inventioncomprises a box-body. portion 8 and a cover 9 therefor. The body portion 8 is formed out of a blank comprising a bottom .10, having integral therewith side and end-members 11 and 12, the blank being scored at 13 and 14 to enable the side and endmiembers 11 and 12 to be turned up to form the body portion 8 of the box. After the side and end-members have been turned up they are secured together at the ends preferably by a staple or wire clamp 15 consisting of a wire, the ends of which are forced through the material of the blank and clenched on the inside. Both the body of the box and its cover are formed in a similar manner, the cover being formed out of a blank, the sides and ends of which may be turned up and secured at their ends by staples similar to the staples 15. In Fig. 6, the sides of the cover-blank, which are turned up, are indicated by 16 and the ends by 17. To retain paint, such as water-colors for instance), I provide the bottom 10 of the body of the box with wells 18 to retain the paint indicated by 19. It will be understood that each well 18 will contain some selected color different from the rest and each well will have stamped adjacent thereto the color which it contains, as indicated at 20, Fig. 1. This feature enables a child to become familiar with the different colors by name. The bottom of the box will be further provided with mixing-wells or pans 21. which are also stamped into the bottom 10 of the box. The mixing-pans will be preferably identified by having stamped therein such indication as illus trated in Fig. 1.

One of the advantages of this structure is that it can be shipped fiat, and set up at will. The paint will of course be placed in the wells before shipment. But this does not interfere with the stacking of the blanks.

If desirable, the wells may be formed deep enough to cause the top surface of the paint to lie slightly below the upper surface of the bottom of the box, as shown in Fig. 7; hence the paint will not come into contact with a super-imposed blank when a number of said blanks are piled one upon the other.

One of the advantages of employing cardboard is that the paint will readily adhere thereto and be permanently retained in the depressions or wells; hence during shipment they will not be displaced and cracked by rough handling. The paint may be poured into the wells or depressions while 1n wet condition and allowed to dry therein, but it may be molded into blocks and then pasted in said depressions, or otherwise suitably retained therein.

Owing to the fibrous nature of cardboard, the paint, when poured into the wells, will soak into the interstices and when cooled or becomes hard will be firmly bound to the board and cannot be removed b jarring or rough handling. Aside from t e comparative low cost of manufacture, these paintboxes made of cardboard have a great advantage, from the fact that the material is fibrous and the paint will become firmly Copies of this patent may be obtained for afiixed thereto. In fact for all intents and purposes, they become integral with the box.

What I claim as my invention is In a paint-set, board bottom member having depressions therein containin paint in dry form, turned up side and en -Inembers integral therewith, staples securing the turned up side and (find-members together, and a cover for said *ox;

Signed at New York city, N. Y., this 24 day of September, 1918.

HYMAN BERSON.

Witnesses:

EDWARD A. JARVIS, MAURICE BLOCK.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0."

a box comprising a card-

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