US1454709A

US1454709A - Artist's sketch box

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Publication number: US1454709A
Application number: US331553A
Authority: US
Inventors: George F Douglas
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-10-18
Filing date: 1919-10-18
Publication date: 1923-05-08
Anticipated expiration: 1940-05-08

Description

May 8, I923. i 1,454,709

G. F. DOUGLAS ARTISTS SKETCH BOX Filed Oct. 18. 1919 2 Sheets-Sheet l il I May 8, 1923.

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GEORGE E. DOUGLAS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ARTISTS SKETCH BOX.

Application filed October 18, 1919. Serial No. 331,553.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonen F. DOUGLAS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Artists Sketch Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an artists sketch box which will be of minimum weight and convenient for either outdoor or studio work, and will carry a complete supply of artists materials in most convenient form. It comprises several principal elements capable of being assembled as parts of the box, or disassembled and separately used to suit the artists requirements. These elements consist of first a panel-holder or frame, which acts as'a component part of the box proper, or which, detached therefrom may be set on a tripod and used as an easel to hold a canvas; second, a palette, coacting with the panel-frame to form the box, or which, independently, may be used either with or without a tripod, or which may be set up on the tripod in connection with the panel-holder. Besides the uses mentioned, the palette is adapted, as a component part of the box, to hold brushes, paints and other articles, including a water-tank.

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of my improved sketch box, showing the same partly open;

Fig. 2 shows a panel-holder detached from the palette frame and fastened to a tripod;

Fig. 3 shows the panel-holder in offset position 011 the palette-frame;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the bottom of the box;

Fig. 5 is an enlargement ofthe eccentric hook used to lock in place the stay-rod shown in- Fig. 3; v

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail of a portion of the panel-frame;

Fig. 7 is a perspective View of one of the hinges, disassembled;

Fig. 8 represents another form of hinge that may be used. I

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 in dicates the canvas or panel-holder frame, and 2 the palette, both of which are, preferably, rectangular in form, and hinged as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4. These hinges, of which there are three in number, are one of the features of this invention. They are constructed so that the two leaves may with the greatest ease be disconnected from each other, thereby releasing the paneliolder from the palette, so that these elements may be independently used. I

The hinge is best illustrated in Fig. 7, wherein A indicates the female member and B the male member. Each. member-has the usual leaf or strap 3. The female member A is provided with a pintle 4 positively and immovably held by rounded projections or knuckles 5. The male member has a knuckle, open at its outer end to form a hook 6 having an inside diameter adapting it to. closely embrace the pintle 4 of the female member A. The female member A also has a lip-7 extending from the leaf 3 so that when the hook 7 of the male member is in place and embracing the pintle 4, it curls around the hook 7, in such manner as to prevent the parts from being detached fromeach other except when in a widely extended position, and it also prevents damage to the hook 6 by careless handling of the panelh0lder or palette-frame. i

In the modification shown in Fig. 8, there are

plates

4,4, the former holding loosely and the latter securely and immovably', the

pintle 5 in the

knuckles

6, 6, respectively. lVhen this form of hinge is used, it will be necessary to place the plate 4 on the near side of stay-rod 33 when in position shown in Fig. 3.

Referring now to the panel-holder, it is composed of side members 8, int'eriorly flanged as at 9, the flange 9 providing a support for a panel or canvas 10, which is held in place by

corner lugs

11, 11 and springclip 12. It is intended that the panel or canvas 10, with its reverse side uppermost,

shall serve as the cover for the box, although it may readily be detached and used by the artist-for sketching, the sketching side being kept unsoiled on the under side of the box. The, space inside of the flange9 is intended to be utilized for additional panels.

It is intended-that the panel-holder shall also serve as an easel, as indicated in Fig. 2, where it is shown upon a tripod, the panelframe having a socket 13 to hold a suitable pin in the tripod.

Clips

14, 14 are provided for holding the canvas to the panel-frame.

Referring to the palette-2, it comprises the 4 side pieces 15 and bottom piece 16, having an opening as at 17 for'inserting the thumb of the artist.

The palette-frame may be used independently, or in connection with the panelholder, either on the tripod, or without the tripod, and can be used in offset position as indicated in Fig. 3, in which case only two of the hinges are employed. In order to hold the panel-frame in position as indicated in Fig. 3, a stay-rod 33 shown in inoperative position in Fig. l, and which is pivotally connected inside the palette-frame as at 34, and having a hook 235 at its loose end, is connected to pin 36 and held thereto by the eccentric 87 on the hook 32. In order to hold the hook flatly upon the side of the panel-frame, the hook is slightly bent at its point of connection with the rod in a direction away from the box. When the box is closed, it may be locked by hooks 32 32 on the panel-frame engaging pins 32 on the palette.

lVhat I claim is:

1. An artists sketch-box comprising a panel-frame and a palette-frame, means connected to said frames adapting one to pivotally engage the other in a plurality of positions relatively to the other, said means comprising a pair of leaves, one lea-f having a pintle and the other a knuckle adapted to embrace the pintle. V

2. An artists sketch-box comprising a panel-frame and a palette-frame, means connected to said frames adapted one topivotally engage. the other in a plurality of positions relatively to theother, said means comprising a pair of leaves, one leaf having a pintle and the other a knuckle adapted to embrace said pintle, and means for supporting one of said frames partly to one side of the other.

3. An artists sketch-box comprising apanel-frame and a palette-frame, means connected to said frames adapting one to pivotally engage the other in a plurality of positions relatively to the other, said means comprising a pair of leaves, one having a pintle and the other a knuckle adapted to embrace said pintle, and a stay-rod pivoted to one of said frames for supporting one of said frames partly to one side of the other.

4:. An artists sketch-box comprising a panel-frame and a palette-frame, means connected to said frames adapting one to pivotally engage the other in a plurality of positions relatively to the other. said means comprising a pair of leaves, one leaf having a pintle and the other an open knuckle forming a hook adapted to closely embrace said pintle.

5. An artists sketch-box comprising a panel-frame and a palette-frame, means connected to said frames adapting one to pivot-ally engage the other in a plurality of positions relatively to the other, said means comprising a pair of leaves, one leaf having a pintle and the other an open knuckle forming a hook adapted to closely embrace said pintle, the first-named leaf also having a lip extending therefrom so that when the open knuckle embraces the pintle the lip is curled around the open knuckle.

6. The combination of a paneLframe with a palettaframe and a plurality of hinges connected thereto adapting the frames to occupy a plurality of pivotal positions relatively to each other, said frames in one position forming a covered box, in another position being offset from each other for sketching purposes, each of said hinges having a pintle and an open knuckle forming a hook adapted to embrace the pintle, and. said hinges being so spaced apart that when the frames are connected as a box all three hinges are employed, while in sketching position only two are employed.

7. An artists sketch-box comprising a panel-frame, a palette-frame and means for connecting said frames suitably constructed to permit their connection substantially in register and in an offset position, said connecting means consisting of two mating elements, the corresponding mating elements being rigidly fixed to their respective frames.

8. An artists sketch-box comprising a panel-frame, a palette-frame and a plurality of separable hinges for connecting said frames suitably located to permit their connection substantially in register and in an offset position, said hinges having their correspondng parts directly fixed to each frame.

9. An artists sketch-box comprising a panel-frame, a palette frame, means for connecting said frames suitably constructed to permit their connection substantially in register and in offset position, said connecting means consisting of two mating elements the corresponding mating elements being rigidly fixed to their respective frames and bracing means for rigidly holding said frames at an inclination to each other.

GEORGE F. DOUGLAS; In the presence of-- DELLA STRA ssNEn, HARRY A. WOHR.