US1609656A

US1609656A - Art screen

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Publication number: US1609656A
Application number: US62918A
Authority: US
Inventors: Michael S Mastrukoff
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-10-16
Filing date: 1925-10-16
Publication date: 1926-12-07
Anticipated expiration: 1943-12-07

Description

Dec. 7 ,1926. y

M. s. MASTRUKOFF ART SCREEN Filed Oct. 16, 1925 M/Cl/AEL S. MASTRUKOFF INVENTOR By QM Mmw A TTORNEY Patented Dec. 7, 1926. V

PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL S. MASTB'UKOFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ART SCREEN.

Application filed October 16, 1925. Serial No. 62,918.

My invention relates to art screens and has a particular reference to portable sieves adapted to be used with brushes for spraying paint over surfaces to be painted.

The object of my invention is to provide a portable art screen of a convenient shape and adapted to maintain the working surface of the screen or mesh cloth under tension.

My invention is more fully described in the accompanying specification and drawing in which- Fig. 1 is a plan view of my portable screen, Fi 2 is a partial section on a larger scale, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of a modified construction.

My art screen consists of a frame 1, preferably of an elongated or oval shape. At one end of the frame its sides are bent out and extended forming a handle 2.

A piece of metal cloth 3 is placed with its edges in the slots 4 in the frame 1. These slots may be formed by bending the frame from a strip of metal so as to leave a space between the edges of the strip, as shown in Fig. 2. The frame is formed so that the slots made as stated are facing the inside of the frame. The edges of the wire cloth 3 are bent over, forming loops 5, and placed inside of the frame slots 4, as shown in Fig. 2.

A heavy spring wire 6 is then forced between the edges of the slots 4, clamping the folded edges 5 of the wire cloth 3.

In order to keep the cloth 3 stretched, the sides of the frame 1 are drawn together, until the edges 7 touch each other, and the wire cloth is clamped in this position with the spring wire 6. The resiliency of the frame and of the spring wire 3 will tend to force the sides of the frame apart, thereby keeping the cloth 3 under tension.

A modified arrangement is shown in Fig. 3. In this case the slot f is placed at right angle with the face of the frame 1, so that the cloth 3 makes a sharp bend around the inner edge of the sides of the slot 4.

The frame is preferably made of a metal strip stamped or bent into the proper shape. It may be made, however, from any suitable material which must be strong and resilient.

The cloth is preferably woven from metal wires, forming a screen. Instead. of the New York and State of New York, this wire any other suitable material may be used, provided it is waterproof and sufficiently strong to resist the wear caused by the rubbing with a paint brush.

The operation of this device is as follows: The screen is held in left hand at a certain distance from the surface which it is desired to paint; then a stiff brush is dipped in a water solution of some paint, and rubbed against the surface of the wire cloth. The paint will be then sprayed finely over the surface, until the desired shade of the coloring is obtained. The screen should be held horizontally and parallel to the surface of the paper. The brush should be quickiy drawn across the surface of the screen. The resiliency of the brush bristles will cause the paint from the brush to be thrown on the paper in the form of small droplets. A more or less deep shade may be obtained on the paper (or any other ob ject) in this manner.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an art screen, the combination with a rigid frame formed of a metal strip, the sides of said strip being bent together forming a tubular shape with an open slot, a wire cloth placed with its edges in said slot, and a spring member placed in said slot over the edges of said wire cloth.

2. In an art screen, the combination with a frame made of resilient material, the sides of said frame at one end extending so as to form a handle, a wire cloth in said frame, and means to clamp said cloth in said frame when the sides of said frame are resiliently drawn together, said frame being made of a round tubular material of a shape adapted to resist fiexure in a direction perpendicular to the plane of said frame.

3. In an art screen, the combination with a frame of a wire cloth in said frame, means to clamp the ends of said wire cloth in said frame, means to keep said cloth stretched tightly in said frame, said frame being of a substantially ieavy section in a direction perpendicular to the plane of said cloth and adapted to resist fiexure in said direction.

Signed at New York, in the county of 9th day of October, A. D. 1925.

MICHAEL S. MASTRUKOFF.