US1890004A

US1890004A - Method of and means for mixing colors

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Publication number: US1890004A
Application number: US531507A
Authority: US
Inventors: George A Schubert
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1931-04-20
Filing date: 1931-04-20
Publication date: 1932-12-06
Anticipated expiration: 1949-12-06

Description

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This invention relates to improvements in method of and means for mixing colors and it consists of the matters hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The primary object of theinvention is to provide a method of and means for mixing primary colors, whereby the desired standard color in any of its hues may be accurately produced and duplicated without change as often as desired by any school child or adult.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel means for mixing primary colors wherein the desired quantities of the colors to be mixed in producing the desired stand ard color may be observed both as to quantities of each primary color and the number thereof, so that the desired standard color may be duplicated in such quantities as are necessary and as often as required.

Another object of the invention is to provide a method of and means for mixing primary colors which has an educational value in schools and the like, whereby the students may actually visualize the number of primary color units going into the makeup of the desired standard color, whereby the student more readily learns the relationship of one color to another and the various tints and hues thereof.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a means for this purpose in the form of a kit, containing a number of bottles of the primary colors each including a dropperlike device having the double function of not only stirring the color in its associated bottle but also in removing quantities therefrom for providing on a mixing plate or palette also forming a part of the kit, visual quantities of different primary colors and the numbers of such quantities for mixing together upon said plate by means of a suitable instrument, also forming a part of the kit.

The above mentioned objects of the invention as well as others together with the many advantages thereof will more fully appear as I proceed with my specification.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the various devices or elements by which my improved 1931. Serial No. 531,507.

method may be expeditiously carried out and with such devices or elements arranged in kit form for convenience in use, the cover being omitted for better illustration.

Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation of the kit shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view through the kit on an enlarged scale as taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a View in top plan elevation of a certain palette like mixing plate embodied in the kit.

Fig. 5 is a similar view on an enlarged scale of one end of the mixing plate showing the application of certain unit quantities of primary colors disposed thereon for mixmg.

Fig. 6 is a transverse vertical section through the same as taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5.

My invention contemplates more particularly a method of mixing a plurality of primary colors to provide the desired standard color and to this end I provide means whereby unit quantities of the various primary colors to be mixed may be deposited upon a. mixing plate in such a manner that they may be observed both as to the quantity in each unit and the number of units. After such quantities are so deposited upon the mixing plate, they are caused to run or merge into each other by passing a brush or the like, over the desired units to cause a thorough intermixing of the same.

For convenience, I have arranged the re quired articles in the form of a kit, and this kit includes a mixing plate, a mixing brush and a plurality of bottles of primary colors to be mixed, the latter including dropper-like device whereby amounts of the color may be withdrawn from the various bottles for deposit as units in an orderly arrangement on the mixing plate. As such colors are at the best only a partially soluble solution it is apparent that they must be agitated or stirred and to this end I form each dropperli'ke device with a bent end. Thus when said device which also acts as a. stopper for the associated bottle, is turned, it acts to stir or agitate the colors to the desired consistency.

Referring now in detail to that embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawing, 1 indicates as a whole a kit which includes a box-like body 2 and a cover 3. The body includes a bottom wall 4, rear Wall 5, end walls 6 and a front wall 7 of a height less than the rear and end walls and associated with-said front wall is a horizontal partition or top Wall 8. Thus the body includes a closed compartment at the bottom and in the partition there is a plurality of spaced openings 9. 7

The cover 3 which is of greater depth from front to rear than is the body, includes a rear wall 10, front wall 11, top wall 12 and end Walls 18, and embraces the body as best shown in Fig. 3. a

The compartment of the body is adapted to 4 receive a plurality of color containers in the I form of bottles 14 with the neck of each bottle extending up through an. opening 9 in the partition 8. Each bottle is adapted to contain a primary color in fluid form and for the purpose of identifying the color in each bottle, the front wall 7 of the body has provided thereon in line with each bottle the name of the color in the associated bottle as best shown in Fig. 2.

As the colors most widely used in schools and the like are poster or tempercolors and as such colors are only a partially insoluble solution, it is apparent that the color must be stirred or agitated. To make this. an easy matter, as'well as to provide astopper for the bottle along with means for extracting portions of the primary color from each bottle, I provide a dropper-like device 15 including a tube 16 of glass with a compressible bulb 17 on its top end. Surrounding the tube just below the bulb is an annular body 18, preferably of'rubber which func: tions as a stopper orv cork for the bottle. The bottom end of the tube is bent at an angle to extend laterally and is restricted as to its orifice as best shown in Fig. 3. By compressing and releasing the bulb, it is apparent that the fluid primary color can be drawn up into and expelled from the tube 16. By reason of the bottom end of the tube extending laterally as described, a turning movement of the tube in the bottle will agitate or stir up the color to the desired consistency.

Removably secured in the partition toward the front thereof in a'plane midway between the two middle bottles is a cup .19, adapted to hold a thinning fluid. Ordinarily the color are water colors so that the cup is adapted to receive water. A brush 20 is used in mixing'the colors as will later appear and when said brush is not in actual use for its intended purpose, it may be placed upon the partition 8 between the rear wall 5 of the'box body and Associated with the parts of the kit thus far described, I provide a palette-like mixing plate 21. Preferably this plate is made of a light weight, thin sheet metal of an area approximating that of the rear wall 5 of the box body and is flanged at its ends on its rear side as indicated at 22 in Fig. 5to give it stiffness and rigidity. Said plate is so formed as to provide a plurality of groups of small color receiving areas and preferably the same are provided by small cup-like depressions 23 arranged in transverse and longitudinal rows as best shown in Figs. 5 and 6. Along the one longitudinal edge of said plate is provided a plurality of hooks 24 that overhang one side of the plate and when said plate is not in actual use, said books may be engaged upon the top edge of the rear wall 5 of the box body so as to be removably supported therefrom, with the concav: F

ities of the recesses facing said rear wall. When said plate is so engaged upon said wall, as shown in Fig. 3, the cover 3 may be applied to box body 2 and this will enclose the plate and hold it-in its out of use position. The parts described complete the kit, with all parts compactly and orderly arranged for use when needed. a

In the use of the kit for mixing the various primary colors to obtain the-desired standard color, it is of course apparent that best results are obtained in mixing said various primary colors when they are in their best condition and consistency. To attain such consistency the stopper-like devices 15 are not only turned back and forth in the bottles but the bulbs '17 are compressed and released. This not only imparts a stirring action to the colors in the various bottles but acts to withdraw and discharge the color =1 from and back into said bottles so that the colors are held in suspension in the fluid thereof.

Thereafter, a quantity of color is withdrawn from one bottle by means of the ass( ciated dropper-like device and one or more unit quantities thereof is deposited in one or more adjacent recesses'23 in the mixing plate 21. Said dropper-like device is then returned to the bottle and the like device of another bottle is used for depositing one ormore unit quantities of another color in recesses of the plate adjacent those already containing the unit quantities. If the color r desired requires a third primary color in its make up, then unit quantities of the said third primary color are deposited in other recesses in said plate and preferably adjacent the first mentioned ones.

Thereafter, the brush 20 is taken in hand and is moved back and forth over the surface of the mixing plate in that area thereof that includes the recesses with the unit quantities of primary color therein and this causes them to run together and cover an area of the mixing plate as shown by the dotted line in Fig. 5. To thin out the colors for mixing, the brush 20 may be dipped into the cup 19 and then again moved back and forth over the area of said plate to provide the mixed color which is ready for the use originally intended.

By using a greater or less number of unit quantities of primary colors, it is apparent that the desired hue in the mixed standard color may be easily obtained. The kit preferably contains the three primary colors and a white from which any mixed color may be produced. Of course, a direction sheet (not shown) is included in the kit which sheet gives a four figure number to show the units of primary colors and white re quired to produce up to one hundred and twenty standard colors that are used in all walks of life.

Again any standard color of any hue may be accurately reproduced at any time. In school work the pupil and instructor will therefore have available a vast spread of colors at a cost much smaller than would be the cost of all the colors in the spread.

The kit is of special advantage in school work where space per pupil is a decided factor. As the kit is small and compact, it may be readily kept in the pupils desk and this would be impossible with a full line of colors such as provided for this kind of work today, due not only to the bulkiness thereof, but also as to cost which makes it prohibitive.

Another advantage is the educational benefit the pupil receives in actually visualizing how much or how many unit quantities of primary colors are required to make up the desired standard color, because the pupil will more clearly remember a. color that he or she makes up, than if such a color appeared upon a sample card or the like. Such a kit also enables the pupil to make up his or her own color dictionary of all standard colors usually remembered throughout life. Thus the pupil receives a connection between color theory and color names as they are used in every day life and will learn the relationship of one color to another.

lVhile in describing the invention I have referred in detail to the form and construction of the parts of the kit as well as to the manner in which they are used to carry out the improved method, the same is to be considered as illustrative only so that I do not wish to be limited thereto except as may be specifically set forth in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention 1. The method of mixing colors which consists in providing a support, depositing thereon unit quantities of the colors required to produce the desired color and intermingling said unit quantities to cause a thorough admixture thereof.

2. The method of mixing colors which consists in providing a support, depositing thereon in spaced relation unit quantities of the colors required to produce the desired color and causin an interniingling of said unit quantities to provide a thoroughly admixed common mass of the desired color.

8. The method of mixing colors which consists in providing a support, depositing thereon unit quantities of the colors required to produce the desired color, in a manner so that they may be observed both as to quantity and number and causing an intermi-ngling of said unit quantities into a larger quantity forming the desired mixed color.

4. The method of mixing colors which consists in providing a support, depositing thereon in spaced relation unit quantities of the colors required to produce the required color and brushing said unit quantities of said required colors into a larger quantity forming the desired mixed color.

5. The method of mixing colors which consists in providing a support formed in desired portions thereof with spaced apart areas by which unit quantities of the colors required to produce the desired color may be determined, depositing unit quantities of said required colors upon said areas and causing an interniingling of said unit quantities of required colors into a larger quantity forming the desired mixed color.

6. The methodof mixing colors which consists in providing a support formed in desired portions thereof with spaced apart areas by which unit quantities of the color required to produce the desired mixed color may be determined, depositing unit quantities of such required colors upon said areas and moving a member over that portion of the support having said unit quantities of required colors in said areas to cause them to intermix into a larger quantity forming the desired mixed 0 lor.

7. The method of mixing colors which consists in providing a support formed in desired portions thereof with spaced apart areas by which unit quantities of the colors required to produce the desired mixed color may be determined, depositing unit quantities of such required colors upon said areas and brushing said unit quantities of said required colors together into a mass of a larger quantity forming the desired mixed color.

8. The method of mixing colors which consists in providing a support formed in desired portions thereof with spaced apart cuplike depressions, depositing unit quantities of the colors required to produce the desired mixed color, in certain of said depressions and moving a member over said support and across said depressions to cause said required colors to mix into a larger quantity forming the desired mixed color.

9. The method of mixing colors which consists in providing a support formed in desired portions thereof with spaced apart cuplike depressions, depositing unit quantities of the colors required to produce the desired mixed color in certain of said depressionsand brushing the unit quantities of said required colors together into a larger quantity forming the desired mixed color. 1

10. A device for use in mixing colors comprising a plate-like body formed to provide on at least a surface thereof a plurality of spaced apart areas each adapted to receive and define a measured unit quantity of color material applied thereto.

11. A device for use in mixing colors comprising a plate-like body formed on at least one side thereof with a plurality of spaced apart depressions each to receive and define a measured unit quantity of color material applied thereto.

12. A device for use in mixing colors comprising a plate-like body formed-on at least one side thereof, with a plurality of rows of spaced apart depressions each to receive and define a measured unit quantity of color material applied thereto.

13. A device for use in mixing colors comprising a plate-like body formed on at least one side thereof with a plurality of rows of spaced apart, partially spherical concavities each to recelve and define a measured unit quantity of color material applied thereto.

14. A color mixing kit embodying therein a box body'having a horizontal partition with openings therein, a plurality of color containers having stoppered ends projecting up through said openings, a color mixing plate having detachable hanging engagement with one of the walls of the box and a cover for said box body adapted to enclose the same from the top and securing said plate in hanging position upon said box body wall. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this 16th day of April, 1931.

GEORGE ASCHUBERT.