US2787072A

US2787072A - Artist's accessory

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Publication number: US2787072A
Application number: US559210A
Authority: US
Inventors: Hilda I Vogel
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1956-01-16
Filing date: 1956-01-16
Publication date: 1957-04-02
Anticipated expiration: 1974-04-02

Description

pr 2, 1957 I H. l. VOGEL 2,787,072 ARTIST "s ACCESSORY Filed Jan. 16, 1956 I My 3% 159/0 0 1 l yei.

ATTORNEY United States Patent ARTISTS ACCESSORY Hilda I. Vogel, Washington, D. C. Application January 16, 1956, Serial No. 559,210

4 Claims. (Cl. 41-4) This invention relates to an artists accessory.

The invention is more particularly concerned with an accessory adapted to support brushes, pencils and the like as well as various liquids, such as water, turpentine and mediums used by an artist.

In the art of painting considerable equipment is required, such as pencils, brushes, oils, turpentine, water and various mediums. It is of course desirable that the equipment to be used be retained in a more or less systematic and accessible order to avoid undue loss of time and patience in the location of a particular brush or medium at any given opportune time in the course of work on a painting.

It is further highly desirable that the liquids be guarded against spilling in the loss of the liquid, but more serious is often the damage thereof to the painting or objects adjacent thereto.

While racks have heretofore been provided for the orderly retention of pencils, brushes and the like, the liquids utilized in painting have been kept in cups or like vessels which are not only disposed at disadvantageous distances from the brushes but which are also subject to be easily upset with attendant damage by the liquids. Such disadvantages are more fully recognized in art schools Where many persons are engaged in pain-ting and such persons do not usually exercise the care that an individual artist would.

It is accordingly a primary object of this invention to provide a unitary accessory for the support of pencils, brushes and various liquids whereby the above noted disadvantages are wholly overcome.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a pencil and brush rack to which are movably connected means for supporting liquids in a manner to prevent spilling thereof.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent in the course of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein Fig. l is atop plan view of the improved accessory in accordance with a preferred structural embodiment thereof.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the accessory, partly broken away and in section.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view as observed in the plane of line 3-3 on Fig. 2.

Referring now in detail to the drawing, the improved device will be seen to comprise a rack for supporting brushes, pencils or other elongated members used in painting, and a pair of liquid supporting cups or

vessels

11 and 12.

The rack 10 is preferably of hollow form as indicated in Fig. 3 and as therein shown, same includes a rear wall 13, a front wall 14, a top wall 15, and opposite end walls 16.

In the particular embodiment illustrated, the

walls

13, 14 and are in right angular relation with the rear and

front walls

13 and 14 disposed at an acute angle to a vertical plane with a resulting downward inclination of the top wall 15 from the rear wall to the front wall.

The rear wall and

front wall

13, 14 may, however, be vertically disposed but in any instance the top Wall 15 is downwardly inclined toward the front wall 14. j

The top wall 15 is provided with a plurality of transversely arcuate recesses 17 which are adapted to receive and support portions of brushes or pencils as indicated in Fig. 3, wherein a brush B is shown in dot-and-dash lines with the bristle end thereof supported in one of the said recesses 17.

An important feature of the present invention is the operative association of the

cups

11 and 12 with the rack 10 and wherein the cups each have a pivotal connection with a corresponding end wall 16 of the rack with the axes of said pivotal connections extending longitudinally of the rack.

This feature is preferably carried into efiect by means of a threaded stud 18 projecting axially from the outer wall of each

cup

11, 12 as indicated in Fig. 2.

The said studs extend through corresponding apertures in the end walls 16 and a nut 19 is threaded onto each stud and a friction washer 20 may be disposed between the nut 19 and respective end wall 16 as shown.

By this structure the

cups

11 and 12 are secured to the rack 10 and when the rack and cups are in operative supported position as in Fig. 1 with the bottoms of all supported on a horizontal surface, no relative movement between the rack and cups can occur whereby spilling of liquids in the cups is Wholly overcome.

Upon lifting of the rack 10, however, the cups are capable of rotation about the pivotal connections as indicated by dot-and-dash lines in Fig. 3 for facilitating cleaning thereof.

The improved structure including the rack 10 and

cups

11 and 12 may be constructed from any desired material such as aluminum, plastic or the like.

While I have disclosed my invention in accordance with a single specific structural embodiment thereof, such is to be considered as illustrative only, and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being defined in the sub-joined claims.

What I claim and desire to secure by U. S. Letters Patent is:

1. An ar-tists accessory comprising an elongated brush supporting rack, and a liquid receiving cup connected to each end of the rack, the bottoms of said rack and cups being normally in a plane whereby when all are rested on a smooth supporting surface, tipping of said cups with consequent spilling of the liquids therefrom is prevented.

2. The structure according to claim 1 wherein said rack is provided with a plurality of recesses in angiilar relation to said plane for supporting brushes, whose free ends rest on the supporting surface.

3. An artists accessory comprising an elongated brush supporting rack including a rear wall, a front wall, a top wall and opposite end walls, said top wall being disposed at an acute angle to a horizontal plane, a plurality of brush receiving recesses in said top Wall disposed in transverse relation to said rear and front walls, and a liquid receiving cup mounted on each end wall, the bottoms of the rack and the cups being normally in a plane whereby when all are rested on a smooth supporting surface, tipping of the cups with consequent spilling of the liquids therefrom is prevented.

4. An artists accessory comprising an elongated brush supporting rack including a rear wall, a front wall, a top wall and opposite end walls, the top wall being provided with a plurality of brush receiving recesses disposed in transverse relation to the rear and front walls, each end wall of the rack being provided with an aperture, a pair of liquid receiving cups for disposition adjacent the respective ends of the rack, a threaded -stud projecting laterally from each cup for disposition through the respective opening in the end Wall of the rack, whereby the cups'may be pivotally mounted on the ends of'the rack, and aunt on each threaded stud engageable with the inner face of the respective end Wall for retaining the respective cup in frictional pivotal connection .with'the rack.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Favor Apr. '1, 1890 Bofinger Dec. 10, 1898 Roehm Mar. 14, 1939 Shelton Apr. 10, 1956