US55579A - Chauncey dowd - Google Patents
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- US55579A US55579A US55579DA US55579A US 55579 A US55579 A US 55579A US 55579D A US55579D A US 55579DA US 55579 A US55579 A US 55579A
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- chauncey
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
- B44D—PAINTING OR ARTISTIC DRAWING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PRESERVING PAINTINGS; SURFACE TREATMENT TO OBTAIN SPECIAL ARTISTIC SURFACE EFFECTS OR FINISHES
- B44D3/00—Accessories or implements for use in connection with painting or artistic drawing, not otherwise provided for; Methods or devices for colour determination, selection, or synthesis, e.g. use of colour tables
- B44D3/18—Boards or sheets with surfaces prepared for painting or drawing pictures; Stretching frames for canvases
- B44D3/185—Stretching frames for canvases
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- CEAE or NEW vom; CITY.
- This'invention consists of a frame composed and provided with swivel! buttons and eccentric abutting-plates in such a manner that when the canvas is secured to the movable strips of the frame by turn-ing the y swivel-buttons against theeccentric abuttingplates the frame is spread and the canvas stretched to any desired extent.
- A represents a frame, which is composed of four strips, a b, that are loosely ccknnected at their corners,tl1e strips a being provided with miter-shap'ed tongues, which t into corre-y sponding grooves in the ends of the strips?) in such a manner that the frame can 'be eX- panded 0r contracted withinv certain limits.
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of movable strips,
CHAUNCEY Down, on NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AssrcNoE To E. W.
CEAE, or NEW vom; CITY.
CANVASLSTRETCHEE.
Specification forming To all whom it may concern? Beit known that I, CHAUNCEY Down, of New Haven, inthe county of N ew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Canvas-Stretcher; declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others" skilled in the art temakeand use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a' rear elevation of this invention. Figs.
Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. j Y
This'invention consists of a frame composed and provided with swivel! buttons and eccentric abutting-plates in such a manner that when the canvas is secured to the movable strips of the frame by turn-ing the y swivel-buttons against theeccentric abuttingplates the frame is spread and the canvas stretched to any desired extent.
A represents a frame, which is composed of four strips, a b, that are loosely ccknnected at their corners,tl1e strips a being provided with miter-shap'ed tongues, which t into corre-y sponding grooves in the ends of the strips?) in such a manner that the frame can 'be eX- panded 0r contracted withinv certain limits.
'The canvas is secured to the edges of the pm f Letters Patent No. 55,579,
and I do hereby 2, 3, 4, and are'details to i1lustrate theconstruetion ofthe canvas-stretcher.
convenience for artists.
Witnesses dated June 12, 1866.
lprevented from separating by the action of the canvas itself.
cured the;sWivel-butt0ns c, and the points or ends of these buttons'can be made to bear against eccentricabutting-plates d, which are fastened in the proper positions to theunder surface of the strips b, as clearly show n in Fi l of the drawings.
By turning'the buttons against the abutting 1 plates the frame A. is spread or expanded and the'canvas is stretched.
The attachment of the swivel-buttons and i eccentric-abutting-plates causes but a .triliing expense, and a canvas-stretcher is obtained which is cheap, easily operated, and of great What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,I ist The-swivel-buttons c and eccen tric abutting'- plates'd, in c'ombinatinwith the strips a; b of the frame A', constructed stantially as and for the purpose described.
.The above specification of my invention signed by nie this 7th day of March, 1866. y
' y CHAUNCEY Down.
' J. A. Woon,
WM. E. FOSTER.
g .To the under lsurface of the strips a are seand operating sub-
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