Patent ID: 7629400
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: B41M,B44C,C08K,G03C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for making a synthetic fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the new reinvented canvas support medium facilitates the creation of art, design or architecture therewith, thereupon or therefrom, referred to herein as an image, which method comprises: preparing the canvas support medium with at least one non-conductive or poorly conductive polymer and forming the canvas support medium so that it can support its own weight or be free standing and the method requires one or more of A)-(F): (A) the at least one polymer is non-absorbent, the canvas support medium is formed with a visible surface that is transparent, translucent or both to allow light to pass into it or through it, the canvas support medium is made with at least one fine-art stabilizer present to provide or enhance a property of the polymer, and the canvas support medium is made with polymer or with polymer and a fine-art stabilizer providing sufficient mechanical or structural properties so that the canvas support medium can support its own weight or be freestanding, and additionally, the canvas support medium is prepared according to A-1 or A-2: A-1 the at least one polymer is partially or entirely poly(methyl methacrylate) or acrylic, or it is partially or entirely a polymer made with a methacrylate ester or methacrylamide derivative, and (i) an impact modifier stabilizer is present; a stabilizer is present that affects surface flow or leveling, or a stabilizer is present that facilitates superimposing applications; a stabilizer is present to further enhance the ability of the formed canvas support medium or the image to remain color stable or to remain unchanged with exposure to ultraviolet light; or a stabilizer is present that enhances bonding or that is a surface preparation stabilizer layer, (ii) the at least one polymer is: (a) partially or entirely 2D planar; or (b) partially but not completely poly(methyl methacrylate) or acrylic, or it is partially but not completely polymer made with a methacrylate ester or methacrylamide derivative; or (iii) the canvas support medium has: deckled edges, irregularities throughout resembling the texture of handmade paper, texture resembling conventional canvas, or a polymer form that is partially rigid and partially flexible, or, A-2 when the at least one polymer is a different non-absorbent polymer than that described in A-1 above, it has a stabilizer present to enhance the ability of the formed polymer, the canvas support medium or the image to remain color stable or to remain unchanged with exposure to ultraviolet light, and the canvas support medium also has one or more of (i)-(iii): (i) the at least one polymer is made with only one monomer or one polymer and this at least one polymer is: (i-a) consistently rigid, 2D planar polyvinyl chloride with a stabilizer to enhance bonding, or (i-b) one that differs from polyvinyl chloride, (ii) the at least one polymer is a copolymer, the at least one polymer is a mixture with more than one polymer, or the at least one polymer is superimposed by a second polymer that differs from it, (iii) the canvas support medium has a stabilizer present that enhances bonding or that is a surface preparation stabilizer layer; it has a stabilizer present that affects surface flow or leveling, or it has a stabilizer present that facilitates superimposing applications; it has deckled edges, irregularities throughout resembling the texture of handmade paper, or texture resembling conventional canvas, (B) making at least part of the canvas support medium with: its at least one polymer being a synthetic absorbent polymer; one or more conductive polymers in addition to its at least one polymer; or an organic light emitting diode (OLED) made with one or more conductive polymers; (C) enhancing the ability to develop the aesthetic image by additive processes, or providing this development by: (i) making the canvas support medium as a transparent or translucent form with a surface preparation stabilizer layer or other stabilizer in or on it's surface that enhances or enables bonding to at least one conventional artist's medium; (ii) forming the canvas support medium with a polymer surface made with a stabilizer ingredient in it that bonds or fortifies the bond between it and one or more superimposed conventional artist's mediums, wherein this stabilizer ingredient is at least one conventional artist's painting medium, primer or binder; or (iii) developing the aesthetic image by using the at least one polymer to prepare one or more transparent or translucent separating layers separating applications, layers or attachments of one or more other kinds of aesthetic, design or pictorial elements on it's or on their opposing sides, and, the method requires at least one of (iii-1)-(iii-5) plus at least one of (iii-a)-(iii-f): (iii-1) two or more of these transparent or translucent polymeric layers separate applications or layers of one or more kinds of conventional artist's mediums from this group: oil paint, encaustic, other oil based artist's mediums, paint stick, casein paint, vinyl paint, alkyd paint, watercolor, gouache, tempera, egg tempera, ink, pastel, charcoal, conte crayon, pencil, graphite, collage, photographic transparencies, and photographic emulsions; (iii-2) one or more of these polymeric layers separate applications, layers or attachments of one or more kinds of aesthetic elements in (D) (i)-(iv) below, either with one or more applications described above in (iii-1) or free of them; (iii-3) two or more of these polymeric layers separate applications, layers or attachments of one or more elements in (iii-1) or (iii-2) above, from an application or layer of acrylic paint; (iii-4) two or more of these polymeric layers separate one or more kinds of applications, layers or attachments in (iii-1)-(iii-3) above from carving or incising that is free or nearly free of legible text; or (iii-5) two or more of these polymeric layers separate one or more kinds of applications, layers or attachments in (iii-1)-(iii-4) above from at least one LED, OLED or light source; moreover, in addition, the method requires that all of these layers bond to one another or that they be bonded to one another to make one whole form, and one or more of (iii-a)-(iii-f): (iii-a) the form is made according to (iii-2) above; (iii-b) the polymeric separating layers are: poly(methyl methacrylate) or acrylic and also non uniform, irregular, perforated or with a negative space; they are made with a methacrylate ester or methacrylamide derivative and also non uniform, irregular, perforated or with a negative space; they are made with polymer according to section (A) above; they are a polymer that is different from these; or they are a combination of these; (iii-c) a stabilizer or surface preparation stabilizer is added to enhance or enable bonding; (iii-d) both opposing sides of each polymeric separating layer are cleaned sufficiently to render them receptive to a conventional artist's medium named in (iii-1) above and to provide enhanced bond strength and permanence to facilitate development of the aesthetic image; (iii-e) the canvas support medium or image is accompanied by instructions for the development or further development of the aesthetic image; or (iii-f) the work is prepared with a means or a key part of a means of installation or display; (D) preparing the canvas support medium or image with a polymeric, visible, aesthetic element: (i) at least part of the positive or negative form of which functions as a lens, a Fresnel lens, a grating, a diffraction grating or a prism; a transparent or translucent lenticular lens or form; or two or more of these; (ii) with a photochromic effect and a form made for viewing apart from the human face, unsuitable or uncomfortable to wear on the human face or incapable of fitting on the human face, or with a dichroic effect; or (iii) with an electrochromic effect whereby it responds to changes in electrical current by changing or by changing it's state of or it's level of: transparency, translucency, reflectivity, light emission employing conductive polymer, it changes the path or color of the light passing through it, or a combination of these; (iv) one or more of (i)-(iii) that serves as part or all of an image support, an image support stabilizer or an underlayer; and this canvas support medium prepared according to (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) is also prepared with one or more of (1)-(4): (1) a conductive polymer or an absorbent polymer, (2) a stabilizer that provides or enhances it's color stability or it's ability to remain unchanged with exposure to ultraviolet light; (3) it is cleaned sufficiently to render it receptive to artist's paint and to provide enhanced bond strength and permanence to facilitate development of the aesthetic image; or (4) it is developed into an aesthetic image by being used as an underlayer, as an image support, or as an image support stabilizer for a work with painting, drawing, a photographic transparency or collage; it is developed into an aesthetic image by the addition of a pictorial or a design element free of visible legible text or it is developed into an image of fine art; or the photochromic, dichroic or eletrochromic effect of (ii) or (iii) above provides a pictorial or design element, a picture or a drawing thereby developing the aesthetic image; (E) preparing the canvas support medium according to (a) or (b): (a) with a form that is transparent, translucent or both and with a strengthening stabilizer that is internal or on it's underside that is invisible or largely invisible to viewers, wherein it is also prepared with (1) or (3) below; or (b) preparing the at least one polymer so that it is at least partially poly(methyl methacrylate) or acrylic, or it is at least partially polymer made with a methacrylate ester or methacrylamide derivative, and also this polymer is stiffened with one or more of: a different second polymer, an impact modifier stabilizer, a strengthening stabilizer of a different, stronger or more rigid polymer; or the fiber strengthening stabilizer in (3) below; moreover this canvas support medium prepared according to (a) or (b) is also prepared with at least one of (1)-(4): (1) a stabilizer that provides or enhances it's color stability or it's ability to remains unchanged with exposure to ultraviolet light or alternately, a stabilizer that enables or enhances bonding to conventional artist's mediums; (2) it is cleaned sufficiently to render it receptive to artist's paint and to provide enhanced bond strength and permanence facilitating development of the aesthetic image; (3) a strengthening stabilizer that is a surfacing veil fiberglass or a fiber that becomes largely invisible or invisible to the unaided human eye when used within or under transparent colorless polymer or when used within or under transparent colorless polymer that penetrates it, that is at least about a quarter of an inch thick, or both, or (4) it is developed into an image by the application a conventional artist's drawing or painting medium to which it bonds, or it is developed into an image of fine art; or (F) preparing the canvas support medium or aesthetic image as or with a visible display device that includes multiple non-light-emissive colorants capable of changing their visibility, their color or both, with energy from a source that is part of the canvas support medium or image, or with energy conducted by the canvas support medium or image, so that the overall visual effect is sufficient to enable at least a portion of the canvas support medium or the aesthetic image to have a display that is a visible aesthetic, design or pictorial element, and the canvas support medium prepared with one or more of (A)-(F) above, is made with it's at least one polymer, or with one or more conductive polymers in an amount sufficient to provide or enable the image to have at least one aesthetic element, so that the reinvented canvas support medium facilitates artistic expression, and the creation and display of an aesthetic image that is art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom that is a work or object for visual observation or display and a whole in and of itself with distinct boundaries or edges; and the method also requires one or more of a)-h) below: a) developing the canvas support medium into an aesthetic image that is art, design or architecture, wherein the canvas support medium has polymer providing or enabling at least one aesthetic element, and at least one of (a-i)-(a-iv): (a-i) the at least one aesthetic element is provided or enabled by an absorbent polymer; (a-ii) the at least one aesthetic element is provided or enabled by at least one non-conductive or poorly conductive polymer and: (a-ii-a) the image is made according to (A), (C), (D), or (E) above, or alternately, it is made according to (B) above with a conductive polymer OLED or free of the specifications of (F) above, or (a-ii-b) the image is made according to (F) above wherein the display device has conductive polymer or is free of conductive polymer and wherein the image is otherwise free of the specifications in (B) above and it is free of the specifications in (A), and (C)-(E) above, moreover, this image is fine art, it is architecture, or it is a work of design for viewing or display apart from direct contact with the human body rather than worn on it as fashion design; (a-iii) making the canvas support medium into an image of fine art with a flexible, 2D planar, light-sensitive photographic recording material that has conductive polymer, wherein the canvas support medium also has conductive polymer that is separate from this photographic recording material which provides or enables at least one aesthetic element; or making the canvas support medium into an image of fine art free of this photographic recording material wherein the canvas support medium has conductive polymer that provides or enables at least one aesthetic element; (a-iv) developing the canvas support medium into another kind of aesthetic image, or an image of design or architecture using a conductive polymer that provides or enables at least one aesthetic element and (1) or (2): (1) conductive polymer that is separate from that in the canvas support medium's photographic recording material (above) or conductive polymer in a canvas support medium free of this photographic recording material provides or enables at least one aesthetic element and this conductive polymer: (1-i) leaves the thermal and static electrical properties of canvas support medium and the image substantially unchanged or constant; (1-ii) provides or enables an aesthetic element by conducting electricity, or by its use with electrical current, with electricity that flows or that can flow, or with non-static electricity, or (1-iii) provides or enables at least one visible aesthetic element; or alternately, (2) the conductive polymer provides or enables the canvas support medium and the image to have at least one aesthetic element that is audible, interactive or a light emitting; b) accompanying the canvas support medium with instructions on developing it into an aesthetic image that is art, design or architecture and (i), (ii) or (iii): (i) making the canvas support medium with a flexible, 2D planar, light-sensitive photographic recording material having conductive polymer and at least one other ingredient and accompanying it with instructions on how it's other ingredient or ingredients might be further developed to form an aesthetic image for viewing; (ii) making the canvas support medium according to (F) above wherein the display device has conductive polymer or is free of conductive polymer and wherein the canvas support medium is otherwise free of the specifications in (B) above and it is free of the specifications in (A), (C)-(E) above, and wherein the canvas support medium is made for forming an image of fine art, an image of architecture, or an image of design for viewing or display apart from direct contact with the human body rather than worn on it as fashion design; or alternately, (iii) making the canvas support medium entirely free of the photographic recording medium, and: (iii-1) free of the specifications of (F) above; (iii-2) according to (A), (C), (D), or (E) above; or (iii-3) according to (B) above with absorbent polymer, or with conductive polymer that is separate from it's display made according to (F) above; c) forming the canvas support medium with a polymer surface made with a stabilizer ingredient in it that bonds or fortifies the bond between it and one or more superimposed conventional artist's mediums, wherein this stabilizer ingredient is at least one conventional artist's painting medium, primer or binder; d) forming the canvas support medium with an aesthetic texture made by taking one or more negative or positive impressions from one or more organic or natural materials, to make texture on the canvas support medium that resembles the organic or natural material's texture or each organic or natural materials' texture, a negative impression of it or them, or a combination of these, or such a texture made on the canvas support medium from at least part of a Nymphaeaceae Victoria also known as an Amazon Water-lily, however when the canvas medium is formed only according to (A) above and is free from the specifications in (B)-(F), the method requires making the canvas support medium in an overall form that is abstract or geometric, that appears unnatural, inorganic and nonhuman, or that is otherwise free from looking like the real natural or organic form or forms from which the texture was made, and therefore free from being: a realistic portrayal; a human, animal or plant form; or a specimen or model that looks like the real, natural or organic form or forms, e) forming the canvas support medium with: deckled edges, irregularities throughout resembling the texture of handmade paper, or texture resembling conventional canvas, or forming the canvas support medium with an aesthetic texture and a display having conductive polymer, an OLED having conductive polymer or with the display in (F) above, such that the aesthetic texture is deeper than small surface irregularities, or an ordinary sandblasted or sanded surface; (f) preparing the canvas support medium with a means or a key part of the means of installation or display as an aesthetic image wherein the canvas support medium is formed: (i) according to (A), (C), (D) or (E) above, or with an absorbent polymer; (ii) with either a conductive polymer OLED or with the display in (F) above whereupon it is free or nearly free of visible legible text; or (iii) with conductive polymer that is not part of any OLED or display in (F) above; g) preparing the canvas support medium with conductive polymer, with an OLED made with conductive polymer, or according to (C) or (F) above, and also cleaning it sufficiently to render it receptive to a superimposed artist's medium and to enhance the strength and permanence of the bond formed between that surface and an artist's medium; or h) the canvas support medium is prepared according to D (ii) or D (iii) above and the photochromic, dichroic or eletrochromic effect provides a pictorial or design element, a picture or a drawing thereby developing it into an aesthetic image.