A NEW OR IMPROVED PAINTERS' EASEL
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Day, of 44, Hindon Street, Pimlico, in
the County of Middlesex, Carpenter and Joiner, for the Invention of
"A NEW OR IMPROVED PAINTERS' EASEL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Day at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th April 1867.
I, ROBERT DAY, of 44, Hindon Street, Pimlico, in the County of Mid-
ddlesex, Carpenter and Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED PAINTERS' EASEL," to be as follows:-
This Invention of a new or improved easel to paint pictures on consists
of, first, a stand with four castors, one of which is shifting, with wood
screws to fit the floor; second, there are three frames, the first or outside
frame consists of two boxings and lead weights, see Fig. 1 of Drawings, with
two rabbitted pulleys and lines to counterbalance and carry up the second
frame A, which is tongued and rabbitted for lines; the third frame B is
tongued in the second with two springs on edge to stop it on easel; this
frame carries the catch for the picture, which has a shifting fillet to extend
with screws to take any thickness of frame. The second or main sliding

page_text: frame A, Figs. 2 and 3, has two levers and spring turned by means of a knob,
see Fig. 2, C, which draws both levers and allows the frame and picture to pass
up or down, leaving the knob; the levers pass back into a rack, leaving the
picture at any height that may be required. At the bottom there is a treaddle
to work two springs, which work in notches on both sides of the stand to
keep the easel at any angle, Fig. 2, D. The frames are hooked on the stand
by means of a brass hook.
The double-action levers with spring and spindle and knob, with side racks
and rabbitted pulleys, and lead weights in boxings, being applied to easels, I
claim as my Invention Fig. 4, section of the lower part of the stand, showing
notches for the springs on each side; Fig. 5, full size section of weight and
frames.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Robert Day in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd October 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
DAY, of No. 44, Hindon Street, Pimlico, in the County of Middlesex,
Carpenter and Joiner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert Day, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Day, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Day,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED PAINTERS' EASEL," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Day, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office on or before
the 25th day of October next.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Day, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This is an Invention for a new or improved easel on which to paint pictures,
and to fully explain the same I refer to the accompanying Drawings.
First, a stand A, with four castors, one of which is shifting, with wood screws
to fit the floor; secondly, there are three frames, the first or outside frame B
consists of two boxings and lead weights (see Fig. 1) on Drawings, with
two rebated pullies, and lines to counterbalance and carry up the second
frame C, which is tongued and rebated for lines; the third frame D is tongued
into the second with two springs on edge to stop it on the easel; this
frame carries the catch for the picture, which has a shifting fillet to extend
with screws to take any thickness of frame. The second or main sliding
frame C, Figs. 1 & 3, has two levers and spring turned by means of a knob E,
see Fig. 2, which draws both levers and allows the frame and picture to pass
up or down; from the knob the levers pass back into a rack leaving the
picture at any height that may be required. At the bottom there is a treddle
fixed to two springs, which work in notches on both sides of the stand to keep
the easel at any angle, Fig. 2, F. The frames are attached to the stand by
means of brass hooks, and moved at bottom by rollers. Fig. 4, section of the
lower part of the stand showing notches for the springs on each side; Fig. 5,
full size section of weight and frames.
The double action levers with spring and spindle, and knob with side racks
and rebated pullies, and lead weights in boxings with rollers on bottom, and
their application to easels I claim as my Iuvention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Day, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our
Lord 1867.