Appliances for Teaching Drawing and Painting.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Jan., 1396-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Appliances for Teaching Drawing and Painting.
I, THOMAS ROBERT ABLETT, of 50 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, in the
County of London, Artist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:―
The teaching of drawing or painting to a class of pupils presents great difficulties
inasmuch as the various pupils have various models to draw from, or see the same
models in different aspects and different lights, and therefore the master has to
deal with the product of each separately, and cannot give directions or criticisms
applicable to the whole class. My invention relates to means of providing in a
cheap, simple and convenient manner, models which shall be the same for all the
pupils, presented to them in the same aspect aud light, each pupil having, however,
his own model on the paper on which he draws or colours.
For this purpose, I prepare a number of sheets of paper or other suitable
material, parts of which are slit or to be slit or cut in various ways so that the slit
parts can be turned up from the plane of the paper and set at various angles to
the plane. An outline of some object formed by the slit part, or printed on the
slit part of the paper, can thus be presented at some particular angle which may
be the same to all the pupils, who would thus have to draw, shade or paint the
same perspective view of it.
A slit portion of the paper might be rolled twisted or otherwise shaped into
cylindrical conical or other forms, as models for shading, or it might be variously
coloured and inclined or folded so as to present shades and shadows to be copied in
black and white or colour. The sheet might in each case have printed on, it
suitable remarks or directions, and as the slit portions could be flattened down, the
sheets would be conveniently portable. Holes may be made in one sheet and slit
parts projecting from a sheet behind it may be passed through these holes.
Dated this 29th day of July 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
Appliances for Teaching Drawing and Painting.
1, THOMAS ROBERT ABLETT, of 50 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, in the
County of London, Artist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The teaching of drawing or painting to a class of pupils presents great difficulties.
inasmuch as the various pupils have various models to draw from, or see the same
models in different aspects and different lights, and therefore the master has to deal
with the product of each separately, and cannot give directions or criticisms
applicable to the whole class.
My invention relates to means of providing in a cheap, simple and convenient
manner, models which shall be the same for all the pupils, presented to them in the

page_text: same aspect and light, each pupil having, however, his own model on the paper on
which he draws or colours.
For this purpose, I prepare a number of sheets of paper or other suitable
material, parts of which are slit or to be slit or cut in various ways so that the slit
parts can be turned up from the plane of the paper and set at various angles to
the plane. An outline of some object formed by the slit part, or printed on the
slit part of the paper, can thus be presented at some particular angle which may
be the same to all the pupils, who would thus have to draw, shade or paint the saem
perspective view of it.
A slit portion of the paper might be rolled twisted or otherwise shaped into
cylindrical, conical or other forins, as models for shading, or it might be variously
coloured and inclined or folded so as to present shades and shadows to be copied in
black and white or colour.
The sheet might in each case have printed on it suitable remarks or directions,
and as the slit portions could be flattened down, the sheets would be conveniently
portable. Holes may be made in one sheet and slit parts projecting from a sheet
behind it may be passed through these holes.
The accompanying drawings illustrate examples of paper models which may be
prepared according to my invention from flat sheets.
As shewn in Fig. 1 the sheet A is slit so that a piece of it B can be bent up in
wedge shape and secured with its face B¹, on which there may be a design, at a
certain angle determined by tongue pieces C inserted in slits of A.
There may be several such slits so that the inclination of B₁ may be varied,
there is space A¹ on which the pupil can draw. As shewn in Fig. 2 the piece
slit from A is bent to form a curved model B secured by tongues C engaged in
slits of A.
As shewn in Fig. 3 an under sheet indicated by dotted lines B is folded so as to
form sides of a cube B¹ which is passed up through a square hole of the upper
sheet A.
As shewn in Fig. 4, a sheet A has various figures B', B2, B3, B4, B³, partly cut
in it and corresponding slits C¹, C³, C³, C, C³, also a tongue B that can be
turned up.
The sheet A is then folded so as to form as it were sides of a chamber which
may themselves constitute models, and on which the paper models present
themselves as shewn in Fig. 5.
In all cases it is preferred to leave free space A' on which, or on a sheet placed
there, the pupil can draw or paint.
The models may have designs or colours on them to be copied and directions
may be printed where convenient on the sheet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is: :-
Appliances for teaching drawing and painting, consisting of sheets of paper or
equivalent material having parts slit or cut to be turned up, folded or bent so as to
serve as models, substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1896.
ABEL & IMRAT,
Agents for the Applicant.