Improvements in or connected with Artists' Colour Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th May, 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Artists' Colour Boxes.
I FREDRIK KOLSTÖ, of Sigurdsgade 5, Bergen, in the Kingdom of Norway,
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 :-
This invention relates to artists' colour boxes and has for its object to provide
means whereby they can be mounted upon stands and used as easels or drawing
boards the lids or covers serving as the supports for canvas or tablets.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 shews in elevation the box attached to the stand and the cover horizon-
tally extended.
Figure 2 is a rear view of the box with the cover vertically extended, and
Figure 3 is a side view of the same.
Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 2 but shewing the cover in another
position.
Figure 5 is a view of the box looking in the direction of the arrow, Figure 2.
Figure 6 shows the box folded up and strapped to the stand.
The box a is fastened to the stand b, the legs of which are extensible by a screw
in the same manner as a photographic camera is secured to its stand. The cover of
the box is made in two parts c and c which are connected to each other by the
hinges d, d and to the box a by the hinges g₁, 92, 93, the two parts of which can be
readily separated. The part c¹ of the cover is made longer than the other part c
and provided with a flange c² which when the cover is closed comes into contact
with the box as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 1 so that it can be secured by
a lock e.
When the cover is placed horizontally as shown in Figure 1 it serves as a drawing-
board a hook maintaining the cover in position. When, however, the cover is
employed as an easel, the parts c and care placed in a vertical position as shown in
Figures 2 and 3 being maintained in this position by a hook i upon the box a
engaging with an eye upon the part c¹ and by a barj provided with a notch and
adapted to engage with a pin m upon the part c.
As shown in Figures 2 and 4 the cover-parts of the box are provided with two
sets of half hinges at right angles to each other the second set being indicated by
the letters h¹, h³, h³ so that by disconnecting the half hinges 91, 92, 93 and connecting
with the half hinges upon the box the half hinges h', h³, h³ upon the lid I am enabled
to use the said lid lengthwise as shown in Figure 4 which is an advantage when
using a long canvas.
Internally the box a is provided as usual with special compartments for paint
tubes, brushes, etc., and externally it is provided with a handle n so that when it is
strapped to the stand as shown in Figure 6 it can be easily carried.
In addition to the advantage of being able to use my improved box either as a
drawing board, or as an easel, it possesses the further advantage that when secured
to a stand an artist can stand to his work and not as before be obliged to sit, and
furthermore the paints are behind the artist and not between himself and the canvas.
Also the apparatus when folded up is comparatively light.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
(1). An artist's colour box adapted to be placed on a stand and having a cover
made in two parts connected to each other and to the box by hinges in such a

page_text: manner that the cover can be placed either horizontally to serve as a drawing-board
or vertically to serve as an easel substantially as, and for the purpose, set forth.
(2) In an artist's colour box of the kind referred to in the preceding claiming
clause the arrangement of hinges whereby the cover can be fixed with its greatest
length either vertically or horizontally, substantially as described.
(3) The improvements in and connected with artists' colour boxes hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 5th day of May 1891.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.