Improvements in Devices for Use in Packing Artists' Canvases, Pictures, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1895-Accepted, 30th Mar., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Use in Packing Artists' Canvases,
Pictures, and the like.
1, ALFRED EVERTON, of 11 All Saints Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Toolmaker, 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 improvements in fasteners for securing together two
or more canvases, pictures, or other articles, in order to protect them during.
transit or other purposes, my object being to construct simple fasteners that shall
be more efficient and reliable than those at present in ordinary use.
In the accompanying - sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter
referred to:-
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 an end elevation illustrating a pair of
canvases or pictures secured together by my improved fasteners.
Figures 3 to 14 inclusive illustrate six convenient forms of my improved
fastener, each fastener being represented by a front and side elevation.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct my improved fastener in one
convenient manner from a brass or other metallic plate such as A. Figures 3 and 4,
stamped or formed to any desired configuration, and having two or more pins or
pegs such as B pressed out from the metal for the purpose of entering the wood
or other mount or framing of the canvas or picture,, and one or more pins or
pegs such as C for the purpose of securing the wood, papier-mache, felt, or other
distance piece D to the back plate A.
Instead of pressing or forming the pins or pegs B from the metal of the back
plate A as herein before described I sometimes point or taper each end of the back
plate A and bend the same over to form the pins B as shown at Figures 5 and 6.
I sometimes dispense with the attached wood or other distance piece D, and
form stop pieces such as E Figures 7 and 8 from the metal of the back plate, or
by depressing the back plate I form the projection F Figures 9 and 10 to serve as
a distance piece between the two canvases, pictures, or like articles to be
connected.
In the modified form of my improved fastener illustrated at Figures 11 and 12
the pins or pegs B are formed by bending over the pointed extremities of the
back plate A at right angles, whilst in the form shown by the Figures 13 and 14,
the pins or pegs are stamped out from the back plate and the distance piece is
formed by the attachment G.
The fasteners are pressed into the side mounts or frames of the canvases,
pictures, or other articles, in the manner illustrated at Figures 1 and 2. The
distance pieces formed with or attached to the fasteners keep the cauvases from
direct contact with each other and assist the pins or pegs. in forming, a secure
attachment. Two or more fasteners are employed for the canvases, pictures, or
the like, as may be required for their particular sizes or weights.
I do not limit the application of my invention to any particular form or pattern
of my improved fastener. I sometimes dispense with the use of a distance piece
and I make such other modifications as may be required to suit varying services.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved method of securing canvases, pictures and the like, by means
of fastenings having projecting pins or pegs and distance pieces formed with or
rigidly attached thereto, substantially as herein described.
2. The construction of a canvas, picture or like fastener, having pins or pegs
pressed out from the back plate substantially as hereinbefore described, and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. An improved fastener for securing canvases, pictures, or the like substan-
tially as herein described.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant..