IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEPTACLES FOR ARTISTS' COLOURS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I CHARLES DAVIS of the firm of Davis Brothers of N° 24 Webber Street
Blackfriars Road in the County of Surrey Artists Color-box' Makers Do hereby
declare the nature of said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEPTACLES FOR
ARTISTS' COLOURS" to be as follows. —-
According to my Invention I form on or attach to each pan or half pan or
colour container a spring or springs tending to spring outwards so that by its or
their pressure against the sides or the compartments of the Box they retain the
said pans or half pans or colour containers in position in the said box.
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the said Charles Davis.

page_text: I, CHARLES DAVIS, of the firm of Davis Brothers of N° 24 Webber Street
Blacfriars Road in the County of Surrey, Artists' Color box Makers, do hereby
declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN RECEPTACLES FOR
ARTISTS' COLORS" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
According to my Invention I form on or attach to each pan or half pan or
colour container a spring or springs tending to spring outwards so that by its or
their pressure against the sides or the compartments of the box they retain the said
pans or half pans or colour containers in position in the said box.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation and Figure 2 in end elevation a half pan
provided with a spring a upon one end-Figures and 4 and Figures 5 and 6 are
similar views of a whole pan, that shewn at figures 3 and 4 having a spring a
upon one side whilst that shewn at Figures 5 and 6 has a spring a upon one end.
In Figure 7 I have shewn a part of a colour box containing pans and half pans
provided with springs a; according to my Invention the half pans shewn at A A
are like that shewn in Figures 1 and 2. The pan at B is like that shewn at
The
Figures 3 and 4 and the pan at C is like that shewn at Figures 5 and 6.
springs a as shewn at Figures 1 and 2 and at A A in Figure 7 do not extend
beyond the top of the pans or half pans whilst the springs a shewn at Figures 3
to 6 and at B and C, Figure 7, extend upwards so that the projecting portion of
the springs can readily be pressed inwards by the finger for removing the pans or
half pans.
I do not limit myself to any particular material of which the pans or half pans
are formed nor to any particular way of connecting the springs thereto nor do
I limit myself to the use of one spring upon each pan or half pan or colour
container as two or more may be used as desired and these may be both or all on
one or more of the sides or ends. I do not limit myself to the application of my
Invention to pans or half pans or colour containers of the shape shewn in the
drawings as my said Invention may be applied to pans or half pans or colour
containers of other shapes if desired.
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
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Colour containers or pans or "half pans" having a spring or springs
attached thereto for pressing against the sides or the compartments of colour
boxes to retain the said containers pans or half pans in position in the said
boxes substantially as hereiubefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.