Improvements in Wooden Palettes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 23rd Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wooden Palettes.
I, ALFRED EDWARD RIGG, of 5, Victoria Terrace, Fagley Road, Eccleshill,
near Bradford, in the County of York, Fine Art Dealer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in wooden palettes used by painters and
the like and its object is to increase the strength and durability of the palettes
without adding to their weight or applying unsightly additions.
For this purpose I form the palettes of three thicknesses or layers of thin wood
approximately of the same thickness in the aggregate as a palette made in the
ordinary way of one piece and I glue or cement these pieces securely together with
the grain of the inner piece disposed at right angles to the two outer pieces which
latter are placed with their grain approximately parallel.
By this construction the appearance of the palette is practically unchanged but
the liability to split or break is reduced to a minimum.
Dated this 8th day of February 1893.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wooden Palettes.
I, ALFRED EDWARD RIGG, of 5, Victoria Terrace, Fagley Road, Eccleshill,
near Bradford, in the County of York, Fine Art Dealer, 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 wooden palettes used by painters and
the like and its object is to increase the strength and durability of the palettes
without adding to their weight or applying unsightly additions.
For this purpose I form the palettes of three thicknesses or layers of thin wood
approximately of the same thickness in the aggregate as a palette made in the
ordinary way of one piece and I glue or cement these pieces securely together with
the grain of the inner piece disposed at right angles to the two outer pieces which
latter are placed with their grain approximately parallel.
By this construction the appearance of the palette is practically unchanged but
the liability to split or break is reduced to a minimum.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification, in which
Figure 1, represents a full view of a palette made in accordance with my
invention, and having a portion of the upper layer of wood broken away to show
the central layer.
Figure 2, represents a cross section of a portion of the same on a larger scale.
The central layer of wood A is approximately twice as thick as the outer
layers B, B and the length-way of the grain or fibre of the layer A is disposed at
right angles to the length-way of the grain of the layers B, B.
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 :
A palette formed of three layers of wood in which the grain or fibre of the

page_text: central layer is disposed at right angles or approximately right angles to the grain
or fibre of the outer layers.
Dated this 7th day of November 1893.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.