IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND PACKING OF WATER COLORS FOR ARTISTS AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," Southampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND PACKING OF
WATER COLORS FOR ARTISTS AND OTHER PURPOSES."-A communication
from abroad by Charles Trinder Raynolds, Thomas Burns Hidden,
Leonard Richardson, Edward Leslie Molyneux, and Aquila Rich,
all of the Firm of C. T. Raynolds & Co., of the City and State of
New York, United States of America.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said George Haseltine at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 81st July 1878, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.

page_text: WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE PREPARATION AND PACKING OF WATER COLORS FOR ARTISTS AND OTHER
PURPOSES," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for
the same, and have made solemn Declaration that it has been com- 5
municated to me from abroad by Charles Trinder Raynolds, Thomas
Burns Hidden, Leonard Richardson, Edward Loslie Molyneaux, and
Aquila Rich, all of the Firm of C. T. Raynolds & Co., of the City and
State of New York, United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Haseltine, do hereby declare 1
that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, fully
describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the accompanying Drawing forming a part of
this Specification :-
1
This Invention is designed to provide an improved method of
preparing and packing for sale, transportation, and use, colors, or
what are known in trade, and with artists, draughtsmen, architects,
and others as water colors, the said Invention consists in preparing and
putting up the said colors in tablets or sheets on pasteboard, paper, 2
or the like for painting and for toilet purposes, as herein-after fully
described.
.
Water colors have for a long time been made and sold for use in dry
cakes or solid masses, and in the condition of paste in pots or tubes.
In either of these forms they are liable to be broken or cracked, and 2
this liability has hitherto been the source of very great waste and
inconvenience.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 illustrates one mode of putting up the colors according to
this Invention; Figuro 2 is a section on the line x, x, Figure 1.
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page_text: are added until a mass of color of the desired thickness is formed. The
sheets thus prepared are carefully dried, and may be cut into pieces A. of
any desired size and shape. The sheets or the pieces or tablets produced
by laying the color on the pasteboard or its equivalent as described are
then made into portfolios, albums, pocketbooks, or the like, or pasted
or otherwise secured upon flat surfaces or isolated leaves B, as shown in
the Drawing.
By the means described, the artist or person using the colors is enabled
to have any quantity and shades of colors in a safe, convenient, and
portable form, and can carry in his pocket all facilities of color required
for any effect or design he may wish to produce at the moment, and
without the annoyance of carrying with him cakes of colors, palettes,
and other articles liable to be easily broken or injured. For the con-
venience of those using these books or other packages in. which the color
6 pieces or tablets are placed, the said books or packages may if desired be
so arranged that, on occasion, one tablet may be removed and another
inserted in its place. Owing to their non-liability to breakage colors
put up in this manner may be sent from place to place by post or
otherwise without any especial likelihood of injury thereto.
In using colors thus prepared the quantity of color required is rubbed
off with a brush moistened with water, therefore the necessity for the
use of slabs or tiles for grinding or rubbing as required with the ordinary
cake colors is obviated.
This Invention is not confined to colors used in painting pictures,
plans, and the like; but is equally applicable to colors used for cosmetics
and for toilet purposes.
This Invention furthermore avoids the loss hitherto experienced from
the breaking up, in the transportation and use, of the cakes of water
colors commonly in use; it also allows all water colors however
expensive in the cake form to be made and sold at a comparatively
trifling cost, so that many highly desirable colors very frequently
dispensed with by artists and others on account of the excessive cost are
by means of this Invention brought within their reach at a moderate
price.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim, the within described method of

page_text: preparing and putting up water colors in sheets or tablets for painting
and toilet uses.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
JAMES EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)