Improvements relating to Portable Easels and Seats.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Nov., 1897-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Portable Easels and Seats.
I, ALEXANDER HORTON, of 41 Marmion Road, Southsea, in the county of
Hants, Artists' Colourman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
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The object of this invention is to provide a portable construction for use as an
easel and seat, which is easily erected and folded up and when in use may be
sufficiently rigid and convenient.
To a suitable base frame adapted to lie flatly in the ground I hinge at or near
one end a frame for use as an easel, and at or near the other end one of the frames
of a trestle like construction carrying the seat.
The easel frame is in two parts the upper hinged or pivoted to the lower so that
it may be folded together and the whole folded down onto or into the base-frame.
When erected the lower part of the easel frame is upheld by struts which may be
pivoted to the base frame and hooked to the easel frame. The upper part of this
frame is preferably connected to the lower part as follows: The side bars of
these two parts of the frame overlap each other and pivotal bolts are passed
through holes in them. One of the holes on each side is elongated so that not
only may the upper part of the frame be turned on the pivotal bolts but it may be
slightly lifted for the purpose of engaging or disengaging a pin from a socket by
the engagement of which the upper part of the frame is held in place when
erected for use.
The upper part of the easel frame carries preferably a vertical centre bar on
which slides a clip for the canvas frame or the like which is to be placed upon
the easel. This clip surrounds the bar and has an upwardly directed tongue in
front of the bar and forward of the latter two projecting legs carrying the pivots
of a plate the lower part of which is shaped to engage the edge of the canvas and
the upper part elongated to form a handle or lever for releasing the clip. Against
the back of this lever there bears a spring. A ledge to carry the lower edge
of the canvas is suitably attached to the easel.
The seat may be canvas covered and have a pocket for a paint box or the like.
Dated this 24th day of February 1897.

page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to provide a portable construction for use as an
easel and seat, which is easily erected and folded up and when in use may be
sufficiently rigid and convenient.
In the annexed drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the easel and seat
erected for use. Figs. 2 to 7 are various detail views of parts thereof.
To a suitable base frame A, adapted to lie flatly on the ground, I hinge at or
near one end a frame C for use as an easel, and at or near the other end one of the
frames B of a trestle like construction BB carrying the seat D.
The usual frame C is in two parts C¹ C³, the upper part C hinged or pivoted to
the lower part C2 so that they may be folded together, and the whole folded down
onto or into the base frame A. When erected the lower part of the easel frame is
upheld by struts EE which may be pivoted to the base frame A, and secured by
hooks F to eyes G on the easel frame C. The upper part C₁ of this frame C is
preferably connected to the lower part C as follows:-The side bars a a¹ of these
two parts of the frame Coverlap each other, and pivotal bolts H are passed through
holes J J¹ in them. One of the holes J, Fig 3, on each side is elongated so that
not only may the upper part C¹ of the frame C be turned on the pivotal bolts H,
but it may be slightly lifted for the purpose of engaging or disengaging a pin K
from a socket L by the engagement of which the upper part of the frame is held
in place when erected for use.
The upper part of the easel frame carries preferably a vertical centre bar 6 on
which slides a clip M for the canvas frame or the like which is to be placed upon
the ledge N of the easel. This clip surrounds the bar and has an upwardly directed
tongue in front of the bar and forward of the latter two projecting lugs 1111
carrying the pivots 12 of a plate the lower part of which is shaped to engage the
edge of the canvas and the upper part elongated to form a handle or lever
releasing the clip. Against the back of this lever there bears a spring 15. The
ledge N to carry the lower edge of the canvas is suitably attached to the easel,
for instance by fitting in the ledge N pins having hinged extensions P¹ which
can be turned square to the pins P, after the latter have been passed through
holes in the side bars a a of the easel frame C.
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The seat D may be of canvas and the frame may be made with a pocket for a
paint box or the like, for instance, made by strips of webbing O nailed across the
space between the two legs of the interior trestle of the seat, so that when the latter
is folded up the webbing may uphold the paint box inserted on it, the central
bar 6 of the upper part of the easel frame crossing the other side of the paint box,
so as to keep it in place.
The pivotal bolts H may screw into the holes J1 after passing through the
holes J in order that the upper frame C₁ of the easel may be tightly secured when
in use, by tightening said bolts.
To fold up the easel and seat, the ledge N, is detached; the bolts H are loosened
and the frame C¹ lifted and turned outwards, and downwards, as shown by the
arrows x, Fig 1, until it lies within the frame C2. The seat trestles BB¹ are
folded together and then turned down into the frame A in the direction of arrow y
The struts EE are folded back alongside frame A and the folded frame C is then
folded down in direction of arrows z into the frame A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The combination with a base frame of a seat arranged at or near one end
thereof and an easel frame supported by struts at or near the other end thereof, the
easel frame being adapted to fold upon itself and upon the base frame and the seat

page_text: adapted to fold up so that the whole may be packed together for transport, or
erected for use substantially as described.
2. In the combined easel frame, base frame, and seat herein described, the con-
struction comprising the bolts H passing through elongated sockets, pins K and
the sockets L at the places of connection of the parts of the easel frame.
3. In the combined easel frame, base frame, and seat herein described the con-
struction of the clip M substantially as described and illustrated.
4. The combined easel and seat with the parts thereof constructed substantially
as illustrated and described.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1897.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.
Agents to Applicant, 18 Buckingham Street, Strand W.C. London.