An Appliance for Facilitating Landscape, Perspective, Object, and Model Drawing, and for Making Reduced or Enlarged Copies of Pictures, Plans, Maps, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 26th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 30th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Facilitating Landscape, Perspective, Object, and
Model Drawing, and for Making Reduced or Enlarged Copies of
Pictures, Plans, Maps, and the like.
I, CHARLES HENRY BAILEY of 22 Henry Road West Bridgford in the
County of Nottingham, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
A frame of wood metal or other suitable material of oblong square or other
shape on one side and on the bottom of which spikes are placed to enable the
frame to be fixed to an eazel, gatepost or other support. The frame is divided
into a number of squares or sections by means of fixed or moveable wires or cords
or the like running perpendicularly and horizontally from top to bottom and
from side to side of the frame.
A moveable sighthole or pointer is attached to the side or bottom of the frame.
This sighthole or pointer can be moved to a point suitable to the subject drawn or
sketched.
The sighthole or pointer is used to cover an object or landmark decided upon
on the landscape or other subject thus ensuring correct drawing.
Dated this 5th day of October 1896.
C. H. BAILEY.
An Appliance for Facilitating Landscape, Perspective, Object, and
Model Drawing, and for Making Reduced or Enlarged Copies of
Pictures, Plans, Maps, and the like.
1, CHARLES HENRY BAILEY, of 22 Henry Road, West Bridgford, in the
County of Nottingham, Clerk, 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 an apparatus for use by artists, draughtsmen, and
others to facilitate the correct and expeditious drawing or copying of landscape
views, buildings, models, pictures, plans, maps, or similar work.
The appliance or apparatus consists of a lattice or grating formed by a series
of thin wires or other suitable material, forming square or other sections of an
equal size.
These wires may either be soldered together at the corners of each section, or
they may be fitted into a suitable wood or other frame provided with holes to
take the wires, more or less wires may then be used, so varying, as may be
convenient, the sectional spaces.
The frame or the grating, as the case may be, is provided with suitable spike,

page_text: or spikes, clip or clips, or other like fastening, so that it may be firmly fixed to
some object at a suitable distance from the worker.
A movable sight hole or pointer is also fixed to the frame for use as is herein-
after shewn.
To further illustrate and make clear my invention, I supply herewith drawings
for this purpose.
Fig. 1. illustrates my invention constructed of six wires only (three each way)
fixed into the wood frame A. forming sixteen square sections.
The wood frame is constructed on two sides with hinged flaps A' which are
closed and fastened when the wires are in position.
In Fig. 1. the said flaps are shewn open, while in Fig. 2. they are shewn closed,
and fastened with fastener B.
The frame is supplied with a spike C. which is suitable for fixing the frame on
a gate post or similar place, when used out of doors.
E. is the sight hole or pointer, while F. (and Fig. 3) is a reducing or regulating
slide to be used as required to shut out a part of the sections, as shewn in Fig. 2.
Fig. 4. represents a lattice of wire without the frame, the wires being soldered
together at the cross sections, and the sight hole being fixed in the centre.
When it is desired to use this apparatus, it is only necessary to fix the lattice or
frame in a suitable position before the object to be drawn, or copied-so that the
whole object may be seen by the artist through the lattice or square sections-it
is then necessary to make a corresponding number of squares on the paper or
canvas to be used, (and when the artist has fixed his position) to determine some
particular landmark or object in the landscape, or subject matter to be copied, so
that this object is covered by the pointer E. The artist by keeping the marked
object in a line with the pointer, has no difficulty in transferring the subject matter
to his paper or canvas in sections with perfect accuracy.
Any number of wires may be used, and the shape of the sections may be altered
if desired. Also instead of wire, string, catgut, or any suitable material may be
used with a wood or metal frame, or a sheet of glass or other transparent material
with lines marked thereon may be used.
Any suitable means may be used for fixing the frame when in use, and it may
be, if desired, attached to an extending arm fixed to an easel.
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. A lattice or grating formed of wire, string, or other material, substantially,
as described and set forth in the accompanying specification and drawings.
2. A lattice or grating forming square sections enclosed in a frame with sight
hole or pointer, substantially as described and set forth in the accompanying
specification and drawings.
3. A device for assisting artists and others in their work, substantially as
described and set forth in the accompanying specification and drawings.
Dated this 26th day of October 1896.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.