Improved Clip or Clamp for the Use of Artists and others
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Improved Clip or Clamp for the Use of Artists and others
We, MATTHEW ('RANSWICK GRE NEILL, of No 8 Romola Road, Herne Hill, in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, and CHARLES LONGBOTTOM HINDLE, of Milton Villa
Netherton Road, Saint Margarets, in the county of Middlesex, Publisher, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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Artists when employed in their avocations in the open air have hitherto been
accustomed to pack their productions by placing fragments of cork or other material
between the wet surfaces of the canvas, thereby incurring the risk of damage to the
pictures by the shifting of said pieces of cork
Our Invention is therefore devised with the object of overcoming this disadvantage
and consists of a clip or clamp formed of wire, spring steel or other suitable metal
or material, bent or other wise shaped to allow of their engaging with and holding,
two or more paintings or canvasses placed in close proximity to each other, without
Coming into contact Said chip or clamp is provided with two external limbs
terminating in short claws or hooks, which being pressed into the soft wood of which
the frames of canvasses are made, grip them firmly, the centre being bent to form
two sharp knees or knuckles and provided with a spacing piece, loop or bend, between
sud knees or knuckles Said spacing piece, loop or bend may be so arranged as
to extend beyond the clip or clamp and may serve as handles for the convenience of
carriage
Dated this Eleventh day of June 1888
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, WC,
Agent for Applicants

page_text: We, MATTHEW CRANSWICK GREENHILL of No 8 Romola Road, Herne Hill, in the
County of Surrey, Engineer, and CHARLES LONGBOTTOM HINDLE of Malton Villa,
Netherton Road, Saint Mirgarets, in the County of Middlesex, Publisher, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and iscertained in and by the following statement
Hitherto when artists or painters in oil colors are employed in their avocations
in the open air they have been accustomed, when packing their canvasses previous
to removal, to insert between the surfaces thereof slips of wood, pieces of cork
or other material, in order to protect the paintings from damage This method of
separating the surfaces is attended with some risk, inasmuch as the shifting or
falling out of one or more of the dividing appliances would cause considerable damage
to the wet paintings
With view to overcome this disadvantage we employ clip or clamp which
possesses, among other important advantages, thorough efficiency extremely light and
portable, and which may be produced at very small cost
In the accompanying drawings Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent side, end, and plan
views of our improved clip, and Figure 4 illustrates same adapted in position
The device according to our invention consists of a clip or clamp A formed of wire,
spring steel or other suitable metal or material, bent or otherwise shaped to allow of
their engaging with, and holding two or more paintings or canvasses placed in close
proximity to each other without coming into contact Sud chip or climp is provided
with two external limbs, a, a, termin iting in short claws or hooks b, b which latter
pressing into the soft wood of which the frames of artist's canvasses are made, grip
them firmly, as shown more particularly in Figure 4
The central portion of the chip or clamp is preferably bent in such a manner as to
form two sharp knees or knuckles having there between a spacing piece, bend or loop,
these latter serving, if desired, as handles for convenience of transport
The clip or clamp above described may be made plain or ornamental as desired, and
may be devised to hold any number of canvasses, and further in lieu of said clip
or clamp being formed of bent wire or spring steel, it may be produced in any
other convenient manner, as for instance, it may be of cast or wrought metal, or
cut, stamped or otherwise produced from sheet metal, in which cases the claws or
hooks would be pivoted to the body of the clip or clamp, pressure thereof against
the frames of the canvasses being ensured by the employment of suitable springs

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same may be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
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An improved clip or clamp for the use of artists and others by the employment of
which artists canvasses may be held firmly together and the surfaces thereof uniformly
separated substantially as herein described
JAMES
STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, WC,
Agent for Applicants
Dated this 12th day of March 1889
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, WC,
Agent for Applicants