Improvements connected with Drawing Easels.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1898-Accepted, 22nd Oct.,
1898.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Drawing Easels.
I, NICOLAS DE TORNAU, of 5, Gorochowaja, St. Petersburg, Russia, Painter,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and the manner in which it is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
description:-
The present invention has for its object certain new and useful improvements
connected with drawing easels and it consists more especially in means to permit
of the upper part of a painting, drawing or the like to be tilted forward, while
the lower edge of it is resting in the usual manner on the pegs, inserted in the
legs of the casel. The tilting forward of a painting, drawing or the like is often
desirable and indicated in order to avoid light reflexes upon it and when the
painter is changing from a sitting-position to a standing position or vice versa.
The means to attain the desired end consist of a metal bar or wooden rod, pre-
ferably round and of two clips, which are moveable upon the said rod or bar
and which can be secured upon the latter in any desired distance from each other
by means of tightening screws. One of the clips is to be clipped to one of the
front legs of the easel and the other clip is clipped to the frame of the painting,
drawing or the like.
The farther away from each other the two clips are arranged upon the said
bar or rod, the more the painting or the like is tilted forward.
In order to make my invention more readily understood, I have illustrated it
on the accompanying sheet of drawings, of which Fig. 1 shows the front view of
an easel with a painting resting upon the pegs and the upper part being con-
nected to the easel by means of the arrangement, forming the object of my
invention.
Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows the bar or rod with the two
clips.
The letter I designates the rod or bar. K1, K2 are the two clips, provided
with the spring D, one of which clips is clipped over the frame of the painting,
drawing or the like B, and the other one of which is clipped to one of the easel
legs, as is clearly shown in Fig. 1 & 2.
The inner surfaces of the gripping legs of the said clips may be covered with
felt, cloth or rubber in order to prevent their scratching the frame and the easel.
To either clip is fastened a short section of tube or sleeve H1, H2. fitting snugly
over the said bar or rod I. This sleeve can be secured in the desired position
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upon the bar or rod by means of the tightening screws C",
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1.) Means for tilting a painting or the like on the pegs of a drawing casel con-
sisting of a bar or rod, upon which are moveably arranged two clips by means

page_text: of sleeves, which latter may be secured at the desired distance from each other
by means of tightening screws, provided in said sleeves, substantially as described.
2.) Means for tilting a painting or the like on the pegs of a drawing easel con-
sisting in the combination of a rod or bar I, of the sleeves H1, H2, of the tighten-
ing screws C¹, C and of the clips K¹, K³, being provided with a rubber, felt or
the like lining upon the surfaces coming in contact with the frame of the painting
and with the easel, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Leipzig, Germany, dated this 15th day of June 1898.
As Agent for the Applicant,
ED. BRESLAUER,
Ingenieur u. Patentanwalt, Leipzig, Gothestrasse 7.