Improvements in Easels or Stands for Holding Canvas to be Painted, Drawing-boards, Card-board, or such like Objects or Pictures to be Exhibited.
Year: 1888

page_text: Improvements in Easels or Stands for Holding Canvas to be
Painted, Drawing-boards, Card-board, or such like Objects or
Pictures to be Exhibited.
We GEORGE HIDDERLEY, Paper Hangings Dealer, and THOMAS HIDDERLEY, jun.,
General Dealer, both of St. Petersgate, Stockport, in the County of Cheshire, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide means whereby canvas to be painted,
drawing boards, card-board, or such like objects, or pictures to be exhibited, can be
projected, raised, and lowered, from easels or stands to any desired degree of inclina-
tion, so that the light may fall upon the canvas, drawing-boards, card-board, or such
like objects, at any required angle for painting, drawing or exhibiting.
The invention consists principally in attaching to the top of the easel or stand, by
means of a hinge, a bracket which receives a tongue or rod, to the free end of which
a suitable holder or clip is attached also by means of a hinge.
The top of the easel or stand and the lower edge of the said bracket to which the
aforesaid hinge is fastened, are bevelled off to an acute angle for the purpose of giving
the said bracket plenty of play backwards as well as forwards.
The aforesaid bracket we form with a slot or hole and provide the same with a
set screw or other equivalent means for adjusting the said tongue or rod in the said
bracket.
The clip or holder attached to the free end of the said tongue or rod by means of a
hinge, may be of any desired construction, but for holding a large canvas, drawing-
board, picture, or such like object, we prefer to use a holder consisting of a piece of
metal, wood, or other suitable material formed channel like and provided with two set
screws to receive the frame, canvas, or drawing-board as the case may be.
This channel like holder may be made of any convenient length and instead of being
attached to the aforesaid tongue or rod by means of only one hinge, the free end of the
tongue or hinge may be formed with two branches and the said holder attached thereto
by two hinges, thus giving double security.

page_text: In order to prevent the end of the said tongue or rod from leaving the said bracket
accidentally, we form or provide the respective end of the said tongue or rod with a
button or pin to act as a stop, on the said tongue or rod being drawn out to its full
length.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicants.
Improvements in Easels or Stands for Holding Canvas to be
Painted, Drawing: Boards, Card-board, or such like Objects or
Pictures to be Exhibited.
We GEORGE HIDDERLEY, Paper Hangings Dealer, and THOMAS HIDDERLEY, jun.,
General Dealer, both of St. Petersgate, Stockport in the County of Cheshire, do
hereby declare the nature of our invention 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 means whereby canvas to be painted,
drawing-boards, card-board or such like objects, or pictures to be exhibited, can be
projected, raised, and lowered, from easels or stands to any desired degree of inclina-
tion, so that the light may fall upon the canvas, drawing-board, card-board or such
like objects, at any required angle for painting, drawing, or exhibiting.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Figs. I & II are side elevations, and Fig. III, a plan, showing our improvements
detached from the easel or stand.
Fig. IV is a perspective view showing our improvements applied to the easel or
stand.
In carrying out our invention and referring to the figures generally the improve-
ments consist principally in attaching to the top of the easel or stand a, by means of a
hinge b, a bracket c which receives a tongue or rod d, to the free end of which a
suitable holder or clip e is attached also by means of a hinge 6', for the purpose of
holding the canvas, drawing-board, picture, or such like object a¹.
The top of the easel or stand a and the lower edge of the said bracket c to which
the aforesaid hinge b is fastened, are bevelled off to an acute angle for the purpose of
giving the said bracket plenty of play backwards as well as forwards.

page_text: The aforesaid bracket c we form with a slot or hole c¹ and provide the same with a
set screw for other equivalent means for adjusting the said tongue or rod & in the
said bracket c.
The clip or holder e attached to the free end of the said tongue or rod d by means
of the hinge, may be of any desired construction, but for holding a large canvas,
drawing-board, picture, or such like object, we prefer to use a holder e see Figs. 2 & 3,
consisting of a piece of metal, wood, or other suitable material formed channel like
and provided with two set screws g to receive the frame a³, canvas, or drawing-board
as the case may be.
This channel like holder e may be made of any convenient length and instead of
being attached to the aforesaid tongue or rod d by means of only one hinge, the free
end of the tongue or rod d may be formed with two branches d' and the said holder e
attached thereto by two hinges 6' & 6 thus giving double security.
In order to prevent the end of the said tongue or rod d from leaving the said
bracket c accidentally, we form or provide the respective end of the said tongue or
rod d with a button c² or pin to act as a stop, on the said tongue or rod d being drawn
out to its full length.
We may remark that the described improvements may be readily applied to any
kind of easel or stand, either new or old.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
In easels or stands for holding canvas to be painted, drawing-boards, card-board,
or such-like objects, or pictures to be exhibited, the combination with the top of the
easel or stand of a bracket c hinged thereto, in which is permitted to slide adjustably,
a tongue or rod d, to the front end of which is hinged a suitable holder or clip e,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 1st day of December 1888.