A Combined Picture Tilter and Mahl Stick Holder.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov.,
1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Picture Tilter and Mahl Stick Holder.
HENRY LAMPLOUGH 3 Colenso Road Clapton Park N.E. Artist do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A combined picture tilter and mahl stick holder which is an appliance for use
amongst artists draughtsmen and the like to be affixed to easels whereby a picture,
painting or drawing can be held at any angle to an easel to suit the convenience of
the person at work having an attachment also for holding a mahl stick which
receives the head of the mahl stick & keeps it from touching any portion of the
picture.
The parts are as follows:-Two small cramps or clips screwing into one of which
is a piece of wire curved at one end; and a rod connecting the two cramps.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1893
HENRY LAMPLOUGH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Picture Tilter and Mahl Stick Holder.
HENRY LAMPLOUGH 3 Colenso Road Clapton Park N.E. Artist, 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:-
My invention has reference to easels for artists, draughtsmen and the like and
provides an attachment to same which is of great utility to the users.
Before describing in detail the annexed illustrations which show the combinations
constituting my invention I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not intend
to be confined in the scope of my claims to the employment of the exact details
shewn therein or to the material used in its manufacture as numerous modifications
may be designed and other substances used without departing. from the nature of
my invention or constituting an evasion thereof.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Fig. 1 is a side view of a clamp having a screw hole at A to receive the thread
of the wire Fig. 3. B is a hole through which either loop of the wire rod
(Fig. 4) is fastened. C is a set screw working through the hole made to receive
it at D.
Fig. 2 is another clamp having the hole E to receive a loop of the wire rod
(Fig. 4) to unite this clamp to clamp Fig. 1. F is its set screw working through
the hole at G.
Fig. 3 is a wire curved at the end in the manner shewn and having a thread along
it to screw through the hole A Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a wire rod of convenient length looped at the ends as shewn.
Fig. 5 represents the mode of attaching my invention to easels. The illustration
shows a picture resting on an easel and held forward by my aforesaid appliance
and the mahl-stick held in suspension which constitutes the nature of my
invention.
In fixing this attachment clamp Fig. 1 is fastened by means of the set screw to
any convenient part of the picture as shewn at H the wire Fig. 3 is screwed into its
hole A as above mentioned and in its curved end the head of the mahl-stick rests
and the stick is held in suspension ready for use. Clamp Fig. 2 shewn at K
connected to clamp Fig. 1 by the wire rod Fig. 4 whose loops fit into holes B
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page_text: (Fig. 1) and E (Fig. 2) can be fixed to any part of the easel and it is according to
the fixture of this clamp on the easel the tilt of the picture is determined-the
more horizontal the connecting rod is, the greater the tilt of the picture.
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 :-
A contrivance made in any kind of metal or other substance by which pictures
and the like may be held at any angle to an easel combined with an attachment for
holding a mahl-stick the whole giving greater facilities and comfort to artists and
draughtsmen during the progress of their work.
Dated this 14th day of October 1893.
HENRY LAMPLOUGH.