Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
  • B44D—PAINTING OR ARTISTIC DRAWING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PRESERVING PAINTINGS; SURFACE TREATMENT TO OBTAIN SPECIAL ARTISTIC SURFACE EFFECTS OR FINISHES
  • B44D7/00—Preserving paintings, e.g. by varnishing
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
  • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
  • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure

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• the present invention relates to a device for protecting a painter's canvas, in particular during its transport.
• a device for protecting a painter's canvas makes it possible to transport a canvas, mounted on a frame, the paint of which is either fresh or dry, while ensuring protection thereof.
• painters use systems they have designed themselves.
• to transport two fabrics we can put them face to face and keep them apart from each other by four cork stopper washers, placed at the four corners of the fabric.
• This system is impractical, fairly unreliable, and has the drawback of having to take away, or even dirty, two fabrics without being completely safe during transport.
• the present invention therefore aims to provide a device for protecting a painter's canvas which is practical to use.
• This device will preferably allow effective protection and will advantageously be of reduced size to facilitate the transport of the protected canvas.
• a device which is in the form of a concave receptacle having a bottom which extends by gradually widening, at least locally, a rim, the painted face of the canvas being intended to come face at the bottom without touching it and the angles of the canvas coming into local contact with the edge.
• the bottom of the device is a flat bottom. Its dimensions are advantageously smaller than those of the fabrics intended to take place in the device.
• This bottom is for example of substantially rectangular shape.
• the rim has for example in cross section a substantially elliptical section.
• the rim preferably surrounds the bottom over the entire periphery thereof so as to be able to provide better protection of the canvas being transported. It is also possible to provide in this embodiment that the flange comprises, on the side of its free edge, two notches facing each other. Thus, by passing straps at these notches, perfect support of the fabric can be obtained. It will be noted that in the case where the device is placed flat, the fabric then being substantially horizontal, the presence of straps is not compulsory. This is the case for example when the device is placed flat in the boot of a vehicle.
• the bottom of the device is of substantially planar rectangular shape and the edge has four notches, one on each side of the device.
• the device is perfectly adapted to a canvas and two straps allow excellent retention of the canvas in the device.
• a device as described above can for example be made of injection molded synthetic material.
• the device may also include means for holding the fabric. These include, for example, a set of straps.
• the straps have the advantage of being easy to transport, easy to set up, space-saving while guaranteeing perfect support of the fabric in the receptacle.
• FIG. 2 shows on a reduced scale the device of FIG. 1 in side view
• FIG. 3 is a view corresponding to FIG. 2, on a larger scale, a fabric mounted on a frame being placed in the protection device according to the invention, and
• Figure 4 corresponds to the view of Figure 3 with a smaller canvas.
• the device for protecting a painter's canvas shown in the drawing comprises on the one hand a shell 2 and on the other hand straps 4, 6 and 8.
• the shell 2 has a flat bottom 10 at the periphery of which is a rim 12.
• This shell 2 is made for example of synthetic material by injection molding.
• the flat bottom 10 is of substantially rectangular shape.
• the rim 12 extends over the entire periphery of the bottom 10.
• the rim 12 is connected to the flat bottom 10 and continuously extends the flat bottom, going up and gradually widening.
• a rim with a height of for example between 50 and 100 mm is thus obtained. This height corresponds to the dimension h in FIG. 2.
• the whole of the shell 2 has for example a width of between 200 and 1000 mm for a length ranging from 300 to 1300 mm.
• other dimensions both in height and in width and length, can be adopted.
• the dimensions given by way of illustration make it possible to produce a shell which can protect the most commonly used fabrics.
• the rim 12 goes up for example so that in cross section of the device, the rim has an elliptical shape, for example a quarter of an ellipse connecting to the bottom 10.
• the bottom flat 10 represented by a straight line to which is connected at each end of this line a quarter ellipse.
• a different form could of course be adopted.
• the shell 2 would then have a form of hopper.
• the rim 12 is divided into four sides, separated from each other by the edges 14.
• Each side of the rim 12 has at its free edge, that is to say the edge opposite the flat bottom 10, a notch 16.
• the latter are intended for the passage of the straps 4, 6 and 8 in order to allow a maintenance of a fabric 18 mounted on chassis as shown in Figures 3 and 4.
• FIG. 3 shows a fabric 18 mounted on a frame placed in the device of FIG. 1.
• the painted face of the fabric 18 is oriented towards the flat bottom 10.
• the fabric 18 is, in a conventional manner, of rectangular shape.
• the four corners of the latter rest at the level of an edge 14.
• the strap 4 which comes to hold the fabric 18 in the shell 2.
• Figure 4 illustrates the establishment of a canvas 18 'of smaller dimensions in the same shell 2.
• the strap 4 holds the fabric 18 ′ passing through two opposite notches 16.
• the same shell can receive canvases of sizes but also of different shapes. These fabrics must be, for the same shell, of dimensions greater than the size of the flat bottom 10 and of dimensions less than the dimensions of the rim 12 at its free edge.
• the protection device described above does not require any adjustment while ensuring excellent protection for a painter's canvas, whether it is already dry or still fresh. This device proves to be very easy to use. It allows the protection and the transport of fabrics of different sizes and is relatively compact.
• a range of shells can be provided in order to cover all the sizes of canvas conventionally used.
• the fact of providing a range of shells allows each time to have a shell whose height is not too great and of size proportional to the size of the canvas that one wishes to protect.
• the presence of the straps is optional.
• Other support systems can be envisaged. We can for example put a canvas placed in a shell in a bag, or a pocket of suitable size. Maintaining the fabric will then also be ensured. It is also possible, during flat transport, for example at the bottom of a trunk of a vehicle, to simply place the fabric in the corresponding shell. As the trip is always made flat, the fabric will remain well protected without the need for a retaining device.
• the shape of the shell may vary. It is important that the bottom and the rim form a generally concave whole. One can provide for example an embossed bottom without departing from the scope of the invention.
• edges at the edge is optional.
• the rim does not necessarily extend all around the flat bottom.
• This alternative embodiment allows better protection of the canvas but it is understood that if the flange is limited to four curved angles each receiving a corner of a canvas, protection is still ensured. This solution effectively amounts to providing very large notches.

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