EP3141154B1 - Box easel for painters and/or designers - Google Patents

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EP3141154B1
EP3141154B1 EP16188768.2A EP16188768A EP3141154B1 EP 3141154 B1 EP3141154 B1 EP 3141154B1 EP 16188768 A EP16188768 A EP 16188768A EP 3141154 B1 EP3141154 B1 EP 3141154B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B97/00—Furniture or accessories for furniture, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • A47B97/04—Easels or stands for blackboards or the like
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  • the present invention relates in general to a box easel for painters and/or designers in general.
  • the present invention relates to a portable box easel for painters, designers, cartoonists, graphic designers and users interested in making graphic works in general.
  • Box easels comprise foldable and/or telescopic legs, a support for the canvases or sheets, foldable as well, and a box adapted to hold colors, paintbrushes or other drawing accessories, the legs and the support.
  • Digital devices are also known, such as tablets or similar devices provided with touch screens and digital pens/brushes that can be used with such screens and able to allow a user to simulate an experience of painting or drawing with real brushes and/or pencils.
  • tablets or similar devices provided with touch screens are generally used resting on a flat surface, such as on desks, or on special tilting desktop stands.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a box easel suitable for containing and supporting, both in use and during transport, next generation digital devices such as tablets and digital pens/brushes usable for paintings, aimed at overcoming the drawbacks mentioned above.
  • the box easel comprises a box and a support for supporting a substantially flat object, in particular a tablet or a similar device, which can be used for creating graphic works in general.
  • the support is capable of taking a plurality of positions and can be contained in a dedicated compartment inside the box.
  • the box easel comprises legs adapted to support the box, including legs removably connected to the box which can be accommodated in dedicated compartments of the box.
  • the box comprises pull-out drawers and compartments.
  • a self-molding material is provided inside the drawers and in part of the compartments, capable of adapting itself to the shapes of objects that are firmly accommodated inside said drawers and compartments without being subjected to impacts.
  • a particular object of the present invention is a box easel for painters and/or designers as better described in the claims, which form an integral part of the present description.
  • a box easel 10 comprises a box 11, at least three legs 15, 16, 17, and a universal support (support) 40 for substantially flat objects, in particular tablets or similar devices (tablet) 5 frontally provided with a touch screen, side edges and a back surface.
  • the three legs such as a back central leg 16 and two front lateral legs 16, 17, are preferably foldable and/or telescopic and are removably connected to box 11 ( Fig. 2 and 3 ).
  • Box 11 is a container, such as a substantially parallelepiped container, and preferably comprises at least one level, such as an upper level 20 ( Fig. 4 ) and a lower level 30.
  • box 11 has a width 1 of between 40 and 60 cm, a depth w of between 20 and 40 cm and a height h of between 5 and 10 cm.
  • the universal support 40 comprises a base 41 connected to the upper level 20 of box 11, and a first telescopic arm 46 which can be pulled out from base 41 and which can be fixed to the same by, for example, a spring pin or a screw 47 ( Fig. 5 ).
  • Base 41 is preferably provided with a first locking element, such as a tooth 42 ( Fig. 6 ) which branches off from the same base forming a recess 43 between tooth 42 and the rest of base 41.
  • Recess 43 has a variable width, decreasing towards the base of the tooth, in order to accommodate without clearance one of the edges of the tablet irrespective of the thickness thereof, so as to lock and serve as a support for tablet 5.
  • a body 49 of arm 46 is fixed to one end of the first arm 46 distal to base 41, comprising a support surface 50 adapted to support the back surface of the tablet.
  • Support 40 further comprises second telescopic arm 52 and a third telescopic arm 53, connected to said body 49 and preferably arranged perpendicular to the first arm 46, so the first arm 46, body 49 and the second 52 and third 53 telescopic arm form, for example, a "T" shape, with the arms adjustable in height and width.
  • the second and third arm 52, 53 are preferably adjustable in width independently of each other and can be fixed to body 49, for example by spring pins or screws 54, 55.
  • the second arm 52 and the third arm 53 each have a distal arm from body 49 of the arm and at said end, have a second and a third element 56, 57, respectively, for example an element protruding perpendicular to the support surface 50 of body 49 and having non-slip components.
  • the second and third arm 52, 53 are positioned, in use, so as to adjust to the size of the tablet being used, so that the second and third locking element 56, 57 are preferably in contact with the side edges of the tablet, preventing the movement of the tablet with respect to the support surface 50 of body 49.
  • the first, second and third arm of the universal support are adjustable so as to support tablets having a width in the range, for example, between 10 and 30 cm and height between 5 and 30 cm.
  • the universal support 40, 41 by means of its base 41, for example is connected to the upper level 20 of the box, preferably in a pivoting manner.
  • support 40 is pivoting from an initial position in which support 40 lies inside box 11, and a final position, such as a vertical position when the box easel 10 is in use and in which support 40 is rotated by 90° with respect to the initial position.
  • a slidable retaining element 60 is further comprised in the upper level 20 of the box easel 10, adapted to be moved, such as along a guide formed in the upper level 20, and fixable in a plurality of positions along the a guide, in a known manner.
  • Such a slidable retaining element 60 is adapted to support 40, in particular by acting as a base for a back surface 44 of base 41, or for a back surface 48 of the support arm 46, or for a back surface 51 of the support body 49, depending on how much support 40 is tilted.
  • support 40 can be firmly kept in a continuous plurality of positions ranging from an initial position and a plurality of possible positions.
  • the upper level 20 of box 11 is divided in a plurality of compartments.
  • a first compartment 21 ( Fig. 7 ), for example, is adapted to contain support 40 when this is arranged in the initial position thereof.
  • a first drawer 31 and a second drawer 32 are mounted in a pull-out manner in the lower level 30 of box 11 ( Fig. 8a ).
  • the first drawer 31 can be pulled out, preferably, from one side of the box close to base 41 of the universal support 40 and is adapted to contain, for example, a keyboard, connectable in a known manner to the tablet used, for example via Bluetooth technology.
  • the first drawer 31 for example has a width equal to width 1 of box 11, a depth wl lower than or equal to 15 cm and a height hl lower than or equal to 5 cm, so as to contain different models of keyboards.
  • the second drawer 32 can be pulled out, preferably, from one of the two adjacent sides of the box with respect to the side from which the first drawer is pulled out, and is adapted to contain, for example, digital pens/brushes to be used to paint on the tablet.
  • the choice of placing the second drawer 32 so that is can be pulled out from one or the other of the sides adjacent to the side from which the first drawer 31 is pulled out depends on the ease of use of a user of the box easel, or on the fact that the user has preference to paint with his/her right hand or left hand.
  • the lower level 30 of the box easel further comprises one or more compartments and/or slots, such as two compartments 34, 35, and a slot 33.
  • Compartments 34, 35 are provided with respective openings 34a, 35a ( Fig. 8b ) through which it is possible to place the front lateral legs 16, 17 of the box easel in these compartments, disconnected from box 11, folded and/or shortened, in case the box easel 10 is in a closed configuration (that is, suitable for transport) or in case that it is used on a table or desk, without the use of its the legs thereof.
  • Slot 33 is formed on a bottom surface 36 of the lower level 30 of box 11 and is adapted to accommodate the back central leg 15, when this is folded up and/or shortened ( Fig. 9 ), so that such a back foot 15 does not protrude, preferably, beyond the ideal extension 36b of said bottom surface 36.
  • the box easel 10 further comprises a first lid 75 ( Fig. 10 ) adapted to close the upper level 20 of box 11, allowing keeping support 40 and the other objects placed therein inside compartments 21, 22, 23, 24, when the box easel 10 is in closed configuration, or needs to be transported.
  • the first lid 75 is hinged, preferably on one of the two sides of the box adjacent to the side of the box close to base 41 of the universal support 40.
  • the first lid 75 is hinged to the side of the box opposite that from which the second drawer 32 is pulled out.
  • the first lid 75 is preferably a folding lid having two or more shutters 76, 77, 78, adapted to open up, even partially, bending along bending lines 79, 80 between one shutter and the next, so that the shutters overlap, preferably on top of one another.
  • the first lid 75 is for example made of wooden or plastic material.
  • the upper level 20 of box 11 is provided with a second lid ( Fig. 11 ).
  • the second lid 70 has the function of protecting the objects placed in compartments 22, 23, 24 of the upper level 20 from outside matters, such as dust, sunlight or water, when the box easel 10 is in use, for example with support 40 placed outside the box.
  • the second lid 70 is made of flexible material, such as an waterproof cloth or plastic, and is adapted to be opened, wrapping on a rotatable roller 71 or closed, even partially, by unwrapping from roller 71.
  • Roller 71 is fixed to box 11, for example at a side thereof opposite the side close to base 41 of the universal support 40.
  • the first and the second lid in the preferred embodiment, allow having a very limited footprint.
  • the various components of the box easel 10 or box 11, support 40 and legs 15, 16, 17, are made of light material, such as wood, plastic or other lightweight material.
  • the presence of a self-molding material such as viscoelastic polyurethane foam (so-called memory foam) is provided in the first 31 and in the second 32 drawer of the lower level 30, as well as in the second, third and fourth compartment 22, 23, 24 of the upper level 20 of box 11 or in some of them.
  • a self-molding material such as viscoelastic polyurethane foam (so-called memory foam) is provided in the first 31 and in the second 32 drawer of the lower level 30, as well as in the second, third and fourth compartment 22, 23, 24 of the upper level 20 of box 11 or in some of them.
  • Such self-molding material is able to adapt to an object that is placed thereon, taking a shape complementary to that of the object to which it adheres.
  • Such a material therefore allows placing objects (such as keyboards, speakers, batteries etc.) of various shapes and dimensions firmly inside such drawers and compartments, both when the box easel is in use, or when it is in the open configuration suitable for painting, and when it is in the closed configuration, suitable for transportation, preventing such objects from being subjected to impacts.
  • objects such as keyboards, speakers, batteries etc.
  • box easel 10 as described can take multiple configurations:
  • box easel object of the present invention it is possible to use new electronic devices, such as tablets and digital brushes, recently made available to the graphic arts, similar to how traditional tools (canvases and brushes) have been used, thus adapting the box easel to the current user's needs and to the possibilities offered by new technologies.
  • the box easel according to the present invention allows safely carrying (in closed configuration) and ergonomically arranging (in open configuration) the above devices for creating a painting, adapting to the different models and to the different sizes of such devices.
  • the box will be lightweight, making the transport thereof easy.
  • a further advantage is the fact that the box easel is also adapted to contain auxiliary technological devices, such as speakers, batteries, docking stations, in order to extend the use of tablets and the like when painting outdoors and to enrich the creative experience of the user.
  • auxiliary technological devices such as speakers, batteries, docking stations
  • the box easel is also extremely versatile and customizable, thanks to the following features:

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