US Patent: 206,885
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| Manufacture of artists' canvas
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Patentee:
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| William Levin (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jan. 26, 1878 |
| Granted: |
Aug. 13, 1878 |
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Jeff Joslin
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Description: |
| This patent is related to the mortising machine patent 194,304, which covers a machine specialized for making stretchers for artists' canvases. The present invention covers the overall method of making mass-produced inexpensive stretched canvases. "Of late years the production of a class of oil-paintings known as 'trade-pictures,' to meet the popular demand for cheap art, had reached such an extent that it became an important point to improve and cheapen the materials entering into these pictures. One of the chief items of expense in these materials is the canvas, and the problem has been to use cheap or rough fabrics, such as burlap, &c., and yet be able to form a proper painting surface on the same. The aim of my invention has therefore been to so improve the mode of manufacture as to not only facilitate the production and improve the quality, but to admit of the new use of such fabrics and yet form a perfect painting surface thereon. While, therefore, my efforts were more especially directed to the production of a cheap canvas, they have resulted in the perfection of a system which is applicable to the production of the finest quality of canvas, where a fine fabric is used, as to the cheaper qualities, where a rough fabric is employed. My invention consists in the order of the operations, as well as in the combination of materials used to produce the painting surface..." |
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