Artist's canvas carrier
OwnerJohn Sooklarisinventor
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Abstract
A carrier for artists' painting panels or stretched canvases allows wet paintings to be transported in a protected way, important for use by plein air painters and also for protecting finished paintings. A series of frame bars can easily be assembled by their corners in the field to form a frame that can carry at least two painted panels or stretched canvases. The frame bars are universal in that each can be used with another of any length, so that one can select from among a collection of bars of various lengths to assembly a frame of a needed size. The frame holds at least two painted canvases arranged face-to-face. Corners can be secured together by different means. The canvases are held securely in place in the frame.
Claims16
An artist's painting carrier for carrying a plurality of paintings with the painting surfaces protected, comprising:
- four linear frame bars that can be assembled into a carrier frame,
- each frame bar having two ends, each end adapted to be connected directly to an end of another frame bar with the frame bars at right angles to form a right-angled corner,
- releasable corner connecting means for securing ends of the frame bars together at corners of a carrying frame,
- each frame bar having, on an inner side to face toward edges of paintings to be retained, an elongated longitudinally-extending central divider ridge extending inwardly, in a position to divide and separate two paintings, and two elongated outer flanges parallel to the central divider ridge and extending inwardly, forming two edge-receiving channels, one on either side of the central divider ridge to receive an edge of a painting, and
- the releasable corner connecting means including each frame bar having a first end with a longitudinally-extending tongue and a second, opposite end having a groove configured to receive such an extending tongue from another frame bar connected at a right-angled corner,
- whereby a frame can be partially assembled using the frame bars, one or more paintings can be inserted into the edge-receiving channels of the partially assembled frame, and the frame can then be completed, secured together by the corner connecting means to securely hold paintings facing inwardly so that painted surfaces are protected.
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