Patent ID: 6125567
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: G09F

Abstract:
A turn button for installation on a picture frame back, comprising:an elongated metal body portion having a bottom side surface and a top side surface and a first end and a second end; said bottom side surface being opposite said top side surface and said first end being opposite said second end; anda pivot boss on said bottom side surface adjacent said first end; said pivot boss including a downwardly depending cylindrical wall with a free lower edge and an aperture therethrough for rotatably securing said turn button through a first portion of a picture frame back; said free lower edge of said cylindrical wall being a substantially straight cutting edge capable of piercing through a picture frame back leaving within said cylindrical wall an inner region of said first portion of said picture frame back and leaving outside of said cylindrical wall an outer region of said first portion of said picture frame back; anda circumferential step in said pivot boss positioned between said body Portion and said free lower edge; said circumferential step having a step surface engagable with said first portion of said Picture frame back.