Improvements in Picture-frame Fasteners.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 13th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 20th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picture-frame Fasteners.
I MARIE ROSALIE KROOK of 1 Rosary Gardens South Kensington in the
County of Middlesex Married Woman do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention is designed to supply a long felt want of keeping pictures especially
small ones in their exact position when hanging on walls and preventing them from
being pushed away when being dusted or from moving when doors are closed.
For this purpose I use a special pin which will somewhat vary according to the
size and material of the picture frame for which it is intended.
For ordinary small wooden frames I use a pin somewhat like two drawing pins
joined together having either a round or square collar and a sharp pointed steel pin
at either end one end of which of a length sufficient to hold firmly is driven into the
back of the picture frame while the other is driven into the wall and having a fine
point and being small in size it makes a scarcely perceptible hole in the wall and
does no damage yet holds the picture securely in its position.
For larger pictures I make the collar with a hole for a small screw or nails to
fasten it to the picture frame or the end which is inserted in the frame may be made
as a screw.
For plush composition or other small frames where a needlepoint or screw cannot
be inserted I make the collar of wood which may be glued or attached by cement to
the picture frame.
The collar may also be made thicker at the top than at the bottom and bevelled
or triangular in shape so as to hold securely in their position pictures which may be
hung sloping forward and which therefore only touch the wall at the edge of the
bottom of the frame.
Dated this 11th day of March 1800
MARIE ROSALIE KROOK.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picture-frame Fasteners.
I, MARIE ROSALIE KROOK of 1 Rosary Gardens, South Kensington, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described & ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object: Improvements in picture frame fasteners by
which means pictures can be fixed and retained in the exact position desired without
fear of being pushed or shaken by the closing of the door or window. The slant of
the picture can also be readily altered by this means without interference with
the cord.
For this purpose I use a special pin which will somewhat vary according to the
size and material of the picture frame for which it is intended to be used.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice, I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I have
fully illustrated the nature of my said invention together with several modifications
in the shape and mode of manufacture.
Figure 1, is a side elevation of a picture having my pins A attached thereto, the
wall being shewn in section.
Figure 2, is a side view of one of my fasteners.

page_text: Figure 3, is a front view of Fig. 2.
Figure 4, is a sectional side elevation of a portion of a picture shewing a
modification in the shape of the pins suitable for pictures which are hung slanting.
Figure 5, is a side elevation of one of my pins suitable for attachment to plush
cement and other frames as will be afterwards described.
Figure 6, shows a modification in the shape of the collar.
Figure 7, shews one mode of manufacturing my pins.
Figure 8, shows another mode of manufacturing the pins.
In carrying my invention into effect I form my pin as shewn at Figure 2 with the
round square or other shaped collar a¹ and a steel pin sharp-pointed at both the
ends a² and a², the end is formed of a length sufficient to hold firmly" when
driven into the back of the picture frame P while the other end is pressed into
the wall W where it makes an almost imperceptible hole in the wall and does
no damage, but retains the picture firmly in position.
In the case of larger pictures I may form one end of the pin with a 'screw
for insertion in the picture frame and I may form the collar a¹ of wood as seen
at a Figure 5 which would be suitable for attachment to plush composition or other
frames where the larger points could not be inserted but where it could be cemented
on the very fine needle points a³ & a, in many cases assisting their attachment to
the picture frames. The collar a' may be bevilled off on the one side as seen
at a Figure 4 for use in the case of picture frames which it is found desirable to
hang to a slope.
The mode of manufacturing may be varied considerably but at Figure 7 one
mode is shewn, No. 1 being a piu pointed at the end a²: No. 2 being bumped to a
point at a the next process being shewn, by Nos. 3 & 4 where the shoulder as is
pressed out by a bottom die in combination with the top die D. The collar a being
placed upon the point a³ the second shoulder a is pressed over as seen in No. 5 by
the dic E-or a simple mode-of-manufacture_would be effected by securing the two
pins al & all together by means of the ring a pressed around them.
Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
''tion' & in 'what manner the same is to be performed I'dechire that what I
claim is
The improvement in picture frame fasteners of a pin formed at one end for
entering the picture frame and at the other for entering the wall or its equivalent
substantially such as illustrated & described.
Dated this 12th day of November 1890.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent' for Applicant.