Improvements in and relating to the Mounting of Panel-pictures.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Mounting of Panel-pictures.
I, WILLIAM ERNEST DUDLEY of 11 Woodland Road, Maindee Newport in the
County of Monmouthshire, Builders Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and: ascertained in and by the following statement:
My invention relates to an improved method of mounting and fixing valuable panel-
pictures, in combination with means for protecting the same from injury by such
damp as may exist in the wall or other vertical surface, upon which they may be
mounted, or as a protection from injury by water in case of fire.
It has hitherto been customary in mounting pictures in panels, to place the back of
the picture (or the frame of the canvas if an oil painting.) either in close contact with
the wall or other vertical surface upon which it is fixed, or divided, therefrom by a
thin supplementary backing of wood, but in either case the probably valuable picture
was always open to injury from damp or wet in the said wall or other vertical
surface, and to prevent the possibility of such injury from this cause is the object
and purpose of my invention.
In order that my invention and the manner in which I prefer to carry the same
into effect (or substantially so) may be fully and clearly understood, I have hereunto
appended a sheet of drawings, of which
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a picture mounted according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of same.
Fig. 3 is a horizontal section upon the line A B Fig. 1.
For the purposes of my invention I place next the wall or the recess in the wall, or
other vertical surface, where the panel picture is to be fixed, a reasonably thick
wooden panel A, of the desired height, and preferably of the same width, or
thereabouts, as the frame of the picture, such panel A consisting of any number of
boards or planks ploughed and tongued together as shewn at Fig. 3, and which
may if desired be coated upon either or both surfaces with paint or other substance
for the exclusion of damp, and be fixed to the wall or the like by any suitable means.
The front or outer surface of the panel A. I face with a like sized sheet of damp-proof
milled or rolled lead, which may be secured thereto by copper or vulcanized nails,
or screws, and with or without being turned over the edges of same.
Upon the front face of the lead sheet B, (and secured thereto and the panel A by
like nails or screws) I fix horizontally, preferably, wooden rails C, C, and C,
of the same thickness as the depth from front to back of the picture and frame
to be mounted, which for the purposes of description, may be assumed to consist
of a moulded frame D, glass E, picture F, and back board or panel G, this being
arranged to rest upon the rail C, and be gripped at its upper end by the rail C,
an air or ventilated space H being provided between C and C" as shewn in
Fig. 2.
The lower end of the picture frame D is held in position by a moulded
skirting J, and its upper end by a moulded capping K, both of which may be
secured in position by any suitable means, the former by engagement with the
rails C and C, and the latter with the rail C.
Although I have chosen to illustrate my invention in connection with a picture F
enclosed in its frame D by a glass E and backboard G, it is obvious that the same
principle, and for the same purpose, may be employed in the fixation of panel

page_text: pictures painted in oil, in which case the canvas and its stretcher frame of such
a picture would occupy the position of the glass E and picture F shown, and
with or without a backboard or panel G.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is.
1st. In an improved method of mounting panel pictures, the combination of a
panel A, faced with a sheet of milled or rolled lead B, as a damp or waterproof
backing for a picture such as D, held in position by rails such as C and C¹, and
moulded cap such as K, engaging with C, and a skirting such as J.engaging
with C, and a like rail C, the latter in combination with C providing a venti-
lating space H, substantially as, and for the purposes herein described and shewn
by the appended drawings.
2nd. In the mounting of panel pictures the employment of milled or rolled sheet
lead as a damp proof backing for same substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Agent for the Applicant.