Improvement in Frames for Photographs.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Frames for Photographs.
I, DAVID ALEXANDER PEARSON ANDERSON, 15 & 16 Arcade, Princes Street
Edinburgh, Manufacturing Fancy Stationer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The improvement consists in the method of fitting the glass and photograph into
the frame.
This is done from the front and is effected in the following way.
The sight or as it is sometimes called the daylight of the frame is made the full
width of the glass and photograph, but from top to bottom it is made somewhat
shorter than the glass and photograph.
Along the sides inside the sight or daylight, and at the required depth from the
surface there is a narrow ledge or projection. Along the top there is a groove the
depth of which added to the length (from top to bottom) of the glass and photo-
graph, will make up rather more than the length (from top to bottom) of the glass
and photograph. Along the bottom, inside the sight or daylight-there is a groove
similar to the groove along the top-but less deep, (in no case more than half the
depth).
The frame is specially designed for glass with bevelled edges and the photograph
may or may not be mounted on the glass.
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The glass with or without photograph at back-is fitted into the frame, by
resting it on the ledges at sides of sight, before referred to--then pushing it into
the groove at top before referred to-when it will fall flat into the frame. By now
letting it fall or pushing it into the groove at bottom before referred to, it will be
properly fitted into the frame.
In the top groove a spring may be fitted to keep the glass from shaking or
falling out, in the event of the frame being turned upside down.
Dated this 1st day of September 1892.
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DAVID A. PEARSON ANDERSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Frames for Photographs.
I DAVID ALEXANDER PEARSON ANDERSON, of 15 Arcade, Princes Street,
Edinburgh, Manufacturer of Fancy Goods, 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 :-
This invention relates to the method of fitting the glass with photograph under-
neath, into the frame, so that the glass and photograph can be taken out and put in
without any trouble.
Figure 1 is a plan of a raised edge or bevelled frame of wood or any other
material, covered it may be with plush or other fancy material.
Figure 2 is a section through the line x, y. The drawings represent the frame
with the glass and photograph out.
Instead of being inserted from the back of the frame, the glass and photograph
are fitted in from the front of the frame. The sight, or as it is sometimes called
the daylight of the frame is made the full width of the glass and photograph but in
height, or in the opposite direction it is made somewhat less than the height of the
glass. Along each side of the sight is a ledge piece a, the face of which is below
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page_text: the level of the frame face, to regulate the required level of the glass with regard
to the level of the frame. To insert the glass, it is rested on the ledges, the top of
the glass pushed up under the top edge of the frame so that it rests within the
recess indicated by dotted lines, by now letting the glass fall flat, the spring cl will
cause the lower edge of the glass to fall into the lower groove d. and thus the glass
will remain secure. It will be observed that the top groove bis deeper than the
lower groove d, to allow the glass to be inserted.
The said frame is specially applicable for photographs with bevelled edge
glasses. The photograph may or may not be mounted on the glass. The back of
the frame may be provided with a finger hole e to assist in removing the glass.
The said arrangement and construction of frame may be modified in various ways,
.for example, in lieu of the spring being at the top of the frame, I might mount a
spring with its flat face uppermost at the centre of the length of each of the
ledges a, the said springs bearing against the underside of the photograph or glass
and so keeping the glass securely in position under the top and bottom grooves of
the frame. In this modification, the ledges with their springs are preferably
mounted at a little distance from the sides of the frame and the finger hole e at the
back of the frame may be dispensed with because, by using a short piece of spring
and the fact of these springs being at the centre of the length of the frame, by
pressing down the lower edge of the glass with the fingers, or whichever edge is
inserted in the deeper groove, the glass is tilted up and the top of the glass thus
thrown out of its groove.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Fitting glasses into photograph frames from the front thereof substantially in
the manner as hercin before described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 30th day of June 1893.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.