An Improved Metallic Stand or Frame for Holding Views, Photos, Advertising Tablets, and any such like Articles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 16th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 17th Feb., 1888
An Improved Metallic Stand or Frame for Holding Views, Photos,
Advertising Tablets, and any such like Articles.
JAMES ARTHUB RICHARDS 127 Long Street Sparkbrook Birmingham Toolmaker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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1 first take a piece of sheet brass or other metal the required size of the stand or
frame I wish to make, I then place it in dies and it is pressed or stamped half round,
to represent wire, into the shape of what is known in commerce as the Oxford or any
similar shape. This stamped or pressed brass blank is then put in tools and the centre
is cut out to allow the photo or other article to be seen, it is then put in other tools to
cut off the superfluous outside parts and then becomes the perfect Oxford shape with
five or more ears attached to it, these cars are then bent over at the back to keep the
photo or other article in position.
This frame or stand can either be made to allow the photo to slide in or out or not,
just as is required, it is also made to either hang or stand.
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JAMES ARTHUR RICHARDS.

page_text: I, JAMES ARTHUR RICHARDS of 127 Long Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Tool Maker, 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 production of pressed metallic frames, or stands, for the
holding of photographic and other pictures, and of that class, commonly known in
commerce as the "Oxford," consisting of a frame of bars, crossing each other other near
their ends.
Usually frames of this type or form, are made from four independent bars or sides,
connected together at the points where they cross each other.
My invention consists in making the said Oxford frames from out of sheet metal,
and in one piece, or with the bars which cross each other near their ends, continuous.
The frame is raised by shaping tools, from a single blank, and then subsequently
operated upon, by clipping and cutting out tools.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation, and figure 2 in back elevation, an Oxford
photographic frame, made according to my invention. Figure 3 is a transverse
section on the dotted lines A B figure 1, and figure 4 is a transverse section upon the
dotted lines CD figure 1.
In making the said frame, I take a piece of sheet brass, or other ductile metal or
alloy, and by means of dies and pressure, I raise or fashion from it, the frame to be
made, as represented in figure 5; that is, the outline of the frame, without the
securing clips, is raised half-round upon the blank. I then by means of a combined
clipping and cutting out tool, of the shape of the blank figure 6, remove all
superfluous metal from the outside and inside of the frame a thus sunken, but leaving
the ears b, which constitute when turned backwards, the clips for the holding of tho
glass and photograph, within the frame, or at the back thereof.
Figure 7 represents a transverse section on the dotted lines E F figure 6.
The ears b, which lie in the same plane as the front of the frame, are first turned back
at right angles to it, as in figure 8, and then turned to the plane of the back of the
frame, as represented in figures 1, 2 and 4, thereby making the clips out of the same
metal as the frame is made.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is,
First. Making photographic and other frames, of the Oxford shape, from sheet
metal, by the process or combination of processes, as herein described and set
forth.
Secondly. Making Oxford shaped photographic and other frames, in one continuous
piece of metal, substantially as set forth in figures 1 and 2.
Lastly. The combination with the frame a, of the ears b, as set forth.
Dated this Fourteenth day of January 1888.
JAMES ARTHUR RICHARDS.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.