IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF CASES SUITABLE FOR CONTAINING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER PICTURES
Year: 1857

page_text: This invention received Provisional Protection, out notice to proceed with the
application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed
by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard- Quin at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th September
1857.
I, RICHARD QUIN, of 5, Rodney St., Pentonville, of the firm of Moran and
Quin, of 65, Poland Street, Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON-
STRUCTION OF CASES SUITABLE FOR CONTAINING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER PICTURES,"
to be as follows:-
In the construction of cases suitable for containing photographic and other
pictures it is desirable that the cases should be so constructed that the picture
may be enclosed for protection, as in an ordinary case, also that the picture
may, when placed on a table, be supported by the case in an inclined position,
so that it may be seen to advantage; and, thirdly, that the case, with the
picture, may be hung so as to exhibit the picture as an ordinary picture frame.
Cases which satisfy these three requirements have heretofore sometimes been
made, and the object of my Invention is the arranging such cases in a more
compact and convenient manner. For this purpose I construct an open frame
of the length and width of the intended case, and in this frame I arrange a
second frame capable of turning on pins or axes within the first, and fitted to
receive the picture to be mounted; the back of this inner frame is covered
with leather or other suitable material, and serves as the back of the complete

page_text: case when closed by a lid of an ordinary description hinged to the exterior
frame.
When it is desired to exhibit the picture in an inclined position on a table,
then the inner frame in which the picture is mounted is turned round on its
pins or axes within the exterior frame, and then the lid serves as a strut or
foot to maintain the picture at the desired inclination.
When it is desired to hang the picture, then the inner frame is turned
round, as before, and the lid. is. closed down on the outer frame, as when the
case is closed in the ordinary way.
Or, in place of constructing cases in the way above described, I arrange
them so that the picture is mounted in a frame closed at the back, and so
arranged as to be received within a second similar frame in such a way as to
exhibit the picture or to enclose it, as in an ordinary case. There is a strut
or foot hinged to the outer case to support it in an inclined position.
The same result may also be obtained in, a case of the ordinary description,
by hinging the lid of the case by a double hinge or by a flexible binge. to the
centre of the top of the case in place of to its edge, as heretofore, and then the
lid serves either to enclose the picture in the usual way or it may be turned
back so as to form a strut or foot to support it in an inclined position, or when
it is desired to hang the picture, the lid may be turned over and will lay flat
against the back of the case.
For cases which do not require to be hung as picture frames, but which
which are only required for enclosing pictures or articles, and exhibiting them
in an inclined position, the ordinary construction of exterior case may be
retained, and within this case a frame hinged at the front, which, when the
case is opened, is, with the picture or article which it supports, thrown up by
a spring into an inclined position within the case.