Improvements in Devices for use in Hanging Pictures.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 7th Dec.. 1892-Accepted: 14th Jan.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for use in Hanging Pictures.
I, JOHN DUNDON, of New Castle West, in the County of Limerick, Ireland,
Butter Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
My invention relates to improvements in devices for use in hanging pictures
whereby such pictures can be caused to hang at any required angle.
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My improved devices which are used in lieu of the ordinary eyes or rings consist
of slotted plates through which the hanging cord or wire is passed and in which it
may be adjusted according to the angle at which the picture is to hang. The slots
may be either straight or curved.
My devices are preferably pivotted to the frames to which they are attached so
that they can be folded down against the frames and, in this case, they are
provided with abutments which serve to arrest, the, niovement of the devices at.
the required point.
Dated the 8th day of March 1802
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
.COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for use in Hanging Pictures.
I, JOHN DUNDON, of New Castle West, in the. County of Limerick, Ireland,
Butter Merchant, 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 improvements in devices for use in hanging pictures
whereby such pictures can be caused to hang at any required angle.
My improved devices, which are used in lieu of the ordinary eyes or rings,
consist of slotted plates through which the hanging cord or wire is passed and in
which it may be adjusted according to the angle at which the picture is to hang.
The slots may be either straight or curved.
My devices are sometimes pivotted to the frames to which they are attached so
that they can be folded down against the frames and, in this case, they are
provided with abutments which serve to arrest the movement of the devices at the
required point.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figures 1 and 2 are a side elevation and a plan of one form of my improved
device; and,
Figures 3 and 4 are side views shewing how the devices are applied and
illustrating their operation:
Figures 5 to 12 are views illustrating modifications.
The device shewn in Figures 1 and 2 is a metal plate a having the slot b and
along one edge a projection or abutment c. Two of these devices are applied to a
picture frame by means of screws or pins d passed through one end of the slots, as
shewn in Figure 3, and the cord e is attached by passing the end through the slots
and then forming knots. With this arrangement it will be understood that when
the devices are in use they will occupy the position shewn in full lines in Figure 3,
the projections or abutments c bearing against the back of the picture frame. By
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page_text: shifting the position of the knots in the slots it will be understood that the angle
at which the picture hangs can be altered as desired.
Figure 3 shews the position of the picture when the cord is close to the pivot-
pins d in the slots, and Figure 4 shews the position of the picture when the cord is
at the other end of the slots.
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The device shewn in Figures 5 and 6 is similar to that shewn in Figures 1 and 2
except that the plate a is curved as also is the slot band that a separate hole b¹ is
provided for the pivot d. In this modification the projection or abutment c is made
much shorter than that shewn in Figures 1 and 2.
The device shewn in Figures 7 and 8 is provided with a point of adapted to be
driven into the picture frame; and the device shewn in Figure 9 is of similar con-
struction except that the arrangement of the point is slightly different.
In Figures 10 and 11 I shew a device which is provided with a lug y so that it
may be attached to the back of the picture frame by a screw or nail; and in
Figure 12 I shew 'a device provided with two prongs which are driven into the
picture frame.
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 :-
1. The use in hanging pictures of slotted plates adapted to be attached to the
picture frame so that by shifting the position of the suspending cord in the said
slots, the angle at which the picture hangs can be varied.
2. The manufacture and use of a slotted plate provided with an abutment and
adapted to be pivotally attached to a picture frame, substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 and 5 and 6 of the accompanying
drawing.
3. The manufacture and use of the modified forms of device for use in hanging
pictures hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 7 and 8, Figure 9,
Figures 10 and 11, and Figure 12 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 7th day of December 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.