An Improvement connected with Mouldings for Picture and like Frames.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug.. 1894-Accepted, 15th Dec., 1894
TRUVIDIONAL DEPUITVALIUN,
An Improvement connected with Mouldings for Picture and like
Frames.
We, ALFRED WOODBRIDGE LOVELAND, of Hawarden House, Thorpe Road,
Norwich, Lithographic Printer, and THOMAS JAMES FENN of Glenridge Carrow
Road, Bracondale Norwich Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, protecting picture sheets, illuminated sheets, tablets,
and the like to be so secured as to prevent the frame being of service for similar
purposes should the original sheet be removed.
The invention relates especially to rabbetting or grooving the inside edge of a
moulding to such a width and depth that pictures, tablets, show cards, and similar
sheets of any material can be fixed, with or without a glass front, the frame being
made around the article as to incorporate the two as a single body, the mitre or
other joint being bored into across the seam, and sealed, the destruction of which
will indicate that the frame has been tampered with, and the original picture, tablet,
show card, or other sheet has been removed and the frame illegally utilised.
The invention is chiefly intended for show tablets, or cards distributed to
tradesmen by manufacturers for exhibition or announcements of goods sold by
them, each tablet or show card being, so to speak, hermetically sealed in the
frame.
By the use of this invention, in many cases, the back board, also brading, beading,
and rabbetting can be dispensed with. By the close fit of the inserted pieces in the
grooves, the frame becomes practically dust proof.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Woodbridge Loveland and
Thomas James Fenn.
An Improvement connected with Mouldings for Picture and like
Frames.
We, ALFRED WOODBRIDGE LOVELAND, of Hawarden House, Thorpe Road,
Norwich, Lithographic Printer, and THOMAS JAMES FENN, of Glenridge, Carrow
Road, Bracondale, Norwich, 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 has for object, protecting picture sheets, illuminated sheets,
tablets, and the like to be so secured as to prevent the frame being of service for
similar purposes
should the original sheet be removed.
The invention relates especially to rabbetting or grooving the inside edge of a
moulding to such a width and depth that pictures, tablets, show cards, and similar
sheets of any material can be fixed with or without a glass front, the frame being
made around the article as to incorporate the two as a single body, the mitre or
other joint being bored into across the seam, and sealed, the destruction of which
will indicate that the frame has been tampered with and the original picture,
tablet, show card, or other sheet had been removed and the frame illegally utilised.
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page_text: The invention is chiefly intended for show tablets, or cards distributed to
tradesmen by manufacturers for exhibition or announcements of goods sold by
them, each tablet or show card being, so to speak, hermetically sealed in the
frame.
By the use of this invention, in many cases, the back board, also brading and
rabbetting can be dispensed with. By the close fit of the inserted pieces in the
grooves the frame becomes practically dust proof.
The invention will be well understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 represents a section of the usual and well known kind of picture-frame
moulding with the groove in the back face thereof.
Figure 2 a section of a frame moulding with our channeled or gutter shaped
groove in the inner edge face.
Figure 3 represents a section of a frame with channeled or gutter shaped grooves
in the inner edges of the side and end pieces in accordance with the foregoing
description.
Figure 4 is a back elevation of a corner or ends of two adjoining parts of a
frame with one method of keying them by a crutch or dumb bell shaped kind
of fastener.
Figure 5 indicates by a section on the line a, a, of Figure 4 the sunken key and
a sealing above which is intended to be stamped with a special device as a check
against the joint being tampered with.
Figure 6 shows a modified form of key which can be glued or cemented in a
hollow made in the back face of the moulding at the joint line.
A is an ordinary grooved moulding, B the new groove channel moulding, said
channel or gutter, shaped groove B' being in the inside edge face. C the mitre
joint prepared in the ordinary way-but which when placed together has a hole D
bored half down in each, as at Figure 6, or two holes D, D, bored as at Figure 4
with a gouged neck E for connecting said holes, into which and also the holes a
plug F can be forced after glueing to lock the parts or mouldings strips more
rigidly together than by the usual tacked joint, thereby so perfecting the joint that
the plug or plugs must be first removed and since this is not possible the joint
must be irretrievably broken and destroyed the whole of the frame being thereby
rendered useless.
If the plug or plugs is or are of less depth than the holes and as seen at G
Figure 5, a mastic or a cement can be employed to fill up and this can be stamped
with the issuing tradesman's name the maker's or other name, or with any device
for identification.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Channel or gutter grooving the inner edge surfaces of frame mouldings as
described and substantially as shown at Figure 2 in the annexed drawings for the
purpose or purposes set forth.
2. Forming a hole or holes in or across the backs of mitre joints of picture
and like frames and plugging said hole or holes as shown and as and for the
purposes described.
3. The method of enclosing the edges of tablets or the like within the inside
edge gutter shaped grooves of frame mouldings by building the frame around the
tablet or its equivalent, as set forth.
The 30th dow of And 1004
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said A. W. Loveland and T. J. Fenu.