An Improved Multiplex Portrait or Ploture Frame.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Multiplex Portrait or Ploture Frame.
I JOHN QUARTON of 364 Cooksey Road Small Heath Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Modeller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention consists of a frame for any number of portraits, pictures, views,
medallions, or the like, constructed preferably of metal and may be produced either
by the process of casting or stamping. On its front it is provided with a number
of appertures arranged according to the group of portraits or other pictures, it
is, intended to contain; the whole being inclosed within a frame inclosing and
combining the said appertures into one complete design. For example, the frame
may be made to contain the portraits of a team of football players with the.
appertures or inner frames arranged pyramidally according to the relative positions
of the players, i.e., with one apperture or frame at the top for the goal keeper, two
below for the backs, three below those for the half backs, five along the baso for
the forwards. These eleven small frames or appertures may then be enclosed
within an outer containing frame, for example in the form of a horse shoe, a
suitable scroll, floral, or other design filling up the intervening spaces and
completing the whole both structurally and as a design. A space may be provided
in the upper part or arch of the horse shoe for the name of the team or other group
represented. The back of the frame is provided with a slip, pocket, or case
of sheet metal covering the space occupied by the inner frames sufficiently large to
admit a card on which the group of portraits have previously been arranged and
affixed in position to correspond with the appertures or small inner frames described
above. When this card is pushed up between the back of the frames and slip of
sheet metal the whole group appears in front properley framed and arranged. The
usual easel' supports or struts may be affixed to the back in any known way so that
the frame may stand alone, and the pictures, portraits, or medallions, forming the
group may be protected by glass in the usual way.
Dated this 31st day of October 1893.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Multiplex Portrait or Picture Frame.
JOHN QUARTON Cooksey Road Small Heath Birmingham 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 consists of a frame for any number of portraits pictures, medalions,
or the like constructed preferably of metal, and may be produced either by casting
or stamping; on its front it is provided with a number of apertures arranged
according to the number of pictures it is intended to contain, the whole being
enclosed in a frame, combining the whole, into one complete design.
The apertures are arranged to show the relative positions of players. For
instance, a frame, the apertures arranged pyramidically the aperture at the top for
goal keeper, two beneath for the backs, three beneath these for the half backs, &
five on the base for the forwards, also a space left underneath for the name of the
respective team or teams.

page_text: The object of this frame being :-To show-by the arranging of the photographs-
the photograph of each player in a corresponding position to that occupied by bim
in the field of play.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 'I
claim is
The sole right of manufacturing & selling photograph frame, with the aperture
arranged as in Specification, viz.:with apertures arranged in position corresponding
with those occupied by players in the field.
Dated this 27th day of August. 1894.