An Improved Mount for Photographs, Pictures, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 15th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mount for Photographs, Pictures, and the like.
I GEORGE CONRAD JOHN JELPKE of 50 Elfort Road, Islington, London in the
County of Middlesex, Commercial Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
I
The object of this invention is to provide a ready means for mounting and
protecting from injury photographs, pictures, and the like. For this purpose
provide a frame of any suitable material and shape, and a back board or sheet of
the same shape or thereabout.
The photograph, picture, or other article to be mounted is secured to this
improved mount in the manner best suited to it, that is to say, the photograph,
picture, or other article may be mounted or secured to the back board or sheet
which in its turn is cemented or secured to the back of the frame; or the photo-
graph, picture, or other article may be cemented or secured by its edges to the
back of the frame which in its turn is cemented or secured to the back board or
sheet; or the photograph, picture, or other article, if of the same size or thereabout
as this improved mount, may be placed between the frame and the back board and
the whole secured round the edges. The outer surface of the frame being raised
above the level of the photograph, picture, or other article, protects it from injury.
When it is required to still further protect the photograph, picture, or other article
I cover the opening of the frame by securing either to the inside or outside a piece
of glass or other transparent material.
Dated this 21st day of November 1892.
GEORGE CONRAD JOHN JELPKE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mount for Photographs, Pictures, and the like.
I GEORGE CONRAD JOHN JELPKE of 50 Elfort Road, Islington, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Commercial Clerk 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 :-
I
The object of this invention is to provide a ready means for mounting and
protecting from injury photographs, pictures and the like. For this purpose
provide a frame of any suitable material and shape, and a back board or sheet of
the same shape or thereabout.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 is an elevation of the frame according to my invention.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the back board or sheet according to my invention.
Figure 3 is a section on the line xx of Figures 1 and 2 placed in their relative
positions.
Figure 4 is a back elevation of a modification of the frame according to my
invention.
Figure 5 is a section on the line xx of Figures 4 and 2 placed in their relative
positions.
Figure 6 is a front elevation showing another modification of the frame according
to my invention.
Figure 7 is a section on the line xx of Figures 6 and 2 placed in their relative
positions.

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According to my invention the frame a Figures 1 and 2 is of any suitable shape
and size this I call the plain frame. The back board or sheet b is of the same
shape or thereabout as the frame a, and also of the same size or thereabout. In a
modification of this invention as shown in Figures 4 and 5 the "sight" or "opening
of the frame a is closed by glass or other transparent material c a little larger than
the "sight or "opening" and secured to the back of the frame proper a, the
frame proper being thickened at the back by the border d to such an extent as to
be on about a level with the glass or other transparent material c, which glass or other
transparent material is further held in its place by a strip or strips of paper or
other suitable material e cemented or secured to the border d-the strip or strips e
are represented torn away below 9 Figure 4 to show the glass c lying against the
border d; but the glass or other transparent material c may be secured to the back
of the frame proper a in any other suitable manner. I call this modification of my
invention the back glazed frame. In another modification of this invention as
shown in Figures 6 and 7 the "sight" or "opening" of the frame a is closed by
glass or other transparent material c secured in front of the frame proper a by
means of the strip or strips of paper or other suitable material f round the edges,
or secured in any other suitable manner. I call this modification of my invention
the front glazed frame.
The photograph, picture or other article, which should preferably be somewhat
smaller than this improved mount, is cemented or secured by any of the usual
methods to the back board or sheet Figure 2 and finished in any of the usual
methods or styles, the back board with the photograph or other article mounted
thereon is then cemented or secured to the back of the plain frame Figure 1, or to
the back of the back glazed frame Figure 4, or to the back of the front glazed
frame Figure 6. Or the photograph, picture or other article may be cemented or
secured by its edges to the back of the plain frame Figure 1, or in a similar manner
to either the back glazed frame Figure 4, or the front glazed frame Figure 6, each
of which respectively with the photograph or other article attached thereto is
cemented or secured to a back board or sheet Figure 2. Or the photograph,
picture or other article, if of about the same size as this improved mount, may be
placed between the plain frame Figure 1 and the back board or sheet Figure 2,
and the whole secured round the edges; or a back glazed frame Figure 4, or a
front glazed frame Figure 6 may be substituted for the plain frame Figure 1.
The back of the frame may be rendered adhesive in the process of manufacture,
and the back board may be bevelled at the back to facilitate its adhesion to the
frame.
In the drawings oblong mounts are shown, but the shape may be varied
indefinitely, as also the size and thickness; and the frame a may have a "sight"
or "opening" of any suitable size or shape. The various parts of this invention
are exaggerated in the drawings so as to clearly show their relative positions.
It is evident that the photograph, picture or other article mounted as herein-
before described is also protected from injury.
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. A mount for photographs, pictures and the like, consisting of two separate
parts, namely a frame-either closed or not by glass or other transparent material-
and a back board or sheet, the two separate parts being of the same shape or
thereabout, and of the same size or thereabout as each other.
2. The back board or sheet, being a separate part of this improved mount, that
it has a surface "finished so that the photograph or other article may be mounted
thereon by any of the usual methods, and in any of the usual styles, and that all
the usual operations may be carried on after the photograph or other article has
been mounted on the back board or sheet.

page_text: 3. The manufacture and use of the improved mount for photographs, pictures
and the like substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this Fifteenth day of February 1893.
GEORGE CONRAD JOHN JELPKE.