Improvements in Picture Frames.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left. 13th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picture Frames.
I, JAMES MCDADE, of 22 Salisbury Street, Glasgow, S. S. in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Fancy Box Cutter, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in picture frames, aud consists in
constructing frames of straw, card, or leather board so as to produce an imitation
of wood, at a very small cost.
In carrying out my invention I take a sheet of straw or other board and I turn
up a portion of the four sides, in the case of a rectangular frame. I then bend
the portion which has been turned up in such a manner as to produce one two or
more corrugations; these corrugations being so formed as to have the appearance
of an ordinary wood moulding. The said corrugations or imitation frame portion
is then covered with flint or other paper to give the necessary appearance.
It will be seen therefore that the entire frame can be readily stamped or beat
out of a single sheet of straw board. The method of bending or stamping the
straw board so as to produce the appearance of an ordinary wooden moulding may
be varied in many ways.
Dated this 20th day of December 1894.
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picture Frames.
I, JAMES MCDADE, of 22 Salisbury Street, Glasgow, S. S. in the County of
Lanark, North Britain, Fancy Box Cutter, 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 relates to improvements in picture frames and consists in
constructing frames of straw, card, or leather board so as to produce an imitation
of wood at a very small cost.
In carrying out my invention I take a sheet of straw or other board and I turn
up a portion of the four sides, in the case of a rectangular frame. I then bend
the portion which has been turned up in such a manner as to produce one, two or
more corrugations, these corrugations being so formed as to have the appearance of
an ordinary wood moulding. The said corrugations or imitation frame portion is
then covered with flint. or other paper to give the necessary appearance, and to
keep the corrugations firm.
It will be seen therefore that the entire frame can be readily stamped or bent out
of a single sheet of straw board.
Figure 1 is the plan of a portion of the left hand top corner of a picture frame
constructed in accordance with my said invention.
Figure 2 is a section through the line X Y Figure 1; the said Figure 2
showing more clearly the corrugations of the cardboard to produce the moulding
for the frame.

page_text: Figure 3 is a plan of a portion of the cardboard prior to having its edge turned
over and corrugated so as to produce the moulding. The full lines a in Figure 1
represent the cuts which are made in the one side of the cardboard to effect the
bending at a Figure 2.
The dotted lines b represent the cuts which are made on the other side of the
cardboard to effect the bending at 6 Figure 2.
My said straw board frame is particularly applicable for show cards, where
cheapness of manufacture is a desideratum.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same has to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The manufacture of picture frames of straw, card, or leather board, substantially
in the manner as hereinbefore described and shown.
Dated this 7th day of August 1895.
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.
JOHNSONS,
115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioner's Agents.