Improved Method and Means for Hanging Pictures and such like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method and Means for Hanging Pictures and such like.
We ARCHIBALD SIDDALL of Bondi near Sydney in the Colony of New South
Wales Bank Accountant and EDWARD JOSIAH TOBIN of 254 George Street
Sydney aforesaid Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this said invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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This invention relates to improved method and means for hanging pictures
pier glasses and such like so that they may have the requisite angle or inclination
towards the observer and it has been devised in order that such "hanging
may be quickly and easily performed will be hidden and will be of a lasting
character.
This improved method and means for hanging pictures and such like consists in
the use in combination with the frame of the picture &c. of two bars or strips of
metal one of which is attached to the centre of the bottom of the back of the frame
at its one end and has an eye or orifice to take over a nail or knob in the wall at
its other end while the other bar or strip is attached at either end transversely
across the back of the frame and has an orifice in its centre through which the
first mentioned or "vertical" strip passes the position of the transverse strip and
the strength or elasticity of the vertical strip regulating the angle or inclination or
"set" of the picture when the orifice or hole of said vertical strip is placed upon
the nail or knob in the wall. Instead of having an orifice the transverse strip may
have two horizontal cuts so that the vertical strip may be laced through these two
cuts and the vertical strip may have bulbs or protuberances (made by stamping) so
as to give a firmer hold in said horizontal cuts or lacing. Again the vertical strip
may be passed under the transverse strip, that is between the transverse strip and
the back of the picture when the same effect will be obtained.
be
But in order that this invention may be clearly understood reference will now be
made to the drawings herewith in which Figures 1 and 2 are back view and sectional
elevation respectively of a picture hung according to this invention and Figures 3 and 4
are similar views of a modification of the same. A is the picture having frame A¹,
and back A. B is a vertical strip of say tin or brass or other metal screwed on
to bottom frame A' at B' and having eye B' taking over nail or knob D¹ in the
wall face D. C is a second or transverse bar or strip screwed to side frame A¹
at C' and having an orifice C through which strip B passes. Now the strength
and elasticity of strip B governed as it is by the strip C as such strip C
may
higher or lower on the frame A' regulates the angle inclination or "set" of the
picture A and at the same time the strips B and C and the nail or knob D'are hidden
from view. In the means shown in Figures 3 and 4 the orifice C' is dispensed with
and the strip C has cuts C and C+ through which the strip B is laced and against
which the bulbs or protuberances B³ (of which there are a series) take and firmly
hold and in like manner to that before described the relative position of the two
strips and their strength and elasticity regulate. Instead of attaching the trans-
verse strip C (when it has the cuts C³ and C') to the back of the picture it might
be firmly fixed (either shortened or not) to the wall face in which case the vertical
strip with its bulbs B' would have to be fastened to top and bottom of the picture
frame so as to form a bow passing through or laced in the cuts and this would allow
of the set of the picture to be regulated at will.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. The improved method for hanging pictures &c. substantially as herein
described and explained.
Second. The improved means for hanging pictures &c. the essential features
of which are a 'vertical strip such as B having an eye such as 'B' and 'a 'trans-
verse strip such as C through (as at C³) or laced through (as at C' and (4) or
under which the said vertical strip passes substantially as herein described and
explained and as illustrated in the drawings.
Third. As improved means for hanging pictures &c. and as new articles of
manufacture vertical and transverse strips such as B and C adapted to be threaded
or laced together substantially as herein described and explainel and as illustrated
in the drawing.
Dated this 23rd day of July One thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.
Witness:
FRED WALSH, Fel. Aust. Inst. P.A.
ARCHIBALD SIDDALL.
EDWARD JOSIAH TOBIN.