Improvements in Attachments for Pictures, Picture Frames, and similar Decorative Articles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1898-Accepted, 1st Oct., 1898
Improvements in Attachments for Pictures, Picture Frames, and
similar Decorative Articles.
I, EDWARD HOWGATE, of Moss Villa, Wembley, in the County of Middlesex,
Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in a plate of metal, india-rubber, paper or similar
or suitable material provided with a suitable pointed or corrugated or serated or
roughened surface which shall retain the picture or picture frame or decoration
in its predetermined position through the action of the points or corrugations or
roughened surface in conjunction with the wall or other fixture against which the
picture, or picture frame or decoration is hung. The attachment may be fixed by
any suitable or ordinary method to the article or picture, or if preferable to the wall
or fixture and the retarding portion of the attachment acting upon the picture or
decoration. For temporary purposes the attachment may be fixed by pneumatic
method, or a screw may be combined with the attachment.
1000
Improvements in Attachments for Pictures, Picture Frames, and
similar Decorative Articles.
I, EDWARD HOWGATE, of Moss Villa, Wembley, in the County of Middlesex,
Surgeon, 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: -
My invention consists in a plate or plates of metal, india-rubber, paper or similar
or suitable material, provided with a suitable pointed, or corrugated, or serated, or
roughened surface, which shall retain the picture or picture frame or decoration
in its predetermined position through the action of the points or corrugations or
roughened surface in conjunction with the wall or other fixture against which the
picture or picture frame or decoration is hung.
The attachment may be fixed by any suitable or ordinary method to the article,
or picture, or if preferable to the wall or fixture, and the retarding portion of the
attachment acting upon the picture or decoration. For temporary purposes the
attachment may be fixed by pneumatic method and a screw may be combined with
the attachment.
In the drawings hereunto annexed Figure I shows the method of constructing
the attachment described, consisting in a plate or strip of metal india-rubber, paper

page_text: or similar or suitable material A B having perforations 1 2 3 4 5 6 at intervals,
through which the points a b c d e f are inserted as required, so that the points
on the one side of the strip A B shall enable the attachment to be fixed to the
picture, picture-frame or decorative article, and the points projecting from the other
side of the strip shall come in contact with and may be fixed into if desired, the
wall or partition or other fixture against which the picture, picture frame or
decorative article may be hung. It is obvious that the attachment may, if desired,
be fixed to the wall, and the points on the other side of the strip allowed to come
in contact with, or forced into the picture, picture frame or decoration, should that
be the more convenient method of utilizing the attachment. Figure II is a section
of the above described attachment on the line C D.
Figures III and IV show a method of using and fixing such described attachment
and the action of the same in conjunction with the wall or fixture G, against which
the picture, picture frame or decorative article E F is hanging, where the strip A B
is so fixed relatively to the picture, picture frame or decorative article and the
wall or fixture G, that the points on the one side of the strip being inserted into the
picture, picture frame or decorative article and the other side points coming into
contact or being inserted into the wall, partition or fixture G, retain it in its
predetermined position.
Figures V and VI show a modification of the attachment consisting in a strip
of metal or similar and suitable material, so cut and the ends turned relative to the
main strip A B to form points a¹ and a², the perforations 61 62 63 being utilised for
fixing the attachment as required so that the points a¹ and a² form the retarding
portion of the attachment. Figure VI being a section.
Figures VII and VIII illustrate a modification of Figures V and VI, the
points c¹ and c² on the one side of the strip being formed out of the material in
addition to the points a¹ and a on the other side of the strip. Figure VIII
being a section at C D. Figure IX shows part view of the attachment-the
points a¹ and b¹ are hinged at g¹ and g² enabling the points a¹ and b¹ to be placed at
any desired angle relative to the main strip A B.
Figure X illustrates the points curved or placed at various angles relative to the
main plate A B, to be used, should the attachment be utilised for picture, picture
frame or decorative article, require fixing at a greater inclination with regard to the
wall or fixture.
Figures XI and XII illustrate pointed attachments A fitted with flexible pneumatic
cup fixing H. Figures XIII and XIV show method of constructing strip A B so that
in lieu of the points illustrated in former figures, on both sides of the strip A B the
surface is roughened-corrugated or similarly prepared to obtain a grip upon the
wall or fixture, perforations being provided at 123 and 4 for fixing attachment.
Figure XIV being a sectional drawing of Figure XIII at C D.
Figures XV XVI and XVII are modifications of Figures V VI VII and VIII.
Figure XVI showing the attachment provided with a screwed point in lieu of the
ordinary straight point.
Figure XVIII illustrates a protector to be used in conjunction with the attachment
when the points are not in requirement, as when picture picture frame and decorative
articles are to be packed and stored, and consisting of a strip of suitable material LK
having perforations or semi-perforations coinciding with the points which are to be
neutralised or protected on A B. It is evident L K may be separate or attached to
the main strip A B (Figures I and II) by hinged or other suitable methods.
Figure XIX is a section of Figure XVIII.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same
is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The method of securing pictures, picture frames and decorative articles in any
nredetermined nosition by the mathad shown and described

page_text: 2. The construction of such apparatus and attachments for securing pictures,
picture frames or decorative articles substantially as described and shewn in the
annexed drawings.
3. The construction of pneumatically fixed attachments specially for the purposes
herein shewn and described.
4. The construction of attachments having roughened corrugated or prepared sur-
faces for the purposes described and shewn in the annexed drawings.
5. The use and construction of protectors for use in conjunction with the above
described apparatus as shewn and described.