A Photograph or Portrait Frame for Tombstones and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Loft 11th Aug 1800 40cented 16th Sept
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Photograph or Portrait Frame for Tombstones and the like.
I, EDWIN CHATHAM, of Church Street, Rhos-y-Medre, Ruabon, in the County
of Denbigh, North Wales, Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a photograph or portrait frame for tombstones,
monuments and the like, my object being to enable a photograph or portrait of
a.deceased person to be attached to the tombstone or other monument.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct a frame of any suitable
metal or material which will resist the action of the weather and attach it in
any suitable manner to the tombstone or the like. I place in this frame a photo-
graph or portrait of the deceased person, or a number of such photographs or
portraits where more than one person is buried in the same grave.
The frame may form part of the tombstone, cross, wreath or shade or may be
a separate part fitted thereto or carried by a standard or standards or other
independent support.
Dated this 19th day of November 1898.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Photograph or Portrait Frame for Tombstones and the like.
I, EDWIN CHATHAM, of Church Street, Rhos-y-Medre, Ruabon, in the County
of Denbigh, North Wales, Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to a photograph or portrait frame for tombstones,
monuments and the like, my object being to enable a photograph or portrait of
a deceased person to be attached to the tombstone or other monument.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct a frame of any suitable
metal or material which will resist the action of the weather and attach it in
any suitable manner to the tombstone or the like. I place in this frame a photo-
graph or portrait of the deceased person, or a number of such photographs or
portraits where more than one person is buried in the same grave.
The frame may form part of the tombstone, cross, wreath, or shade or may be
a separate part fitted thereto or carried by a standard or standards or other
independent support.

page_text: In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a vertical section of the photograph
or portrait frame, Figures 3 and 4 are two views of the frame carried by a
wire holder.
The body a of the frame shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is made of porcelain or
earthenware or of any suitable metal or material. Near the top is a scroll b on
which any suitable epitaph, text, motto or heading can be moulded, printed or
otherwise produced.
In the middle of the body an opening c is formed to display the photograph
or portrait of the deceased person, with or without an inscription, such photo-
graph or portrait being held in a white metal or other frame d covered by a
sheet of glass e and fastened to the body a by studs f or other suitable fastenings
or equivalent devices; or instead of having an opening in the porcelain body
and attaching a metal frame to the back the opening may be dispensed with
and the metal frame attached directly to the front.
The frame may either be let into a recess formed to receive it in a tombstone
or the like or simply attached on the surface with screws or other fastenings,
or it may be used alone as a headstone, or may be carried by an independent
support like the wire holder g, shown in Figs. 3 and 4.
It will be readily understood that the frame can be constructed to carry a
number of photographs or portraits instead of only one as described; also that
the frame may be of any other suitable design or pattern.
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 :-
A photograph or portrait frame constructed and arranged for use in con-
nection with tombstones and the like substantially as herein set forth..
Dated this 9th day of August 1899
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.