Improvements in Ornamental Screens, Blinds, and Panels.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 1st Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Ornamental Screens, Blinds, and Panels.
I, ELIZABETH SMITH, of Colebrooke Row, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to ornamental screens for fireplaces or other situations, blinds
for windows, and panels for doors, partitions, and other places.
It has for its object novel methods of manufacture by which the screen or other
article is made very ornamental in appearance being decorated with photographic or
other pictures which can be readily removed and others substituted for them when
desired.
I take a screen, preferably of metal such as iron or brass of the required size, and of
any suitable design preferably of open or perforated work, or of net-work or wire
gauze, and in this screen I make a sufficient number of openings, square circular or of
other desired shape, each of which forms a cell to receive a picture-preferably a
transparent photographic picture upon glass.
The cells so formed may either form a part of the screen itself, or they may be
made separate and inserted and fixed in the openings in the screen.
Each cell, of metal or other suitable material, consists of a recess into which the
picture is fitted, the bottom of the recess having an inner flange or ledge to support it,
and a separate metal or other ring being then fitted into the recess above the picture
and also preferably having an outer flange by which it can be readily inserted, removed,
and fastened.
The outer edge of the screen may be fitted and fixed in a frame which may be
supported upon legs or brackets if it is to be used as a portable screen, or which may
be fitted into windows, openings in doors, or panels, or in other desired positions.
In a somewhat modified form of my invention, I make the screen itself (in which
the pictures are to be inserted as described) of metal ribs forming openings of the
proper shape to receive stained or coloured glass to form any desired design in the
usual way, proper openings or spaces being left in such design to form or receive
the cells in which the moveable pictures are inserted as first described.
By my invention, very attractive screens or other articles can be made at little cost,
the photographic or other pictures in which can be changed very quickly and easily
as often as may be desired.
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EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Ornamental Screens, Blinds, and Panels.
I, ELIZABETH SMITH, of Colebrooke Row, in the County of Middlesex, 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 (that is
to say):-
:-
My invention relates to ornamental screens for fireplaces or other situations, blinds
for windows, and panels for doors, partitions, and other places.
It has for its object novel methods of manufacture by which the screen or other
article is made very ornamental in appearance being decorated with photographic or
other pictures which can be readily removed and others substituted for them when
desired.

page_text: I take a screen, preferably of metal such as iron or brass of the required size, and
of any suitable design preferably of open or perforated work, or of network or wire
gauze, and in this screen I make a sufficient number of openings, square, circular or
of other desired shape, each of which forms a cell to receive a picture-preferably a
transparent photographic picture upon glass.
The cells so formed may either form a part of the screen itself, or they may be made
separate and inserted and fixed by soldering or other means in the openings in the
screen.
Each cell of metal or other suitable material consists of a recess of proper shape
into which the picture is fitted, the bottom of the recess having an inner flange or
ledge upon which the picture is supported, and a separate metal or other ring of corre-
sponding shape being then fitted into the recess above the picture and also preferably
having an outer flange by which it can be readily inserted, removed, and fastened by
screws or other convenient means.
The outer edge of the screen may be fitted and fixed in a frame which may be sup-
ported upon legs or brackets if it is to be used as a portable screen, or which may be
fitted into windows, openings in doors or panels, or in other desired positions.
In the accompanying drawing which is in illustration of my invention, figure 1 is a
front view and figure 2 an end view of a screen. Figure 3 shews one of the cells
upon a larger scale.
a is the screen, having any desired number of openings 6 containing cells, each cell
having a recess c to contain the picture which is held in position by a separate ring d.
The screen is shewn fixed in a frame e which is supported upon legs f..
In a somewhat modified form of my invention, I make the screen itself (in which
the pictures are to be inserted as described) of metal ribs forming openings of the
proper shape to receive_stained or coloured glass to form any desired design in the
usual way, proper openings or spaces being left in each design to form or receive
the cells in which the moveable pictures are inserted as first described.
By my invention, very attractive screens or other articles can be made at little cost,
the photographic or other pictures in which can be changed very quickly and easily as
often as may be desired.
I do not confine myself to the precise method in which the cells described are
formed, or by which they are fixed in or attached to the body of the screw, nor to the
precise method by which the pictures are fixed in the cells, but 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:―
In screens, blinds, or panels, the recesses in which photographic or other pictures
can be inserted and fixed, removed, and replaced or changed, substantially as
described.
Dated this 27th day of December 1889.
Dated this 27th day of December 1889.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Inventor.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Inventor.