Improvements in Picture Holders or Frames.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1892-Accepted, 18th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picture Holders or Frames.
I, MAURICE WIRTHS of Jersey City Heights, Essex County New Jersey,
United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved picture holder whereby the picture
can be readily attached to and held in position behind a protecting plate or mat
through which light may pass without requiring a special frame extending around
the edges of the plate or mat and the invention consists in a combined protector
plate and frame for a photograph card or other picture the said protector plate and
frame presenting a transparent border around the picture and a fastening device for
holding the picture to the protector said fastening device being located within
the limits of the transparent border leaving the border substantially open to the
passage of light throughout its extent.
My invention consists of a transparent plate or mat in the present instance a glass
plate which is beveled at its edges and ornamented on its face in any suitable
manner in oil colors by etchings or otherwise.
The plate is provided with two holes drilled through the plate and through these
holes fastening devices are passed.
These fastenings may be in the nature of a headed screw bolt and nut or
in the nature of the well known paper fasteners having props capable of being bent
over after having been passed through the holes or in the nature of a bent piece
of metal or any other form of fastening may be used by which the picture can be
suitably supported at the back of the plate without materially interfering with
the passage of light through the margin of the plate or mat which surrounds the
picture.
These fasteners serve to retain a strap at the back of the plate which serves as an
additional support for the picture which is placed between it and the backs of the
plate. The strap may be crimped in one or more places.
To the strap is applied by means of a suitable pivot a stay which may be used
either as a stay for supporting the picture supporter in an inclined position or by
swinging it around as a hanger for suspending the same from a suitable point on
the wall.
Dated this 5th day of December 1891
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picture Holders or Frames.
I, MAURICE WIRTHS of Jersey City Heights, Essex County, New Jersey, U.S.A.
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 has reference to an improved picture-holder whereby the picture
can be readily attached to and held in position behind a protecting plate or mat
through which light may pass without requiring a special frame extending around
the edges of the plate or mat and the invention consists in a combined protector-
plate and frame for a photograph card or other picture the said protector-plate
and frame presenting a transparent border around the picture and a fastening
device for holding the picture to the protector said fastening device being located
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page_text: within the limits of the transparent border leaving the border substantially open to
the passage of light throughout its extent.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of my improved picture-supporter showing
a rear view of the same with a picture in place.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a detail vertical transverse section of one form of fastening device by
which the picture is held in position on the protecting plate or mat, and
Figs. 4 and 5 are modified forms of different fastening devices for holding the
picture in position on the back of the plate.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Referring to the drawings-A represents a transparent plate or mat in the
present instance a glass plate which is bevelled at its edges and ornamented on its
face in any suitable manner in oil colours by etchings or otherwise.
The plate A is here shown provided with two holes a drilled through the plate
and through the holes a fastening devices bare passed. The fastenings 6b may be
in the nature of a headed screw bolt and nut as shown in Fig. 3 or in the nature of
the well-known paper fasteners having props capable of being bent over after
having been passed through the holes a or in the nature of a bent piece of metal
as shown in Fig. 5 or any other form of fastening may be used by which the picture
can be suitably supported at the back of the plate A without materially interfering
with the passage of light through the margin of the plate or mat which surrounds
the picture.
The fasteners b serve to retain a strap C at the back of the plate which serves
as an additional support for the picture which is placed between it and the backs.
of the plate as shown in Fig. 1. I have shown the strap C as crimped in one or
more places as shown at c.
To the strap C is applied by means of a suitable pivot d a stay D which may
be used either as a stay for supporting the picture supporter in an inclined position
or by swinging it around as a hanger for suspending the same from a suitable point
on the wall.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. As an article of manufacture a combined protector plate and frame for a
photograph card or other picture the said protector plate and frame presenting a
transparent border around the picture and a fastening device for holding the picture
to the protector said fastening device being located within the limits of the transparent
border so as to leave the border substantially open to the passage of light throughout
its extent substantially as set forth.
2. The combination with a combined protector plate and frame for a photograph
card or other picture which plate has a transparent border around the picture of
a fastening strap for holding the picture to the protector plate and devices for
attaching the ends of said strap to the holes of the protector plate said fastening
devices being located within the limits of the transparent border substantially as
set forth.
3. The combination with a combined protector plate and frame for a photograph
card or other picture which plate has a transparent border around the picture of a
fastening strap for holding the picture to the protector plate devices for attaching
the ends of said strap to holes in said protector plate and a stay or hanger connected
to said strap substantially as set forth.
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TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.