Improvements in Combination Photograph Frames and Stands for Jewellery and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: SIONAL SPECIF TION.
Improvements in Combination Photograph Frames and Stands for
Jewellery and the like.
RICHARD MANDER, Photographic Frame Manufacturer, Branston Street
Birmingham, do hereby declaré the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to a method by which an oblong photograph frame can
be made to stand either upon its shorter or longer side.
It is well known that photographic prints are most frequently cut in an oblong
form. In some cases it is necessary to view them when standing upon end, and in
others when upon their side. This is usually accomplished by complicated and
expensive mechanical arrangements. The object of this invention is to obviate
these objections. My invention combines both positions by a simple arrange-
ment at the back of the stand. A piece of the material used is cut into a right
angle. The said right angle is attached by a suitable method to the back of the
frame by a hinge (which latter may be made by half alitting the material itself or
by metal hinges or hinges of other material cloth or leather). The hinge is
placed upon the slanting side of the right angle, or the hypothenuse, and the
perpendiculars lie edge upon edge with the sides of the frame. If now the hinged
right angle is raised the frame can be made to stand in an incline plane upon
either end or side of the frame and upon either of the perpendiculars of the right
angle.
The article can be made of cardboard, metal, wood, or any material applicable
to the purpose.
Dated th
Improvements in Combination Photograph Frames and Stands for
Jewellery and the like.
I, RICHARD MANDER, of Branston Street, in the City of Birmingham,
Photographic Frame Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to standing photograph frames and mounts, jewellery
stands, carriers for various articles, and the like, and has for its object, the
supporting in an inclined or erect position, of frames, mounts or stands of the
figure of a elongated and right-angled parallelogram or of an oblong figure, upon
either their shorter or longer sides. Thus by my invention, a frame or mount can
be made to stand upon either its longer edge or its shorter edge, hence a universal
standing frame.

page_text: According to my improvements the back of the frame, stand, mount or like
support is provided with a hinged supporting leg of the figure of an isoscales or
scaleue triangle or of any figure having a right angle which shall follow a like
angle of the frame, mount or stand.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a perspective view of an
oblong photographic frame, mount or stand, or a frame of the figuro of an
elongated right angled parallelogram, provided or fitted with my improved
reversible supporting leg, the said view representing the frame standing upon its
shorter side for displaying what is known as an upright picture.
Figure 2 shows the said frame Figure 1 turned in a reverse direction and
resting upon its longer edge.
Figure 3 is a perspective back view of the frame, mount or holder in the same
position as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 4 represents a back elevation of the mount of the said frame.
Figure 5 is an edge view of Figure 4, with the triangular rest, leg or support
opened out to its fullest extent, which is limited by a check band.
Figure 6 represents a like elevation as Figure 4, but with the supporting flap,
reat or leg opened out into the same position as is shown in the edge view in
Figure 5.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is a photograph frame, fitted at back with a mount a' having hinged or
flexibly connected to it at a³, a triangular-shaped flap, leg or rest b, with the
boundary edges b', b, following the boundary edges a, a, of the mount or frame a,
whilst the hinged or connected side 3, runs obliquely from a part a of one of the
shorter sides of the mount to a part a, of one of the longer sides. When the
stand or frame is in an upright position it rests upon the shorter edges b', a³, of leg
and mount respectively, but when in the other position it is supported on the
ends, a, thereof.
e is a check cord or band for limiting the opening out of the leg from the back
of the mount.
The leg need not necessarily be of the figure of a complete triangle, as it may
be quadrilateral so long as it has two right angled sides following the corresponding
edges of the mount or frame, and further, when the frame or the like is required
to stand vertically or nearly so, then the rest edges of the foot may extend a little
beyond the corresponding boundary edges of the frame.
i
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
olaim is:-
Io photographio frames and mounts, jewellery stands and like articles of the
figure of an oblong or elongated right-angled parallelogram, supporting the same
by a leg, flap or rest, of the figure of an isosceles or scalene triangle, or of a
quadrilateral figure the edges of two of the sides of which follow the same angle as
the corresponding long and short sides or edges of the mount, frame or stand,
substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 18th day of November 1896.
RICHARD MANDER,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.