Improvements in Frames for Pictures, Show Cards, Advertizing Tablets, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Frames for Pictures, Show Cards, Advertizing
Tablets, and the like.
I WILLIAM JAMES WEBSTER of No. 198 Bethnal Green Road in the County
of Middlesex Looking Glass and Picture Frame Maker 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 relates to frames formed of metal wood and other materials for
the reception of pictures, photographs show cards advertizing tablets and other
prints and the like. And the said invention consists in piercing or cutting out or
otherwise removing portions of the said frames so as to produce openings therein
the said openings being of such form or so grouped as to present to the eye the
appearance of letters of the alphabet. By this means words or inscriptions are
formed in the frames which words or inscriptions may or may not have relation to
the pictures show cards or other articles for which the frames are intended. In
some cases the frames are so formed that when applied to prints show cards and
the like portions of the margins or mounts thereof or portions of the glass covering
them will appear through the said openings in the frames. Where the frames are
so formed the said portions of the margins or mounts or glass may be of the same
colour as the other parts of the said margins or mounts or glass or of a different colour
or different colours. Or where the margins or mounts are not of the colour required
to appear through the said openings in the frames and it is not desired to colour
the said mounts or margins or the glass strips of paper or other fabric or material
of the required colour or colours are placed or secured behind the portions of the
frames in which the said openings are formed so that the said fabric or material
may appear through the said openings. Where the frames are so formed or the
openings are formed in such parts of them that no part of the print or other article
within the frame will appear through the said openings a backing of paper or other
suitable fabric or material of any desired colour is secured behind the said
openings.
A portion of a metal frame in which an inscription is formed by means of
openings of the shape of letters of the alphabet is illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3
of the accompanying drawings Figure 1 being a face view and Figure 2 a
transverse section taken on the line A Figure 1 and Figure 3 a similar section
showing the manner in which the frame is applied to a photograph or show card
or other print. Figure 4 is a face view of a portion of a similar frame in which an
inscription is formed by means of groups of circular openings.
In the following descriptioh the parts of the said drawings are referred to by the
letters marked thereon. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in
all the figures.
a is the frame which is formed of sheet metal b, b are the openings which are
formed in the face part of the said frame. In applying frames of the form
illustrated to prints show cards and the like the glass and card or print and the
backboard are placed in the frame in the usual manner as illustrated in Figure 3 in
which figure the glass is marked c the print d and the back e. The back part of
the side of the frame is then bent down over the backboard as also shown in the
said Figure 3 at f.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements hereinbefore described in frames for pictures show cards
advertizing tablets and the like that is to say the production of inscriptions in the
said frames by means of openings therein through which openings portions of the
articles within the frames or of slips of paper or other suitable fabric or material
placed behind or under the said openings appear as hereinbefore described.
Dated the Nineteenth day of December 1892.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.