Improvements in Picture Frames.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Picture Frames.
I, NEWNHAM BROWNE, of 73 Cheapside, in the City of London, Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of this
invention which has been communicated to me by Gustav Adolf Meitzner and
Ferdinand August. Kayser, of Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony and Empire
of Germany, Manufacturers, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The present application relates to picture frames made of suitable material in
sheets or
plates, which so hold the picture from both sides that the picture needs
no fastening device (apart from the frame) to hold it in place; this will be
especially convenient where it is desirable to leave both sides of the picture
uncovered as for instance for transparencies to be hung up on windows.
A picture frame constructed in such manner is shown in the accompanying
drawings; it consists of two parts a and b, of more or less highly ornamental cross-
section, which are united by the exterior edges of the one part, a overlapping those
of the other part b. The two parts are so shaped in section that a space remains
between them for the reception of the edges of the picture so as to retain the latter
in place.
Figs. 3 to 5 illustrate a frame similarly made to that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 but
in this the part is a solid plate which within the space corresponding with the
frame has a depression or recess for the reception of the picture. This determines
the position of the front of the picture as well as of the frame and the ornamenta-
tion of part 6 can be dispensed with.
A modification of the frame with two "sights" is shown in Figs. 7 and 8 it
consists of the parts c c', d d¹, bent to U shape and into suitably ornamented
cross-section from suitable material in plates or sheets. At the corners the parts
overlap and are connected by eyelets (or rivets) e e¹ and ff the first being rivetted
down at once, the others after insertion of the picture, to allow of this the part e is
removable.
The frame in Figs. 3 to 5 is shown with means permitting the same to be used as
a hanging frame or a standing frame, and though this arrangement is shown as
adapted to one of these frames only, it will be understood that it is equally
applicable to the others.
These means consist of two eyelets 9 stamped or raised from the material
forming the frame having holes in their sides turned towards one another a
suspension device h such as shown in Fig. 6 and having paralle enas turned
outward; and a support i such as shown in Fig. 5 and having two arms, its ends
being similar to those of the suspension device.
The bent parts form loops inclined to the two arms of the support. The
dimensions of the straight ends of both the suspension device h and of the
support i are such as to correspond with the eyelets g on the frame so that
the suspension device and the support may engage with the eyelets. To attach
either the suspension device or the support (according to whether the frame is to
be suspended or to stand up) it is only requisite to compress one or the other (both
The
being of elastic material) and to "spring" it in place between the eyelets g.
loops on the support i striking against the frame limit the angle between the support
and the former.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is
1. Picture frames of flat material (sheets or plates) such as sheet metal, leather,
cardboard, hard rubber and the like which consist of either of the following
(a) Two parts of suitable sectional shape, a and b, joined by one part a
overlapping the other b, so that a space remains between them for the
accommodation of the picture to be framed or of
b
(6) Two parts a and joined as mentioned in paragraph (a) the one part
being a solid plate having a recess or depression turned towards the "sight"
for receiving the picture as shown in Figs. 3 to 5 or
(c) Of four separate U shaped portions c, c, d, d' whose corners overlap and
are united by rivets or eyelets Figs. 7 and 8.
2. In such frames the arrangement allowing the same either to be suspended or
to stand and consisting of the lugs or projections g the suspending loop and
support one or the other of the last named devices being engaged in the eyelets
lugs or projections on the frame according to whether the frame is to hang or
stand.
Dated the 4th day of February 1892