IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF PICTURE AND OTHER LIKE MOUNTS
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM MORGAN of Cannon Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF PICTURE AND OTHER LIKE MOUNTS"
to be as follows:-
Picture mounts are ordinarily produced by cutting or taking out the middle part
of a sheet of cardboard or millboard, and thereby leaving an open space in the
middle thereof. The part left forms a continuous frame which constitutes what is
commonly called a mount.
The object of my improvements is to reduce the cost of manufacture incidental
in the production of picture and such like mounts, by forming or producing such
mounts from suitably prepared strips or lengths of cardboard, millboard or other
suitable material of the desired breadth, and cutting the said strips into suitable
lengths with mitered ends, and afterwards uniting the said ends so as to form a
frame, by means of clips and joint backings as hereinafter described.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a rectangular picture mount.
The strips to form the mount are prepared and the bevelling of the inside edges
is effected in the following way.
A plane or flat surface is provided with a bar adjustable to the width of the
strips required, which forms a guide, and disposed on the bevelling side or sides
thereof is a cutter, the cutting edge of which is fixed to the desired angle to form
the bevel, so that on the strip being drawn thereunder, a bevelled edge is thereby
cut. The said bevelled edges are afterwards colored or gilded by being rolled with
color or gold separately or in a series.
The strips thus prepared, are now ready for joining up, which is effected by
cutting or slanting the ends so as to miter together and form a rectangular mount
or frame. The joining or uniting of the mitered meeting edges is effected by a
metal clip, which embraces the adjoining boundary corners of the mount, that is to
say, the clips break the joints at the back of the mount and bonds the adjacent
meeting edges together by crossing and following the angular junctions and
turning over the corners of the boundary edges, which are afterwards clenched on
the front side of the said mount which edges may be serrated or plain.

page_text: For additional security, so that the planes of the adjacent edges and surfaces
shall be perfectly preserved from parting or coming asunder, a securing piece of
cloth paper is pasted across the joining or meeting edges, thereby effectually
connecting the edges and sides of the mount together.
When a mount is required to be produced having the appearance of a solid
mount of considerable thickness, in consequence of the planes of the sides of the
mount being angular to each other, the miter meeting edges are cut to an angle
beyond 45 degrees according to the kind of mount required.
Dated this First day of January One thousand eight hundred and eighty four.

page_text: I WILLIAM MORGAN of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PRODUCTION OF PICTURE AND OTHER LIKE MOUNTS" and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
Picture mounts are ordinarily produced by cutting or taking out the middle
part of a sheet of card-board or mill-board, and thereby leaving an open space in
the middle thereof-The part left forms a continuous frame which constitutes what
is commonly called a mount.
The object of my improvements is to reduce the cost of manufacture incidental
in the production of picture and such like mounts, by forming or producing such
mounts from suitably prepared strips or lengths of card-board, millboard, or other
suitable material of the desired breadth, and cutting the said strips into suitable
lengths, with mitered ends; and afterwards uniting the said ends so as to form a
frame, by means of clips and joint backings as hereinafter described.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a rectangular picture mount.
The strips to form the mount are prepared and the bevelling of the inside edges
is effected in the following way.
A plane or flat surface is provided with a bar, adjustable to the width of the
strips required, which forms a guide, and disposed on the bevelling side or sides
thereof, is a cutter; the cutting edge of which is fixed to the desired angle to form
the bevel, so that on the strip being drawn thereunder, a bevelled edge is thereby
cut The said bevelled edges are afterwards coloured or gilded by being rolled
with colour or gold separately or in a series.
The strips thus prepared, are now ready for joining up; which is effected by
cutting or slanting the ends, so as to miter together, and form a rectangular mount
or frame The joining or uniting of the mitered meeting edges is effected by metal
clips, which embrace the adjoining boundary corners of the mount; that is to say,
the clips break the joints at the back of the mount and bonds the adjacent
meeting edges together by crossing and following the angular junctions and turning
over the corners of the boundary edges, which are afterwards clenched on the
front side of the said mount which edges may be serrated or plain.
For additional security, so that the planes of the adjacent edges and surfaces.
shall be perfectly preserved, from parting or coming assunder, a securing piece of
cloth paper is pasted or glued across the joining or meeting edges; thereby
effectually connecting the edges and sides of the mount together.
When a mount is required to be produced having the appearance of a solid
mount of considerable, thickness, in consequence of the planes of the sides of the
mount being angular to each other, the mitered meeting edges are cut to an angle.
beyond 45 degrees according to the kind of mount required.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my Invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation a flat rectangular picture mount on a
small scale, made according to my Invention-Figure 2 represents a corner of the
same of a full sized mount connected together by a metallic clip and break joint
backing, as represented in the back view Figure 3-Figure 4 represents the parts―.
Figures 2 and 3 separately, or the parts before they are connected or united.
together for the forming of a mount corner.

page_text: Figure 5 represents a corner connected together by a metal bonding clip, which
both embraces the outer angles of the corner, and breaks the joint of the meeting
edges of the mount.
Figure 6 represents an inclined or sloping mount, which has the appearance of
being solid, or of considerable thickness, by the planes or sides of the mount being
inclined or at an angle, as represented in Figure 7 on the dotted lines A, B, and
Figure 8 is on the dotted lines C. D.
Figure 9 represents a plan of my new or improved appliance, for preparing the
strips to form the mount, by the bevelling of the inside edges of the said strips;
Figure 10 is also a plan in horizontal section, while Figure 11 is a plan of
underside; Figure 12 is a cross section; Figure 13 is a strip of cardboard before
bevelled, and Figure 14 is the strip bevelled.
The frame Figure 1 is produced from properly prepared strips of cardboard
bevelled on their inner edges, with their ends slanted off or cut to an angle of
45 degrees, and by taking four such strips a, and mitering them together as
represented, and marked a³, a², a picture or other mount is thereby produced-
The joining or uniting of the mitered meeting edges is effected by metal clips b
which embrace and secure when pressed or closed down the boundary corners of
the mount, and also break the joints, and bond the adjacent mitered meeting edges
together; as best seen in the enlarged views Figures 2 and 3-For additional
security in preventing the parting of the mounts I place break joint slips or discs
of paper, cloth or fabric marked In Figure 5 the mount is provided with a
break joint clip 6' which both embraces the angles of the mount and covers the
mitered meeting edges, teits or serrations d³, d³, connect the clip to the mount;
and the turned over edges of the clips, are closed upon the edges of the mount as
described.
In producing such mounts as in Figures 6, 7 and 8, the joining edges are cut to
an angle beyond 45 degrees according to the exact inclination required-In the
said Figures 6, 7 and 8, the joining up edges, are cut to an angle of about
51 degrees Figure 6 represents the exact angle in the flat before the mount sides
are inclined-e, e are the strips and e³, e the meeting ends; and when joined up
and connected by the clip b the mount presents the appearance of being solid, by
the inclining or slanting inwards of its sides-The said sides are supported by.
straight edgings e³, which support the mounts when in use the same being kept in
place by triangular or square wood strips e³ glued in the angles as blocks or
supports.
The cardboard strips to form the mounts herein before described are bevelled in
the following way-f is an adjustable bar, which is capable of being moved
laterally to suit the width of strip to be bevelled, it also forms a guide for the
proper feeding in, of the strips to be cut-g is the plain or flat surface of the
apparatus g, and disposed on the bevelling side or sides of the plane is a knife or
cutter i which is fixed at the desired angle to form the bevel k―j is an adjusting
arrangement for giving the required inclination and cut to the knife, which is
inclined on its cutting edge, so that on the strip a Figure 13 being drawn under
the cutter i as best seen in Figure 10, a bevelled edge is thereby cut upon the edge
of the mount Figure 14; which may afterwards be coloured or gilded, and made
up into mounts as before described.
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
First The improvements in picture and other mounts hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings; that is to say, producing picture
and other like mounts from strips or lengths of cardboard, millboard or other
suitable material with mitered ends, which are united and put together so as to
constitute a frame, by metallic clips and break joint backings as described and
represented in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying Drawings, or by means

page_text: of clips alone which both embrace the corners and cover and bond the junctions of
the mount as represented in Figure 5.
Secondly Producing picture and other like mounts, with inclined or sloping
sides, giving the appearance of a solid mount as described and represented in
Figures 6, 7 and 8 of the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly Bevelling strips or lengths of cardboard, millboard, or such like
materials for the production of picture and other like mounts in the manner
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings; that is to
say, bevelling strips of cardboard by means of an adjustable knife or cutter, with
an inclined cutting edgo; under which the strips to be bevelled, are drawn,
between adjustable guides; the parts being constructed, arranged and combined
for the purpose as described and set forth in Figures 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the
accompanying Drawings.
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