Improvements in or connected with Mouldings for Suspending Pictures.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 12th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Mouldings for Suspending
Pictures.
We, WILLIAM JAMES RUNDLE of 54 Park Grove, Battersea, Carpenter, and
FRANK BENJAMIN LEA, of 3 Wavertree Road, Streatham Hill S. W., Electrician,
and ANTHONY GEORGE NEW of Gresham Road, Brixton S.W., Electrician, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to certain improvements in mouldings as hitherto used for
the suspension of pictures, whereby said mouldings may also be utilised as a casing
for electrical conductors, the objects being to obviate as much as possible the
unsightly appearance of ordinary casing as generally used in the wiring of buildings
and apartments, and also to provide a useful combination.
In carrying our invention into effect we employ suitable lengths of wood
or other material, of rectangular cross section, and provided with one, two or
more grooves for the purpose of carrying the electrical conductors. Said lengths
are firmly fastened to the walls of the building or apartment to which our invention
is to be applied, and the conductors laid in the grooves, aforesaid. We also provide
lengths of moulding, of any suitable pattern and style of ornamentation for covering
the grooves in which the conductors are laid.
Said moulding is, however formed with a ledge or beading projecting upwards, so
that when is fixed to the face of the grooved lengths of casing, attached to the
walls as before described, said ledge or beading may be used for suspending pictures,
by means of hooks and cords. In order to relieve the screws or other means for
fixing the moulding to the casing, of the strain imposed by the weight of the
pictures, we form a ledge or fillet upon the inner face of said moulding, and pro-
jecting at right angles thereto, which rests upon the grooved casing, and
bears the weight of the pictures and also preserves the alignment of said
moulding.
We are aware that a moulding or false cornice with a projecting ledge or bead
has previously been used for the suspension and adjustment of pictures but the
novelty according to our invention consists in the improvement of said moulding,
as herein described, whereby it may be also utilised as a casing or covering for
electric wires.
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FREDK, WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Mouldings for Suspending
Pictures,
We, WILLIAM JAMES RUNDLE cf 54 Park Grove Battersea, Carpenter and
FRANK BENJAMIN LEA of 3 Wavertree Road Streatham Hill S.W. Electrician
and ANTHONY GEORGE NEW of Gresham Road Brixton, S.W. Electrician 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:-
Our invention relates to certain improvements in mouldings hitherto used for
the suspension of pictures whereby said mouldings may also be utilised as a casing
for electrical conductors, the objects being to obviate as much as possible the

page_text: unsightly appearance of ordinary casings as generally used in the wiring of buildings
and apartments, and also to provide a useful combination.
In carrying our invention into effect we employ suitable lengths of wood, or other
suitable material of rectangular cross section provided with one or more grooves for
carrying the electrical conductors-said lengths being firmly fastened to the walls
of building or apartment to which our invention is to be applied-and the
conductors are laid in the grooves, aforesaid.
The accompanying drawings illustrate our invention, and may be referred to in
the following description ;-
The moulding 6 Figure 1, is attached by screws or other means to the plate or
length a, which is imbedded in the substance of or attached to the wall or the
like, of the building to which the device is to be applied. The covering
moulding b is formed with a ledge or beading f., and is shaped so as to constitute
a projecting beading, or rounded ledge so that pictures or the like may be suspended
by means of hocks or the like, shaped or formed to fit the beading and sustain the
weight imposed thereon, which is again supported by the ledge or beading f. afore-
said, relieving the holding screws d and e from any strain but that of the
transverse strain due to the centre of support of the load differing from the point
of suspension.
A. modification of the foregoing is shewn by Figure 2, in which the length or
plate a with the required number of grooves for holding the conductors is covered
by a second plate, which together form the ordinary casing, supporting and
holding the electrical conductors. We attach to said plate a beading b with a
ledge fixed to the wall plate or length a by a proper number of screws g through
said ledge or fillet f. firmly securing said beading 6 to a, the weight of the pictures
being sustained by the ledge f. as in the former case.
We are aware that cornices or the like have already been used with projections
for sustaining pictures and the like, but the chief features in our invention are the
adaptation of or to a casing for electrical conductors, of a means for supporting
pictures or the like consisting in a projecting beading or moulding with a ledge or
fillet for bearing the weight thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is,
The adaptation of a projecting moulding or bead, for the suspension of pictures
or the like as a covering for or fixed to the covering of, a grooved plate or length
of casing carrying electrical conductors, said projecting moulding or bead being
provided with a ledge or fillet for sustaining the weight imposed thereon, sub-
stantially as herein described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 12th day of October 1891
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.