Improvements in Frames for Pictures, Photographs, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1891-Accepted, 25th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Frames for Pictures, Photographs, and the like.
We, FREDERICK JAMES MATTHEWS and EDWARD VINTER MATTHEWS, of
St. Johns Road, Ryde, in the County of Hants, Photographic Artists, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvement consists of mounting pictures on a circular frame and protecting
by a glass, same angle, which gives the picture a different effect, from those mounted
on a flat surface.
Our improvement in frames for photographs and other pictures, consists in
fixing them on wooden frames, the shape of a segment of a circle, and protecting
the same by a glass of the same angle. The wooden frame which may be covered
with any material, gilded or painted is then placed in another frame made of any
kind of moulding to suit the taste of the purchaser.
Dated this 19th day of February 1891.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Frames for Pictures, Photographs, and the like.
We, FREDERICK JAMES MATTHEWS, and EDWARD VINTER MATTHEWS, both
of St Johns Road, Ryde, in the County of Hants, Photographic Artists 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 improvements in frames for pictures, photographs and
the like, and has for its object the production of an effect which is different from
the appearance of such pictures when mounted upon a flat surface.
In order that our invention may be the better understood, we have appended the
accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is a transverse section of the
improved frame, Figure 2 an elevation thereof, and Figure 3 a perspective
view drawn to a larger scale, shewing the effect due to the improvements
according to our invention.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several
views.
In carrying our invention into effect we employ a bent glass front a, the
curvature of which forms the arc of a circle. This is enclosed within a suitably
shaped frame and the picture, photograph or the like is retained in position by
an inner frame or mount , so that the surface of said picture is curved in a similar
manner, and corresponding to, the glass front a. The whole may then be fitted to
an ordinary picture frame c. The frame is provided with covers e e', to project
beyond the frame c and protect the interior from dust or dirt.
The improved frames according to our said invention may be made of any
suitable material, and the external configuration may also be varied to meet
the requirements of various conditions, the chief feature being the curvature of the
picture, and the method of and means for mounting the same in combination with a
rved loss front

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
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First. The improved frame for pictures photographs and the like, in which
a curved mount and glass front is employed in combination with an ordinary frame,
substantially as herein described and shewn by the appended drawings.
Second. The method of, and means for mounting and framing pictures photographs
and the like so that the exposed surface thereof is of curved form or is bent to the
arc of a circle, substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of Avril 1891.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.