Patent ID: 7740048

Claim:
A framing assembly, comprising: a plurality of elongated first pads, each first pad having spaced stems across a width and length; a plurality of elongated second pads, each second pad having a width and at least one receptacle being shaped to receive at least one of the stems from the first pad with frictional engagement therebetween, the first and second pads being mated and configured into a multi-sided frame; a mesh screen being shaped to fit the multi-sided frame and having a weave corresponding in substantial space relation with the spacing of the stems, a portion of the screen being engaged between the first pads and the second pads with the stems passing through the mesh of the weave before passing into the corresponding receptacle of the mated second pad; and a cover having an outer face and spaced outside and inside sidewalls extending substantially perpendicular from the outer face, each sidewall having an engagement finger extending inward at a substantially right angle from said respective sidewall for engagement with locking engagement teeth at respective outside and inside surfaces of either said first or second engaged pads, the cover extending longitudinally over at least a portion of said mated first and second pads, said outer face of the cover spanning the width of the covered second pads, and said inside and outside sidewalls of the cover extending adjacent at least a portion of the outside and inside surfaces, respectively, of said covered second pads.