Abstract Frames for prints, photographs, paintings, and the like, are custom made from materials in a kit including lengths of framing members, fasteners and a composite backing sheet. The framing members have one side of ornamental configuration and a reverse side provided with longitudinal locking grooves and a recessed edge. The framing members are mitre cut to appropriate lengths for the finished frame and the segments thereof are firmly fastened together at the mitred intersections by means of angle fastening members that snap into the locking grooves in the reverse sides of the framing members. The framed picture or photograph is secured within the recess formed on the rearwardly facing side of the assembled frame around it inner edge. A backing and protective support for the picture or photograph includes a layer of stiff pressboard or similar material with one surface suitably finished to provide a pleasing border or mat for the visual display. The finished surface of the pressboard is coated with a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive and covered by a sheet of transparent peelable plastic film. Before cutting the framing members to length, the composite of pressboard and plastic film is cut to size to accommodate the picture with a border or mat of desired width. The picture is mounted on the pressboard by peeling off the plastic film, applying the picture on the exposed adhesive coated surface of the pressboard in its desired position, and then replacing the plastic film over the picture, securing it to the pressboard by means of the exposed adhesive on the mat areas. The frame members may then be cut to appropriate length to accommodate the mounted picture, assembled and the picture secured within the frame.
A frame for displaying pictures and the like comprising, a plurality of elongated frame members each having a forwardly facing side configured to present an ornamental appearance and a rearwardly facing side including at least one longitudinally extending groove between its edges and a recess extending along the edge thereof forming the inner edge of the frame, each of said grooves having a bottom of greater width than its opening in the rearwardly facing surface of its respective frame member and side walls sloping symmetrically towards one another from the bottom to the opening of the groove, each of said frame members having both ends mitre cut to meet symmetrically with adjoining ends of two other frame members, and a plurality of fastening members for securing said frame members together to form the completed frame, one for each pair of mating grooves at each mating intersection, each of said fastening members comprising a pair of elongated arms rigidly joined to each other at one end thereof at an angle equal to the angle of the intersection of the pair of frame members it engages, the arms of said fastening member being rectangular in cross-section and having a width greater than the width of the opening of said grooves in the surface of said frame member and a thickness less than the depth of said grooves, at least the portions of said members extending along the edges of the openings of said grooves being sufficiently resilient to permit said fastening members to be inserted by pressing towards the bottoms of said grooves.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
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A frame for displaying pictures and the like comprising, a plurality of elongated frame members each having a forwardly facing side configured to present an ornamental appearance and a rearwardly facing side including at least one longitudinally extending groove between its edges and a recess extending along the edge thereof forming the inner edge of the frame, each of said grooves having a bottom of greater width than its opening in the rearwardly facing surface of its respective frame member and side walls sloping symmetrically towards one another from the bottom to the opening of the groove, each of said frame members having both ends mitre cut to meet symmetrically with adjoining ends of two other frame members, and a plurality of fastening members for securing said frame members together to form the completed frame, one for each pair of mating grooves at each mating intersection, each of said fastening members comprising a pair of elongated arms rigidly joined to each other at one end thereof at an angle equal to the angle of the intersection of the pair of frame members it engages, the arms of said fastening member being rectangular in cross-section and having a width greater than the width of the opening of said grooves in the surface of said frame member and a thickness less than the depth of said grooves, at least the portions of said members extending along the edges of the openings of said grooves being sufficiently resilient to permit said fastening members to be inserted by pressing towards the bottoms of said grooves.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
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The frame of claim 1 wherein each of said recesses includes a reentrant portion and further comprising, wedge means for partially entering said reentrant portion of said recess to frictionally retain the surface of the visual display firmly against the bottom of said recess in said frame.