CA1152740A

CA1152740A - Picture hanging locator

Info

Publication number: CA1152740A
Application number: CA000378631A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Nickolay Siniuk
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1981-05-29
Filing date: 1981-05-29
Publication date: 1983-08-30

Abstract

A B S T R A C T

This invention is a device for marking the location upon a wall where a framed picture is to be hung. It consists of a rubber or plastc coated wire, the upper end of which is wound into a short coil, by means of which it is held by in-serting a finger therein. A downward straight shank extending from said coil; and said shank terminating into a hook upon which is hung the frame of a framed picture, during the loca-ting of the said picture upon the wall.

Description

3~ r9~7~o S P E C I F I C A T I O N

This invention consists of a device by means of which various types of framed pictures or documents can be loca-ted and hung upon a wall, rapidly and in the exact location.
Many people experience considerable difficulty in the hanging of a picture upon a wall. The framed picture is usu-ally hung in the wrong location, several times, before the person who is hanging the pieture, is completely satisfied with its final loeation upon the wall, or its relation to other pictures already hanging on that wall.
~ In many cases a measuring tape is used a great deal to determine the location of a picture upon a wall, in which ease much time is lost in the performance of a simple operation.
Also, the practice of hanging and rehanging of the same picture several times, and each time relocating the nails or hangers, eauses mueh damage to the walls.
Therefore, the primary objeet of this invention, is to simplify the loeating and hanging of a framed pieture, and to reduce the time consumed in doing so.
This is accomplished in the invention by providing a simple but efficient picture hanging locator, by menas of which the exaet required location where the picture should be hung ean be determined instantly and with little effort.
In deseribing the invention reference will be made to the attached drawings in which,-Figure 1 shows a front view of the inven~ion, Figure 2 shows a side view of the invention, Figure 3 shows the first s-tep in the use of the inven-tion, ~ Figure 4 shows the next step in the use of the inven-;~ tion, and Figure 5 shows a variation in the eonstruetion of the invention.
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7~0 The invention, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, consists of a rubber or plastic covered wire which is formed into a coil 1 having an inside diameter large enough to accommodate therein the index finger of the hand, as shown in Figure 3.
The wire continues downwardly in a straight shank 2, and termi-nates at the end of the shank 2 into a short upwardly bent hook 3.
The manner in which the locator is used in the process of hanging a framed picture consists of hanging the picture 4 from the hook 3 by attaching said hook to about the center and rear of the upper part of the picture frame, inser-ting the index finger into the coil 1, with the shank 2 behind the hand and against the wallj and moving the hand in any direction , until the picture is in the required location. With the hand remaining in the final position, the picture is removed, and a mark is made upon the wall, at the bottom of the hook 3, as shown at "X" in Figure 4. The nail, or whatever the wall at-tachment may be, is inserted into the wall, and the picture is hung thereon.
Instead of using a rubber coated wire in the con-struction of the invention, it can be moulded out of a plastic material, having the appearance as shown in Figure 5, where the coil 1 is replaced by a short tube 5 to which is attached a shank 6, having a hook 7.-on.its. e.nd.for the at-tachment to the picture frame, as described above.
Experimentation with the invention, both in the home and in commercial establishments, has proven it to be a great time and labor saver, and a good protec-tion against pre-ventable damage to wall surfaces.

Claims

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclu-sive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:-

1. A device for locating the hanging location of a framed picture, upon a wall, consisting of a short tube for inserting therein a finger, by means of which the said device is held against said wall; a straight longitudinal shank, at-tached to and extending downwardly from said tube, positioned so as to abut the said wall when the said tube is held against said wall, and a hook at the free end of the shank for freely suspending the picture to be hung, by its frame, for the purpose of marking the spot on the wall whereat the means for the perma-nent suspension of the picture is attached to the wall; and a soft wrapping covering the components of the device to prevent said device from marring the wall.

2. A device for locating the hanging location of a framed picture upon a wall, consisting of a rubber or plastic covered wire which is wound at its top into a shortcoil having an inside diameter to permit the insertion therein of an index finger, by means of which the said device is held against the wall; the wire of said coil continuing and extending downward-ly into a straight shank which abuts the wall when the device is held against said wall; the free end of said shank terminating in a hook, upon which the frame of said picture is freely sus-pended, so that after locating where the picture should be permanently hung, the picture is removed, exposing the hook, the bottom of which is marked upon the wall as the spot where the nail or hanger is attached to the wall.