US1394140A - Frame for games and other purposes - Google Patents

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S. BROWN.

FRAME FOR GAMES AND OTHER PURPOSES. APPLICATION vFILED FEB. 28, 1921.

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UNITED STATES STEWART BROWN, OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FRAME FOR GAMES ANDOTHER PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

` Application led February 28, 1921. Serial No. 448,728.

T 0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, STEWART BRowN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames for Games and other Purposes, of which the following, reference being had to the drawing accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a complete specication.

This invention relates to metal frames for pictures and other purposes.

Among the objects of the invention are, to economically obtain a durable metal frame which may be used in a box like construction as the sides and end walls thereof, as well also, to retain a front and a back to said construction; and also may be used as a frame in which a picture together with a protecting glass in front thereof and a protecting board in back thereof, may be inclosed. Further objects ofthe invention are to obtain a frame which may form the side walls of a box like construction and the re taining means whereby a glass front and a back may be built into said construction and held in spaced relation. Further objects are to obtain a sheet metal frame which can be easily built up at the time of the assembling of the several parts which are to be inclosed in said frame; whether the same be a picture and frame protected by a glass front and a back, or a box like construction having a glass front and back in spaced relation.

In the drawing referred to Figure l represents a sheet metal ribbon from which the frame illustrated is obtained.

Fig. 2 is a perspective of a frame which is obtained from the ribbon illustrated in Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a cross section of said frame on line 3 3 of Fig. 2, viewed as indicated by arrows.

Fig. 4 is a section of one corner of the frame illustrated in Fig. 2, on line /l-l of said Fig. 2, viewed as indicated by arrows.

A reference character applied to designate a given part indicates sai'd part throughout the several figures of the drawing, wherever the same appears.

- A, Fig. l and Fig. 4, represents sheet metal ribbons which are, respectively, provided with notches a, a, and tongue B, and aperture b. C, C, and D, l represent broken lines, on which the ribbons A and A are bent or formed, to obtain the frames illustrated in Fig. 2. E represents broken lines to indica-te the lines on which the tongue B is bent in locking the ends of the ribbon A together, in assembling the frame illustrated in Fig. 2. F, F, Figs. l, 2 and 3, represent indentations in ribbon A; and G represents a ribbon of flexible material, as paper or cardboard, which is held in spaced relation to the body part of ribbon A when the several parts of the box like construction illustrated in Figs. Q and 3 are assembled. I-I represents a glass front, in the construction illustrated in Fig. 2; and I a back in said construction. By this spacing of ribbon G from ribbon A, said ribbon is held with the edges thereof back from the edges of the front H and back I, and between said front and back, and said front and back are held in spaced relation by said ribbon G; as will be observed by referring to Fig. 3.

In assembling the frame obtained from ribbon A the tongue B is inserted in aperture o, subsequent to the bending of said ribbon on the broken lines C, D and CZ; -and said tongue is then bent on broken line E, into the position in which it is illustrated in Fig. et. Before bending said ribbon A on lines C the member G is bent on lines at right angles to the side edges thereof, the glass H and the back I are placed on the top and bottom edges of said member G, and the ribbon A is bent around said front, the back and said member G immediately prior to the insertion of tongue B in said aperture b. The sides of ribbon A may be bent on lines D, d, prior or subsequent to the placing of said ribbon around members H, I, G, as preferred.

The notches a, o', are made of suiiicient diepth and size so that when the ribbon A, is bent on the lines D, (l, the edges of said notches are adjacent and are not particularly noticeable.

I claim:

l. In a new article of manufacture, a frame comprising a glass front and a back, a ribbon provided with an aperture adjacent to one end and a tongue at the other end. and said ribbon bent adjacent to the sides thereof to obtain flan-ges, in combination with an additional ribbon of iexible matev rial. said ribbon being formed up with said additional ribbon inclosed by said first named ribbon and said tongue engaged in said aperture to retain said ribbons in said formed up position, and means to hold said additional ribbon in spaced relation to said first ribbon, and between said front and back to retain said front and back in spaced relation.A

2. M new article of manufacture consisting` of a frame of sheet metal comprising a ribbon provided with notches arranged in parallel on opposite sides-thereof, said sides being bent on lines extending between the notches on a given side, to bring the edges of said sides into planes substantially at right angles to the plane of the body part of said ribbon, and said body part provided With indentations and bent on lines extending from the notches on Yone side to the notches on the other side, anY additional ribbon of flexible material maintained in spaced relation to said first ribbon by said indentations, and arranged to hold aglass front and a back in spaced relation, and means to maintain said first namedribbon in its last named bent position.

STEWART BBOVVh1 In the presence of Y CHARLES TURNER BROWN, B. S. BROWN.

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