US147528A

US147528A - Improvement in picture-frames

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Publication number: US147528A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-02-17
Anticipated expiration: 1891-02-17

Description

J. W. TAI-"T.

Picture-Frames.

Wnesses:

Patented Feb. 17,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,`

JOSEPH YV. TAFT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICTURE-FRAMES.

Specification forming'part of Letters Patent No. 147,528, dated February 17, 1874 g application filed February 10, 1873.

CASE A.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. TAFT, of the city of Chicago, in the county Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Picture-Frames, of which the following is a full description, ret'- erence being had to the accompanying drawings making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a face View; Fig. 2, a cross-section on line w y of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 shows a variation.

This invention relates to the mat or panel of a picture-frame; and its object is to make such mat of wood with a metal lining, and inA such a manner that it will be cheap and dun a-ble.

The best mat is made of three pieces of veneer, u b c, in the drawings, so placed that the grain of the central piece shall be at right angles, or nearly so, with that of the two outer pieces. These pieces of veneer are to be glued together. An oval hole for the picture is cut, as usual, in the mat, and lined with a metallic lining, d, which may be spun in` place, providing an ornament for the hole through the mat, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2.

A mat formed in this manner `will not warp,` that tendency being overcome by placing the veneers at right angles to each other, as described. Y

That portion of the mat which is exposed i to view may be covered with cloth, flock, gold,

metallic leaf, or other suitable substance. In addition a border of wood, c, is secured to the mat, the exposed portion of the wood being covered in any suitable manner, but this portion e is not essential to the mat.

I sometimes finish this veneer mat by putting on the back thereof a thick piece oi' wood, corresponding in form and size with the oval opening thereof, which piece may be beveled, and the exposed portion covered with velvet or other suitable material for ornament.

Instead of the metallin ing d described, some other suitable lining may be used, the object of this lining being to cover the edge of the oval and furnish an ornament therefor.

I do not confine myself to the use of three pieces of veneer; a greater number may be used, but two will not be sufficient.

A very good mat might be made by the use of four pieces of wood, f, Fig. 3, cut as repre sented in the drawings, and fitted together, having a hole through the same provided with a metallic lining; but this increases the expense of the mat, and adds nothing to its utillWhat I claim as new is as follows:

l. A. mat for picture-frames, composed of three or more pieces of veneer, a b c, joined together and arranged as described, so that the grain of the central piece shall be at right angles, or nearly so, with that of the outer or inclosing pieces, substantially as described.

2. A mat for picture-frames, composed of three or more pieces of veneer joined together, as described, and arranged so that the grain of the central piece shall bc at right vangles ornearly so with that of the outer or inclosing pieces, the edges of the pieces at the sight opening being secured and protected by lining d, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

JOSEPH W. TAFT. W'itnesses E. A. WEs'r, O. W. BOND.