US476357A

US476357A - Photograph-holder

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Publication number: US476357A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-06-07
Anticipated expiration: 1909-06-07

Description

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V. J. AUGIR. PHOTOGRAPH HOLDER.

No 476,357. Patented June 7,1892.

UNTTED STATES PATENT Gimme.

VIOLA JULIETTE AUGIR, OF SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI.

PHOTOGRAPH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,357, dated June '7, 1892.

Application filed March 10, 1892: Serial No. 424,402. (No specimens.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, VIOLA J ULIETTE AUGIR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Greene and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Phot0graph-H0lder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in photograph-holders; and the objects in view are to provide a cheap and simple construction of photograph-holderadapted to be folded for the preservation of photographs, to be readily unfolded for the purpose of exhibiting the same, and to be stood upon a mantel, table, or other convenient. support and exhibit to view from each side thereof its contents; furthermore, to provide a means for increasing or decreasing the capacity of the holder in accordance with the number of pictures desired to exhibit.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure] is a perspective of a photograph-holder constructed 1n accordance with my invention, the same being open in the position it occupies when standing upon a table, mantel, or other support. Fig. 2 is a view of the holder closed. Fig. 3 is a section through one of the frames. Fig. at is a detail in perspective of a portion of one of the frames.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In constructing my holder I may employ any number of the hereinafter-described frames and may add or detract from the alreadyconstructed holder any number of frames whereby the capacity of the holder as a whole may be increased or decreased, or, in other words, made to accord with the number of photographs which it is desired to exhibit. \Vith this premise I will proceed to describe the construction of a single frame or section of the holder, and will only add that the remaining sections are but duplicates, and hence will require no specific description.

Each frame or section is constructed, mainly, of wire, and consists of an inner oval, rectangular,or other shaped frame 1, around which 15 formed a surrounding filigree frame 2. In

constructing the frame 1 a suitable length of wire is bent into suitable shape or form and its ends secured. The filigree or outer frame 2 is then applied, and the same consists of a suitable length of wire coiled or convoluted at intervals, forming eyes 3, and between its eyes secured to the inner frame orwire, in this instance by a small binding-wire 4, passed around the two frames; but other means of fastening the two frames together will suggest themselves to the makea To each of the four corners of the section thus formed elastic bands or loops 5 are applied, the same being passed through or between convenient eyes of the outer frame, as shown, and preferably provided with small bow-knots 6 of ribbon, which give atasteful appearance. Such completes the construction of a section of the photograph-holder, and anydesired numher, as before stated, may be employed to constitute a completed holder. The sections are connected so as to fold one upon the other through the medium of cords or strings 7, passed through the adjacent eyes of two adjacent sections, which thus constitute a hinge for the sections, as will be obvious. The end sections are preferably provided at their exterior sides, or those sides which will be outermost when the holder is folded, With plush or other covered pads 8, so as to lend a handsome appearance to the holder when folded or closed.

9 designates photographs, each section, ex cept the end sections of the holder, accommodating two thereof. These photographs are applied to their respective sections by slipping their corners under the elastic loops, and when in position they are arranged back to back and their fronts or faces exposed to view. The end sections of the holder, having the pads applied to one side, of course accommodate but one photograph each. By opening or distending the holder and arranging the sections in a zigzag manner it may he stood upon a table, mantel, or other support and the photographs at each side exhibited to view. If desired and in order to preserve the pictures from exposure resulting in fading, soiling, &c., the sections may be folded alternately upon each other in opposite directions, as shown in Fig. 2. By disconnecting the hinge-strings one or more sections may be removed, and thus the capacity of the holder reduced to accommodate itself to the number of photographs, and thus blank spaces avoided. It will be obvious, also, that from time to time, as the collection increases, additional frames or sections may be added, and it is my intention to manufacture such frames or sections separately from the compl(-te(l holder, so that persons may increase tln ir collection and accommodate the holder to the same. The wire stock employed in manufacturing the frames or sections may be nickel, silver, or of other metal, and by combining metals of different colors good efiects are secured. If desired, a blank autograph-card (see Fig. 3) maybe located between the backs of each pair of adjacent photographs.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. As an article of manufacture, the hereindescribed section for photograph-holders, the same consisting of a rectangular wire frame provided at each side and near each of its corners with eyes and elastic loops located at each of the corners and connected with the eyes, substantially as specified.

2. Theherein-described photograph-holder, the same consisting of the series of sections surrounded by filigree frames forming a continuous series of eyes, cords for removably connecting pairs of adjacent eyes of adjacent sections, whereby the sections are adapted to fold upon each other, and elastic loops applied to the corners of each section and engaging the eyes thereof, substantially as specified.

3. The photograph-holder consisting of the series of sections, each consisting of a plain wire frame bent to desired shape and an external wire binding forming a filigree provided at intervals with eyes,loose connections between the eyes of adjacent sections, elastic loops at the corners of the sections between the eyes, and pads applied to the outer sides of the two end sections, substantially as specified.

4. The photograph-holder comprising a series of wire frames loosely connected together at alternately-opposite edges, photograpl1-retaining devices mounted on each frame, and an autograph-card located in each frame and held by said devices, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

VIOLA JULIETTE AUGIR.

\Vitnesses:

WM. H. MORSE, V. P. STRUDER.