US733809A - Adjustable regulator for picture-frames. - Google Patents

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No'. 733,809. V PATENTBD JULY 14, 1903. F. 0. BROWN.&: W. E. CHBNERY. ADJUSTABLE REGULATOR FOR PICTURE FRAMES.

APPLIOATIOH FILED OUT. 9. 1902.

H0 MODEL.

W/ TNE SSE 8 No. 733,809. Patented July 14, IQOQ.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK 0. BROWN AND WILLIAM E. CHENERY, OF FRAMINGHAM, MASSA CHUSETTS.

ADJUSTABLE REGULATOR FOR PICTURE-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,809, dated July 14, 1903.

Application filed October 9, 1902. Serial No. 126,469. (No m'odelil To aZZ whom it may concern: hanger 8 and through the eye 7. The frame Beit known that we, FRANK 0. BROWN and is thus supported upon the hanger 8. In WILLIAM E. CHENERY, citizens of the United order to raise or lower one of the hangers States, and residents of Framingham, in the relatively to the wall, the picturewire is 5 county of Middlesex and State of Massachuloosened and drawn a short distance through setts, have invented a new and Improved Adthe openings 10, thereby causing the hanger justable Regulator for Picture- Frames, of 8 to occupy a position higher or lower, as which the following is a full, clear, and exdesired. The frame may be readily disconact description. nected by loosening the wire 4, or, if do to Our inventionlrelates to an adjustable regsired, the hook 3 may be lifted from the ulator for picture-frames and the 1ike-that molding and left connected with the frame. is to say, to mechanism for adjusting and The lower or free end of thewire 4 is threaded maintaining the level of frames used for the downward through the upper ear 9, the eye display of pictures and for analogous pur- '7, and the lower ear 9 and is then carried up- 15 poses. ward, being disposed centrally in the curved We" will describe an adjustable regulator edges of the upper and lower ears 9, as indifor picture-frames embodying our invention cated in Fig. 2, and then threaded downward and then point out the novel features in the through the openings 10 and eye 7, so as to appended claims. leave its lower end depend-ing below. The 20 Reference is to be had to the accompanying frictional contacts of the severalabrupt turns drawings, forming a part of this specification, of the Wire serve to support the weight of the in which similar characters of reference indiframe 6. The flexible member 4 so engages cafe corresponding parts in both figures. the ears 9 10 as to be held centrally in posi- Figure 1 is a side elevation showing our intion by the curved edges thereof, as shown in 25 vention as applied to a picture-frame, and Fig. 2, the portion of the flexible member in- Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing our determediate of the ears being thereby held at vice removed from the suspending hook. an accessible point. This arrangement also Upon the walll is mounteda so-called picsecures uniformity in the tension exerted by ture-molding 2 in the usual manner, and a the ears upon the flexible member and due 3o hook 3 of the shape shown is provided for the to the resilience of the ears. purpose of detachably engaging this molding. It will be noted that our device is simple, A longitudinal member 4, composed, prefercheap, and easily handled and that it may be ably, of picture-Wire, is provided at its upreadily sold as an article of manufacture. per end with a loop or eye 5, whereby said Having thus described our invention, we 35 memberis supported. A frame 6, which may claim as new and desire to secure by Letters i contain apicture or analogous article, is pro- Patentvided with screw-eyes 7, as indicated in the 1. As an article of manufacture, an adjustdrawings. able regulator for display-frames, compris- A hanger 8 is provided with integral proing a hook to engage a molding, alongitudi- 4o jections 9, each having an aperture 10. This nal member connected with said hook and hanger is mounted upon the longitudinal depending therefrom, the lower end of said member 4, as indicated in Fig. 2, the longilongitudinal member being normally free, a tudinal member being threaded through the hanger provided with ears for engaging said apertures 10. Each screw-eye 7 engages a longitudinal member, said ears being pro- 5 hanger 8 and secures the same rigidly upon vided with apertures through which said lonthe frame 6. l gitudinal member may be threaded, and Our device is used as follows: The hanger means for securing said hanger to a frame. 8 being placed in position, preferably one 2. As an article of manufacture, an adj ustupon each side of the frame and held seable regulator for picture-frames, comprising 50 curely by the screw-eyes 7, the picture-Wire a longitudinal flexible member, means for 4 is threaded through the apertures 10 in the suspending the same from a wall, the lower metal to a frame, said ears having apertures disposed in alinement with each other and 15 being provided with curved edges also disposed in alinement With each other, said apertures and said curved edges being for the purpose of engaging a flexible member free to sustain the weight of said frame.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK G. BROWVN. WILLIAM E. CHENERY. Witnesses:

MARY LE B. STOCKWELL, FRANK M. STOCKWELL.

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