US95441A - Joseph dill and edward rice - Google Patents

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JOSEPH DILL AND EDWARD nien, or GRAND'RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

Leners Patent No. 95,441, amd october 5,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IFN METHOD OF FRMING- MQULDING'S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the-name.

To all whom it may concerti:

Be' it known that'we, JosEPHADILL and EDWARD l RICE, both of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Straight Mouldings for Picture and other Frames; and we .do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of the same, suiiicient to enable others skilled in the art to which our invention appertains, to fully understand and Ilse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, and in which- Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, represent end views ofdifferent forms ot' mouldings for frames, 85e.

Like letters of' reference indicate` like parts in the several figures.

Our invention consists in straight mouldings forv picture and oth'er frames, produced 4as hereinafter described. v v

A represents the base-pieces of the vframe-mould ing, provided with female dovetails to receive the moulding-strip B.

We have represented the base-piece asmade of dark wood, and the moulding-strips B of light, and C of dark wood, although the strips may be made ofthe same kind of wood, it' desired.

llre strips B are provided, at their under side, with maledovetails, which slide in the female -dovetails of base A, and on'their upper side witlrfemale dovetails, which receive the male dovetails on the under side ot' strips C, which, in figs. l, 2, 4, and 5, form the finishing-strips. f

In iig. 3, we have shown the simplest forni of moulding for the' plainest frames, consisting only of the base A and one strip B, which, in this case, forms the finishing-strip.

In g. 4, we show the base and strips as provided with male dovetails on their upper, and female dove- In iig. 5, at D, is shown a corner 'moulding-strip,- and in iig. 1, at E, an edge-strip, which latter may be,l formed by constructing the base A of two pieces tof@ gether, (as indicated in dotted lines,) sliding-the full strip E into a dovetail properly plreparedfor it,"and then cutting it in two.

rlhis strip 'E will, ofcourse, have to be glued in,

though the strips B GD need not be glued, but merely driven into each other.

The great advantage of our frames is, that an endless variety can be produced without beingobliged to have a complete, full moulding for each variety..

The dealer, in serving his customer', can, by merely sliding different moulding-strips into each other and the base, produce a .very large variety of frames for the customer to select from, and, as the mouldingstrips can be made in certain sizes, and regulznly-` sized dovetails, but otherwise in' any imaginable shape or form, there is no end to the different shapes that can be produced.

But another great advantage is, that the frames 'so produced will not break the moulding by warping.v v

WVe do not, of course, confine ourselves to mirror or picture-frames, but can produce window-frames, or any other straight furniture or building-1nouldngs, in the same manner, and, it' dti'erent'kinds of wood are used, the vornamental effect is striking and pleasing.

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- As an article of manufacture, straight mouldings for picture and other trames, &c.,'formed of two 'or more strips, in the manner and for the purposes hereinbev Witnesses:

EDWARD TAGGAR'I, MARK M, Pownns.

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