Showing papers on "Pressboard published in 1971"

Custom framing system

Abstract: Frames for prints, photographs, paintings, and the like, are custom made from materials in a kit including lengths of framing members, fasteners and a composite backing sheet. The framing members have one side of ornamental configuration and a reverse side provided with longitudinal locking grooves and a recessed edge. The framing members are mitre cut to appropriate lengths for the finished frame and the segments thereof are firmly fastened together at the mitred intersections by means of angle fastening members that snap into the locking grooves in the reverse sides of the framing members. The framed picture or photograph is secured within the recess formed on the rearwardly facing side of the assembled frame around it inner edge. A backing and protective support for the picture or photograph includes a layer of stiff pressboard or similar material with one surface suitably finished to provide a pleasing border or mat for the visual display. The finished surface of the pressboard is coated with a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive and covered by a sheet of transparent peelable plastic film. Before cutting the framing members to length, the composite of pressboard and plastic film is cut to size to accommodate the picture with a border or mat of desired width. The picture is mounted on the pressboard by peeling off the plastic film, applying the picture on the exposed adhesive coated surface of the pressboard in its desired position, and then replacing the plastic film over the picture, securing it to the pressboard by means of the exposed adhesive on the mat areas. The frame members may then be cut to appropriate length to accommodate the mounted picture, assembled and the picture secured within the frame.