Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Picture frame – Plural connected frames or frame having means to connect...
Patent
1994-03-18
1996-12-31
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Picture frame
Plural connected frames or frame having means to connect...
40757, 40605, G09F 112
Patent
active
055882404
ABSTRACT:
A modular picture frame system with the individual picture frames interconnecting like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Each of the puzzle piece-shaped picture frames has male and female connectors in the form of an interlocking geometric shape. These connectors are used to attach the individual frames to one another to make a collage of picture frames. Preferably, each frame is made with multiple connectors facing in different directions so that each frame can be connected with as many other frames as it has connectors. The connectors disclosed include rounded lobe-shaped connectors, dovetail connectors and polygonal geometric connectors. The frames themselves and the display openings in the frames can be virtually any geometric shape, rectangle, diamond, octagon, triangle, circle, or other curved shapes as long as the male and female connectors have sufficient clearance to connect.
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Davis Cassandra
Dorner Kenneth J.
Leary James J.
Titus Carol D.
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