Card – picture – or sign exhibiting – Picture frame – Having storage for nondisplayed picture
Patent
1994-09-16
1997-01-28
Dorner, Kenneth J.
Card, picture, or sign exhibiting
Picture frame
Having storage for nondisplayed picture
40782, 40793, G09F 112
Patent
active
055968295
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a picture frame device for displaying a sheet-like exhibit such as a picture or testimonial, etc. In more detail, the present invention relates to a frame device which has a space for containing other exhibitable sheets than the exhibit.
BACKGROUND TECHNIQUE
General practically used picture frame devices do not have any space for containing any other exhibitable sheets than the exhibit. So, it is practiced to keep those other exhibitable sheets behind the exhibit in layers, but many exhibitable sheets cannot be contained in this way.
There are also picture frame devices with a space for containing other exhibitable sheets than the exhibit, but most of them simply has a separate detachable container behind them. So, it is troublesome to take out the other exhibitable sheets than the exhibit for exchanging the exhibit or confirming those exhibitable sheets.
Furthermore, there is a picture frame device with an exhibit and a transparent resin sheet overlapped on a back sheet made of foam styrene surrounded on the four sides by U-shaped framing straight members connected by joints at the butt corners. The frame device allows the exhibit to be taken in and out by removing only one of the framing straight members, but if other exhibitable sheets than the exhibit are contained in layers as described above, it is troublesome to confirm the other exhibitable sheets.
If these other exhibitable sheets than the exhibit such as pictures and testimonials are kept in a cylindrical container, they are kept curled and must be straightened when exhibited.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to present a picture frame device which allows the framing straight members to be removed from the front of the frame device by pivotally rotating the corner joints and has a space formed in a container installed behind the exhibit or the exhibit held between holding sheets, for containing many other exhibitable sheets than the exhibit such as pictures and testimonials.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is comprised of framing straight members, corner joints pivotally rotatably fitted at the respective both ends of the framing straight members, an exhibit or an exhibit held between holding sheets held on the front side of the framing straight members, and a container installed behind the exhibit or the exhibit held between holding sheets, wherein each of the framing straight members has a holding portion formed inward at its front end to hold the surface of the exhibit or the exhibit held between holding sheets and a pivotal rotation supporting portion formed inward at its back end; from an intermediate position between the holding portion and the pivotal rotation supporting portion, extended is a partition at least partially located on the pivotal rotation arc formed with the pivotal rotation supporting portion as the approximate center; each of the corner joints has a pivotal rotation base strip engaged, at its back end, with the pivotal rotation supporting portion of the framing straight member, and capable of being kept, at its front end, in slidable contact with the partition and engaged partially with the partition; from the pivotal rotation base strip, an arcuate portion is extended to be able to be kept in slidable contact and engaged with the tip of the partition; from the arcuate portion, a corner joint board is further extended; and the container has a space formed, and together with the exhibit or the exhibit held between holding sheets, it is installed between the holding portions of the framing straight members and the corner joint boards. And the present invention is comprised of framing straight members, corner joints pivotally rotatably fitted at the respective both ends of the framing straight members, an exhibit or an exhibit held between holding sheets held on the front side of the framing straight members, and a container installed behind the exhibit or the exhibit held between holding sheets, wherein each of the fram
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patent: 4512095 (1985-04-01), Seely
patent: 5038935 (1991-08-01), Wenkmon et al.
patent: 5189820 (1993-03-01), Komamura
Davis Cassandra
Dorner Kenneth J.
Sofken Co., Ltd.
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