Picture frame hanging and leveling device

• US 3,265,339 A
• Filed: 09/17/1964
• Issued: 08/09/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Daniel J. Hushek
• Original Assignee: Daniel J. Hushek
• Inventors: Hushek, Daniel J.
• Application Number:
  US04/397,164
• Time in Patent Office: 691 Days
• US Class Current: 248/495
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/162 Picture members for connection to a conventional wall hook or nail

Claims

1. IN A PICTURE FRAME HANGING AND LEVELING DEVICE THE COMBINATION COMPRISING A WALL, A MEMBER INCLUDING A MAIN BODY PORTION HAVING A SLOT FORMED THEREIN FOR THE RECEPTION OF FASTENING MEANS BY WHICH THE SAID MEMBER MAY BE ATTACHED TO A RAIL OF A PICTURE FRAME UNIT, THE SAID MEMBER INCLUDING AN ARM PORTION EXTENDING ANGULARLY FROM THE SAID MAIN BODY PORTION AND HAVING AN ELONGATED SLOT FORMED THEREIN;

A HEADED SUPPORTING ELEMENT WHICH IS DRIVEN INTO SAID WALL, RECEIVED IN SAID SLOT FOR SUSPENDING THE SAID PICTURE FRAME HANGING AND LEVELING DEVICE THEREFROM;

THE TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL DIMENSIONS OF THE SLOT GREATLY EXCEEDING THE DIAMETER OF THE HEAD ON SAID SUPPORTING ELEMENT WHEREBY THE SUPPORTING ELEMENT MAY BE READILY INSERTED THEREIN, AND THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID SLOT BEING LINEAR TO ALLOW RELATIVE SLIDING MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID SUPPORTING ELEMENT AND SAID MEMBER.