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Picture frame

  • US 3,965,601 A
  • Filed: 08/12/1974
  • Issued: 06/29/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1973
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a picture frame formed from frame sections, each of said frame sections having a rearwardly facing channel which terminates in inwardly extending lips, having interior surfaces an improved means for securing an adjacent pair of said sections together at a corner junction comprising:

  • a bracket having a pair of legs disposed at an angle substantially identical to the angle made by said frame sections at said corner junction, said legs being adapted to fit within the rearwardly facing channels of adjacent frame sections at said corner junction, said legs being of a width which is greater than the rearwardly facing opening defined by said lips of said rearwardly facing channels thereby to retain said bracket within said channels;

    locking means for urging said bracket away from the bottom of said channels and toward and against said lips;

    means forming the interior surfaces of said lips of said rearwardly facing channel of at least one of the frame sections to cause said at least one frame section to pivot along an axis parallel to its length and in a direction which will draw the forwardly facing regions of the adjacent frame sections together at their corner junction in response to operation of said locking means.

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