Three-dimensional picture corners

• US 5,255,458 A
• Filed: 11/21/1991
• Issued: 10/26/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alan R. Piel
• Original Assignee: Alan R. Piel
• Inventors: Piel, Alan R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GREEN, BRIAN
• Application Number:
  US07/795,503
• Time in Patent Office: 705 Days
• Field of Search: 40/156, 40/159.1, 40/666, 248/488, 248/497, 403/326, 403/361, 403/401, 403/402, 24/67 CF, 24/487, 24/528, 24/543
• US Class Current: 40/758
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/0638 Frameless picture holders
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 1/10 Corner clips or corner-connecting appliances for frames
• CPC Class Codes: B44C 5/02 Mountings for pictures; Mountings of horns on plates
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 2200/65 Miter joints
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/208 Corner fastened
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44274 having either discrete flaccid or thin, nonbiasing, integral, connecting hinge

Abstract

Injection molded corners for framing pictures are designed to be attached to each corner of a picture and operate as both a hanger for a picture, as well as a means of providing a three-dimensional effect by holding the picture away from a supporting wall. The corners can be decorative so as to function totally as a frame, and a small injection molded pin is abuttable against the cardboard backing of a picture to effectively lock the corners in position.

Claims

1. A three-dimensional corner mount for a planar element to be mounted on a wall comprising:

a corner mount having a triangular shaped backing member, a frame member and a wall connecting said triangular shaped backing member and said frame member in a spaced apart manner to define a space between said backing member and said frame member sufficient to receive therein a corner of said planar member to be mounted on a wall,

said triangular shaped backing member having an integral hinged portion extending from one edge thereof, said hinged portion having a connector portion attached thereof said hinged portion having a hinge axis parallel to said one edge wherein said connector portion is adapted to be bent back and positioned over the side of said backing member opposite to said frame member,

said backing member having an aperture therein,

said connector member having a protrusion thereon adapted to extend through said aperture when said connector portion is bent back and positioned over said one side of said backing member,

said backing member one side having an upstanding member and said connector portion having an engagement member adapted to cooperate with said upstanding member to maintain said connector portion bent back over said one side of said backing member with said protrusion extending through said aperture for engaging a planar member received in said corner mount and for frictionally engaging said planar member between said frame member and said backing member.

2. The three dimensional corner mount of claim 1 wherein said connector portion further comprises an opening therein, and a portion of an edge defining said opening has a saw tooth shape thereby to define a surface for engaging a wall hanging support element.