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US 3,956,837 AGranted
Display frame
OwnerTakeo Itanoinventor
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A pair of frame elements, between which a photograph is held, are preferably formed of a clear, transparent plastic material, each frame element having a flat horizontal bottom portion and an upwardly directed, sheet-like portion. To the underside of the box of the front frame element are fixed a pair of spaced guide strips which extend beyond the upwardly directed portion and rearwardly, while a second pair of similarly formed guide strips extends forwardly from the underside of the base of the rear frame element. The guide strips engage each other in sliding contact when the front and rear frame elements are pushed together to clamp the photograph. In addition it is desirable to provide on the underside of each base a downward projection, about which projections an elastic band is stretched to hold the photograph releasably clamped between the front and rear frame elements.
A display frame for a photograph, or the like, comprising a front frame member having a forwardly directed base protion and a flat, sheet-like, upwardly directed portion formed of transparent material, a rear frame member having a rearwardly directed base portion and a flat sheet-like, upwardly directed portion, a first guide element secured to the underside of the base portion and extending rearwardly beyond the upwardly directed portion of the front frame member, a second guide element secured to the underside of the base portion and extending forwardly of the upwardly directed portion of the rear frame member, a third guide element secured to the underside of the base portion of the front frame member and being spaced from the first guide element, a fourth guide element secured to the underside of the base portion of the rear frame member and spaced from the second guide element, said first and second guide elements and said third and fourth guide elements making sliding engagement with each other respectively when the front and rear frame members are pushed toward one another so as to hold a photograph between their respective flat, upwardly directed portions.
A display frame for a photograph, or the like, comprising a front frame member having a forwardly directed base portion and a flat, sheet-like upwardly directed portion formed of transparent material, a rear frame member having a rearwardly directed base portion and a flat sheet-like upwardly directed portion, a first-guide element secured to the underside of the base portion and extending rearwardly beyond the upwardly directed portion of the front frame member, a second-guide element secured to the underside of the base portion and extending forwardly of the upwardly directed portion of the rear frame member, said first and second guide elements making sliding engagement with each other when the front and rear members are pushed toward one another so as to hold a photograph between their respective, flat upwardly directed portions, and wherein first and second projections are affixed to the undersides of the base portions respectively of said front and rear frame members, and an elastic band is stretched over said projections to releaseably clamp the front and rear frame members together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.