Laminated frame assembly and process
OwnerAaron L. Liebermaninventor
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Abstract
A process for framing and mounting an indicia sheet, such as a photograph, within a flexible planar frame which is part of a laminated frame assembly as well as the frame assembly itself and a method for making the assembly. The frame is attached to a transparent film, such as a plastic sheet, which has thereon an adhesive layer. Covering the adhesive layer is a release sheet from which a portion, corresponding approximately in size to the frame opening may be removed and used as a template for a photograph, which is then trimmed to size and inserted in its place. Thereafter, the remaining release sheet portion is removed and reversed in position to obtain an integral laminate.
Claims38
A process for framing and mounting an indicia-bearing sheet comprising the steps of
- (a) removing a portion of a release sheet from a framing assembly, said framing assembly comprising
- a flexible sheet which is at least partially transparent to light,
- a framing means attached to said flexible sheet,
- an adhesive layer adhered to one face of said flexible sheet, and
- said release sheet having a first face, in contact with said adhesive layer, which is removable from the adhesive layer and an opposite face,
- wherein the framing means has a framed space substantially of the same dimensions as the release sheet portion removed from the assembly;
- (b) laminating to the assembly, in the space created by the removal of the release sheet portion in step (a), an indicia-bearing sheet which indicia is visible through said flexible sheet through the face opposite said adhesive layer;
- (c) removing the remaining release sheet from the assembly;
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- (d) adhering a substrate to the adhesive exposed by step (c).
A process for mounting a photograph comprising the steps of
- (a) removing a portion of a release paper from a framing assembly, said framing assembly comprising
- a metal foil frame having a framed space attached to
- a transparent polymeric flexible sheet,
- an adhesive layer on the face of said flexible
- sheet opposite said frame, and
- said release paper having a first face, in contact with said adhesive layer, which is removable from the adhesive layer and an opposite face which is more adherent to the adhesive than the first face,
- wherein the release paper portion removed has dimensions slightly greater than the framed space of said frame;
- (b) using the release paper portion removed in step (a) as a template to obtain a photograph having dimensions corresponding to the removed release paper portion;
- (c) laminating to the assembly, in the space created by the removal of the release paper portion in step (a), the photograph obtained in step (b) with the image of the photograph in contact with the adhesive layer;
- (d) removing the remaining release paper from the assembly;
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- (e) laminating the release paper removed in step (d) to the assembly with the opposite face thereof in contact with the adhesive layer.
A method for preparing a framing assembly for the framing and mounting of an indicia-bearing sheet comprising the steps of
- (i) attaching a framing means having a framing space to one face of a flexible sheet which is at least partially transparent to light;
- (ii) adhering an adhesive layer on a face of said flexible sheet;
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- (iii) laminating the release face of a release sheet to the adhesive layer on the side opposite said flexible sheet, said release sheet having an inner and an outer portion, said inner portion being detachable from the outer portion and having substantially the same dimensions as said framed space.
A framing and mounting assembly comprising
- a flexible sheet which is at least partially transparent to light,
- a framing means having a framed space, which framing means is attached to said flexible sheet, an adhesive layer adhered to one face of said flexible sheet, and
- a release sheet having a release face, in contact with said adhesive layer, which is removable from the adhesive layer, and having an opposite face, wherein said release sheet has an inner portion and an outer portion, said inner portion being detachable from the outer portion and defining a space having substantially the same dimensions as the frame space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.