Method, apparatus and article for forming a picture frame
OwnerJohn R. Schoveeinventor
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Abstract
Method and apparatus and article for forming picture frames and molding and the picture frame and molding made thereby, wherein the picture frame molding includes a fusible strip running the entire length thereof and wherein the abutting sections of molding at the corners of the frame are held together by the abutting fusible strips being fused together at the corners. The frame is preferably wood and the fusible strip is preferably a thermoplastic material that can be fused to itself by for example ultrasonic welding. Also, the dust cover or backing for the picture is fusible to the back of the picture frame sections.
Claims31
In a method of making frames from a plurality of frame sections comprising:
- (a) providing a length of frame section;
- (b) forming a groove in a surface of said length of frame section and inserting a fusible strip into said groove;
- (c) cutting said molding across said fusible strip into a plurality of sections that mate together at corners to form a frame;
- (d) abutting said sections at said corners of the frame;
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- (e) fusing the abutting ends of said fusible strip together at said corners, whereby said sections of molding are held together to form a frame.
In a method of making frames from a plurality of frame sections comprising:
- (a) providing a plurality of frame sections;
- (b) forming a groove along the length of a surface of each of said frame sections;
- (c) forming a continuous plastic strip extending across adjacent edges of said adjacent frame sections and into and along the length of said adjacent sections into said groove and forming a continuous bonded plastic strip in said groove;
- (d) said continuous plastic strip being formed by maintaining said adjacent frame sections in pressure bearing relationship and bonding sections of said plastic strips so said adjacent frame sections are held together to form a frame.
In a method of making frames from a plurality of frame sections comprising:
- (a) providing plastic bonding material extending along adjacent sections of said frame to be made;
- (b) maintaining said adjacent sections in pressure bearing relationship;
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- (c) bonding a backing material to said plastic material, said backing material having sufficient rigidity and strength to maintain sections of a frame to be made in selected framing positions when bonded thereto and while said backing material extends between said sections.
In a method of making frames from a plurality of frame sections comprising:
- (a) providing fusible bonding material extending between adjacent sections of said frame to be made;
- (b) maintaining said adjacent sections in pressure bearing relationship;
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- (c) fusing said fusible material thereby to bond said adjacent sections together to form a frame;
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- (d) bonding a backing material having sufficient rigidity and strength to maintain sections of said frame to be made in selected framing positions when bonded thereto, to the back of said sections of said frame while said backing material extends between said sections.
In a method of making frames from a plurality of frame sections comprising:
- (a) providing fusible bonding material extending between adjacent sections of said frame to be made;
- (b) maintaining said adjacent sections in pressure bearing relationship;
- (c) fusing said fusible material thereby to bond said adjacent sections together to form a frame;
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- (d) fusing a fusible backing material to the back of sections of said frame to be made while said backing material extends between said sections.
In a method of making frames from a plurality of frame sections comprising:
- (a) providing fusible bonding material extending between adjacent sections of said frame to be made;
- (b) maintaining said adjacent sections in pressure bearing relationship;
- (c) fusing said fusible material thereby to bond said adjacent sections together to form a frame;
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- (d) fusing a fusible backing material to the back of sections of said frame to be made while said backing material extends between said sections, thereby fusing said fusible backing to said continuous fused strip.
A method for making picture frames comprising:
- (a) providing a length of molding with at least one plastic strip along the length of the molding;
- (b) cutting said molding across said plastic strip into a plurality of sections that mate together at corners to form a frame;
- (c) abutting said sections at said corners of the frame;
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- (d) bonding the abutting ends of said plastic strip together at said corners, whereby said sections of molding are held together to form a frame.
A picture frame comprising a plurality of sections of molding matingly abutted together at corners to form a frame, each of said sections of said molding having a plastic strip running the length of the molding section and being substantially abutted with the plastic strip of the abutting molding section at each corner of said frame, and said substantially abutting plastic strips being bonded together at said corners, whereby said sections of molding are held together by said bonded plastic strips at said corners to form said frame.
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