Framer

A framer for selecting and defining the position of a portion of a visual work comprising a transparent overlay sheet having imprinted thereon means bounding a visual aperture of selected size and proportion capable of being placed over such visual work and moved relative thereto to place said aperture over a selected portion of said work, a pattern of gridlines disposed at substantial angles to each other for alignment purposes, and communication indicia distinct from the gridlines and adjacent at least two borders of said sheet for denoting the position of said aperture and overlay relative to selected references on the work.

A framer for selecting and defining the position of a portion of a visual work comprising a transparent overlay sheet having imprinted thereon means bounding a visual aperture of selected proportion capable of being placed over such visual work and moved relative thereto to place said aperture over a selected portion of said work, a pattern of gridlines disposed at substantial angles to each other for alignment purposes, and communication indicia adjacent at least two borders of said sheet for denoting the position of said aperture and overlay relative to selected references on the work, said overlay including a plurality of visual apertures of different sizes imprinted thereon with discrete series of communication indicia for each said aperture.

A framer for selecting and defining the position of a portion of a visual work having fixed reference portions such as borders comprising:

• an element having a visual aperture defined therein of a preselected size and proportion capable of being placed in front of such work and moved relative to the work to place the aperture in front of a selected portion of the work, said element further having a plurality of aperatures of different sizes with discrete series of notation indicia associated with each aperature, and
• notation indicia positioned along at least two angularly disposed regions of said element for denoting the position of said aperture relative to the fixed reference portions of such work.

A framer for selecting and defining the position of a portion of a visual work having fixed reference portions such as borders comprising:

• an overlay having a visual aperture defined therein of a preselected height-to-width proportionality capable of being placed over such visual work and moved relative thereto to place said aperture over a selected portion of such work, said indicia including two discrete spaced-apart sets of symbolic indicia positioned to overlay and denote the position of said aperature relative to angularly disposed boundaries of a work, and
• indicia positioned along two discrete regions of said overlay for denoting the position of said aperture relative to the fixed reference portions on the work.

A framer for selecting and defining the position of a portion of a visual work having fixed reference portions comprising:

• aperture means defining an expandable-contractible aperture, variable in size while maintaining a preselected height-to-width proportionality capable of being placed over such work and moved relative thereto over a selected portion of such work, said aperture means comprising a transparent overlay sheet element having a first angular boundary formed thereon to define one margin of the aperature and a second element having a second angular boundary formed thereon to define another margin of the aperature, the overlay sheet having a slot extending outwardly from the first boundary, mounting means mounting said second element on said overlay sheet element for shifting relative thereto along the slot, the slot being oriented to define a path of travel of the second element that maintains a preselected orientation of said first and second boundaries while allowing them to be moved toward and away from each other, and
• indicia positioned along two discrete regions of said means for denoting the position of the aperture relative to the fixed reference portions of the work.

A system for selecting, defining and communicating the position of a selected portion of a visual work having reference portions such as borders comprising;

• an overlay having a visual aperture defined therein capable of being placed over such visual work and moved relative thereto to place said aperture over a selected portion of such work, communication indicia positioned along at least two regions of said overlay disposed at substantial angles relative to each other for denoting the position of said aperture relative to the reference portions on the work, and
• recording means usable without being positioned between the visual work and overlay for recording said indicia and for communicating the recorded indicia separate from the visual work to permit subsequent precise location of said selected portion of said work from the recorded indicia.

A system for selecting, defining and communicating the position of a selected portion of a visual work comprising:

• an overlay having a visual aperture defined therein of preselected proportion capable of being placed over such visual work and moved relative thereto to place said aperture over a selected portion of such work, communication indicia positioned along at least two regions of said overlay disposed at substantial angles relative to each other for denoting the position of said aperture relative to selected references on the work,
• recording means for manually recording said indicia and communicating the same to permit subsequent precise location of said selected portion of said work, and
• said recording means comprising an element having portions which may be manually marked and which are capable of machine reading.

A system for selecting, defining and communicating the position of a selected portion of a visual work comprising:

• an overlay having a visual aperture defined therein of preselected proportion capable of being placed over such visual work and moved relative thereto to place said aperture over a selected portion of such work, communication indicia positioned along at least two regions of said overlay disposed at substantial angles relative to each other for denoting the position of said aperture relative to selected references on the work,
• recording means for manually recording said indicia and communicating the same to permit subsequent precise location of said selected portion of said work, and
• wherein said recording means comprises an element having portions thereon which may be manually marked for optical scanning to determine the noted indicia of the selected aperture position.