US 6,439,535 B1 · Floatable system for artwork

Abstract

An assembly (20) of artwork (21) and backing (22) wherein a combination of floater anchors (24), hard anchors (26), and soft anchors (25) produce a floatability of artwork about its backing and which eliminates curling or rippling to it due to temperature and humidity changes. The floater anchor (24) is formed from a pair of tape pieces (35-1, 35-2) fastened together by a pair of crossing ties (37, 38) that interlace the pieces (35-1, 35-2). Piece (35-1) is adhered to artwork (21) and piece (35-2) is adhered to backing (22), whereby artwork (21) can shift about backing (22) to the extent of the spacing distance between the attachment, such as by glue spots (40), of ties(37, 38)to pieces (35-1, 35-2). Hard anchors (26) are formed by providing ribbons (42) of glue between pieces (35-1, 35-2) and ties (37, 38) so that the pieces (35-1, 35-2) do not shift between each other. Soft anchor (25) is a state-of-the-art element, however, in utilization of this invention, prevents swinging and pivoting of artwork about an applied hard anchor (26) as well as supporting for the weight of artwork (21) on backing (22).

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Dependent claims

An anchor member adapted to mount an artwork to a backing comprising

a pair of material pieces one on top of the other, each of said material pieces including a neutral side facing the neutral side of the other of said material pieces and the other sides of said material pieces including adhesive characteristics thereto,
tie means of lengths having crossing areas to each other in their lengths and disposed between said neutral sides, a first of said tie means fastened at a spacing along its length to the neutral side of the one of the material pieces to which it is not contiguous at such crossing areas, the second of said tie means fastened at a spacing along its length to the neutral side of the other of the material pieces to which it is not contiguous at such crossing areas,
thereby interlinking said pair of material pieces, and
means at the end of its spacing for fastening each of said tie means to the neutral side of the one of the material pieces that is contiguous to the other of said tie means at the crossing areas of said tie means,
whereby a shifting motion between said material pieces by such interlinkage to the extent of the spacing of said tie means is achieved.

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An assembly of an artwork to a backing comprising

a backing,
an artwork mounted on said backing, and
at least a combination of a hard anchor means and a floater anchor means connecting said artwork to said backing,
said hard anchor means comprising
a pair of material pieces one on top of the other, each of said material pieces including a neutral side facing the neutral side of the other of said material pieces and the other sides of said material pieces including adhesive characteristics thereto,
tie means of lengths having crossing areas to each other in their lengths and disposed between said neutral sides, a first of said tie means fastened along its length to both neutral sides of said pair of material pieces, the second of said tie means fastened along its length to both neutral sides of said pair of material pieces, and
means for fastening each of said tie means to both of said pair of material pieces,
thereby fixing said pair of material pieces together.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Floatable system for artwork

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Floatable system for artwork

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