Process for making an individualized puzzle collage
OwnerDonald J. Linkinventor
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Abstract
A system for making a picture puzzle collage from a collection of individual photographs each having a picture displaying front surface and a rear surface including a board, a plurality of removable mating contiguous puzzle pieces that fit together in a format to cover the board, adhesive covering the front surface of each puzzle piece and a removable film covering each adhesive covered puzzle piece front surface that when removed from each puzzle piece permits the rearward surface of each of the individual photographs to be affixed thereto and permits excess of each photograph affixed to a puzzle piece to be trimmed away leaving each of the puzzle pieces with a portion of one of the individual photographs thereon, the puzzle pieces when trimmed can then be assembled in a contiguous format on the board.
Claims3
A method of forming a picture puzzle collage from a plurality of separate individual photographs, each having a picture displaying front surface and a rear surface comprising;
- (a) providing a board having a plurality of removable separate mating contiguous puzzle pieces that fit together to cover at least a substantial portion of said board, each separate puzzle piece having a circumferential edge;
- (b) removing each of said separate individual puzzle pieces from said board;
- (c) removing a film covering from a front surface of each of said separate individual puzzle pieces to expose an adhesive covered front surface of each said separate individual puzzle piece;
- (d) affixing a rearward surface of each said separate individual photograph to said adhesive covered front surface of said puzzle piece;
- (e) trimming away portions of each of said separate individual photograph photographs extending beyond each of said separate individual puzzle piece's circumferential edge;
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- (f) replacing said separate individual puzzle pieces each having a trimmed separate individual photograph adhered thereto to said board in a mating contiguous relationship.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.