Picture frame
AssigneeWohlleb Rahmen KG
InventorHerbert Wohlleb
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Abstract
Picture frame with framing bars connected to a base frame and with a device for mounting a picture which can be fitted within the base frame with lateral and rearward clearance to its framing bars on the base frame by means of retaining/spacer devices. The device for mounting a picture has a first profiled frame for holding a glass plate or transparent plastic plate and/or a passe-partout and/or a picture, a second profiled frame, whose external dimensions are smaller than the external dimensions of the first profiled frame, connected to and arranged beneath the first profiled frame, and a pressure plate pressing against the glass plate or transparent plastic plate and/or the passe-partout and/or the picture. The retaining/spacer devices can be inserted into the second profiled frame and connected to the framing bars of the base frame.
Claims16
A picture frame, comprising:
- a) a base frame;
- b) framing bars connected to the base frame;
- c) a device for mounting a picture which can be fitted within the base frame with lateral and rearward clearance to the framing bars on the base frame by retaining/clamping device;
- d) the device for mounting a picture including
- i) a first profiled frame for holding one of a class plate, a transparent plastic plate, a passe-partout, and a picture;
- ii) a second profiled frame, whose external dimensions are smaller than external dimensions of the first profiled frame, connected to and arranged beneath the first profiled frame;
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- iii) a pressure plate for pressing against one of a class plate, a transparent plastic plate, a passe-partout, and a picture;
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- e) the retaining/spacer device can be inserted into the second profiled frame and be connected to the framing bars of the base frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.