Abstract: A kit for framing pictures providing a user with a transparent or translucent overlay that may cover a picture in order to enhance its appearance and also to protect it from inadvertent contact with destructive substances such as water. The kit may provide a monolithic kit frame structure that consists of joined strips of a material such as glass, thermoplastic or epoxy which may be subject to coloring, texturing and sizing. The kit alternatively may provide the materials to form and join these customizable strips. The kit frame is directly affixable to a picture or may be used in addition to a standard picture frame. The kit further may comprise an additional viewing bubble to further enhance the appearance of a covered picture.

Abstract: A portable tongs construction for the gripped handling of sheet materials that is comprised of a tubular handle internally containing a slidable plunger. Detachably supported at the common distal ends of both the handle and plunger are individual jaw units having opposed gripper faces arranged so as to enable lateral receipt of a sheet edge intervening therebetween. The plunger is spring biased relative to the handle to optionally effect either a normally open or normally closed operation of the jaw faces and is actuated via a finger button slightly raised from the surface of the handle. The jaw units are optionally replaceable so as to optimize suitability as is at least one of the gripper faces contained on one or other of the jaw units.