Abstract: A picture framing system is disclosed for mounting, displaying and protecting a photograph or work of art on a vertical surface of ferrous metal, non-ferrous metal, or a non-metallic surface without using nails. The picture framing system includes a sleeve or pocket-type photograph holder which can be used with various styles of mats and picture frames for mounting, displaying, and protecting the photograph against the flat vertical surface, such as a refrigerator door or dining room wall. The picture framing system includes a flexible sheet having an adhesive front surface for attachment to the photograph holder and a magnetized rear surface for permitting the attachment of either type of photograph holder to a ferrous metal surface.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system for decorating a picture holder having an original picture, with a removable decorative display. The system includes a picture holder having at least one original picture and a decorative covering. The decorative covering has front and rear surfaces. The front surface of the decorative covering has a decorative display formed thereon in conformity with a particular seasonal or special event. The front surface of the decorative covering is opaque so that when mounted over the original picture, the original picture cannot be seen. The decorative display includes a border area and a pictorial area. The border area has a uniform appearance so that the size of the decorative covering can be readily adjusted to fit at least two different size picture holders. The decorative covering is formed from a material exhibiting static cling thereby permitting the decorative covering to be readily mounted over the original picture.

Abstract: A photograph frame inlcuding an intermediate plate, a back plate and a face plate. The intermediate plate has an inserting face, and at the edge of the inserting face ther is a fixing frame to receive a photograph. The back plate has a recess, and the intermediate plate can be inserted into the recess and fixed in it. The surface of the recess part inlcludes a plurality of hanging holes which align with a plurality of hanging holes in the intermediate plate. The photograph is put into the fixing frame and fixed in positino by pushing the face plate into the fixing frame. If the user would like to take out the photograph, he can use his finger to push on the photograph and the face plate through the hanging holes. In addition, the photograph frame can be hung on a wall by means of the hanging holes.

Abstract: A golf commemorator includes a support with a forward portion having an open interior for displaying a picture (e.g., a photograph) on a layer and an actual golf ball superimposed with a cover. A first transparent portion of the cover serves to buttress the layer. A second transparent portion of the cover serves to receive the golf ball. Forward and rearward interfaces serve to secure the cover and the layer for displaying the picture and the golf ball in the open interior. In one example, the support can include a frame and/or a backing, and the forward and/or rearward interfaces can comprise a stop and/or a fastener. The forward and/or rearward interfaces can be formed integrally with the support. The cover can comprise a transparent member having an expanse with a hollow protuberance. A section of the expanse can be formed substantially flat, for buttressing the layer. The hollow protuberance preferably has sufficient space to substantially cup the golf ball.

Abstract: A mask is adapted for superimposing on a photograph to accentuate a portion of the photograph. The mask is made of a thin sheet of plastic, by means of, e.g., colored raster which is opaque in a periopheral region surrounding a transparent, central area without raster. The peripheral region and the central area are separated by a relatively narrow, transitional zone with increasing distance between the raster, so that the transitional zone gradually fades out into the transparent, central area. The mask may be employed in the same simple manner as a passe-partout frame for accentuating one particular portion of a photograph, and with the same good visual effect achieved by a traditional phototechnical method for integrally providing a photograph with a neutral peripheral region gradually fading out via a soft transitional zone into the desired portion of the photograph.

Abstract: A picture frame is provided including a frame and a backing. The picture frame includes a plurality of side members which are coupled to each other to define a picture receiving region. Each side member has a flange and an interior wall. The flange is located at a front face of the frame and projects into the picture receiving region. The flange has a back surface which is perpendicular to the interior wall. The backing removably retains a picture in the picture receiving region. The picture frame further includes at least one flexible tab extending generally perpendicularly from the interior wall of at least one side member. The tab retains the backing in the frame and is spaced apart from the back surface of the flange by a distance at least equal to a thickness of the backing. When the backing is inserted into the frame, each tab bends towards the flange to allow the backing to pass by.

Abstract: A holder for an air freshener comprising a wall section having a perimeter, a forward facing rim disposed along the perimeter, a rearward facing rim disposed along the perimeter forming a rear space for containing the air freshener. An image may be disposed on the forward facing surface of the wall section.

Abstract: A system for framing decorative art or mirrors with narrow frames comprising a frame assembly, a polygonal shaped planar sheet of rigid or semi-rigid material, and lateral movement preventing elements strategically located between the front face of the planar sheet and the frame assembly. The lateral movement preventing elements are strips of resilient compressible foam tape with pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on opposite sides thereof for adherence to the planar sheet and to the frame assembly. The planar sheet is thereby attached to the frame assembly at the location of each of the lateral movement preventing elements, thus providing strength to the frame assembly and preventing the lateral movement or bowing of any of the frame parts with respect to the frame assembly. In bonding the planar surface to the strips, the weight of the planar surface is borne mostly by the strips instead of the mitered joints, greatly reducing the tendency for mitered joints to be separated.

Abstract: A custom display system includes framing and display assemblies. The framing assembly includes a mat subassembly with mats having character string windows. The display assembly includes a display base with character units mounted thereon and forming a character string. The display base is attached to the mat subassembly for display through the character string window. Modified embodiment mats include one or more image windows. The custom display system can comprise a kit with a selection of character units for creating individualized character strings.

Abstract: A system for mounting, storing, and quickly changing displays is provided. The use of pins which pass through mounting holes in either the margin of items to be displayed or through mounting holes in tabs attached to an item to be displayed is provided. The pins then anchor into holes in support materials which may be for example, a backing board, for example, a mat board, or for example, an easel. The dynamics of the mounting may be achieved by way of pins attached to the support material.The system also provides for storage of additional items, which are held in place in storage by way of the same system of pins, shanks, mounting holes and anchoring holes and fixed pins.

Abstract: Described is an adhesive clip including a back sheet with a first layer of removable pressure sensitive adhesive on its front major surface, and a second layer of removable pressure sensitive adhesive on its rear surface; and a front sheet of polymeric material having a size adapted to at least overlay the first layer of removable pressure sensitive adhesive on the back sheet which has a first edge attached to the back sheet with the front sheet overlying the first layer of removable pressure sensitive adhesive. When the back sheet is adhered to a planar substrate by the second layer of pressure sensitive adhesive, the front sheet can be pivoted away from the back sheet a distance affording positioning an edge portion of a sheet to be supported between the front sheet and the first layer of pressure sensitive adhesive and pressing of that portion of the sheet to be supported into engagement with the first layer of pressure sensitive adhesive so that the sheet will be supported along the substrate.

Abstract: An synthetic resin frame for displaying a rectangular element has an arcuately contoured portion and a cross section providing an outer peripheral wall, an intermediate body portion and an inner peripheral wall extending substantially parallel to the outer peripheral wall and circumscribing an enclosure with an arcuately contoured peripheral portion. The base surface of the inner peripheral wall is disposed in a first plane spaced above a second plane defined by the base surface of the outer peripheral wall, and ribs on the body portion are spaced about the periphery of the frame with their base surfaces disposed in a third plane intermediate the first and second planes. These ribs define a rectangular enclosure spaced outwardly of the arcuately contoured enclosure and in which the rectangular element is seated.

Abstract: A border for a substantially two-dimensional image comprises an anterior pattern and a posterior pattern, the patterns being space one from the other and being arranged to form, when viewed together, a resultant apparent pattern in a different plane to that of the image. The patterns each comprise relatively brighter and relatively darker regions, but each usually has a different pitch. The posterior pattern may advantageously comprise an array of reflective dots printed onto a major surface of a light transmissive sheet which may be edge lit by a light source. The border brightness can then be independent of ambient light conditions and simple to manufacture.

Abstract: A mask is adapted for superimposing on a photograph to accentuate a portion of the photograph. The mask is made of a thin sheet of plastic, by means of, e.g., colored raster which is opaque in a peripheral region surrounding a transparent, central area without raster. The peripheral region and the central area are separated by a relatively narrow, transitional zone with increasing distance between the raster, so that the transitional zone gradually fades out into the transparent, central area. The mask may be employed in the same simple manner as a passe-partout frame for accentuating one particular portion of a photograph, and with the same good visual effect achieved by a traditional phototechnical method for integrally providing a photograph with a neutral peripheral region gradually fading out via a soft transitional zone into the desired portion of the photograph.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a composite work from a single two-dimensional work having an image thereon. A flat backing member is provided having generally the same shape and size as the two-dimensional work. The work and the backing member are bonded together to form a work piece. The work piece is cut to define a geometrically shaped center section and a separate perimeter section, thereby breaking the image of the two-dimensional work regardless of individual sculptural components of the work so that each of the sections displays the respective portion of the broken image. The center section and border section are then assembled such that the continuity of the image formed by the sections is broken.

Abstract: A frame that includes a depth image lenticular photograph as the frame surrounding a planar print or object of interest to the viewer. The frame can be a reflection print or a backlit transparency of a real object or a graphical creation.

Abstract: A frame 2 for an image such as a picture 16 is formed from a microlens array. Such an array produces an apparent optical plane which is not coplanar with the real plane of the array. This produces the visual effect of the picture 16 being divorced from the frame 2 and an illusion of depth is created as between the frame 2 and the picture 16.

Abstract: An award plaque including a picture display assembly, on the top surface of which organizational and individual identifying data may be disposed and a securely retained three-dimensional emblem may be mounted. The mounting of the emblem fixes the emblem in place on the plaque and is hidden from view and inaccessible after the plaque is completely assembled to prevent loss or casual pilferage of the emblem. On the bottom surface of the plaque, a wall hanger and easel stand are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adhesive coated mounting substrate with a clear plastic cover sheet that may be used for mounting and displaying relatively flat items. These mounting substrates are especially useful as pages in photograph albums. The novel advantage of the mounting substrate of the present invention is accomplished by coating the substrate with an adhesive which includes an aliphatic alkene glycol in its liquid phase and an aliphatic acrylate elastomer in its solid phase. A particularly suited use for the coated mounting substrate of the present invention is in the photographic album page art. The solid phase of the adhesive used in the production of the coated substrate of the present invention is comprised of an aliphitic alkene elastomer and an inorganic filler. The liquid phase is comprised of an aliphatic alkene glycol, water and an inorganic hydroxide pH adjuster.

Abstract: A display system for items, the system featuring easy substitution of a second group of items for a first group of items is provided. A display assembly has a frame, a mat, a retainer for the items, and a backing board. Pins inserted through holes anchor the retainer to either the backing board or the mat. The transparent plate may be made of ultra-violet light absorbing material in order to protect the desired materials from ultraviolet radiation striking the transparent plate. The pins may be formed as part of a pin strip, the pin strip formed by plastic molding, and the pins inserted into holes in the backing board. The pins may be wood dowels or may be aluminum rods. The aluminum rods may have a flat head formed thereon.

Abstract: A presentation system, by which a pictorial work can be protected in a manner appropriate for presentation as a gift or sales item and directly used by the recipient in a traditional manner without alteration and can be simultaneously authenticated in a manner that enhances the presentability of the work as a gift or sales item, preferably includes a framed pictorial work and an authenticating backing that bears authenticating information and is secured to the back of the frame. The system can further include a card and envelope with additional information relating to the work and a box having side flaps to hug the frame to give an appearance of extending the frame.

Abstract: A system for attaching a backing plate to a picture frame structure includes at least one clip releasably attached to the edge of the backing plate, the clip having a member which extends outwardly from the clip along substantially the same plane as the backing plate. The member of the clip is received within a groove formed in the picture frame structure. The system also includes a sliding lock mechanism releasably attached to the edge of the backing plate at a location generally opposite to the location of the clip. The sliding lock mechanism has a sliding lock member movable between a retracted position in which the sliding lock member is retracted inboard with respect to the peripheral edge of the backing plate and an operable position in which the sliding lock member is extended outboard beyond the peripheral edge of the backing plate and into the groove of the picture frame structure.

Abstract: The frame fixation structure includes frame board, front board, and leg supporter set. Frame board made of opaque material and front board made of transparent material. There are two slotting holes at symmetrical corner on the surface of front board and the same holes at the same sites of frame board opposite to front board. Planted in the holes with magnets so as to attract the two boards together therebetween clamps photos. The leg supporter set includes leg supporter, leg portion and couple-split-muff: leg portion connects leg supporter by screw set so that leg supporter can be bent or twistable; couple-split-muff is used to put around connection part of leg supporter and leg portion so as to strengthen the leg supporter set and avoid the easily brokenness.