A frame stave includes a supporting bar designed as hollow body and adjoined by a supporting member for the heddle carrying rod. The supporting bar reaches its bending strength by a massive longitudinal bar of a substantially square cross-section which forms one of the narrow sides. The other narrow side is formed by the leg of an angeled supporting member for the heddle carrying rod. Two extremely thin walled sheet metal members are mounted preferably by a laser welding to the longitudinal bar ...

A frame element for a picture frame includes two interconnectable supporting elements embracing the frame corners, wherein one supporting element includes upper and lower supporting members adapted to receive a frame member; the upper supporting member having a first coupling element thereon; and a decoration element having a second coupling element thereon, wherein the first and second coupling elements cooperate to removably secure the decoration element to the upper supporting element.

A cap frame of an embroidery sewing machine includes a ring-shaped cap frame body to be detachably coupled with a moving mechanism of the embroidery sewing machine, a cap supporting segment attached to the cap frame body having a curved frame shape in which the cap is set, a holding-down member for holding down the vicinity of the area to be embroidered of the cap onto the cap supporting segment, and a cap central reference area formed at a circumferential center of a front edge on a cap top sid...

A photographic masking frame is described in which there is a base plate and a raisable frame which holds the print material flat on the base when in the working position and which has an opening in it which is closable by a removable square mask formed in two portions. One of these portions is L-shaped and covers substantially three quarters of the area of the opening and the other of these portions is square and covers the remaining quarter of the opening. The removable mask as a whole can be ...

A brassiere frame including a pair of arcuate wire members which fit in the pocket of a brassiere for framing the lowest circumferential portion of the brassiere cup, the adjacent ends of the arcuate wire members being interconnected by a plastic hinge member.

A photograph display stand having two frame assemblies which are hinged together along their adjacent side edges so that one frame assembly may be moved 360.degree. with respect to the other. Each frame assembly is composed of two identical transparent members arranged back to back and through each a photograph may be viewed.

A pair of elongated upper and lower horizontal frame bars are provided together with a pair of upstanding opposite side frame bars. The upstanding opposite side frame bars extend between and loosely end abutting the lower and upper surfaces of the corresponding end portions of the upper and lower frame bars and all of the bars include inner and outer sides with the inner sides having coplanar grooves formed therein and extending longitudinally thereof for receiving the corresponding marginal edg...

An adjustable bed frame having a pair of side rails interconnected by a pair of adjustable cross rail assemblies. The cross rail assemblies each include a pair of rails of L-shaped cross section. A fastenerless latch mechanism is provided for retaining the cross rails in a position of adjustment. The latch mechanism comprises a headed protrusion extending from one of the cross rails and fitted within a slot of the other rail and a protrusion on the other rail fitted within an aperture of the fir...

A joint between a cross bar and a side-stay of a heddle frame is disclosed. The cross bar is hollow and has a joint block inserted in the end thereof. The joint block extends into the hollow side-stay and contacts a pressing piece and a pressure receiving piece on opposite sides thereof. The pressing piece has a V-shaped projection which mates with a V-shaped groove on one face of the joint block for mating contact therebetween. The pressing piece and joint block have aligned bolt holes which ar...

In accordance with the invention there is provided a bed frame which is adjustable in width to king size and which at any width has great strength to the end that it has utility not only for beds with conventional bedding but also for water beds. The bed frame has longitudinal side rails and a longitudinal center rail, transverse end rails and a transverse center rail, the end rails and transverse center rail all being of adjustable length so as to enable adjustment of the bed to different width...