A picture frame including front and rear members each having a main panel and a rearwardly-projecting peripheral wall, at least the front member main panel being transparent. The peripheral walls of the member fit together frictionally to hold the members together with a picture between the main panels. A support element projects rearwardly from the rear member main panel, the support element including a mounting panel and an interconnecting wall joining the mounting panel to the rear member mai...

A mounting frame for a completed tapestry wherein the frame is composed of pieces each having a slide surface in a common plane, and a surface at right angles to the slide surface and over which the tapestry is adapted to be stretched and teeth means arranged in an array along the piece, and not on the slide surface, for hooked-up engagement with the tapestry for use in uniformly stretching and in holding a stretched tapestry in a display condition without wrinkles or buckles.

A motorcycle frame has a steering head to which a pair of upper and a pair of lower tubes are welded. The tubes extend rearwardly, the members of each pair being spaced apart from one another. They are interconnected at the rear. The lower tubes are spaced apart to receive and suspend a motorcycle engine, the engine being insertable into and removable from, said frame through the bottom of the frame. Conveniently, seat rails can be attached to the frame.

An improved heddle frame for a weaving machine. The heddle frame consists of a pair of lateral beams and a pair of side stays attached thereto. Each lateral beam has an inner hollow portion at each end while the side stays have a projection at each end which is inserted into a hollow end portion of a lateral beam. Each projection is freely rotatably fixed in its respective hollow end portion by a pin. The upper surface and lower surface of each projection respectively contact the upper and lower...

The invention is a frame for releasably attaching an external rear-vision mirror to a vehicle and which comprises a substantially A-shaped upper frame and having at the open end thereof attachment means for releasably attaching the upper frame to a vehicle, a lower frame extending downwardly from the outer end of said upper frame and being securable to said vehicle, a link joining the upper frame to the lower frame at a point intermediate its length and being of variable length, said upper frame...

A frame construction adapted for use in framing panels and forming parallelepiped configurations. The frame construction includes tubular panel edging elements, each defining a pair of opposed arcuate leg portions and interconnecting bight portions, with the legs defining spaced inturned distal ends cooperatively defining a panel edge receiving space. The edging elements are connected by means of corner connectors which connect the ends of a pair of the edging elements. The corner connectors inc...

A picture frame for receiving a picture thereon. The picture held in place on the frame by an envelope mounted on the back of the frame. The envelope preventing the picture from coming into contact with adhesives, tapes, or any other attachment device which are generally used to secure the picture to the frame.

A frame assembly covering an area having expandable struts secured at their ends to connectors. Outer struts are attached to fixed anchors located at the perimeter of the area. The struts have separate members that are moved relative to each other in response to a force, as fluid under pressure or springs, to increase the length of the struts. Contracted struts and connectors are put together on the surface of the area forming a network of struts and connectors. The network may be arranged in re...

A support frame for a man-hole cover or similar article of highway furniture has a vertical wall portion with an outwardly extending flange at one end. Support means for the cover on the inside of the flange is so arranged that the frame can be mounted either with the flange at the upper end of the wall or with the flange at the lower end of the wall, the top of the cover being level with the top of the frame in both cases. When the frame is mounted with the flange at the upper end, the frame is...

The display frame includes at least two different display areas within the same frame for exhibiting in one area a two-dimensional object and in another area a three-dimensional object. A special display tray is used to cradle the three-dimensional object so that the object can be exhibited through the display frame.