US368251A - Adjustable device for hanging picture-frames - Google Patents

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(N0 Modl.)

H. STUEBNER.

ADJUSTABLE DEVICE FOR HANGING PICTURE FRAMES.

No. 368,251. Patented Aug. 16, 1887.

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HENRY STUEBNER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADJUSTABLE DEVICE FOR HANGING PICTURE-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,251, dated August 16, 1887.

Application filed December ll, 1836. Serial No. 221,244. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEIIRY STUEBNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Adjustable Devices for Hanging Picture Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement is more particularly related to the class of picture-hangers in which the usual cord is dispensed with.

The object of the improvement is to furnish to picture-hangers and the public generally a device by which the cord is supplanted, with its risk of wear upon the nail and of being moth-eaten, also the risk attendantupon handling heavy and valuable paintings when the point of suspension is upon nails or hooks near the ceiling.

By the use of my improvement pictures of any size may be safely hung and be subsequently adjusted, with the lower edge of the frames parallel with the door, and when once so adjusted as long as the device isleft undisturbed the picture may be removed for dusting and cleaning and be replaced without any difficultyor care being exercised to keep the same in its original adjustment relative to the floor.

By my improvement the weight of the picture is more uniformly distributed upon the wallsurface, as two or more points of support take the place of the usual single nail or hook where a cord is used for its suspension. The pitch or angle of the frame with the wall-surface is readily adjusted in the usual way by shifting the wire eyes up from or down toward the lower edge of the frame.

The accompanying drawings show the nature of my improy ement, like letters of reference indicating like parts, in which the plane of the paper represents the blank wall against which the pictures are to be hung.

Figure lrepresents, perspectively,the hanging device secured in place ready for the support of the picture-frame represented in dotted lines, with its wire eyes thrown over the adjustable hooks of the device; Fig. 2, a sectional side elevation of the device; Fig. 3, a plan and side elevation of the wall-eyes; Fig. at, a plan and side elevation of the adjustable suspension-hooks,- Fig. 5, aplan of the corrugated nut for the suspension-hooks; Fig. 6, a plan of the ordinary wire screw-eye used for the suspension of picture-frames by a cord.

Eyes A, provided with a tang, A, either threaded or plain, and having an ornamental shoulder, A", are adapted to be screwed or driven into the wall, the shoulder A giving by the increased bearing against the wall gained thereby additional resistance to the withdrawal of the eye from the weight of picture hung thereon.

Hooks B, provided with a threaded shank, B, are adapted to pass freely through the walleyes A, and are provided with anut,B",havinga corrugated periphery,fitted to turn freely upon the same. I prefer to make the thread upon the shank B of a coarse pitch, so as to raise or lower the hook rapidly by turning the nut with the fingers.

The usual wire screw-eyes (represented by 0) when placed in the sides of thei'rames for the reception of the usual si'ispension-cord, and at the right points to give the desired angle of the picture to the wall, are not disturbed when it is desired to use my improvement.

D represents the picture-frame.

To apply my improvement, the location 01' the picture having been determined, the dis tance horizontally of the eyes 0 in the frame is first taken; then the height of the base of the frame above the floor plus the distance of the eyes 0 is next taken, then measuring at the latter height from the floor and horizontally both sides of the center of the picture to a distance equal to onehalf of the space from center to center of the eyes 0. The eyes A are screwed or driven into the wall at the points thus obtained, the hooks B have their shanks B pushed up through the eyes A, (which are turned until they lie in a horizontal position,) and the nuts B are run down upon the thread until the hooks are nearly on a line with each other. The picture is then lifted and the eyes 0 placed upon the hooks B. Should the base of the frame not hang parallel with the floor, the same is readily made to accord therewith by lowering one hook, or by raising one and lowering the other, by a manipulation of the nuts B As an additional security in retaining the hooks B in place, a jam-nut, B may be applied below the eye A, and after adj ustment of level by nuts 13 the nuts B will be run up against the eye A, thus securing the hook B in position. 1

Having shown my improvement and described its construction, application, and ad vantages, I desire to claim as follows:

1. As a new device for the hanging of picture-frames, the eyes A, adaptedto be fastened to the wall, in combination with suspension: hooks B, having adjustable nuts B, and with the picture-frame by the usual eyes, 0, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an improvementin adjustable pictureframe hangers, the wall-eyes A, having shanks A and shoulders A, adapted to be screwed or Witnesses:

PHILIPS. REID, H. D. TOLMAN.

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