Picture framing device

Abstract

A picture framing device comprising a mainbody piece, a backplate piece, and a support bracket. The mainbody piece includes a true frame portion, a lens portion, and a rearward confinement depression. The backplate piece has an extremely precise shape commensurate with the confinement depression for very close fitting reception therein. The peripheral edges of the backplate are smooth and include structure for providing an invisible union with the mainbody. Each piece is integrally formed from a transparent acrylic plastic substance via an injection molding process. Also included is structure to interlockably engage the pieces one with another. The support bracket includes structure to provide optimum support for the device, although it is not utilized when the device is to be wall-mounted since its purpose is for supporting the device in its upright position on a desk or the like. A method for cropping a large pictorial web of material down to a smaller predetermined size for ultimate precise reception within the confines of the confinement depression is further disclosed. The method involves moving the clear backplate over the large web while viewing therethrough and thus selecting the most desirable small pictorial arrangement and for subsequently utilizing the backplate as a precision template for guiding a knife along the smooth edges thereof in actually effecting the cropping action, thus establishing a smaller precision fitting picture or the like for the confinement depression.