Picture frame assembly

Claim 1

In a frame assembly for securing an image-portraying sheet in a display disposition for viewing thereof, and including an outer framing member having horizontally extending flange elements for support of said sheet thereon, and defining an opening through which an image carried on said sheet is viewed, and a skeletal inner framing member dimensioned to fit within said outer framing member and to overlie said flange elements thereof to abut said image-portraying sheet interposed between said outer and said inner framing members, the improvement comprising, in combination, tab means extending outwardly from an outer marginal edge of said inner framing member, and lug means directed inwardly of said outer framing member at positions corresponding with and opposed to said tab means on said inner framing member, whereby, upon resiliently deforming said inneR framing member momentarily to displace said tab means inwardly, said inner framing member is positionable within said outer framing member in an attitude such that said tab means of said inner framing member underlie said lug means of said outer framing member and interlock therewith to retain said inner and outer framing member intercoupled in interlocking engagement; and wherein said skeletal, inner framing member includes spaced front and rear wall surfaces, said inner framing member being formed with a fossa extending between said front and rear wall surfaces of said inner framing member, said fossa defining a notch at the rear surface and an aperture larger than said notch at the front surface of said inner framing member, whereby, in suspending said frame assembly from a post imbedded in a supporting wall, said fossa accommodates said post to enable said framing assembly to lie flat against the supporting wall; said fossa constituting finger access means to facilitate gripping of said inner framing member, thereby to aid in removal thereof from said ounter framing member.