Transparency mount

Claim 1

A transparency mount molded in plastic as a single piece and comprising (A) a substantially square, frame-like base plate having a generally rectangular picture opening therein and being composed of two pairs of opposed frame members defining said opening, (B) one of said pairs of frame members forming on one face of said base plate and adjacent said picture opening therein seats for corresponding opposite marginal portions of the transparency to be framed, (C) a single pair of flap-like covering members formed integrally with said base plate and being hingedly connected to opposite outer edges of said one pair of frame members by means of thinned flexible portions of the molded piece in a manner to be foldable inwardly from free inoperative positions, in which they extend generally outwards from their respective base plate edges, into operative positions, in which they superpose respective parts of said one face of said base plate in a manner to overlap opposite marginal portions only of the transparency to be framed, (D) each of said flap-like covering members being generally rectangular in shape and having a free outer edge extending in parallel relationship to the base plate edge, to which the flap-like covering member is hingedly connected, and at a distance from that edge which at most corresponds to the distance between said related base plate edge and the adjacent border of said picture opening in said base plate, and (E) interengageable male and female retainer means formed integrally with the molded piece for releasably locking said flap-like covering members in their operative positions relative to said base plate, (F) the other pair of frame members of said base plate extending at right angles to those base plate edges to which said flap-like covering members are hingedly connected having on said one face of said base plate raised surface portions extending along opposite sides of said picture opening and having a height generally corresponding to the thickness of said flap-like covering members, said raised surface portions forming at least substantial parts of the two remaining base plate edges and substantially filling out the area of said one face of said base plate which is left uncovered by said flap-like covering members when they occupy their operative positions.