PICTURE FRAME CORNER CLAMP

摘要

An improved picture frame clamp assembly (40) includes an L-shaped screw plate (42), and an L-shaped backing plate (48). Both plates (42, 48) are elastically secured to each other by an elastic member (58), resulting in an L-shaped clamp assembly (40) with the screw plate (42) shifted slightly with respect to the backing plate (48). The screw plate (42) and the backing plate (48) each include two legs (44, 50). Each of these legs (44, 50) are sized to fit within a receiving channel (18) of a picture frame section (12). The magnitude of offset between the screw plate (42) and the backing plate (48) is larger than the width (W) of the receiving channel (18). This arrangement ensures that upon insertion into the receiving channel (18) of a frame section (12), the screw plate (42) will be biased against an inside wall (22) of the receiving channel (18), while the backing plate (48) will be biased against an opposing wall (20) of the receiving channel (18) due to the spring bias of the elastic member (58). The result is that each frame section is urged into tight engagement and alignment with the legs (44, 50) of the clamp assembly (40).