JOSEPH PATRICK O'KEEFE, LCSW
Social Work at Mission Center Ct, San Diego, CA

5649382, Jul 22, 1997

Oct 11, 1994

8/321442

Joseph S. O'Keefe - San Diego CA

G09F 0112

40790

An easily assembled, light weight, wall mountable picture frame for displaying posters, pictures, documents or other generally planar objects. The picture frame has hard plastic connecting pieces that receive and enclose the ends of rigid foam side members and which can be assembled in various polygonal and multiple polygonal shapes. The frames can easily be constructed to the size needed without the use of tools, except perhaps a table knife or equivalent. The side members can be secured in the connecting pieces by barb clips which fit into sockets defined by the connecting pieces. The barb clips have a barbed spike that pierces and anchors in the foam, thereby locking the side members in place. The barb clips also hold the edge of the poster or other document in the frame. Additional stability and strength can be provided by pressing barb clips into the mid-spans of the rigid foam side members and threading a tension line through loops defined by the barb clips and tying the line in a taut closed loop.