The phrase "a supporting frame" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a structure that provides support or stability to another object or system.
Example: "The artist used a supporting frame to ensure that the canvas remained taut during the painting process."
Alternatives: "a support structure" or "a reinforcement frame".
The new wooden apples, each with a stem and two leaves, were so small that he was able to carve them only with the aid of an enlarging glass, which he set into a supporting frame.
The upper structure is composed of a scanning mirror plate, two torsion bars, a supporting frame and vertical comb fingers.
The lower structure is composed of vertical comb fingers, a supporting frame, gold signal lines and pads on the Pyrex glass substrate.
A particular embodiment of the design in a laboratory test-bed is described: the test-bed itself is comprised of a scaled-down tether-net, a supporting frame and a mock-up debris.
As a consequence, liquid residing in the actuation chamber is pumped into the lens chamber through open walls of a supporting frame, and the height of the liquid column in the lens chamber rises.
A novel method for fabrication of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) on indium tin oxide glass substrates modified with self-assembly monolayer has been developed by using a supporting frame composed of a monolayer of monodispersed silica beads and an alternating current electric field.
The Si3N4 membrane window is transparent for X-rays; the membrane is attached to a PVC supporting frame by an Araldite® adhesive that creates a tight seal.
Make a line parallel to the supporting frame about 3 inches (7.5cm) outside that frame and cut the planks off with a circular saw.
Secondary structure (supporting frame for coverings).
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"We have identified a clamp that snapped that held them to the rafters, and it failed," Providence public safety commissioner Steven Pare told a local radio station, WPRO-AM, a day after a support frame collapsed during the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus.
