US2204098A - Mounting for cards, photographs, and the like - Google Patents

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June' ll, 1940. A, A, AINSWRTH 2,204,098

MOUNTING FOR CARDS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND THE LIKE Filed ont. 24,1958` 2' sheets-snm; 1

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MOUNTING FOR VCARDS, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND THE LIKE Filed oet. 24. 195e 2 -sama-snm 2 Patented June 11, 1940 MoUN'rm'G ron calms, Pnov'roourns,

Alben A. nimma, N. Y.

Application october 24. ms. sum N. zumo somma. (ol. izo-1mA The invention relates to the art of mounting and Illing papers, autographs, clippings, samples,

, scrap book entries and other strips or articles of paper, cloth or other fabric or material and more particularly relatively stil! articles such as cards or photographs, and is intended primarily as an vimprovement on the invention set forth in my prior tent No. 1,461,570 datd July 10, 1923, and Patent No. 1,862,450 dated June '1, 1932. 19 The present application is a continuation-in-part of my prior application Serial No. 30,616 iiled July l0, 1935 now Patent No. 2,142,261, dated January 3, 1939, which in turn is a continuationin-part of an earlier application Serial No. 699,780 iiled November 25, 1933, now Patent No. 2,038,468

dated April 21, 1936, the entire disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference as part of the disclosure of the present application.

In common with my Patent No. 1,862,450, I

prefer to employ a backing or folder of comparatively still' material having one 0r more strips of tough, flexible material secured tothe backing and having tongues or tabs ior adhesively retaining the slips or articles to be filed. and the broad object 'of the invention is accordingly to improve and simplify the mountings disclosed in said patent and to furnish quick, easy, economical and permanent methods of mountings cards, photographs, snapshops, oilice data and the like in a convenient overlapping manner so that a portion oi each article" when mounted is always visible, and also so that-when turned back the contents written or printed on one or both sides oi the mounted article are clearly visible.

A more specic object of the invention is to improve the form of tongues or tabs employed in the mounting so`as to give additional mounting strength. A further object is to provide means for securing perfect alignment of the cards,

photos, etc.. without the necessary use of guide lines. Another speciilc object of the invention is ,to provide, in combination with a backing, a plurality o! separate and individual mounting strips, each adapted to carry a single card or the like,

such strips with the cards mounted thereon being arranged in battery upon the backing in such a manner that the cards overlap one another with portions of each card visible. A further object is to provide a mounting strip with tongues which 60 are easily folded back. Still another object is to provide a cheap and economical method for forming a plurality of the individual strips from a sheet of material with minimum loss oi such material. Il Other obieots oi thev invention will be apparent from the accompanying drawings and the following detailed description, inwhich are set forth for the purpose of illustration various specific embodiments oi' the inventive thought involved, it ,y

being understood that these specific embodiments are intended as illustrative only andnot as limiting the invention.

In the drawings: f

Fig. 1 shows an open album or other book having cards assembled in overlappingv order by l means of a iiling or mounting strip on one face and a filing strip on the other to which cards are adapted to be secured and mounted inoverlapping order, one card being shown in the process oi' being mounted. p u

Fig. 2 is a rear view showing a modified form of filing or mounting strip which may be used with the album shown in Fig. -1-,or with any other suitable backing.

Fig. 3 is a rear view showing a further modiiied 20 filing strip to be mounted upon a suitable backing.

Fig. 4 is a rear view showing still another form Aoi? illing strip. y y

Fig. 5 shows a iilingstrip comprising a single l row of tongues.

Fig. 6 shows an open album on one face of which the ling strip of Fig. 3 is applied and on 'the other face the tiling strip of Fig. 4 is mounted.

Fig. 7 shows an open album provided with guide lines to assist in aligning individual strips, 30 upon one page of which the illing strips oi'Flg.

v 8 are applied and on the other face the filing strips of Fig. 9.

Fig. 8 showsindividual filing strips which may be cut from the continuous strip of Fig. 4.

Fig. 9 shows individual illing strips which may be cut from the continuous strip of Fig. 5.

ialig. 10 shows another form o! individual filing s r p.

Fig. .11 shows still another form. 40 Fig. l2 shows a further modiilcation. Fig. 13 shows still another form. Figs. 14 and 15 indicate two additional modifications.

Figs. 16, 1'1 and 18 indicate steps .in a method 45" N0. 2,142,261 dated January 3, 1939. The backing sheet is shown inFlgs. 1, 6 and 'I of the present drawings, but is adapted for use with each of the forms of mounting strips herein disclosed.

To this backing a mounting or filing strip II of relatively tough flexible material such as cloth, paper, orthe like is adapted to be applied. which strip may be of the general type disclosed and claimed in my Patent No. 1,862,450 dated June 7, 1932. This strip is preferably provided with an adhesive gum coating on its-rear surface. the front surface being preferably non-adhesive. 'I'he strip is shown as provided with a plurality of transverse incisions i2 forming upturned tabs or tongues I3 integral with the strip. Each tab or tongue beingformed from strip II, has on its rear side aportion of the gum coating Vwhich covers the rear side of the strip. v Y

These tabs are adapted to be bent outwardly from the back for the purpose of mounting cards, photographs or the like I4 and to'facilitate such bending operation transverse score lines I5 may b'e applied preferably at th time the tabs are formed. These score lines may extend entirely across'the strip or only between the incisions as may be preferred.

In mounting a card upon the filing strip the lower edge of the card is inserted beneath the tab' or tabs I3 as shown at the right ofFig. 1 and adhesively secured thereto.. The card may then be turned down about the tab or tabs to theposi- 'tion show at the left of Fig. 1.

Owing tol the relative stiiness of the card as comparedl with the flexibility of the tabs the entire bending: operation wll take place within the tab itself as distinguished from the arrangement shown. in my prior Patent No. 1,862,450 wherein relatively ilexible slips are contemplated as compared with. the stili' cards preferably employed according to the present invention.

It will be obvious thatmany forms ofhinges, tabs or tongues and many arrangements of hinges, tabs or tongues upon the filing strip and upon the backing may be employed within the scope of my invention. In Fig. 1, for example, I have shown a very eiective arrangement of tabs which is designed to hold vthe cards or' the like firmly in position. In this arrangement each card is held by two upwardly extending tabs` I3 and an intermediate tab I6 which is adapted to engage the opposite side of the card from that to which *the tabs I3 are secured. As shown the tabs I3 are arranged .in two outer rows with the tabs I6 in an intermediate vertical row. Tabs I3 are shown as of inverted V form and the tip of each lower tab extends above the line connecting the ends of the incision I2 which forms the tab next a above it.

In Fig. 2 there is shown a rear view of a slightly modified form of tiling strip which is to be adapted to any" suitable backing such as that vshown in Figs. 1, 6.or 7. In this form two vertical rows of tabs I3, Il are shown, the tabs'all extending upwardly and the intermediate row of downwardly extending tabs being omitted. The backing sheet cured to the tabs or tongues in lthe manner deaaococa scribed in connectionwith Figs. 1 and 2. It will be noted that the strips are perforated so that the rows or tongues may be separated and applied individually instead of as a single strip. When a plurality of such individual nl ingstrips are mounted upon a backing and cards applied thereto the arrangement is the same as vthough the complete strip containing a plurality of rows of tongues were applied as aunit, the individual strips being applied so as to form substantially a .continuous sheet.

A very similar construction is shown in Fig. 4

-wherein the tongues or tabs 2l are formed by curved rather thanstraight incisions and only twov tabs are shown in a single lateral row. These rows of tabs or tongues are adapted to be sepaunits as illustrated in Figs. 7 and 9, or may be I separated along a line intermediate the tongues vto formlan individual mounting such as is vshown in Fig. 5. f l

Ifdesired the backing may be provided with guide lines 23 and 24 to facilitate mounting of the iiling strips. One such arrangement is shown in Fig. 6. On the page at the left of the figure the form of Illing strip shown in Fig. 3 is illustrated as applied by means of the guide lines and on the page at the right of the strip the -form oi' mounting strip shown in Fig. 4 is illustrated. The filing strips may be furnished in oionvenient sizes to correspond with the guide nes. f

In Fig. 'l the backing is shown as provided with ruled vertical and horizontal lines 25 and 26 to facilitate mounting the individual strips, the arrangement belng 'similar to that shown in Fig.

' 12 of Patent No. 2,038,468 dated'Aprilv2l, 1936,

and in Fig. i of my co-pending application Serial No. 30,616 now Patent No. 2,142,261 dated January 3, 1939.- `At the left of this figure the individual units illustrated in Fig. 8 are shown applied and at the right the umts illustrated' 1n Fig. 9 are shown applied. Obviously when properlyapplied the individual strips make up a composite assemblywhich constitutes a substantially continuous filing strip mounted upon the backing similar to what is illustrated in Fig. 6.

Various forms of individual strips may be employed. Those shown in Fig. 8 may be formed from the composite strip shown in Fig. 4. Those in Fig. 9 may bev formed from the composite strip shown in Fig. 5, and that shown in Fig. 11 may be formed from the composite strip shown in Fig. 3. The filing strip shown in Fig. 1l is the same as that illustrated in Fig. 14 of my Patent No. 2,038,468 which is shown assembled in Fig. 12 of that patent. Other forms of strips are shown in Figs. 10 and 12 of the present application which correspond with those shown in Figs. 'I and! respectivelyf my application Serial No. 30,616 now Patent No. 2,142,261. In Fig. 13 an individual strip containing two upwardly pointing tongues I3 and a -downwardly pointing tongue Il such as illustrated in Fig. lis shown.

'In Fig. 14 a simple form of mounting strip is half is adapted to be secured to a backing leaving the other half free for the mounting of a suitable card, after which the card is turned over` about the hinge line 32. Where a plurality of these strips aremounted on a backing and suitably assembled by the aid of scorelines such as shown for examplefin Fig. 'I it will be obvious that the, mounted cards will overlap one another in a manner similar to that shown in Fig. 1.

InFig. 15 a unit mounting having a single tongue is shown such a -mounting strip being readily formed from composite strips similar to that shown in Fig. 5, the individual strips being cut out along transverse lines extending midway between the tongues. When a plurality of such mounts are applied contiguous to one another the assembly constitutes a substantially continuous strip, and the cards applied to the individual tongues will overlap one another as shown in Fig. 1.

It has been shown that individual mounting strips may be separated from vertical rows of strips. Figs. 16, 1'?y and 18 illustrate an efficient manner by which a plurality of individual mounting strips such as shown in Fig. 10 may be formed from a single strip 40. This strip may if desired be first gummed on one side, then scored and cut as illustrated in Fig. 17, after which the individual strips may be separated as illustrated in Fig. 18. Y

Obviously any of the strips herein shown are adapted to be applied to any of the backings and cards applied to the strips in the manner previously described.

While a number of different forms and embodiments of myinvention have been disclosed it is apparent that further modiilcations and variations may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

It will be noted that the weakened, perforated or scored lines on the strip hinges serve to facilitate the bending back of the hinges, and where twolor more hinges are used in horizontal formation,V the bases of all of the hinges are in alignment and thereby eliminate the necessity for4 using printed lineson the backing or measuring the distances when filing or mounting is done.

I claim:

1. A mount for cards and the like composed of a mounting strip of iiexible sheet material adapted to consecutively mount a plurality of cards in overlapping relation to each other on a backing member, said strip having a gum coating on its rear side, a non-adhesive front side, and

-a plurlity of transverse incisions defining free ends of tabs' integral with the strip. each tab having on one side a portion of the gum coating, and a non-adhesive opposite side, said tabs being bent outward from the strip and folded against the non-adhesive front side thereof with its nonadhesive side inward, the portions of the gum coating on the tabs being exposed at the outer side of the strip, the gummed side .of the strip being attachable to a backing member, and cards or the like being attachable to the gummed sides of the tabs so that they lie in overlapped relation on the outer side of the strip and the backing member.

2. A mount for cards and the like comprising, in combination, a backing member, a exible body of sheet material having a gum coating on and co-extensive with its rear side, a non-adhesive outer side, and a transverse incision denning a free'end of a tab integral with said body. said tab being bent outward from the body and folded against the non-adhesive side of the body with its non-adhesive side inward and facing the non-adhesive outer side of the body, and its gummed side outward, and exposed, the gummed inner side of the body being attachable to the backing member, and a card or the like being attacliable to the exposed gummed side of the tab.

3. A mount as specified by claim l., the strip being provided with scores or creases extending between the ends of theincislons.

4. A mount vas specified by claim 2, the body being provided with a score or crease extending between the ends of its incisions.

5. A mount as set forth in claim 1, wherein the mounting strip is perforated at intervals so as to form a plurality of individual filing strips Vadapted to be arranged one beneath the other.'-

uponvthe backing.

6. A mount as set forth in claim l, wherein a plurality of card holding tabs are arranged in rows, and one rovriftabs Ais adapted to engage the cards on the opposite face from the others.

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