US257203A

US257203A - Geokge babtlett

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Publication number: US257203A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-05-02
Anticipated expiration: 1899-05-02

Description

(No Model.)

G. BARTLETT.

PHOTOGRAPH AND AUTOGRAPH ALBUM.

No. 257,203. PatentedlVIay 2,1882] Fig. I,

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UNITED V STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

GEORGE BARTLETT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB TO HIMSELF AND ARTHUR W. EATON, OF SAME PLACE.

PHOTOGRAPH AND AUTOGRAPH ALBUM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,203, dated May 2, 1882.

Application filed August 1, 188]. (No model.)

To all zrhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BARTLETT, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Photograph and Autograph Al bums; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the followin g specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front View, and Fig. 2 an edge or bottom View, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal sec ton of one sheet of an album of my improved kind. Fig. 4 is an edge View ofthree connected leaves of the album, the book being com poser of any proper number of them.

The album as made in accordance with my invention is intended to beboth for photographs and autographs, it having to each sheet not only two pockets for holding photographs, but two bordered spaces for receiving writing or autographs.

Each photograph-pocket has its mouth at the lower edge of the sheet, one pocket being arranged near one end of the sheet and the other near the other end of the sheet, the bordered space for the autograph being between the pocket and the other end of the sheet, all being as represented in Figs. 1 and 2, in which the sheetshown atAhas two photograph-pock- 0 ets, a b, whose mouths are indicated at c and d, and picture-openings at c and f, the bordered autograph-receivingspaces being shown at g and h, each of which has its border i. Thusit will be seen that when photographs are within the pockets one of such photographs will be seen on one face of the sheet and the other on the other or opposite face, and there will be adjacent to each photograph a bordered space for receiving an autograph or any other suita- 0 ble writing. 7

In Fig. 4 each sheet is shown with its two photograph-pocket mouths,one autograph bordered space being behind one and the other in front of the other of the said-photographpockets.

I am aware that autographio and photographic albums have been made with pockets for reception of the pictures, and also with pockets for reception of autographs, such being as represented in the United States Patents 0 Nos. 67,540 and 169,186, and therefore I do not claim such as within my invention. I have no pockets for reception of the autographs written on separate strips of paper and inserted therein; but I have for the autograph a bordered 5 5 space on each side of the sheet, and alongside of the picture-pocket of that side. In the Fatent No. 67,540 the pockets are arranged in each sheet, so as to bring the pictures back to back, a separate piece of paper having slits in it being pasted on the sheet, all of which diii'ers from myinvention, in which each leaf does not haveits picture-pockets arranged so as to bring the pictures back to back.

I claim- 6 5 As a new article of manufacture, a photograph and autograph album constructed substantial] y as d6SOIlbd-VlZ.,Wlth each leaf having to each of its sides not only an open pocket for reception and exhibition of a photograph, but a bordered space for reception of an autograph or other writin g, the pockets opening at one edge of and onopposite sides of the leaf, and so arranged with the autograph-receiving spaces or portions of the leaf that one of such 7 5 bordered spaces or portions and a pocket-opening for the display of a picture shall be on each side of the leaf, all being essentially as specified.

GEORGE BARTLETT. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

E. B. PRATT.