US67540A

US67540A - Improvement in albums

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Publication number: US67540A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1867-08-06
Anticipated expiration: 1884-08-06

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED HATEAWAY, oF cEAELEsTowN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ALBUMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 67,5110, dated August G, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED HATIIAWAY, of Charlestown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a `new and useful Improvement in Photographic Albums; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the aunexed drawings making part-of this specifr cation,'in which an album is shown so as to present one of the pages and one page .of the index.

The album for receiving the photographs is constructed in the usual and familiar manner, so as to present the faces of two photographs placed back to back in each leaf. These photographs'are inserted from the bottom of the y page through a space left between the central board forming the leaf and the fine paper covering each page. I cut a rectangular opening, B, through the paper covering the page immediately below the opening, through which the.

photograph is shown. i

An autograph, or the name of the person whose picture is inserted, being written on a Y slip of paper, the latter may be introduced through the slit in the bottom of the page in such manner as to show the autograph or name through the rectangular opening aforementioned.

The pages of the album are consecutively numbered, and corresponding numbers are marked at suitable intervals upon the pages appropriated for the index. Opposite the latter numbers there are rectangular holes G in the paper covering the face of the page. This paper is attached on the bottom and top edges, but on the side it is attachedonly above and below the openings C, so that an opening is left through which papers having a name written upon them may be inserted, and the name shown through the opening-G.V

By this means I form an adjustable index to the album, which may be changed when necessary.

An autograph-album may be made on the same principle as the above-described index, the names being inserted in the same manner, the leaves for photographs being omitted.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A photographie album with an adjustable index, constructed substantially as set forth.

2. An autographic album with openings C in its pages, when so constructed that the autographs may be inserted or removed through the side of the page, substantially in the manner set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' ALFRED HATHAWAY.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM ROGERS, JOSEPH B. SPEAE.