USRE1581E - Improvement in photographic albums - Google Patents

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UNITED STATESv ALTnnUs .e oOMrANY, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssieNEns or JOHN n. Murs.

IMPROVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 39,

300, dated July 21, 1863; Reissue No. lJSSl, dated December l, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL T. ALTEMUs and HENRY AL'r'EMUs, both of the city of Philadelphia, and StateV ot' Pennsylvania, and trading under the name of ALTEMUS & CO., have become the owners of certain Letters .latent for Improvements in Photograph-'Albums and other Books, granted to JOHN D. ME'rs ou the 21st day of July, 1863, which Letters Patent we deeln inoperative and iuvalid by reason of a defective and insuiicient specification; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion of the said invention, reference being had l to the accompanying drawings, and and to the 1 letters of reference marked thereon.

The invention of the said JOHN D. METs f relates to the binding ot photograph-albums and other books having thick and stift' leaves; 2

and our invention consists of a succession oi' leaves hinged together substantially in the manner described hercinal'ter, so as to insure that security which is not attained by the usual manner of binding books ot this class.

I n order to enable others skilled in the art to carry out the said invention, we will now proceed to describe the manner of constructing the same.

0n ret'erencc to the accompanying drawings l,

which forms a part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of a book with the improved hinge-binding; Fig. 2, a side view of one ofthe strips or plates which forms a part of one of the hinges; Fig. 3, a rea-r View of the leaves, showing the manner of hinging the same together; Fig. 4, an enlarged sectional view illustrating the manner ot' securing the leaves of the book to the hinges; Fig. 5, a side view of a portion of one ot' the hinged strips; Fig. 6, an end'view of the book with the hinged leaves; Fig. 7, a perspective view ot' one of the leaves of `the book with hinged strip or plate. Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate a manner of constructing the leaves to receive the hinged strips.

Similar letters refer tosimilar parts throughout the several views.

The thick and stiff leaves which are required in photograph-albums and other books cannot be bound together by stitching in the manner employed in binding ordinary books.

| Several modes, none of them of a very dura. ble character, have consequently been resorted ,tto in securing the leaves of this class of books. g One ofthe modes of carrying ont'the invention may be described as follows: In Fig. 1 is i represented an album or other book, in which l the leaves are all secured together at their i backs by means of hinged joints, which in the F present instance consist of'thin strips or plates a, of metal or other suitable material, on the edge of which are the tubular projections b b.' (Shown clearly in Figs. 2, 3, 4,5, and 7.) These hinged strips or plates may be formed as follows: A strip of metal `or other suitable inaterial of the desired width and length is folded over' a rod in the direction of its length, and a tubular projection is thus formed on the i edge ofthe folded plate, which, being cut at suitable points, the projections b b are bent alternately, one projection on one side, and the adjacent projection on the other side, thus forming a hinge strip or plate, to which a 1 respect to the position of its tubular projections b, may be hinged by means ot a pin, c, which should be as long as the hinge-plates and of such a size as will lit .snugly into the eyes of the projections, Thus the spacesbe f and be filled-up by the projections b ot' the opposite plate, and in this manner any number of these plates may be hinged together.

leaves A to the pla-tes. described.

The leaves A consist of two outside sheets,

a., as will be hereinafter and 9, the inner sheet being cut out, as shown in Fig. 8, to receive the plates a, the length of plate corresponding in size, but differing in tween the projections of one plate will'receive- The thickness of the leaves to be used in.

which unite' the two -outside sheets,ff, of the ff, andan inside sheet, g, shown in Figs. 4, 8,

which is not equal to that of the leaves. The j` inside portion, g, is therefore eut so that the g ends of the plates will be covered and the spaces between the portonsff lledup at these points. The manner of uniting these hinge-plates to the leaves is as fol-lows: Three sheets of paper, f f and g, being used for each leaf, the inside piece, g, is cut as above described and pasted on one of `the outside pieces,j'. The hinge-plate is now adjusted 1 within the space left by the portion which is cut out of the sheet g, and pieces of paper t',

ofthe size and shape of the holes e e, are now l pasted on both sides and inserted within these holes. The other outside sheet, f,is now pasted 5 over the whole, andthe leaf thus formed with its hinge-plate (shown in Fig. 7) is permitted to dry.

rlhe small pieces of paper i', which are intro- 1 duced into the holes ofthe plate a, should not be thicker than this plate, as they furnish survlaces to which the outside sheets,ff, can be pasted, so that when the whole is dry the i hinge-plate will be securely conned tothe leaf. 4 The holese may be made either round or square, oblong, or ot any other form, and

filled up with corresponding-shaped pieces of paper, pastetoard, or other suitable material.

rlhe leaves, with their hinge plate or strips, are put together by passing small wire rods or pins e through the tubular projections b,

'every wire connecting two leaves together in consequence of its passing through the bent when al projections b of each hinge-plate. suitable number of leaves to malte a` book a-re thus connected together, they are put into a prt ss, and their edges plowed or trimmed.

, The covers may be made and finished in the i usual manner of making covers for books; which are. not stitched, and the two outside vleaves are pasted down on the inside faces of the covers and then dried under pressure.

` A particular form of hinge has been described as applicable to the'improved method of binding albums and other books; but it will be seenthat a hinge mightbe constructed out of `a single plate, which is not doubled, the tubular projections in this case being made by bending over ille metal after it has been cut, and, if required, soldering down the i edges; or the tubular projections may be made of the sameV material as, and form a. part of, 'the leaves; or the hinged strips may be made of leather, cloth, canvas, gutta-percha, and other materials, which may be simply pasted to the leaves without making use of holes e c and paper fitted into the said holes, the latter being employed only when metal plates have to be secured to the leaves.

Although special allusion has been made to the'binding of photograph-albums, it will be evident that the invention is applicable to the binding of tablets and all books having thick g and strong leavesV which it is advisable to bind together securely and permanently-such, for instance, asthe sample-books used by drapers and others, and books used by botanists for 1 containing dried samples of plants.

` ME'rs and desire to secure by Letters Patentsisting ot' a succession of leaves hinged together substantially as described.

2. The use of thepei i'orated plates a, secured to the leaves and hinged together substantially as set forth. i In testimony whereof we have signed our E names to this specilication before two suhi seribing witnesses.

SAMUEL T. -ALTEMUS. HENRY ALTEM US.

Witnesses i JoHN WHITE, i HENRY HERDLER.

We claim as the invention of the said J. I).l

1.,-A photograph-album or other book conl

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