Photo album

This album comprises a backboard. Attached to the backboard are a plurality of transverse, parallel strips each coated at its underside with adhesive. Said strips are each adhered to the top face of the backboard, each strip having a section or portion inclined away from the top face of the backboard. Adhered to each of said inclined portions of said strips, is a bent back section or portion of a transverse release ribbon. Said ribbons have extending tab portions which may be grasped by fingers of the user to pull the release ribbon off and away from the strip to uncover the adhesive coated inclined section or portion of the strip. A photographic snap shot may be adhered at its lower end to said uncovered portion of the strip. The snapshots can each be folded 180.degree. from a position exposing the picture of the photo to a position in which the picture is hidden at the underside of the photo. The extending tab portion of each release ribbon overlies the strip next adjacent thereto in a direction toward the upper end of the backboard.

This invention relates to photographic snapshot albums. An object of this 
invention is to provide an album of the character described comprising a 
backing member or backboard, adhesive coated strips each adhered at one 
coated area of each strip to said backing member, a release ribbon having 
one portion coated with release material and adhered to another adhesive 
coated area of each of said strips, and provided with a pull tab adapted 
to be grasped to permit pulling off the release ribbon while permitting 
the strip to remain adhered to the backing member and to expose said 
another coated area of the strip, so that a photo snapshot can be adhered 
to said exposed another area. 
Another object of this invention is to provide an album of the character 
described in which the adhesive strips are parallel and each adhesive 
strip has one portion adhered to the backing member, and an adjacent 
portion swingable away from the backing member, and in which each ribbon 
has one portion adhered to said swing away portion of said strip, and 
another portion extending beyond said swing away portion of said strip and 
comprising a pull tab to permit the ribbon to be pulled off said strip to 
expose the adhesive surface of said swing away portion of said strip and 
allow one end portion of a photo snapshot to be adhered to said exposed 
adhesive surface of said strip. 
Still another object of this invention is to provide an album of the 
character described in which the pull tab of one release ribbon overlaps 
the adjacent strip in the direction toward the upper end of the backing 
member. 
Yet another object of this invention is to provide an album of the 
character described in which the backboard is covered partially by 
adhesive coated strips and release ribbons attached to said strips, an 
upper portion of said backboard being blank so that the photo snapshot 
which is attached to the uppermost strip on the backboard will overlie 
said blank portion. 
A further object of this invention is to provide an album of the character 
described in which the attached photo snap-shots can all be folded 
upwardly, so that the pictures on the snapshots face forwardly, and in 
which said photo snapshots can be all folded downwardly so that the 
pictures on the snapshots are hidden. 
A still further object of this invention is to provide a durable album of 
the character described which shall be relatively inexpensive to 
manufacture, easy to manipulate, and which shall be practical and 
efficient to a high degree in use. 
Other objects of this invention will in part be obvious and in part 
hereinafter pointed out. 
The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, 
combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts which will be 
exemplified in the construction hereinafter described and of which the 
scope of invention will be indicated in the following claims.

Referring now in detail to the drawing an particularly to FIGS. 1 and 2 
thereof, 10 designates a photographic snapshot album embodying the 
invention. Said album 10 comprises a backboard or base 11 preferably of 
elongated rectangular shape, having longer parallel side edges 12, a 
shorter lower edge 13 and upper edge 14. 
Said backboard 11 may comprise cardboard or other suitable stiff or 
semi-stiff thin material, or paper or backing means. 
Attached to the upper surface 15 of said backboard 11 are a plurality of 
parallel strips 16 of flexible sheets of cloth or paper or plastic film 
such as Teflon, flourocarbon, polyester, polypropalene. The strips 16 may 
be clear or colored or opaque and extend transversely of the backboard and 
are as long as the width of the backboard. Each strip has a lower end edge 
16a, an upper end edge 16b and end edges 16c registering with the side 
edges 12 of the backboard. Strips 16 are of uniform width. The strips 16 
may be vacuum plated or printed or may comprise foil, aluminum or lead. 
The undersurface of each strip is coated with a coating 17 of pressure 
sensitive adhesive such as acrylic based adhesive or latex, or acrylate, 
natural rubber or synthetic resins. 
Substantially the lower half or section of each strip 16 is adhered by the 
pressure sensitive adhesive coating 17 to the upper surface 15 of the 
backboard. Edge 16b of each strip may substantially coincide or register 
with the edge 16a of the next adjacent strip 16, in a direction toward the 
upper end of the backboard. The area or section of each strip 16 which is 
adhered to the baseboard is designated in the drawing by numeral 18. The 
section or portion of the strip 16 which extends from the portion 18 and 
designated by numeral 19 inclines away from surface 15. 
Attached to each strip 16 is a release ribbon or piece of tape 20 which may 
be made of paper or other flexible sheet material. Ribbons 20 are of 
uniform width and extend transversely of the backboard and are coextensive 
with the strips 16, but of greater width than said strips. Said ribbons 
may comprise plastic, polyethylene, with or without silicone coating, or 
parchment with Quilon release or glassine paper with or without silicone. 
Quilon is an inert coating derived from a chrome complex of chemicals. 
Ribbons 20 may each be coated at their undersides 20a with a release 
coating, not shown, but which may comprise silicone. Each ribbon 20 is 
folded on itself longitudinally to form a narrower section 20b folded 
about a fold edge 20c, against a wider section 20d. The outer edge 20e of 
section 20b registers with edge 16b of the strip 16. The section 20b of 
ribbon 20 is adhered to section 19 of strip 16. Section 20d of the ribbon 
20 overlies the next adjacent strip 16. The extending portions 20d of 
ribbons 20 constitute pull tabs which may be grasped between fingers of 
the user to pull off the ribbon and expose the adhesive 17 at the 
underside of portion 19 of the strip 16 to which the ribbon was adhered. 
Because of the presence of the release coating at the undersurface of 20a 
of the ribbon, the ribbon can be pulled off the strip while the strip 
remains adhered and anchored to the backboard 11 by reason of the adhesive 
coating 17 on section 18 of the strip. If the portion of the area of the 
ribbon adhered to the strip is less than the area of the strip adhered to 
the backing member or backboard 11, the release material on the ribbon may 
be omitted. 
It will be noted that the strips 16 and ribbons 20 do not cover the entire 
surface of the backboard 11. An upper and lower end portion of the 
backboard is left without strips and ribbons, for the purpose hereinafter 
appearing. 
As shown in FIG. 2, the lowermost strip 16 may be folded over in half with 
portion 19 thereof overlying portion 18 thereof, and the ribbon 20 
attached to portion 19 is substantially flattened out to produce a neat 
lower end to the album. 
In FIG. 3, the uppermost ribbon 20 is shown being pulled off the strip 16 
to which it was adhered. After the ribbon is removed, and the adhesive 17 
on section 19 is exposed, the lower end portion of a photographic snapshot 
25 may be adhered to the exposed adhesive by pressing said lower end 
portion to said exposed adhesive as shown in FIG. 4. The snapshot 25 then 
lies flat on the upper blank portion of surface 15 as shown in FIG. 4. 
After one snapshot is attached, another snapshot can be attached by 
thereafter pulling off the ribbon 20 next to the one that was first 
removed, and pressing the lower edge portion of another snapshot to the 
exposed adhesive 17 on the section 19 of the next adjacent strip 16. This 
action can be repeated until all 10 strips 16 have snapshots attached 
thereto to make a full album. 
In FIGS. 5 and 6, the album is shown with only five snapshots attached. 
In FIGS. 7 and 8, all 10 snapshots are attached but the snapshots are 
folded down so that the pictures on the snapshots are hidden from view. 
It will be noted that the adhesive 17 on section 18 of each strip 16 
creates a stronger attachment between the strip 16 and the backboard 11 
than the attachment of section or portion 20b of ribbon 20 to the adhesive 
17 on section 19 of the strip. 
The reason that this is so, is because the release coating on the attached 
surface of section 20b of said ribbon makes the attachment easier to 
break. Thus, the ribbon can be readily pulled off the strip 16, while the 
strip remains securely attached to the backboard. 
The clear plastic strips 16 are readily foldable about the folds 16c 
between sections 18 and 19 of the strips and said fold can withstand many 
foldings and unfoldings without tearing or weakening, because of the 
nature of the material of which the strips are made. 
In FIG. 9 there is shown an article 10a embodying another form of the 
invention, in which the backing member or backboard 11 is replaced by a 
sheet of paper 11a which may be a page of a loose leaf notebook. The 
strips 16 and ribbons 20 may be applied the same way as in FIG. 1 to 8, 
but only on a portion of the sheet 11a. 
In FIG. 10, the backing member 11 or 11a has strips 16 adhered to the 
backing in the same way as they are adhered in FIGS. 1-8. Thus each strip 
16 has a portion 18 adhered to the backing member, and a portion 19 
swingable away from the backing member and also coated with pressure 
sensitive adhesive. However in FIG. 10, the ribbon 40 is not folded but 
has one portion 40a adhered to coated portion 19 of strip 16, and an 
extending portion 40b projecting beyond the strip 16 and comprising a pull 
tab to be grasped to pull the ribbon off the strip and expose the adhesive 
coated portion 19 of the strip so that a snapshot can be adhered thereto. 
Thus ribbon 40 is in one plane. The strips and ribbons are repeated as in 
FIGS. 1 to 8. 
In FIG. 11, the backing 11 or 11a has folded strips 50 attached thereto. 
Each strip 50 is coated on one side with pressure sensitive adhesive and 
is folded lengthwise about a fold 50a to form a bottom section 50b adhered 
to the backing member, and a top section 50c folded over said bottom 
section. A flat ribbon 55 has one portion 55a adhered to section 50c, and 
a portion 55b extending beyond the fold 50b to constitute a pull tab for 
pulling the ribbon 55 off the strip 50. The portions of ribbons 40 and 55 
adhered to the strips 16, 50, respectively, may be coated with release 
material or the sections of the ribbons adhered to the strips may be of 
smaller area than the portions of the strips adhered to the backing 
member, whereby to permit the ribbons to be peeled off readily and without 
pulling the strips off the backing member. 
It will thus be seen that there is provided a device in which the several 
objects of this invention are achieved and which is well adapted to meet 
the conditions of practical use. 
As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention, and 
as various changes might be made in the embodiment above set forth, it is 
to be understood that all matter herein set forth or shown in the 
accompanying drawings is to be interpreted as illustrative. 
If desired, the extensions 20d, 40b and 55b of ribbons 20, 40, 55, 
respectively, could be omitted and the ribbons in such case could be 
peeled off.