IMPROVEMENTS IN ALBUMS:
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Leonard Biermanns, of Crouch End, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ALBUMS:" A com
munication from abroad by Arnold Foerste, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of
Prussia.
Sealed the 27th January 1877, and dated the 29th July 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Leonard Biermanns at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 29th July 1876.
LEONARD BIERMANNS, of Crouch End, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ALBUMS." A communication from abroad by Arnold Foerste, of Berlin,
in the Kingdom of Prussia.
This Invention relates to an improved method of connecting the leaves of albums,
especially those known as photographic albums together, and to the back of the
book, so as to enable such books to open more freely than heretofore.
I propose to accomplish the above object in the following manner, that is to
say: Instead of connecting the cardboard leaves of the album to the back of the
book as at present practised, namely, by a piece of leather, so as to form a flexible
single hinge, I propose to so connect the said pieces of leather or other suitable
material to their respective cardboard leaves, and to the back of the album so as to
form a double hinge, by which considerably more freedom is given to the leaves of
the book, enabling them to be comparatively flat when the album is open, and for
the album to shut without straining it, as is now the case with albums as at present
manufactured.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Leonard Biermanns in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
January 1877.
LEONARD BIERMANNS, of Crouch End, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ALBUMS." A communication from abroad by Arnold Foerste, of Berlin,
in the Kingdom of Prussia.

page_text: This Invention relates to an improved method of connecting the leaves of albums,
especially those known as photographic albums together, and to the back of the
book.
And in order that this Invention may be more fully understood I will now
proceed to describe the same, with reference to the accompanying Drawings, in
which Figure 1 is an end view of an album constructed according to this Invention ;
and Figure 2, an end view of one of the loaves thereof.
_A, A, are the outer parts of the cardboard album leaves; B, B, are the inner
parts of same, next to the back; and C, C, are the intermediate parts of same;
these parts are held together by the pieces of leather D, D, and E, E, thus forming
double hinges instead of the ordinary simple hinges heretofore used for connecting
the leaves to the back and to one another. The leaves are or may be connected
together in the same way as heretofore.
By the aforesaid improvements the album is made moro convenient for use, and
also more lasting, as the leaves, hinge parts, and back are not so exposed to strain
and wear and tear as heretofore.
And having thus fully described and ascertained the nature of this Invention, I
declare that I claim, connecting the leaves of photographic and other albums by
means of double hinges, substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Leonard Biermanns, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
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