Improvements in Binding Pattern Cards, Photographs, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Oct., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Nov., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Binding Pattern Cards, Photographs, and the like.
I, VICTOR DARD, of 56 Rue de Lancry, Chateau d'Eau, Paris, France, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :--
This invention relates to the binding of pattern cards, photographs and the like
in such a manner that any one of a number held in a portfolio can be removed or
replaced without disturbing the others.
For this purpose the sheets are held in the portfolio as I shall describe referring
to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a vertical section on c d of Fig. 2 through the back of the portfolio.
Fig. 2 is an elevation of the back with all leaves except one removed.
Fig. 3 is a section like Fig. 1 but with a leaf in place.
Fig. 4 is a perspective of the notch guard.
Fig. 5 is a plan partly sectional on ab of Fig. 2 of the back.
Figs. 6 and 7 are views corresponding with Figs. 2 and 3 but with rounded back,
Fig. being a section on g h of Fig. 6.
Fig. 8 is a sectional plan to an enlarged scale shewing the attachment of the
leaf to the binding strip.
Fig. 9 is a plan partly sectional on ef of Fig. 6 of the rounded back.
Fig. 10-shews a modified form of notch guard.
Referring first to Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, the sheet L has its back edge secured to
a strip of flexible fabric M which is secured to a strip of card or metal N. When
card is used for N there is fixed on each end of it a metal notch guard such as O
Fig. 4 having a slot Q which slot is also cut as a notch in each end of the strip N
where it is enclosed in O. The back of the portfolio A with ends B has fixed in
it pieces of fabric E which are folded round and between strips of cardboard D
and have their front edges faced with thin strips C. Through eyeletted holes of
these strips C pass elastic cords G which have their ends fixed to the back at H
by metal clamps I. When it is desired to remove one of the leaves L, it is drawn
downward in the direction of the arrow 1 to the position indicated by the dotted
lines in Figs. 2 and 3, the upper elastic cord G being thus withdrawn from the
notch, of O while the lower elastic cord is bent down. The leaf L is then drawn
outwards and upwards in a direction indicated by the arrow 2 its lower notch O
being thus withdrawn from the cord, so that the leaf is free to be taken away. By
a converse operation a leaf is introduced and secured in position. In Figs. 6 to 10
inclusive the parts corresponding to those in Figs. 1 to 5 are marked by similar
letters accented. The back in this case has a piece S of wood or the like inserted
to round it, and the parts CD and E which serve to separate the leaves in Figs. 1
to 5 are here dispensed with. In this construction there is only one elastic
cord G at the lower end, but at each end there is a cross-pin U engaging in the
Blots Q
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Securing leaves such as pattern cards, photographs and the like in a removable
mauner to a portfolio back by attaching the back edge of each leaf flexibly to a
strip having a notch at each end, and engaging in these notches elastic cords and
nins attached to the beak cubetantially as desoribad

page_text: 2. In combination with the leaves and the notched strips flexibly attached to
them the parts CDE serving as distance pieces, substantially as described.
3. The slotted metal notch guard Oor O substantially as described.
Dated this 2nd day of October 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.