An Improved Picture Mount for Photographic and other Albums and the like, applicable also for Binding Loose Papers or Sheets and Samples.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Picture Mount for Photographic and other Albums
and the like, applicable also for Binding Loose Papers or Sheets
and Samples.
I, MAURICE GEORGES AMSON, of the Firm of Amson Frères, of 68, Rue de la
Folie Méricourt, Paris, France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to a device more especially intended for photographic and
other albums and having for object to present the pictures in a more favourable
position for inspection and admitting of their being inclined at will.
My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification in which
Figure 1 represents an external face view and Figure 2 an edge view of an
album.
Figure 3 is a face view of the album open with several of the leaves removed to
shew the improved guards or mounts.
Figure 4 is an edge view of the album also in the open position.
The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.
The album which may be made of any size and of any suitable material is
composed of two side covers a and a back b to which and to the one cover a is
attached a block c having an inclined face upon which the mounts or guards for
holding the photographic or other pictures e are hinged or secured in any suitable
manner so as to be echeloned as shewn. The hinged mounts or guards d are
adapted to receive and hold the photographs in any suitable manner and they may
consist simply of sheaths in which the lower edges of the cards or pictures are
inserted or they may be provided with springs, clips, or catches or other devices for
holding the pictures.
Owing to the stepwise or echeloned arrangement of the mounts or guards as
shewn more particularly in Figures 2 and 3, when the album is open the
photographs or other pictures are supported and presented to view in the position
shewn in Figure 4 so that they may be readily turned down forwards one by one so
as to uncover those which are behind. Moreover they are presented to view in a
very favourable position and may be inclined as desired.
The back and sides of the album which simply serve as a case for containing the
stepped or echeloned arrangement of picture mounts or guards described, may vary
in form, dimensions, and arrangement. Thus instead of the covers a being hinged
at the shorter side they, or one of them, may be hinged on one of the long sides.
This improved stepped arrangement of hinged mounts or guards is applicable not
only to photographic albums but in all cases in which it is desired to bind together
a number of letters, slips, scraps, or other loose papers or sheets as well as
for bundling samples of fabrics or other materials, etc. etc. so as to facilitate
inspection.
Dated this 13th day of March 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.

page_text: An Improved Picture Mount for Photographic and other Albums.
and the like, applicable also for Binding Loose Papers or Sheets
and Samples.
I, MAURICE GEORGES AMSON of the Firm of Ainson Frères of 68, Rue de la
Folie Méricourt, Paris, France, Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to an echeloned mode of mounting photographic and other
cards or pictures in an album and having for object to present the subjects in a
more favourable position for inspection.
My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification in which
Figure 1 represents an external face view and Figure 2 an edge view of an
album.
Figure 3 is a face view of the album open with several of the cards or leaves
removed to shew the improved guards or mounts.
Figure 4 is an edge view of the album also in the open position.
Figure 5 is a face view of a double album and Figure 6 an edge view of
the same.
Figure 7 is a face view of the album open and Figure 8 a section on line 1-2
Figure 7.
As shewn in Figures 1 to 4 the album, which may be made of any size and of
any suitable material, is composed of two side covers a and a back b to which and to
the one cover a is attached a block e having an inclined face upon which the mounts
or guards d for holding the photographic or other pictures e are hinged or secured
in any suitable manner so as to be echeloned as shewn. The hinged mounts or
guards d are adapted to receive and hold the photographic cards e whose lower
edges are inserted in the mounts d as into sheaths, the mounts being adapted to
grip the cards by their own elasticity or by flat springs inserted in the lips of the
sheath to give it the required stiffness and elasticity.
Owing to the stepwise or echeloned arrangement of the mounts or guards, as
shewn more particularly in Figures 2 and 3, when the album is open the
photographs or other pictures are supported and presented to view in the position
shewn in Figure 4 so that they may be readily turned down forwards one by one
so as to uncover those which are behind. Moreover they are presented to view in
a very favourable position and may be inclined as desired.
The back and sides of the album which simply serve as a case for containing the
stepped or echeloned arrangement of picture mounts or guards described, may vary
in form, dimensions, and arrangement. Thus, instead of the covers a being hinged
at the shorter side, they or one of them may be hinged on one of the long sides as
is the case in the album represented in Figures 5 to 8. In this case double the
number of cards or pictures may be mounted in an album of the same thickness by
combining therewith two sets of echeloned hinged mounts oppositely arranged with
regard to each other. The side covers a of the album are united by a back b and
secured by a clasp c. The blocks d and mounts e hinged to the inclined surface
thereof in echeloned arrangement as before described, are duplicated, the blocks d
being disposed at opposite sides of a diagonal partition f dividing the album into two
compartments. It will be seen that the number of cards or pictures contained in
the album is doubled, inasmuch as two albums placed reversely one to the other
are combined in one.
This improved stepped arrangement of hinged mounts is applicable not only to

page_text: photographic albums but in all cases in which it is desired to bind together a
number of letters, slips, scraps, or other loose papers or sheets, as well as for
bundling samples of fabrics or other materials, etc. etc. so as to facilitate inspection.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. For mounting photographic and other cards a series of guards or mounts
hinged in echelon to the inclined face of a block and forming sheaths between the
lips of which the edges of the cards or pictures are clipped substantially as described
and for the purpose specified.
2nd. A photographic or other album formed by the combination with the sides a
and back b of a block c having a series of sheaths or mounts hinged thereto in
echeloned arrangement substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1 23
of the drawings for the purpose specified.
3rd. A photographic or other album formed by the combination with the sides a
and back b of two blocks d having series of sheaths or mounts e hinged in echeloned
arrangement thereto, the said blocks being at opposite sides of the diagonal
partition substantially as described with reference to Figures 5 6 7 and 8 of the
drawings for the purpose specified.
4th. A file or binder for letters, scraps, or other loose papers or sheets, samples,
or patterns of fabrics, and the like, formed of a stepwise or echeloned series of
mounts or holders hinged to the inclined surface of a block substantially as
described.
Dated this 17th day of October 1806
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.