IMPROVE- MENTS IN ALBUMS FOR CONTAINING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER PICTURES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN ALBUMS FOR CONTAINING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER PICTURES."—-A
communication from abroad by Auguste Marion, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 9th May 1862, and dated the 13th November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 13th November 1861.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ALBUMS FOR CONTAINING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER
PICTURES," (communicated to me from abroad by Auguste Marion, of Paris,
France,) to be as follows:-
These improvements are shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 shows the two parts a, a', which, when united, form one sheet of
the album; Figure 2 is a section through the line A, B, Figure 1; Figure 3
is a section through the line C, D, Figure 1; Figure 4 is a section through
the line, E, F, Figure 1; and Figure 5 shows the manner of attaching the
sheets to a zig-zag backing k, which is in one continuous piece of parchment,
stout paper, or textile fabric. The sheets a, a', are attached, through the
binge pieces f, to the hollow or recessed parts of the backing; the inter-
mediate folds i of the backing render the sheets independent of one another,
and enable them to be fully opened out without one sheet dragging on another.

page_text: The two parts a, a, are formed of two leaves b, b¹, hollowed out at the centre
to allow of the pictures being seen. An incision c, Figures 1 and 3, rounded
at its two ends, allows of the insertion of the picture, and to avoid any stop
or impediment to its withdrawal the lower end of a sheet d is attached to the
tongue formed by the incision c, the remainder of the sheet d is applied to
the back of the leaf b or b¹, (see Figures 1 and 4). è, e¹, are intermediate
pieces of thin cardboard, widely hollowed out at the centre, and shown by
blue lines in the Drawing; they are pasted or glued behind the leaves b, b',
and the sheet d; thus the finished sheet shows on each side a central opening
for viewing the pictures, with a slot for their introduction and withdrawal.
The edges of the hinge pieces f are inserted between e or e¹ and 6 or b¹, and
the backs of the hinge pieces are sewn to the backing k. The threads which
secure each sheet of the album pass through the middle of the hinge pieces,
and when the two parts a, a', have been fixed together the sewing is entirely
bidden.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 13th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ALBUMS FOR CONTAINING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER PIC-
TURES," (a communication from abroad by Auguste Marion, of Paris, France,)
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald
Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under

page_text: my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
These improvements are shewn in the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 shews the two parts a, a³, which when united form one sheet of
the album; Figure 2 is a section through the line A, B, Figure 1; Figure 3
is a section through the line C, D, Figure 1; Figure 4 is a section through
the line E, F, Figure 1; and Figure 5 shews the manner of attaching the
sheets to a zig-zag backing k, which is in one continuous piece of parchment,
stout paper, or textile fabric. The sheets a, a¹, are attached through the
hinge pieces to the hollow or recessed parts of the backing; the inter-
mediate folds i of the backing render the sheets independent of one another,
and enable them to be fully opened out without one sheet dragging on another.
The two parts a, a', are formed of two leaves b, 6, hollowed out at the centre
to allow of the pictures being seen. An incision c, Figures 1 and 3, rounded
at its two ends, allows of the insertion of the picture, and to avoid any stop
or impediment to its withdrawal, the lower end of a sheet d, which does not
extend beyond the edge of the frame, is attached to the tongue formed by the
incision c (see Figures 1 and 4). e, e, are intermediate pieces of thin
cardboard, and shewn by blue lines in the Drawing; they are pasted or glued
behind the leaves b, 61, and the sheet d, thus the finished sheet shews on each
side a central opening for viewing the pictures, with a slot for their introduction
and withdrawal. The edges of the hinge pieces f are inserted between e or e¹
and 6 or b¹, and the backs of the hinge pieces are sewn to the backing k.
The threads which secure each sheet of the album pass through the middle of
the hinge pieces, and when the two parts a, a', have been fixed together the
sewing is entirely hidden.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what.
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, as the improve-
ments in albums for containing photographic and other pictures,―
First, mounting or uniting the two parts of the sheet by one hinge, as
herein-before described.

page_text: Second, fixing the sheets to one continuous backing with intermediate folds,
as herein-before described.
Third, forming an incision, rounded at its ends, in each sheet, whereby a
tongue is formed to which the lower edge of the sheet is secured, acting also
as a guide for facilitating the withdrawal of the picture, all as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)