Improvements in Mounts for Photographic Pictures.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1891--Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mounts for Photographic Pictures.
I, JOHN REYNOLDS of 31 Fort Street, Brushfield Street, Spitalfields, in the
County of Middlesex, Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and.
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
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The object of this invention is to provide amateurs with a facile means of
mounting their photographs, whether those having a glazed surface, or a
surface, and at the same time to ensure that the glossy surface of the one, or the
smooth, dead surface of the other, shall not be injured, as is now frequently the
case when applying damp thereto in the act of mounting them.
To this end I construct mounts somewhat after the manner of photo-album
leaves, that is, I prepare a sheet of paste-board which is to form the frame,
embossing or otherwise ornamenting the opening or openings which are to receive
the pictures and present them to view. This frame 1 attach by gum or other
adhesive material to a backing of paste board in such a manner that the inside
edges of the opening or openings will be free of, or unattached to, the backing,
and that one side or end of the paste-board frame will be unattached, as is usual,
to provide for the insertion of the picture.
A material difference between this mode of making the mount or album leaf
is, that I omit the spacing board which has hitherto been necessary to provide
a space for the reception of the mounted picture.
The injury to the photograph above indicated is avoided by rendering it
unnecessary to mount it upon a backing card prior to inserting it in place, and
the omission of the spacing layer of card-board ensures a proper grip of the
inserted picture between the backing board and the frame or mount.
To render my invention the more evident, I have appended to this my Specifica-
tion a sheet of drawings, which illustrates the ordinary way of making a single
leaf or mount for a photographic album, and also my improved construction of
such leaves or mounts.
Fig. 1 shows in transverse section the ordinary construction of mount, spaced so
as to receive the picture which is backed with cardboard, as shewn in the section,
Fig. 2.
The leaf or mount, it will be seen, is composed of three sheets of pasteboard, A,
B, C, placed one over the other.
The facing board A, constituting the frame in which the picture is to be set, is
cut out to correspond to the sight measure of the picture.
The spacing board B is also cut out to provide a rebate a between A and C (the
backing board), all around the opening in the facing board A, for the reception of
the backing piece D, Fig. 2, which carries the photographic picture.
It is well known that the appearance of a photograph is deteriorated by the
application of the moist adhesive material to the back thereof, and it is to avoid
this, that the mount shewn at Figures 3 and 4 is provided.
Fig. 3 shews in cross section the improved construction of mount for receiving
the unbacked photograph, and retaining it securely in place, and
Fig. 4 is a face view of the same.
The mount consists of the facing board A, of Fig. 1, and the backing board C of
the same figure, the spacing board B being omitted, & consequently no rebate a
being formed.
The attachment of the parts A and C together must be carefully effected, so as
to leave the edges of the opening in the part A unattached for a distance indicated
by the dotted lines b b of io 4

page_text: When, therefore, the photograph is inserted in the mount, its edges will be
clipped firmly between the parts A and C, the part C forming the supporting
backing for the photograph.
I would remark that, if desired, the backing piece C may have attached to it, at
its opposite sides, a mount A, as indicated by the section, Fig. 5, for the reception,
as is usual in photographic albums, of pictures on both sides of the leaves. In the
drawing I have exaggerated the thickness of the parts, in order to render more
clearly the character of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention & what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:
The construction of mounts for photographic pictures in the manner & for the
purpose described with reference to Figures 3, 4, & 5, of the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 28th day of Novembar 1891
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.