AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR INSERTING PICTURES IN AND WITHDRAWING THEM FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Watson, of King Street, in the City of London,
Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
FOR INSERTING PICTURES IN AND WITHDRAWING THEM FROM PHOTOGRAPHIC
ALBUMS."
Sealed the 19th February 1864, and dated the 22nd August 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Watson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 22nd
August 1863.
I, ALFRED WATSON, of King Street, in the City of Loudon, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
AND APPARATUS FOR INSERTING PICTURES IN AND WITHDRAWING THEM FROM PHOTO-
GRAPHIC ALBUMS," to be as follows:-
My Invention is intended to overcome the difficulty bitherto existing of
easily and properly inserting photographic pictures, more particularly cartes
de visite, in albums. It consists in forming and employing a cardboard or
other suitable frame, in which the picture is first made to slide, or is placed in
such manner that the edges of the picture or card carrying the picture are
protected; this frame with its picture is then slidden in through an aperture
in one of the sides, or top or bottom of the compound leaf of the album. The
thickening border usually employed between every two leaves is removed to
allow of the frame and picture entering without making the compound leaf
thicker than is allowed for by the thickening border.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Watson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
February 1864.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
WATSON, of King Street, in the City of London, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alfred Watson, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred Watson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred
Watson, 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 Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF AND
APPARATUS FOR INSERTING PICTURES, IN AND WITHDRAWING THEM FROM PHOTO-
GRAPHIC ALBUMS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred
Watson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under 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 Alfred Watson, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 :-
My Invention is intended to overcome the difficulty hitherto existing of
easily and properly inserting photographic pictures, more particularly cartes
de visite, in albums. It consists in forming and employing a cardboard or
other suitable frame, in which the picture is first made to slide, or is placed
in such manner that the edges of the picture or card carrying the picture are
protected. This frame with its picture is then slidden in through an aperture
in one of the sides, or top or bottom of the compound leaf of the album. The
thickening border usually employed between every two leaves is removed to

page_text: allow of the frame and picture entering without making the compound leaf
thicker than is allowed for by the thickening border.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of one of my frames or
apparatus. The picture is inserted at the top of the frame, the inner edges of
the sides of which are slit or made double, as represented by the dotted lines,
to receive the side edges of the picture. The frame with the picture is then
slidden in through an aperture in the bottom of the compound leaf of the
album, in which it occupies the position represented by the dotted lines in
Figure 2. I prefer to fill the blank frames in the leaves of the album with
pieces of cardboard of the same size as the pictures, and which I remove
before inserting the pictures. Each frame is capable of holding two pictures
placed back to back.
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, the improved
method of and apparatus for inserting pictures in and withdrawing them from
photographic albums herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Watson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.