IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCRAP ALBUMS
Year: 1885

page_text: I GEORGE EDWIN CHAPMAN, of Rivington Street, Curtain Road, in the county
of Middlesex, Scrap album manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCRAP ALBUMS" 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 improvements in the manufacture of scrap albums or
scrap books, the improvements having for object to provide an album or book,
cach leaf of which can open freely quite up to the back of the book.
For this purpose I employ what I term four fold guards to which the leaves are
connected without sewing, a solid guard shewing in alternate openings.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1, is a plan and figure 2, an end view of one of the four fold guards I
employ in carrying out my invention--Each four fold guard (made of any suitable
material) is adapted to receive four leaves that is to say to each of its outer
folds a, is pasted or glued a double leaf b, c, d, e, as shewn in the end view at
figure 3 which represents the guard (with its four leaves) half built, before adding
splints or material of any kind to thicken the back; figure 4 is a similar view to
that shewn in figure 3, but illustrates the guard provided with a splint h, or
thickening for the back and as arranged before the book is finally made solid at
the back; figure 5 shews the guard built up solid by the two folds f, g, thereof
being stuck together (over the splint h) thus completing a section having four
leaves; the drawing shews only one splint h, placed between the folds f, g, of the
guard, but it will be obvious that any suitable number of splints can be employed.
A number of sections thus formed are then connected together by similar four
fold guards, the number of sections varying according to the thickness of book
required, but in all cases it is an alternate opening of a solid guard. The sections
forming a complete book are bound in any usual manner. Figure 6 is an end view
of a complete book bound up.
By this mode of manufacture I produce a scrap album or scrap book having a
solid back built with four fold guards securely binding each leaf without sewing,
and having a solid guard in alternate openings whereby I obtain perfect freedom

page_text: for each leaf from the back in every opening, and without the usual disfiguring
holes in the back which appear when thread is employed, and the leaves are not
liable to come loose as so frequently happens when the books are wire sewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The use in the manufacture of scrap albums or scrap books, of four fold
guards substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
represented in the accompanying drawing.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved scrap albums or scrap books
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.