Improvements in Albums.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Albums.
I, ROBERT EDWARD PHILLIPS, of River View, Datchet, in the County of
Bucks, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved album. Hitherto albums have been made
to receive either photographs, autographs, crest or coats of arms, confessions,
characters, at home" days, birthdays or the like separately and independently.
According to my invention each page of an album or two opposite and adjacent
pages are arranged and adapted to receive all or any of the above to which may
be added any other particulars of a personal nature. For instance when the album
is intended to give the character, space is reserved for a personal description.
Instead of providing separate spaces for the name, address, and "at home
days, space may be reserved for the reception of a visiting card which usually give
these particulars.
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Each page or pair of pages is preferably constructed to receive cards of various
sizes to receive the matter or particulars which require personal or individual
execution such as the photograph, the autograph, the crest or coat of arms and the
character, but this is not obligatory.
As an alternative construction the pages may be so mounted in the cover or
binding as to be capable of easy and ready detachment and attachment thus
facilitating the filling up of the various spaces.
Dated this 18th day of June.
ROBERT EDWARD PHILLIPS.
Improvements in Albums.
1, ROBERT EDWARD PHILLIPS, of 30, George Street, in the Parish of
St. Georges Hanover Square, London, in the County of Middlesex, late of River
View Datchet Engineer, 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 improved album. Hitherto albums have been made
to receive either portraits or photographs, autographs, crest or coats of arms,
confessions, characters, "at home" days, birthdays or the like separately and
independently.
According to my invention each page of an album or two opposite and adjacent
pages are arranged and adapted to receive all or any of the above to which may be
added any other particulars of a personal nature. For instance when the album is
intended to give the character, space is reserved for a personal description.
Instead of providing separate spaces for the name, address and "at home" days,
space may be reserved for the reception of a visiting card which usually give these
narticulars.

page_text: Each page or pair of pages is preferably constructed to receive cards of various
sizes to receive the matter or particulars which require personal or individual
execution such as the portrait, the autograph, the crest or coat of arms and the
character, but this is not obligatory.
As an alternative construction the pages may be so mounted in the cover or
binding as to be capable of easy and ready dotachment and attachment thus
facilitating the filling up of the various spaces.
In the accompanying drawings which show-by way of illustration only-
ways of carrying my invention into practical effect :-
Figure 1 Sheet No. 1 is a view of a double page of an album embodying my
invention.
Figure 2 Sheet No. 2 is a view of a double page of an album showing a
modification of my invention.
Figure 3 Sheet No. 3 is a view of a single page of an album showing another
form my invention may assume, and
Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 Sheet No. 3 are views of cards therefor.
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Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
Referring to Figure 1. One page of the album is provided with a recess or
opening A for the introduction of a photograph or portrait in the usual manner
and it is also provided with spaces for any or all of the following particulars or
characteristics of the individual whose portrait is shown: Full names, autograph,
birthday, "at home" day, date of marriage, age, personal description, confession.
The opposite page of the album is intended to hold a character of the individual
delineated either from the portrait or from the hand writing, and to this end the
page is provided either with a recess or opening such as B to receive a card on
which the character is to be written direct on to the page. I prefer, however, to
provide detachable cards and openings or recesses therefor both for the portraits
and characters as it enables the character to be delineated from the portrait
without the necessity of carrying or sending the whole album about. To this end
J may
also provide a card and an opening or a recess for the autograph as shown
by Figures 2, 3 and 5 in cases where the character is delineated from the
handwriting.
Figure 2 shows an album having openings or recesses for cards bearing all the
particulars, which arrangement is useful as it permits of the re-arrangement of the
matter contained in the pages. The opening or recess for the portrait is
designated A, that for the character B, that for the visiting card C, that for the
autograph D and that for the confession E, the several cards therefor being marked
respectively A, B, C, D' and E'.
To meet cases where the character is delineated through the medium of some
journal, provide a card such as B on which the cutting from the said journal can
be pasted or otherwise fixed as shown by Figure 6, and an opening or recess such as B
to receive the said card, in which case the several openings or recesses are preferably
arranged on one page as shown by Figure 3.
I wish it to be particularly understood that I do not limit myself to the precise
arrangement hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings,
but that I hold myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly
come within the spirit and scope of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what mauner the same is to be performed, I declare that what |
claim is :-
(1) The improvements in albums substantially as set forth.
(2.) An album, each page or pair of pages of which is adapted to contain in
addition to a portrait a description and personal particulars or characteristics of
the individual, as set forth.
(3.) An album, each page or pair of opposite and adjacent pages of which is
adapted to contain any or all of the following:-Portrait, autograph, crest or cont

page_text: of arms, confession, character, "at home" days, birthday, date of marriage and
personal description or characteristics.
(4.) The combination album. substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 18th day of March 1895.
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS.