AN IM- PROVED Box FOR ENCLOSING PORTRAITS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC CARTES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 10, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the
County of Middlesex, and 18, Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, in the
Empire of France, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IM-
PROVED Box FOR ENCLOSING PORTRAITS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC CARTES." -A
communication from Joseph Munch, residing at 2, Rue St. Louis,
in Paris aforesaid Manufacturer
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 27th October 1869, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 10,
Sackville Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, and 18, Chaussée
d'Antin, Paris, in the Empire of France, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
Box FOR ENCLOSING PORTRAITS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC CARTES," a communication

page_text: to me from Joseph Munch, a person resident at 2, Rue St. Louis, in
Paris, aforesaid, Manufacturer, and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant
unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters
Patent for the same, and made solemn Declaration that it is a com-
munication.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
The Invention communicated to me is intended to contain and preserve
from injury in a comparative small space portraits and photographic
cartes; it consists of a box or receptacle with a lid, divided into several
compartments, of which the size may be increased or decreased by means
of moveable petitions sliding in grooves in the wall or surface of the
sides which form the said compartments, or compartment if the box
only consists of one, so that by placing the portraits or photographic
cartes in the alphabetical order of the initials of the originals between
the moveable partitions, the top of each partition having an index with
one of the letters of the alphabet on it, it is very easy to find out the
portrait one is seeking.
Having thus briefly described the nature of the said Invention, I will
proceed to describe the same more fully, at the same time referring to
the accompanying Drawing and to the letters marked thereon.
On
This box or casket album is represented in the Drawing in perspective,
the lid being opened. a, a, are the partitions, in any number, fixed between
the interior sides of the box or receptacle, and forming the principal
compartments b, b; c, c, are the moveable partitions, which can be made
to slide in the grooves d, d, in the sides of the box and fixed partitions,
so as to have larger or smaller compartments to receive the cartes.
the top of each moveable partition c, c, is a kind of index with the letter
inscribed thereon, which corresponds to the initial letter of the names of
the persons whose cartes are to be placed in the compartment. It is
clear that to increase or diminish the space allotted to said compartments
the moveable partitions have only to be moved from one groove to
another. The casket has a cover and lock and key or other suitable
fastening, by means of which the cartes and portraits enclosed may be

page_text: preserved from deterioration, and the abstraction of the same prevented.
The lid of the casket may if desired be provided, as seen in the Drawings,
with a frame e on hinges which can be raised or lowered or opened or
shut, and any cartes too large to be contained in the subdivisions can be
placed behind the same. These caskets may be made in a highly
finished and showy style, so as to be suited to the drawing room table,
on which they have a very ornamental appearance; the size also is subject
of course to the description and number of cartes intended to be enclosed.
The subdivisions can be equally well adapted to contain the large
photographs called cartes album, as those of a smaller size.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood.
that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein indicated, as
these obviously are subject to modifications; but what I claim is, a box
or casket divided into one or more compartments, which compartment
or compartments are subdivided into other compartments, of which the
size can be increased or diminished at will, for the purpose of con-
taining photographic cartes, as described, set forth, and shewn in the
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine.