IMPROVEMENTS IN ALBUMS OR BOOKS FOR CONTAINING AND SHOWING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER PICTURES, AND IN SLIDES FOR THE SAME
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN ALBUMS OR BOOKS FOR CONTAINING AND SHOWING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER
PICTURES, AND IN SLIDES FOR THE SAME."-A communication from abroad
by Henry Strauss, of Paris, France.
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Sealed the 30th May 1862, and dated the 4th December 1861
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION- left by the said: Richard Archibald
Brooman, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition;.
on the 4th December '1861.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166,. Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ALBUMS OR BOOKS FOR CONTAINING AND SHOWING PHOTO-_
GRAPHIC AND OTHER PICTURES, AND IN SLIDES FOR THE SAME," (communicated to
me from abroad by Henry Strauss,, of Paris, France,) to be as follows:-
I take two of such sheets of paper with apertures in the centre as are
generally used in albums for showing photographic pictures, and unite them
at three sides after having interposed a strip or strips of thick paper, card-
board, or the like, equal or nearly so to the thickness of two of, the pictures.
to be contained and shown. Thus the sheets will be united at their edges on
three sides to interposed filling pieces, and one side will be left. open for the
insertion of the slide hereafter described.
The slides consist of a frame of cardboard or thick paper equal in thickness..

page_text: to the interposed filling pieces. To one edge of the frame on both sides a
sheet of gelatine, talc, or other transparent material is attached, the space left
in the frame is calculated to receive two pictures back to back. After being
inserted in the space in the frame, each picture is entirely covered by the
gelatine or tale. The slide is formed with angle pieces, and when inserted
between the sheets of paper, the outer edge of the slide fills up the space
between the enclosed edges of the two sheets.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHAND
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN; of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent; send greeting.
: WHEREAS Her-most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I; the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors; adminis-
trators, and assigns, sliould 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 IMPROVEMENTS IN ALBUMS OR BOOKS FOR CONTAINING AND
SHOWING PHOTOGRAPHIC AND OTHER PICTURES, AND IN SLIDES FOR THE SAME," (com-
municated to me froin abroad by Henry Strauss, of Paris, France), upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
For-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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: 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:
I take two of such sheets of paper with apertures in the centre as are
generally used in albums for showing photographic pictures, and unite them
at three sides, after having interposed a strip or strips of thick paper, card-
board, or the like, equal or nearly so to the thickness of two of the pictures to be
contained and shewn. Thus the sheets will be united at their edges on three
'sides to interposed filling pieces, and one side will be left open for the insertion
of the slide hereafter described.
The slides consist of a frame of cardboard or thick paper equal in thickness
to the interposed filling pieces. To one edge of the frame on both sides a
sheet of gélatine, tale, or other transparent material is attached, the space left
in the frame is calculated to receive two pictures back to back. After being
inserted in the space in the frame; each picture is entirely covered by the
gelatine or talc. The slide is formed with angle pieces, and when inserted
between the sheets of paper, the outer edge of the slide fills up the space
between the unclosed edges of the two sheets.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front view of two sheets of
paper or cardboard united on three sides as before described, and intended to
represent a leaf of or for a photographic album constructed according to this
Invention; Figure 2 is a vertical section of one of the slides with the trans-
parent material gummed on one edge; Figure 3 is a view of the slide ready
for insertion between the sheets which form the leaves of the album or book;
Figure 4 shows a card placed in the frame, and may be used as a support to
the pictures which are placed back to back, one on each side of the card, or
the card may be dispensed with.
A, A, are two sheets of paper, one only of which is seen in the Drawing.
with apertures in the centre, thickening pieces are placed between the edges,
and the sheets are united on three sides, on one side or end the sheets are not
united, and at that side or end the thickening piece is omitted, thus a space
is provided for the insertion of the slide B. This slide is composed of a frame E
to receive a card C, and the pictures to be viewed; the frame is widened or is
formed with angle pieces d, d, at one end for the purpose of filling up the
space between the sheets A, A, and of giving a neat and finished appearance
to the edge of the leaf. The slide B may be introduced at the side or end of
the leaf as shewn at Figure 1. A sheet of white or colored gelatine or talc
F, F, is gummed on each side of the frame of the slide B.
-G, GL, Figure 2, shows in blue ink two pictures back to back, with the

page_text: card C between them, each picture being covered by a sheet of gelatine F, F.
The portraits or pictures, and the slide are. inserted through the slot between
the two sheets of which the leaf is composed, and complete the leaf shewing a
picture on each side.
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,.-
First, forming the leaves of photographic albums, or books of two sheets
united on three sides, and of a. slide for containing the pictures,, all, in
manner, and for the purposes herein-before described with reference to, the
accompanying Drawings.
Second, the employment in photographic albums or books of talc or gelatine
for covering, and of a card for supporting. photographic portraits or pictures
as herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Third day of June, One thousand 1
eight hundred and sixty-two.