IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, of the Firm of Robert-
son, Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC
ALBUMS AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES."-A communication from Frederic
Wilhelm Marx. residing at Paris France
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Broo-
man at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th May 1867.
I, CLINTON EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and
Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTO-
GRAPHIC ALBUMS AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
Hitherto the name of the person whose portrait is inserted in a passe
partout, or page of an album, or the name of the subject shown by a picture
has been usually written on the page or "passe partout" itself, and this leads
to inconvenience if the portrait or picture be afterwards changed.
Now this Invention consists in the employment of movable name cards or
slips, and in the formation of a sort of chamber or receptacle in the page or
passe partout, into which these name cards can be readily inserted and again
taken out independently of the picture. This chamber or receptacle is pre-

page_text: ferably formed as follows:-A piece of fabric is pasted on and behind an
opening in the sheet of paper which covers each side of the internal card
forming the body of the passe partout; over the fabric is pasted on the lower
edge a thin piece of paper, which also serves as a guide to the portrait or
"carte;" this is repeated on the opposite side of the page or passe partout.
The name card or the paper round the opening through which it is seen may
be ornamented by painting, gilding, or otherwise.
The Invention applies to photographic and other albums, passe partouts,
and other like articles.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 26th November 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLINTON
EDGCUMBE BROOMAN, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators, or 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS AND OTHER LIKE
ARTICLES," (communicated to me from abroad by Frederick Wilhelm Marx,
a person resident at Paris, France,) upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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:-
Hitherto the name of the person whose portrait is inserted into a passe
partout or leaf of an album, or the name of the subject shewn by a picture
has been usually written on the page or "passe partout" itself, and this leads
to inconvenience if the portrait or picture be afterwards changed.
Now this Invention consists in the employment. of movable name cards or
slips, and in the formation of a sort of chamber or receptacle in the leaf or
passe partout, into which these name cards can be readily inserted and again
taken out independently of the picture. This chamber or receptacle is
preferably formed as follows:-A piece of fabric is pasted on and behind an
opening in the sheet of paper which covers each side of the internal card
forming the body of the passe partout; over the fabric is pasted on the lower
edge a thin piece of paper, which also serves as a guide to the portrait or
carte" this is repeated on the opposite side of the leaf or passe partout.
The name card or the paper round the opening through which it is seen may
be ornamented by painting, gilding, or otherwise.
"
The Invention applies to photographic and other albums, passe partouts,
and other like articles, and is represented in the annexed Drawings as applied
to a leaf or passe partout of an album.
Figure 1 represents the leaf or passe partout provided with movable name
cards; Figure 2 is a section through A, B, and Figure 3 a section through
C, D, of Figure 1; Figure 4 represents the interior of the leaf shewing the
mode of forming the chamber for the name card; Figure 5 is a vertical
section corresponding to Figure 4.
a, a, are the name cards, and b, b, the chambers or receptacles into which
they are inserted. These chambers are formed, as before explained, of a piece
of fabric c pasted on and behind an opening in the sheet of paper d which
covers each side of the internal card or pasteboard forming the body of the
passe partout; over the fabric c the lower edge e of a piece of paper fis
pasted; this is repeated on the opposite side of the leaf or passe partout. The
left-hand portion of Figure 1 shews one of the name cards a in place, and the
portrait or "carte" 9 also in place; the right-hand portion of this Figure
shows the carte g partly out, and the name card a in the act of being inserted
or taken out, thereby showing that the card a can be taken out independently
of the carte y, and vice versa.

page_text: 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, the employment in photographic albums and other like articles of
movable name cards or slips, as and for the purpose herein-before described.
Second, the formation in photographic albums and other like articles of
chambers or receptacles, as herein-before described, to receive movable name
cards or slips.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clinton Edgcumbe Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
C. E. BROOMAN. (L.S.)