AN IMPROVED ALBUM
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John Gedge
and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED ALBUM."-A com-
munication from abroad by Jules Abelous, of No. 15, Passage des
Petites Ecuries, Paris, France.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Edward Gedge at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 6th July 1864, pursuant to the 9th Section of the
Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED ALBUM,"
the said Invention being a communication to me from abroad by Jules
Abelous, of No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, and have
petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn
declaration that the said Invention is communicated to me as above written.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, that is to say :-

page_text: The improved album, the subject of this Invention, contains in the first
place photographic pictures, either inserted in the usual way of inserting
cartes de visite, or permanently photo-printed on the leaves of the album;
these pictures may be illustrations of eminent persons, reproductions of
ancient or modern paintings, of architecture, whether historical or domestic,
portraits of horses or other animals, of factories, of shipping, or of other
objects. In the second place the above-mentioned pictures are surrounded
with ornamental, printed, engraved, or embossed framework, leaving when
engraved or embossed blank spaces in the grouping, in which spaces are
printed in typographical characters inscriptions of every character, whether
analogous with the object they surround or distinct therefrom, and intended
for other purposes. These inscriptions are printed in ink, in metal, or in
color at pleasure, and the blank spaces thus filled up are left of any form by
spiral, arabesque, or other designs or grouping of framing for the pictures,
or the printing may in character follow the style of the design, or in its
display form the design or grouping itself.
It is to be understood that one or more photographs may be placed on each
leaf of the album, and that the photographs themselves may be of any form,
square, round, oval, hexagonal, or triangular, at pleasure. The album itself
to be of the form most suitable to the pictures or objects illustrated on or in
its leaves, and its size may be folio, quarto, octavo, or duodecimo, or any
intermediate or other size at will, the thickness dependant partly on the size
of the pictures, but not confined to any proportion, the binding to be varied
as taste may direct in design, material, or colour.
Having now described the nature of the Invention communicated to me by
the said Jules Abelous, and the mode in which it is composed, made up, or
manufactured, I would have it understood that no claim is made for the
exclusive use of any of the parts or portions herein mentioned composing the
album taken separately, but only for the combination of parts or process
above set forth, and essentially as herein described, forming when so combined
"An Improved Album."
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)