Means for releasably binding an album cover and album pages together

Claim 1

An album comprising a front cover, a rear cover and an elongate back member hingedly connected with said front and rear covers, a plurality of rectangular shaped album pages each having inner and outer longitudinal edges, each page having a pair of longitudinally spaced apart recesses in the inner longitudinal edge thereof, an elongate hinge member positioned against said inner edge, an elongate relatively narrow hinge mounting strip folded over and applied to said inner longitudinal edge whereby said hinge member defines a pair of hinge elements at said recesses, said pair of hinge elements for each page being disposed within the general plane of the page. a pair of non-metallic longitudinally spaced apart hinge supporting members on said back member releasably mounting the pages on the back member, each of said hinge supporting members including an elongate base secured to the inner surface of said back member and having a plurality of similar hinge engaging posts projecting outwardly therefrom, each hinge engaging post having an enlarged outer end, said hinge engaging posts of each hinge supporting member being arranged in rows extending transversely of the base and longitudinally of the back member, each row having a plurality of spaced apart posts therein, each hinge element for an album page being removably inserted with snap coupling effect between and being revolvable relative to the hinge engaging elements of a pair of rows to pivotalLy mount the pages on the back member and each hinge element projecting outwardly beyond each pair of rows between which it is gripped.