Album page

Abstract

An album page for the display of materials in a landscape or portrait orientation, having a rectangular paper insert sheet inserted in a folded sheet of transparent plastic. One short side of the folded sheet has an opening for insertion of photographs and negatives. One long side remains unsealed for insertion of photographs and negatives. The paper insert sheet has two rows of holes, and is larger in width than the folded cover sheet, to leave a portion of the paper insert sheet exposed for use as a memo area. The plastic folded cover sheet is folded, attached to itself along the two short edges to form an envelope, the paper insert sheet is inserted in the envelope, and the folded cover sheet is attached to itself through holes in the paper insert sheet to attach the folded cover sheet to itself, and create horizontal supports to hold the display material in the desired position. The attachments through the holes do not touch the edges of the folded cover sheet to prevent the display area from being cluttered with unsightly attachment points. This method also allows for alignment of a printed memo area with a display pocket.

I claim:  
     
         1 . An album page for displaying material in either a portrait or landscape orientation comprising a folded cover sheet formed by folding a transparent plastic sheet substantially in half, to create a fold, and a paper insert sheet, in which both the folded cover sheet after folding and the paper insert sheet each are substantially rectangular and have substantially parallel long edges, parallel short edges, and a width and a height, the folded cover sheet after folding having a width less than the width of the paper insert sheet, the paper insert sheet having two parallel rows of holes, each row of holes being substantially equidistant from one of the short edges of the folded cover sheet and from the other row of holes, the folded cover sheet being permanently attached to itself along one of its short edges, and partially attached along the other of its short edges, and at each of the holes to form six pockets, one short edge of the folded cover sheet having an insertion opening, and the album page also having an unattached area in which the folded cover sheet is not attached to itself through the paper insert.  
     
     
         2 . The album page of  claim 1  in which the attachment means is sonic welding.  
     
     
         3 . The album page of  claim 1  in which the attachment means is heat welding.  
     
     
         4 . The album page of  claim 1  in which the attachment means is hot melt glue.  
     
     
         5 . The album page of  claim 1  having a memo area.  
     
     
         6 . The album page of  claim 6  in which the memo area has printing aligned with the pockets without substantial variation of the location of the printing during manufacture of numerous examples of album pages.  
     
     
         7 . The album page of  claim 1  in which the unattached area is defined as the area of the album page between a first line parallel to and approximately 1.5 inches from the fold and a second line parallel to and approximately 5.625 inches from the fold.  
     
     
         8 . The album page of  claim 1  having a plurality of perforations in the unattached area to support the display material displayed in the portrait orientation.  
     
     
         9 . A method for making an album page for displaying material in either a portrait or landscape orientation, comprising folding a transparent plastic sheet into a rectangle having two long edges and two short edges, attaching the plastic sheet to itself along both short edges to create an envelope, making rows of holes having holes in an insert sheet, the rows of holes being spaced to define a plurality of areas slightly larger than the display material to be displayed, inserting the insert sheet in the envelope, attaching the folded cover sheet to itself through each of the holes to create attachment points, the holes also being spaced so that when the folded plastic sheet is attached through the holes to create attachment points, the attachment points do not touch any edge of the folded cover sheet.  
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , in which a memo area on the insert sheet is created by making the insert sheet larger than the folded cover sheet when folded, and the memo area is printed so that the printing is aligned substantially at the same distance from one of the parallel short edges of the transparent plastic sheet after assembly of the album page.