Album for storing and displaying three-dimensional items of memorabilia
OwnerDeborah Henleyinventor
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Abstract
A storage album for three dimensional memorabilia has an openable top panel, a bottom panel, side panels, and a spine defining an interior volume. The spine is detachably secured to the back ends of two of the side panels so that it is held in place along and defining the spine of the album when the top cover is closed, but is detached and lays flat and coextensive with the top and bottom panels when the top panel is fully opened. This allows the pages or protectors of the album to be turned fully back for viewing three dimensional items stored for display therein.
Claims19
An album for three-dimensional items, comprising:
- (a) a top cover having a front edge and a rear edge;
- (b) a bottom cover having a front edge and a rear edge;
- (c) a generally rectangular spine hingedly connecting the rear edges of the top and bottom covers, said spine having opposed end portions;
- (d) opposed end walls extending between the bottom cover and the top cover, said opposed end walls having rear portions;
- (e) a side wall extending between the bottom cover and the top cover;
- (f) said top cover, bottom cover, opposed end walls, side wall, and spine defining a storage volume;
- (g) a retainer for securing items of memorabilia therein the storage volume;
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- (h) the opposed end portions of the spine being releasably attachable to the rear portions of said end walls, wherein said top cover and said spine are outwardly extensible.
A storage album having an openable top cover, a bottom cover, sides, and a spine having opposed edges, said covers, sides, and spine defining an interior volume for storing objects when said top cover is closed, said spine of said storage album being hingedly attached along one edge to an edge of said bottom cover and along its opposed edge to an edge of said top cover, said spine further being detachably secured in a first position perpendicular to said top and bottom covers when said top cover is closed and being movable when detached to a second position coextensive with said top and bottom covers when said top cover is open.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.