Photo album assembly and package

A photo album assembly comprising:

• a book-like cover including a front cover panel, a spine panel, and a rear cover panel, the front and rear cover panels being hinged to opposite sides of the spine panel;
• a pair of retainers;
• means for mounting the retainers in the cover adjacent opposite ends of the spine panel and immediately adjacent to one of the cover panels, with the retainers facing each other but separated by a retainer spacing R less than the height of the spine panel;
• a plurality of thin, elongated, bendable binder members each of length L, height H, and thickness T, so that
• L>>H>>T
• with L somewhat larger than R;
• each binder member having two slots, one at each end of the binder member, for engaging the two retainers to mount the binder member in the album cover parallel to the spine panel, each slot having an overall length S at least equal to one-half the difference between L and R;
• N flexible hinge tapes each extending along an edge of one binder member opposite the spine panel;
• and
• N adhesive photo mounting strips, each parallel to and projecting away from one hinge tape, for mounting a photograph in the album.

A photo album assembly comprising:

• a book-like cover including a front cover panel, a spine panel, and a rear cover panel, the front and rear cover panels being hinged to opposite sides of the spine panel;
• a pair of retainers;
• means for mounting the retainers in the cover adjacent opposite ends of the spine panel and immediately adjacent to one of the cover panels, with the retainers facing each other but separated by a retainer spacing R less than the height of the spine panel;
• a plurality of thin, elongated binder members each of length L, height H, and thickness T, so that
• L>>H>>T
• with L somewhat larger than R;
• each binder member having two slots, one at each end of the binder member, for engaging the two retainers to mount the binder member in the album cover parallel to the spine panel, each slot having an overall length S at least equal to one-half the difference between L and R;
• and a corresponding plurality of flexible hinge tapes, one for each binder member, each hinge tape adapted to be mounted along one edge of a binder member, projecting from the binder member in a direction away from the spine panel;
• each hinge tape having a flexible hinge strip, free of adhesive, that extends along and projects from the one edge of the binder member when the hinge tape is mounted thereon;
• and each hinge tape further having an adhesive photo mounting strip, parallel to the hinge strip but on the opposite side of the hinge strip from the binder member, for mounting a photograph in the album.