Rembrandt Photo Services

David Fu

William R Miller

Michael Mencacci

Elaine M Wiles

An album for containing items such as photographs or collectible cards, and its fabrication process, combining the advantages of a cover of one thermoplastic material with the different advantages of leaves of another thermoplastic material weld-incompatible with the cover material, using thermoplastic welding for securing the leaves to the cover. In its preferred embodiment, the album comprises a cover having vinyl inner and outer cover sheets secured to one another in superposed relation with a polypropylene sheet captured therebetween and extending along the cover's spine, and a plurality of polypropylene leaves thermally welded to the captured polypropylene sheet along the cover's spine and through the inner cover.

Album and fabrication process

A flexible plastic device for containing a compact disc and having a pocket configured such that the compact disc may be easily inserted into and removed from the pocket. The pocket is formed by a rectangular flexible plastic sheet and another flexible plastic sheet in superposed relation and welded together along three edges thereof with an opening between the rectangular sheet and an unsealed edge of the other sheet for receiving the disc, the unsealed edge extending between opposing welded together edges of the sheets and projectively contoured, the other sheet having an aperture for permitting access to the disc at the disc aperture when the disc is contained in the pocket, the other sheet having a narrow gap in the unsealed edge approximately mid-width thereof and communicating with the aperture of the other sheet.

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Rowland Heights, CA, United States of America

David Fu