Photographic album and method of fabrication of same

Claim 1

A process of fabricating an album having a prebound binding wherein upon the individual pages thereof items of an aesthetic nature are capable of being mounted so as to create an album whose pages once having pictures mounted thereon provide a uniform plane surface, said process comprising the steps of; (a) removing a first protective covering from the back surface of a mat assembly, said mat assembly comprising; (i) a mat having a front surface and a back adhesive surface that defines a symmetrically positioned opening therein, therebeing an indented adhesive surface bordering said opening formed within the back face of said mat, said indented adhesive surface defining a recessed area formed only within the back surface of said mat; (ii) a first protective covering being removeably affixed to said indented adhesive surface, said indent and said adhesive surface only becoming exposed upon the removal of said first protective covering; and (iii) a second protective covering removeably affixed to the remaining portion of said back adhesive surface of said mat not covered by said first protective covering; (b) placing an item of aesthetic nature within said indented adhesive recessed area formed within the back surface of said mat such that the face of said item of aesthetic nature comes into direct contact with said indented adhesive surface, said item of aesthetic nature having dimensions identical to said recessed area formed within the back surface of said mat, such that said item of aesthetic nature fits exactly within the confines of said indented recess, the depth of said indented recess and the thickness of said item of aesthetic nature being identical; (c) removing said second protective covering from the back adhesive of said mat assembly so as to uncover an adhesive surface that borders the back surface of said mat assembly; and (d) mounting said mat assembly onto a page of said album, such that said back adhesive surface exposed by the removal of said second protective covering comes into contact with said page, each of said pages of said album comprising; (i) a base member having a first surface and a second surface, a fold being formed within both surfaces of said base member, symmetrical with respect to each other, said folds traversing both surfaces of said base member parallel to the binding of said page within said album; (ii) a first border member and a second border member, identical in shape to each other, said first and second border members each defining a symmetrically positioned opening therein identical in size to said mat assembly, said first border member being affixed to one surface of said base member and said second border member being affixed to said second surface of said base member such that there is defined a recessed area as to each surface of said page, said recessed area of each surface of said page being identical in depth to the thickness of said mat assembly such that when said mat assembly is mounted on said page, the entire surface of said page with mounted mat assembly presents a uniform planar surface.