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 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
CHARLES MILLS, OF NEÑV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE E. rb H. T. ANTHONY da
COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 458,128, dated August 18, 1891.
Application filed February 24, 1891. Serial No. 382,616. (No model.)

T0 al? whom ¿t may concern.' ’for holding the box G in the upper part of
_ Be 1t known that I, CHARLES MILLS, a sub- the camera when it is elevated.
Ject of the Queen of Great Britaiinandaresi- M is a pad of any suitable material. It
dent of New York city, in the county of New may be fastened to the front end of the can1- 5 5
5 York' and State of New York, have invented era, or to the box G, as preferred. Its side to
certain new and useful Improvements in Pho- ward the interior of the box is preferably ar
tographic Cameras, of which the following is ranged on a bevel, as shown, to conform to
a' SPeClñC'fltÍOU- that of the ledge I.
My invention relates to improvements in N N are two frames equal in length to the 6o
lo photographic cameras; and it consists, gener- width of the sides of the camera, but of less
ally stated, in the addition to the camera of width. They are detachably attached to the
certain devices whereby the necessity for a sides of the camera by buttons O O O O.
dark-room is done away with, also means P P are strips of molding or other suitable
whereby anydesirednumberof plates,whether means whereby the edges of conically-shaped 6 5
I5 exposed or not exposed, maybe carried in the bags P’ P’ of flexible light-excluding mate
camera protected from the light, and also de- rial-such as bellows-clotl1-ai-e fastened to
vices whereby the camera may be collapsed the frames N N. At the small ends of these
for more convenient transportation. two conical bags, which, as shown, are ar
Figure l illustrates a vertical section on a ranged on opposite sides of the camera, are 7o
2o line at right angles to the axis of the lens what I term “wristlets” Q Q. They are nar
and on the line œ ¿r of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 Aillus- row bands of material-such as rubber, wood,
trates a vertical section on a line through or metal-and maybe elastic,it desired. They
the lens and ground glass or sensitive plate are of such size as to easily admit a man’s
and on the line g/g/ of Fig. l, showing also in hand, and their interior surface is heavily 75
25 dotted lines the position of the cover for the lined with some black, or at least dark, ma
storage - chamber when opened and of the terial R, such as dyed lamb’s wool or the like.
plate-chamber when dropped; also show- This material projects almost- to the center of
ing in dotted lines the position assumed by the wristlets, so that when the hand is in
the parts when inthe act of collapsing. Fig. serted it closes about the wrist and com- Se
3o 3 illustrates a side elevation of the camera pletely excludes light.
partly broken away and showing the method S S are what I term “ pockets.77 They are
of bringing the parts together so that they bags preferably of flexible material adapted
may collapse, and also showing` the means for to easily contain a man’s hand, and at their
confining the pocket~frames to the side of the inner ends or bottom parts there are attached 8 5
3 5 camera. Fig. Il illustrates the camera as eol- ordinary fish-mouthed or purse frames T T,
lapsed. except that the device whereby one of them
A A is the frame proper of the camera. It at least is held shut arranged to be manipu
may be made of such material as preferred. lated from the inside of the pocket, as seen
B is a little door which extends across the at V, Fig. l. The other one,as shown at V’, 9o
4o front lower part of the camera and opens into Fig. l, may be manipulated from the exterior,
a chamber O, which has a hinged cover D, as usual. They are of such size as to allow the
confined by a hasp E. passage of a man’s hand.
F is a removable back board. \V is a rabbeted ledge for the support of
G is a box occupying the upper part o'l' the the lower edge of the ground glass or sensi- 95
45 camera. It is hinged at II, and has a Vfront tive plate, as the case may be, and Z is a
piece or ledge I, placed at an angle, as shown. spring-hook, the face of the hook being on
J is a false front rigidly attached to the top the same plane as the rabbet on the ledge.
of the camera. a a a are the several paper or other boxes
I( is a spring attached to the under side of in which dry plates are received from the rop
5o the box G. n'ianufacturer. As well known, they are re
L L are hasps of any suitable construction versely mated into each other to exclude the
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light, the seam or joint of the outer one be irabbet W and swings its upper edge rear»
ing sealed light-tight by a_ strip of paper wardly until it catches under the hooi;A Z, and
pasted over it. then elevatcs the box G- again out of the way. 70
d’ a’, the., are the plates. The focus has of course been already de
b b b b are hinges by which the several termined and thel subject found by a finder
parts of the frame are hinged together and or otherwise and the shutter operated by
whereby it may be collapsed, as hereinafter squeezing the bulb in the usual manner. The
set forth. They (the hinges) are of course in bulb of course is or maybe located within the 75
each instance arranged in pairs. camera, that it may be grasped by the hand
IO c c are springs to press the platesor ground of the operator. The picture being taken, the
glass into the proper focal position as used plate is removed and deposited in the stor
in such structures. age-chamber C by lifting its cover, as before.
All the parts of the camera at which a The plate-chamber is then again lowered and
joint occurs through which light might enter a new plate put in position ready for another
are preferably made light-tight by padding exposure. This operation is repeated until
or by rabbets. (Not shown.) The lens is of all the plates have been exposed. They are
course attached in any suitable manner to then removed by being again placed in the
the front of the box opposite the ground boxes, arranged reversely or otherwise, as de 85
glass. sired, depending upon whether they are to be
The operation is as follows: The box con~ removed from the camera in a dark-room or
taining the dry plates just as it comes from not. IVhile withdrawing thehands from the
the manufacturer is first adapted to be opened pockets care should be observed to first close
by cutting the strip of paper all around’. It the fish-mouths T. To collapse the camera
is then passed through the little door I3 into the side frames N N are unbuttoned and are
removed and placed crosswise within the
the chamber C in the bottom of the camera.
frame. It is then pushed over, after the fash
This chamber I will call the “ storage-cham
ion of a pair of parallel rules, into the posi
ber.” The door B is then closed and fastened.
The hands are then introduced through thetion shown in Fig. el, the side frames N N be*
wristlets Q, into the pockets S, the lamb’s ing accommodated bya set-eff in the location
wool making light-tight connection at the of the hinges l) l), tine., as shown.
wrists. The fish-mouth frame T, which has I do not limit myself to the details of con
its lock on the inside, is then opened and the struction shown, because alterations may be
hand thrust through it, and by it the other made therein and still the essentials of the IOO
fish-mouth frame is opened, and the other invention be employed, and itis obvious that
35 hand is then likewise thrust through it. provision may be made for the insertion of
_Thus both hands are on the inside of the one hand only within the came `a, if pre
camera, and no light has entered it or can ferred.
enter it. The operator then manipulates the I claim IOS
device on the interior of the camera, and also 1. A camera having a light~tight plate
40 the camera itself, as follows,being aided in so chamber and a light-tight storage-chamber
doing` by the flexible character of the conical each adapted to be opened from the interior
bags I’l , which afford him freedom of move of the camera, and means whereby the hand
ment: IIe lifts the cover D of the storage~ of the operator may be inserted to the inten IIO
chamber and catches it under the spring K, so rior of the camera without admitting light,
45 that it is held elevated, as shown in dotted lines substantially as set forth.
in Fig. 2. I-Ie then picks up the boxes of plates 2. In a camera, interiorly-loca-tcd recepta
and, removing them one by one, nests them cles or places for the exposed and unexposed
into each other again instead of having them plates, and means whereby the hand of the 115
within each other reversely. In otherwords, operator may be passed to the interior of the
50 he arranges them as shown in Fig. 2 instead camera without admitting light, substantially
of being, as they originally were, as shown in as set forth.
Fig. l. IIe then lifts all of the plates out 3. In a camera, interiorly-located recepta
from the innermost box a and leans them up cles or places for the exposed and unexposed
against the ground-glass plate or some other plates, and a iiexible side for the camera pro
55 suitable place. Then he shuts the cover D, vided with means for the passage of the hand
and then, pressing the latches L L, lowers the through it and for excluding the light, sub
upper box or chamber G (which I will call stantially as set forth.
the “platechamber ”) into the position shown a. A camera having a storage-chamber ac [25
in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and then places all cessible from the interior and exterior of the
the plates in that box, the inclined ledge I of camera and a plate-chamber accessible from
which causes them to assume an “offset” the interior of the camera only, substantially
position relative to cach other, so that they as set fort-h.
can be easily removed from the box, the iin 5. A camera having sides made of flexible
gers of the operator easily distinguishing and material, a pocket arranged therein through
utilizing the projecting upper edge of the which the hand may be inserted to the inte*
outermost plate. Now to malte an exposure rior of the camera, provided with means to
he takes one of the plates and places it on the exclude the light, and a storage-chamber and
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plate~chamber both accessible from the inte S. A camera having a box for the reception
rior of the camera, substantially as set forth. of the plates opening both to the interior of
6. The combination, in a camera, of a stor the camera and to the exterior thereof, and
age-chamber provided with a door conneotin g another box for the same purpose opening to
with the exterior of the camera and having a the interior of the camera only, and frames
movable cover, and a hinged plate-chamber which sustain flexible sides provided with 25
adapted to move bodily on its hinges and pockets having light-excluding devices at
means to hold it in position when closed, sub their ends, and means to sustain the plates
stantially as set forth. in proper focal position adapted to be oper
IO 7. A camera having a separate box or re ated from the interiorof the camera, substan
ceptacle for the plates at its upper and lower tially as setforth. ‘ 'SO
parts and removable frames at its sides, which Signed at New York,'in the county of New
sustain fiexible panels, provided with means York and State of New York, this 20th day of
for the insertion of the hand of the operator February, A. D. 1891.
without admitting light, and means, such as CHARLES MILLS.
hinges, placed on the frame of the camera be
tween the said boxes, whereby the camera Witnesses:
may be folded or collapsed, substantially as PHILLIPS ABBOTT,
set forth. J. E. HOFFMAN.