Photographic Enlarging Lantern and Magic Lantern.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1886
Complete Left, 19th Aug., 1887.
* Complete Accepted, 20th Sept, 1887.
Photographic Enlarging Lantern and Magic Lantern.
I, WALTER PHILIP O'REILLY of 399 Edgware Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce in one and the same apparatus a
photographic camera, a photographic enlarging lantern, and a magic lantern.
According to my invention I make the bellows in such manner that it can be fitted
and removed from the camera as required, for this purpose I provide a frame at each
end of the bellows such frame fitting into the two camera ends in grooves there
provided for the purpose; when the frames are removed the bellows can be folded
into a compact space. The inner surface of the camera is lined with tin plate or other
suitable material, japanned or blackened, and when the apparatus is to be used as a
magic lantern, a metal vessel, say a tin vessel, which may be made, for the sake of
portability, in sections, is substituted for the bellows of the camera, having the
necessary apertures formed in same for the chimney and for attaching same to the
frame. The metal body fits into the grooves or spaces previously occupied by the
bellows. The tin back and reflector is also inserted in the groove previously occupied
by the dark slide. The conical front and slide holder are connected in any convenient
manner to the camera front which may be conveniently accomplished by placing on
the camera front two screw heads or buttons at top and bottom thereof and in such
manner that the slide holder and conical tube containing the magic lantern can be,
with the greatest facility, slipped over or removed from the screw heads or buttons.
The tube of the camera lens is of large enough diameter to contain the condenser for

page_text: the magic lantern or photographic enlarging apparatus ; and the lenses used for the
condenser are separated and used separately for the camera.
The whole apparatus is fitted on a base or stand with means for adjustment
provided, and to enable the camera to be placed in a vertical or horizontal position.
This base or stand is available as a stand for the camera or magic lantern as may be
required. The lamp for the lantern is carried, supported, and adjustable, in the well
of the base board, and in this way the lantern is not so heated as is generally the case
now when placed inside.

page_text: Photographic Enlarging Lantern and Magic Lantern.
I WALTER PHILIP O'REILLY of 399 Edgware Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to produce in one and the same apparatus a
photographic camera, a photographic enlarging lantern, and a magic lantern.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which
similar letters of reference refer to like parts in all the figures.
Figure 1. is a longitudinal vertical section of a photographic camera made according
to my invention, and when fitted and to be used as such. Figure 2 is a perspective
view of the same apparatus with the bellows removed and a metal case or vessel
substituted, so as to convert it into a magic lantern, and Figure 3 shows the same
metal case or vessel detached but drawn on a smaller scale than it is shown in the
previous Figure.
According to my invention I make the bellows or expanding body of the camera a
Figure 1, in such manner that it can be fitted and removed from the camera as
required; for this purpose I form the bellows with two frames a¹ a¹, one at each end,
such frames a' may be made to fit into the two camera ends 6, 61, in grooves c, c, there
provided for the purpose or they may be screwed in or otherwise secured; when the
camera ends b, b', are removed and the ends or frames a¹, a¹, of the bellows a also
removed from the grooves c c, then the said bellows can be folded into a compact
space.
The inner surface of the camera ends 6 6¹ are lined with tin plate d or other suitable
material japanned or blackened, and the whole apparatus may be fitted on a base or
stand e, the front end 6 being secured directly thereto as shown at Figure 1, a screw
may be fixed into the stand and passed through a hole in the frame b and provided
with a nut 6. The back end 6' may be secured in the same manner to a block e
having tongued ends, and sliding in a grooved recess in the base plate e, the block e¹
may be fixed in the grooves and the end frame b¹ may be also secured by tightening
the screw b× g Figure 1 are grooves by which the transparient slide and the dark
slide are held, tongues being provided thereon which are slid into said grooves.
The camera is shown as standing vertically but it may be placed into a horizontal
position by the ends 6, 6¹ being turned over and the screws being passed through
holes 63 provided in the longer sides; these holes are shewn at figure 1. All the
screw holes should be provided with sliding covers to prevent the light passing
through the two which are not in use. This base or stande is available as a stand
either for the camera or magic lantern,

page_text: When the apparatus is to be used as a magic lantern, a metal vessel or case h is
substituted for and in place of, the bellows a and is made to fit into the grooves cc
in the camera ends b 6. This case is shewn separately at Figure 3 and applied to
the ends b b at Figure 2; it may conveniently be formed of tin, or other suitable
material, and may be made in sections for the sake of portability, although not so
shown.
The case has the necessary apertures formed therein for supplying air to the
lamp and is provided with a flanged aperture in the top, over which flange the
chimney his passed. A tin or other back and reflector h³ is provided which fits and
slides into the grooves 9 previously occupied by the dark slide.
The conical front with slide holder k shewn applied at Figure 2, is connected in any
convenient manner to the camera end b, in the position shewn at Figure 2 which may
be conveniently accomplished by placing on the camera front b two or more screw-heads
or buttons at the top and bottom thereof, in such manner that the slide holder k can,
with the greatest facility be slipped or sprung in between or removed from the
screw heads or buttons. The tube of the camera lense is of large enough diameter to
contain the condenser for the magic lantern or photographic enlarging apparatus.
The lamp for the lantern may be carried, supported and is adjustable, in the well of
the base board, and in this way the lantern is not so heated as is generally the case
now when placed inside.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
The combination in one and the same apparatus of a photographic camera and a
photographic enlarging lantern and magic lantern, so that each can be used separately
and distinct from one another when required for its own particular purpose
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated with reference to the
accompanying drawings.