Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving Payments and Producing and Delivering Photographs in Exchange therefor.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving Payments and Producing
and Delivering Photographs in Exchange therefor.
We, CARL HEINRICH CHRISTEL FÖGE, CARL HINRICH GRIESE, and JOSEPH
LEONHARD FRIEDERICK RADERS, of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photo-
graphic pictures on the insertion of coin.
In the apparatus constructed according to the said invention the objective is placed
in a short cylindrical part of a funnel shaped tube, which extends so far into the box
of the apparatus that the person who stands in front of the latter and inserts a coin
into a channel in the box will be just at a proper distance from the said objective to
obtain a clear picture.
The coin inserted into the aforesaid channel drops into a holder which is open
below and is arranged on one arm of a weighted lever. As the coin presses the said
arm downwardly, the other arm of the lever will strike against one arm of a second
lever and move it upwardly. The other arm of latter extends between the halves of a
shutter which are supported independently of each other. In the downward move-
ment of this arm of the second lever the said halves will be opened for a short time
whereupon the other arm of the second lever will be released so that the shutter can
be automatically closed under the action of small counterweights.
This short operation is sufficient for the purpose of producing upon the sensitized
plate, which is held at a suitable distance from the objective in a frame, the picture
which must then be developed, fixed and coloured.
In the oscillating movements of the first mentioned lever the coin protruding from
the lower end of the said holder strikes upon a stationary pin and is thereby thrown
into a second channel whence it drops upon another lever and finally into the
collecting box or drawer.
By the movement of the last mentioned lever, which is caused by the coin, the
disengagement of a so called time dise driven by clock-work is effected. This time-
disc commencing to turn will disengage a finger on an arm from pins on the said
disc, press the said arm downwardly, and cause a pattern disc which is driven by
the clockwork to leave its original position. This pattern disc causes the movements
of a lever which bears by means of a friction roller upon the periphery of the disc,
the longest arm of the aforesaid lever, being connected by a chain which passes
around rollers, with the frame carrying the sensitized plate and lifted by the weight
of the frame, so that the shortest arm of the said lever will always remain in con-
tact with the periphery of the pattern-disc. As soon as, in the turning movement
of this disc, the friction roller on the shortest arm of the above-mentioned lever
enters the first depression, the longest arm will be raised and the frame carrying
the plate is in the first instance lowered into a developing bath supported upon a
rotary plate. When the friction roller arrives at the lowest part of the said depres-
sion the pattern disc is stopped, so that the plate will be held in the developing
bath until the finger of the above-mentioned arm reaches the next pin on the time-
disc and the said arm is pressed downwardly to discontinue the arrest of the pattern-
disc in order that in the further turning movement which can then take place the
shortest arm of the above mentioned lever will be raised and the frame carrying
the plate can be drawn from the developing bath. In this movement of the pattern-
disc a pin on the same strikes against an intermediate lever which will press another
lever downwardly so as to discontinue the arrest of a vertical axis driven through
the medium of the clockwork. This axis is thus caused to make one sixth of a

page_text: revolution so that instead of the developing bath a clearing in the above mentioned
disc will be below the frame through which clearing the latter in the further
turning movement of the pattern disc can dip into a rinsing-vessel placed below,
inasmuch as the short arm of the lever connected by a chain with the said frame
as hereinbefore described is lowered into the next depression in the pattern disc
which is much deeper than the last depression. The plate remains in the rinsing
vessel until the finger on the arm acting in conjunction with the time disc reaches
another pin on the latter and the pattern disc is again liberated so as to turn and
raise the frame. Then the next pin on the pattern-disc acting upon the two levers
hereinbefore described will discontinue the arrest of the said vertical axis which
together with the disc secured on the same will once more perform one sixth of
a revolution, and cause a fixing bath supported on the said disc to pass below the
frame. The frame carrying the picture having been lowered into this fixing bath
is raised therefrom in a similar manner as above described as soon as the time-
disc strikes with its pin against the finger on the arm acting in conjunction with
the said disc and after the disc on the vertical axis has again been caused to turn
one-sixth of a revolution, the frame holding the plate is lowered a second time
into the rinsing bath. After its removal from the latter the frame is caused to
dip into a colouring bath, and after the lapse of the proper time the plate rinsed
in the above-mentioned vessel for the last time.
While the plate is raised from this last bath, a pin on a disc which is placed upon
the same axis as the pattern-disc strikes against an arm which is thereby raised together
with a lever, rod and another lever, in order to release a crank-disc driven by a fourth
clock work, thus enabling the said disc to make a complete revolution.
With the pin on the last-mentioned crank-disc is connected by means of a rod and
a chain passing around rollers, a slide which in the first half of the revolution of the
crank-disc is drawn by a weight against the frame, and spring hooks passing behind
the finished picture will draw the same in the next half of the revolution of the crank-
dise from the frame and allow it to fall on an incline upon which tho picture will slide
to the point where it is delivered.
During the revolution of the aforesaid crank disc, the clockwork driving the latter
causes a toothed wheel which is placed upon a vertical axis and engages with a rack
to turn through the distance of one tooth, thereby moving a
reserve box, which is
connected with the rack and contains the sensitized plates one behind the other, a
suitable distance to the front so that each time a fresh plate can fall through a slit in
the box into the frame placed below.
The vertical axis upon which the disc for supporting some of the baths is secured as
herein before set forth performs exactly one revolution in the operation of making one
picture. It carries at its upper end a small bevel wheel which gearing with a similar
wheel actuates a shaft provided with a hand. This hand is designed to indicate upon
the front of the box the stage which the picture has reached in its production.
While the plate is under treatment the passage for the introduction of coin into the
apparatus is closed in the known manner by a small slide.
In the rinsing basin can be arranged a small rose having a valve which can be
automatically closed and which is opened by the descending frame carrying the plate.
The sensitized plates are preferably made of black or dark glass whereby the pictures
produced upon them will appear positive, inasmuch as the points of the bromic silver
which are decomposed to a greater extent by reason of the exposure will become light
upon the dark ground.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Receiving Payments and Producing
and Delivering Photographs in Exchange therefor.
We, CARL HEINRICH CHRISTEL FÖGE, CARL HINRICH GRIESE and JOSEPH
LEONHARD FRIEDERICK RADERS, all of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany 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:-
Our invention relates to automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photo-
graphic pictures on the insertion of coin, and the objects of the same are to provide
means for operating the shutters of the objective for the purpose of producing the
picture upon the sensitized plate, for dipping said plate into the different baths for
developing, fixing colouring and rinsing the picture, and finally for delivering the
latter and replacing the plate by a fresh one.
We attain these objects by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying
drawings in which
Figure 1 is a side view of the apparatus. the wall of the casing being removed to
better show the enclosed mechanism and their operation.
Figure 2 is a vertical section at the line I II of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a detailed side view of a clockwork operating the mechanism of the
apparatus on the insertion of a coin.
Figures 4 and 5 are special shutters at the rear of the objective in the opened and
closed positions, and
Figure 6 is a top view of an intermittently rotated disc carrying the different baths
for developing, fixing and colouring the pictures. Similar letters refer to similar
parts throughout the several views.
In the apparatus constructed according to our invention the objective is placed in
a short cylindrical part al of a funnel-shaped tube a, which extends so far into the box
of the apparatus, that the person who stands in front of the latter and inserts a coin
into a channel & in the box, will be just at a proper distance from the said objective to
obtain a clear picture.
The coin inserted into the aforesaid channel 6 drops into a holder which is open
below and arranged on one arm of a weighted lever ce¹. As the coin presses the
said arm downwardly the other arm of the lever will strike against one arm f of
a second lever and move it upwardly. The other arm of the latter extends
between the halves g g of a shutter which are supported independently of each other
(Figures 4 and 5). In the downward movement of this arm of the second lever the
said halves will be opened for a short time whereupon the other arm of the
second lever will be released so that the shutter can be automatically closed under
the action of small counterweights gx.
This short operation is sufficient for the purpose of producing upon the sensitized
plate which is held at a suitable distance from the objective in a frame 4, the picture
which must then be developed, fixed and coloured.
In the oscillating movement of the first mentioned lever o the coin protruding from
the lower end of the said holder, strikes upon a stationary pin i and is thereby thrown
into a second channel whence it drops upon another lever k and finally into the
collecting box or drawer.
By the movement of the last mentioned lever k which is caused by the coin, the
disengagement of a so-called time disc driven by a clockwork is effected. This
time disc commencing to turn will disengage a finger m² on an arm m³ from
pins in the said disc ', press the said arm downwardly, and cause a pattern-
disc m3 which is driven by the clockwork m to leave its original position. This
pattern-disc m³ causes the movement of a lever m m which bears by means of a
friction roller upon the periphery of the disc m²; the longest arm m³ of the aforesaid
lever, being connected by a chain * which passes around rollers h², with the

page_text: frame h¹ carrying the sensitized plate his lifted by the weight of the frame, so that
the shortest arm m of the said lover will always remain in contact with the periphery
of the pattern-disc m³. As soon as, in the turning movement of this disc, the friction
roller on the shortest arm of the above mentional lever m' enters the first depression,
the longest arm m³ will be raised and the frame carrying the plate h is in the first
instance lowered into a developing bath o supported upon a rotary plate q.
When the friction roller arrives at the lower part of the third depression the pattern-
disc m³ is stopped, so that the plate will be held in the developing bath until the
finger m² of the above-mentioned arm m³ reaches the next pin on the time-disc-
and the said arm m is pressed downwardly to discontinue the arrest of the pattern-
dise m³ in order that in the further turning movement which can then take place
the shortest arm m³ of the above mentioned lever will be raised and the frame ¹
carrying the plate can be drawn from the developing bath. In this movement of
the pattern-disc m³ a pin m² on the same strikes against an intermediate lever m' which
will press another lever n downwardly so as to discontinue the arrest of a vertical
axis a driven through the medium of the clockwork n. This axis n² is thus caused to
make one sixth of a revolution so that instead of the developing bath a clearing in
the above mentioned disc will be below the frame through which clearing the
latter in the further turning movement of the pattern-disc m³ can dip into a rinsing-
vessel placed below, inasmuch as the short arm m³ of the lever m m³ connected by a
chain with the said frame as herein before described is lowered into the next
depression in the pattern-disc m³ which is much deeper, than the last depression. The
plate remains in the rinsing-vessel until the finger m² on the arm m acting in con-
junction with the time-disc reaches another pin on the latter and the pattern-
disc m³ is again liberated so as to turn and raise the frame. Then the next pin m² on
the pattern-disc m³ acting upon the two levers m and n' herein before described will
discontinue the arrest of the said vertical axis m² which together with the dise q
secured on the same will once more perform one sixth of a revolution, and cause a
fixing bath o supported on the said disc 7 to pass below the frame h. This frame
carrying the picture, having been lowered into this fixing bath o' is raised therefrom
in a similar manner as above described as soon as the time-disc strikes with its pin
against the finger m² on the arm m¹ acting in conjunction with the same dise m³ and
after the disc on the vertical axis 2 has again been caused to turn one sixth of a
revolution, the frame holding the plate is lowered a second time into the rinsing
bath.
After its removal from the latter the frame is caused to dip into a colouring
bath o³, and after the lapse of the proper time, the plate is rinsed in the above-
mentioned vessel for the last time.
While the plate is raised from this last bath a pin s¹ on a discs which is placed
upon the same axis as the pattern-disc m³ strikes against an arm which is thereby
raised together with a lever, a rod 2 and another lever t³, in order to release a
crank-disc pl driven by a fourth clock-work p thus enabling the said disc p¹ to make a
complete revolution.
With the pin on the last mentioned crank disc p' is connected by means of a
rod and a chain passing around rollers p³ a slide which in the first half of the
revolution of the crank disk p' is drawn by a weight against the frame and spring
hooks ', passing behind the finishe! picture / will draw the same in the next half
of the revolution of the crank disc p' from the frame and allow it to fall on an
incline upon which the picture will slide to the point where it is delivered.
During the revolution of the aforesaid crank disc, the clockwork p driving the
latter causes a toothed wheel which is placed upon a vertical axis a and engages
with a rack to turn through the distance of one tooth, thereby moving a reserve
boxy which is connected with the rack and contains the sensitized plates one
behind the other a suitable distance to the front so that each time a fresh plate p can
fall through a slit y' in the box y into the frame / placed below.
The vertical axis upon which the disc q for supporting some of the baths is secured
as hereinbefore in the operation of making one picture. It carries at its upper end a
small bevel wheel which gearing with a similar wheel z¹ actuates a shaft provided
2

page_text: with a hand 2. This hand is designed to indicate upon the front of the box the stage
which the picture has reached in its production.
While the plate is under treatment the passage for the introduction of coin into the
apparatus is closed in the known manner by a sinall slide.
In the rinsing basin can be arranged a small rose having a valve which can be
automatically closed and which is opened by the descending frame carrying the
plate.
The sensitized plates are preferably made of black or dark glass whereby the
pictures produced upon them will appear positive inasmuch as the points of the
bromic silver which are decomposed to a greater extent by reason of the exposure
will become light upon the dark ground.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed wo declare that what we
claim is :-
First In an automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photographic
pictures actuated on the insertion of a coin, the combination with a pattern disc m³
intermittently rotated by a clockwork or other mechanism, a lever m² m² bearing
upon the periphery of said disc m³ the frame h¹ carrying the sensitized plate and
the several baths for developing, fixing colouring and rinsing the picture sub-
stantially as set forth.
Second-In an automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photographic
pictures on the insertion of a coin, the combination of the frame periodically
lowered and raised with a rotating disc mounted upon a vertical axis n² said
disc carrying the different baths and having clearings through which the frame h
may be dipped into a rinsing vessel substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described.
Third-In an automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photographic
pictures on the insertion of a coin, the combination of the frame carrying the
sensitized plate with a slide u actuated by a clockwork and having spring
hooks,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
Fourth In apparatus for automatically producing and delivering photographic
pictures on the insertion of a coin the combination of the lever c, c¹ catching the
inserted coins with the shutters g, g' the stationary pin and the lever k substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
Fifth In combination with an apparatus for automatically producing and delivering
photographic pictures on the insertion of a coin, the funnel-shaped tube a extending
into the apparatus and carrying at its narrowest end the objective substantially as, and
for the purpose, herein before described.
Sixth In apparatus for automatically producing and delivering photographic
pictures on the insertion of a coin the application of plates of black or dark colored
glass substantially as and for the purpose specified.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.