of and Means or Apparatus for Producing Photographic Negatives from Engravings and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 20th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Mode of and Means or Apparatus for Producing Photographic
Negatives from Engravings and the like.
I, FRANCES HARIOTT WOOD of Elmwood, 116 Bromley Road, Beckenham in. the
County of Kent, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce photographic negatives from engravings
and the like in a cheap and expeditious manner and without the aid of a camera.
According to my invention I place the engraving or the like with its face or picture
side in contact with the film or sensitized face of a photographic plate with a black or
non-actinic backing, the plate being put in position in a dark room. I then expose
the engraving and plate to light for a sufficient time and I thereby obtain a negative
which can be subsequently developed in the usual way.
For the purpose of my invention I employ a slab of pasteboard, slate, metal or other
suitable material of black or non-actinic color, a sheet of glass or other translucent
material in a suitable frame, and clips or similar devices for clamping or holding the
black slab and the glass sheet together when the engraving and the photograpic plate
are between them. I also preferably employ an adjustable plate holder or carrier to
enable the plate to be moved to the required position. In practice I place the black
slab under the engraving and put the photographic plate between then taking care
that the middle of the plate is under the middle of the engraving and that the film
side is next the engraving. I then place the sheet of glass on the back of the
engraving and secure the whole together by the clips. When I employ an adjustable
plate holder it may conveniently consist of an open frame having connected to it
elastic or other bands which pass round the black slab so that the frame may easily be
adjusted to any required position relatively to the slab; or the open frame may have a
leg that passes through a staple or loop on the black slab, the required adjustment
being effected by moving the leg up or down in the staple.
My invention is particularly adapted for taking negatives from engravings in books
without removing them from the books, and without injury to the book or print.
Dated this 26th day of March 1896.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
. Mode of and Means or Apparatus for Producing Photographic
Negatives from Engravings and the like.
FRANCES HARIOTT WOOD Author Elmwood, 116 Bromley Road Beckenham Kent
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 this invention is to produce negatives from engravings and the like,
in a cheap and expeditions manner, and without the aid of a camera.

page_text: According to my invention I place the engraving or the like with its face or picture-
side in contact with the film or sensitized face of a photographic plate C with a black or
non actinic backing A. the plate being put in position in a dark room. I then expose
the engraving and plate to light for a sufficient time and I thereby obtain a negative
which can be subsequently developed in the usual way.
For the purpose of my invention I employ a slab of pasteboard, slate, metal or other
suitable material of black or non-actinic color A, a sheet of glass or other translucent
material in a suitable frame B and clips E or similar devices for clamping or holding
the black slab A and B, the glass sheet B together when the engraving and the
photographic plate are between them. I also employ preferably an adjustable
plate-holder or carrier B to enable the plate to be moved to the required position. In
practice, I place the black slab A under the engraving F and put the photographic
plate C between them taking care that the middle of the plate C is under the middle
of the engraving F and that the film-side is next the engraving. I then place the
sheet of glass D on the back of the engraving and secure the whole together with the
clips E. When I employ an adjustable plate holder B it may conveniently consist of
an open frame having its opening cut either in the centre or in the side of the frame C.
preferably the latter so as to prevent injury to a book by close pressure against the
binding.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
I. A black or other coloured base board and carriers suitable for photographic plates
of various sizes, and a sheet of glass or other translucent substance either bordered or
otherwise, together with four or more clips or similar_devices for gripping the said
carriers and base-board together.
II. Further, the said base-board and carriers may be of pulp card, wood, or any
other suitable material, and any clips on the market may be used.
Dated this 26th day of December 1896.
FRANCES HARIOTT WOOD.