Improvements in Apparatus for Producing and Delivering Photo- graphic Pictures in Exchange for Coin Deposited therein.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 30th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Producing and Delivering Photo-
graphic Pictures in Exchange for Coin Deposited therein.
I, WILHELM HEINRICH CONRAD BERNETT, of Hamburg in the Empire of
Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My 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 upon
the sensitized plate the picture, for subjecting the said plate to the action of
different liquids for developing, fixing, coloring and rinsing the plate, and finally for
delivering the latter and replacing the same by a fresh one.
My invention further consists in the employment of a protruding rim all around
the sensitized face of the plate for the purpose of protecting the picture against
injury during the treatment of the same in the apparatus and when delivering the
plate, at the same time this protruding rim may serve as a frame or as a decorative
order for the picture.
I attain these objects by the mechanism hereinafter described.
In the apparatus constructed according to my invention the objective is placed in
a short cylindrical part at the small end of a funnel shaped tube which extends so
far into the casing of the apparatus that the person who stands in front of the latter
and inserts a coin into a suitable channel in the casing will be at a proper distance
from the said objective to obtain a clear picture. The coin inserted into the afore-
said channel drops into a receiver arranged on one arm of a weighted lever in order
to release the escapement of a clockwork which serves to actuate a so-called time or
gauge drum on the main driving shaft of the clockwork. This drum is provided on
its surface with correspondingly arranged recesses or protuberances, by which the
mechanisms for performing the desired actions are properly operated.
The sensitized plates which are to be successively brought before the objective.
are stored up between vertical guides in a movable box sliding on horizontal guide-
way of the main frame of the apparatus. The box is caused to move intermittingly
by means of a double-armed lever engaging with a recess of the rotating gange
drum of a connecting rod and a pawl being connected to the end of a crank lever
and engaging with a rack in the side of the box of which at each revolution of the
drum and at each impulse of the double-armed lever a fresh plate is carried over
the passage in the bottom of the guide-way in order to drop through this passage
into a frame which serves to hold the plate during the following treatment in the
apparatus.
In the frame the sensitized plate is carried between lateral guide ways and upon
the curved bipartite support underneath the lateral guide ways and it is adapted to
oscillate about its lateral trunnions in order to subject the picture to the influence
of several liquids for developing, fixing, coloring and rinsing the same.
On the further rotation of the drum the adjustable shutter arrangement attached
to the tube of the objective is momentarily opened and closed as soon as the actuating
lever meets the proper recess or protuberance of the gauge-drum while the sensitized
plate in the frame is exposed to the rays of the light thrown through the objective
in the tube.
For the further treatment of the picture the frame is oscillated by means of a cord
or rope engaging a roller on one of the trunnions of the frame under the action of a
weight connected to one end of the rope and a lever connected to the other end of
the same and being operated by the recessed part of the drum. The latter saucas

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the frame to alternatively turn into a horizontal position, in which the plate is
subjected to the action of the liquids for developing, fixing and coloring the picture
and into a downwardly inclined position in which after each of the said procedures
the picture is washed off by distilled water. After the frame with the plate has the
first time in each case reached the horizontal position, the lever is enabled to drop
into a recess of the said gauge drum whereby the arm of the lever releases another
lever the upper bent end of which being connected to a hose which communicates
with a vessel and serving to direct the nozzle of the hose upon the sensitized plate
in the frame. In consequence of this movement of the lever the pinch-cock
embracing the hose is simultaneously opened, and when the lever returns into its
normal position the said pinch-cock is closed through the medium of a rod so that a
certain quantity of the liquid used for developing the picture is run upon the
sensitized plate, and while the pinch cock is closed, the nozzle of the hose is sei at
rest by means of the upright arm of lever. The quantity of the liquid thus run
upon the sensitized plate which is so adjusted that it will just be sufficient for
developing the picture, is received within the projecting border of the plate by
which the desired height of the layer of the liquid may be determined, while the
time during which the liquid is kept in contact with and in motion on the picture
within the border by imparting through the medium of a lever a slight oscillating
motion to the frame is regulated by the gauge drum. At the end of this operation
the frame is turned into the position in which the liquid for developing the picture
will flow off and the rinsing of the plate take place, as soon as the lever meets a
recess or protuberance on the revolving gauge-drum and thereby actuate the pinch
cock of the hose communicating with a conduit and simultaneously the rose
connected to the hose into the required position so that the jets of water will be
directed upon the inclined plate and the waste-water and liquids received in a tank
which is placed underneath the frame and provided at its bottom with a socket for
a hoses to conduct the liquid outside of the apparatus.
The movement of the gauge-drum is so timed and the size and arrangement of
the recesses or protuberance on the surface of the former so adjusted, that as soon
as the lever becomes free from the recess or protuberance of the drum the clamp or
pinch cock will again be closed the rose of the water conduit elevated and the
frame then returned into the horizontal position by the movement of the lever.
On the arrival of the frame in this horizontal position a lever and a rod are
similarly actuated so that when another lever meets with a proper recess of the
revolving, gauge drum the pinch-cock or clamp of a second vessel containing the
liquid for fixing the picture on the sensitized plate will be opened, and the nozzle
of a hose communicating with the said vessel directed upon the plate in order to run
the said liquid upon the picture. After a predetermined time the frame is again
turned into the inclined position and the excess liquid for fixing the picture is
thereby discharged into the tank whereupon under the action of the lever meeting a
second recess upon the gauge-drum the plate will he rinsed in the same manner as
aforesaid.
Similar acting mechanism and devices are employed for colouring the picture,
viz, levers and a rod which operate the pineli-cock or clamp and a hose with
nozzle connected to a third vessel which cause the liquid contained in the latter to
How проп the picture oscillating with the frame about the horizontal position. The
waste-colouring liquid received within the border of the plate is also discharged
into the tank after the frame has again occupied the inclined position in which the
cleansing of the picture with water will be performed in the above described
manner.
In order that the picture may be delivered to the person standing in front of the
apparatus. the frame is turned upright through the medium of the gauge-drum the
lever and the rope so far that it will form the prolongation of an incline upon which
the picture will slide at the right moment to the point where it is delivered. This
will happen as soon as in this position of the frame the front part of the bipartite
support is caused by a projection of the gauge-drum and through the medium of the

page_text: angle lever and the rod to swing about its lateral trunnions thereby releasing the
plate and simultaneously opening the passage through which the picture falls on
the incline. As soon as the lever is liberated from the projection of the revolving
drum the front part of the bipartite support as well as the frame and the other
mechanism return to their initial position in which the balanced escapement lever
previously disengaged by the coin is enabled to stop the motion of the clockwork
and of the drum so that the apparatus is again prepared to commence its
operation.
In order to prevent the plate from escaping from the frame when the latter is
rocked about its trunnions a spring catch engaging beyond the upper edge of the
plate is connected to the back of the frame, which on the return of the latter into
its vertical position will meet a stop beside the passage underneath the guide-way of
the box and thereby be pushed back so far, that it admits of the entrance of a fresh
plate from the box.
In connection with the shaft of the gauge drum a small roller may be used for
operating through the medium of a rope a second roller keyed on a spindle which
carries at its front end outside the casing of the apparatus a hand which is designed
to indicate upon a suitable scale the stage which the picture has reached in its
production.
While the sensitized plate is under treatment the passage for the introduction of
coin into the apparatus may be closed at its outer end by any known means, as, for
instance by a slide.
The above-described invention is particularly distinguished from other apparatus
of this kind by the employment of a single clockwork for actuating the mechanisms
altogether and further that in all cases a certain quantity of fresh liquid for
developing fixing and coloring the pictures is used and then directly poured into a
waste-tank. The concentration of the respective solutions therefore will not in any
way he changed or become impure successively as in other apparatus in which the
pictures are immersed in previously prepared fixed baths and in which some of the
residue adhering to the picture from the foregoing treatment will be transferred to
the next bath. In consequence of my improvements all pictures, produced in the
apparatus forming the object of my invention are of uniform constitution throughout,
the last one being as distinct and clear, as the first one, which advantage cannot be
obtained by any of the automatic apparatus heretofore known for producing and
delivering photographic pictures.
1 1001
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, Lendon, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Producing and Delivering Photo-
graphic Pictures in Exchange for Coin Deposited therein.
1. WILHELM HEINRICH CONRAD BERNITT. of Marktstrasse 5. St. Pauli,
Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, Chemist 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:-
My invention relates to automatic apparatus for producing and delivering
photographic 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 subjecting the said plate to
the action of different liquids for developing, fixing, coloring and rinsing the plate,
and finally for delivering the latter and replacing the same by a fresh one.
To accomplish these objects my invention comprises the features of construction
and the combination or arrangement of devices hereinafter described.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a back view of the apparatus, the rear wall of the casing being
removed to better show the enclosed mechanism and its operation.
Figure 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same.
Figures 3 to 7 represent different positions of the oscillating frame for holding
the sensitized plate during its treatment in the apparatus and of the device for
rinsing the plate each time after its treatment by the liquids for fixing and coloring
the picture.
Figure 8 is a front view of a sensitized plate with a protruding rim.
Figure 9 is a cross section of the same and
Figure 10 illustrates a modification thereef.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several, views.
In the apparatus constructed according to my invention the objective is placed
in a short cylindrical part at the small end of a funnel-shaped tube which extends
so far into the casing of the apparatus that the person who stands in front of the
latter and inserts a coin into the channel in the casing will be just at the proper
distance from the said objective to obtain a clear picture. The coin inserted into
the aforesaid channel drops into receiver arranged on one arm of a weighted
lever in order to release the escapement of a clockwork which serves to
actuate a so-called time or gauge drum 6 on the main driving-shaft of the clock-
work. This drum is provided on its surface with correspondingly arranged
recesses or protuberances, by which the mechanisms for performing the desired
actions are properly operated.
C
The sensitized plates which are to be successively brought before the objective,
are stored up between vertical guides in a moveable, box, sliding on the horizontal
guide way of the main frame of the apparatus. The box is caused to move
intermittingly by means of the double armed lever engaging with a suitable
recess of the rotating gauge drum 6, the connecting rod and the pawl being
connected to the end of a crank-lever of and engaging with the rack on the side
of the box of which at each revolution of the drum and at each impulse of the
lever a fresh plate is carried over the passage in the bottom of the guide-
way in order to drop through this passage into a frame f which serves to hold
the plate during the following treatment in the apparatus.
X
In the frame the sensitized plate is carried between lateral guide-ways and
upon the curved bipartite support ppl underneath the lateral guide-ways and it is
adapted to oscillate about its lateral trunnions in order to subject the picture
to the influence of several liquids for developing, fixing, colouring and rinsing
the same.
On the further rotation of the drum & the adjustable shutter arrangement m
attached to the tube of the objective is momentarily opened and closed as soon as
the actuating lever meets the proper recess or protuberance m³ of the gauge-
drum, while the sensitized plate in the frame is exposed to the rays of the light
thrown through the objective in the tube w
For the further treatment of the picture the frame is oscillated by means of a
cord or rope g engaging a roller on one of the trunnions of the frame f under
the action of a weight attached to one end of the rope and a lever connected
to the other end of the same and being operated by the recessed pari g° of the
drum b.
In the
The oscillating motion of the frame f which takes place in the horizontal position
of the latter is produced by proper corrugations in the ground of the recessed
part of the rotating drum upon which bears the end of the lever y.
horizontal position of the frame the plate is subjected to the action of the
liquids for developing fixing and colouring the picture while in the downwardly
inclined position (Figure 7) which is occupied by the frame after at the end of each
of said procedures, the picture is washed off by distilled water.
After the frame f with the plate " has the first time in each case reached the
horizontal position the lever d d is enabled to drop into a recess d" of the said gauge

page_text: drum whereby the arm d' of the lever dd releases a lever ², the upper bent end
of which being connected to a hose which communicates with a vessel and
serves to direct the nozzle of the hose upon the sensitized plate in the frame f.
In consequence of this movement of the lever the pinch-cock embracing the
hose is simultaneously opened and when the lever dd' returns into its normal
position the said pinch-cock is closed through the medium of a rod, so that a
certain quantity of the liquid used for developing the picture is run upon the
sensitized plate, and while the pinch-cock is closed the nozzle d of the hose is set
at rest by means of the upright arm of lever (³
The quantity of the liquid thus run upon the sensitized plato, which is so
adjusted that it will be just sufficient for developing the picture, is received within
the projecting border of the plate by which the desired height of the layer of
the liquid may be determined, while the time during which the liquid is kept in
contact with and in motion on the picture within the border by imparting
through the medium of the lever a slight oscillating motion to the frame fis
regulated by the rotating gauge-drum b. At the end of this operation the frame is
turned into the position Figure 7, in which the liquid for developing the picture
will flow off and the rinsing of the plate take place, as soon as the lever meets a
recess or protuberance on the revolving gauge-drum and thereby actuate the
pinch-cock of the hose, communicating with a conduit and simultaneously the
rose connected to the hose into the required position (Figure 7) so that the jets
of water will be directed upon the inclined plate and the waste water and liquids
received in a tanky which is placed underneath the frame f and provided at its
bottom with a socket for a hose to conduct the liquid outside the apparatus.
The rose which is suspended by its lateral pivots engages through the
medium of a bifurcated arm over the pin of a rod- and as the latter is con-
nected to, the double-armed lever ', which bears on the rotating drum in the
path of the recesses or protuberances the rose will be caused to occupy
alternately an upright or inclined position, as illustrated in Figures 2 and 7.
The movement of the gauge-drum bis so timed and the size and arrangement of
the recesses or protuberances on the surface of the former so adjusted that as soon
as the lever becomes free from the recess or protuberance 4 of the drum 16 the
clamp or pinch-cock will again be closed, the rose h of the water conduit
elevated and the frame f then returned into the horizontal position by the
movement of the lever g.
On the arrival of the frame in this horizontal position a lever and a rod
are similarly actuated so that when the lever meets with a proper recess of the
revolving gauge-drum the pinch-cock or clamp of a second vessel containing
the liquid for fixing the picture on the sensitized plate will be opened, and the
nozzle of a hose communicating with the said vessel directed upon the rocking
plate in order to run the said liquid upon the picture. After a predetermined
time the frame f is again turned into the inclined position (Figure 7) and the
excess of liquid for fixing the picture is thereby discharged into the tank y: where-
upon under the action of the lever meeting a second recess 4° upon the
gauge-drum the plate will be rinsed in the same manner as aforesaid.
viz.
じ
Similar acting mechanism and devices are employed for colouring the picture
the lever ', the lever and rod, which operate the pinch-cock or clamp c
and the hose with nozzle connected to a third vessel which cause the liquid con-
tained in the latter to flow upon the picture oscillating with the frame about the
horizontal position. The waste-colouring liquid received within the border
the plate is also discharged into the tanky after the frame has again occupied
the inclined position (Figure 7) in which the cleansing of the picture with water
will be performed in the above described manner.
of
In order that the picture may be delivered to the person standing in front of the
apparatus, the frame f is turned upright through the medium of the gauge-drum b
the lever and the rope g¹ so far (Figure 5) that it will form the prolongation of a
delivery chute w; upon which the picture will slide at the right moment to the

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frame
where it is delivered. This will happen, as soon as in this position of the
the front part of the bipartite support ppl is caused by a projection
of the gauge-drum 6 and through the medium of the angle-lever and the rod
to swing about its lateral trunnions × into the position shown in Figure 5, thereby
releasing the plate and simultaneously opening the passage, through which
the picture falls on the inclined chute w. As soon as the lever is liberated from
the projection of the revolving drum the front part of the bipartite support
as well as the frame f and the other mechanism return into their initial position
(Figures 2 to 4) in which the balanced escapement lever a previously disengaged
by the coin is enabled to stop the motion of the clockwork and of the drum b so
that the apparatus is again prepared to commence its operation.
In order to prevent the plate from escaping from the frame f when the latter is
rocked about its trunnions a spring-catch engaging beyond the upper edge of the
plate is connected to the back of the frame, which on return of the latter into its
Vertical position (Figures 2 and 4) will meet a stop beside the passage under-
neath the guide way ex of the box and thereby be pushed back so far that it
admits the entrance of a fresh plate c" from the box c.
In connection with the shaft of. the gauge-drum a small roller may be used
for operating through the medium of a rope a second roller keyed on a
spindle which carries at its front end outside of the easing of the apparatus a
hands, which is designed to indicate upon a suitable scale the stage which the
picture has reached in its production.
While the sensitized plate is under treatment the passage for the introduction
of coin into the apparatus may be closed at its outer end by any known means
as for instance, by a slide.
The above described invention is particularly distinguished from other apparatus
of this kind by the employment of a single clockwork for actuating the mechanism
altogether and further that in all cases a certain quantity of fresh, liquid. for
developing fixing and colouring the pictures is used and then directly poured
into a waste-tank. The concentration of the respective solutions will therefore
not in any way be changed or become impure successively as in other apparatus
in which the pictures are immersed in previously prepared fixed baths and in
which some of the residue adhering to the picture from the foregoing treatment.
will be transferred to the next bath. All pictures produced in the apparatus
forming the subject of my invention are of uniform constitution throughout, the
last one being as distinct and clear as the first, which advantage cannot be
obtained by any of the automatic apparatus heretofore known for producing and
delivering photographic pictures.
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
First. The combination of an intermittently moving plate holding-box or
reservoir c, and oscillating plate receiving frame f, pivoted to swing from a per-
pendicular to a horizontal position, and conversely a rotating drum and the
lever operated by the drum for rocking the plate receiving frame on its pivotal
support while the plate is being subjected to the action of the developing, fixing
and colouring solutions, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Second. The combination of a rotated time or gauge-drum b, the levers d and e
bearing upon the said drumb the levers and the pinch-cocks or clamps
and and nozzles and attached to a hose communicating respectively with
the reservoirs () containing the solutions for developing, fixing and colouring the
picture, and the frame carrying the sensitized plate, substantially as set forth.
Third. The combination of a rotated time or gauge-drum b, a lever bearing
upon said drum, the rod rose and pinch-cock or clamp attached to a hose or
Hexible pipe of a water-conduit and the oscillated frame / carrying the sensitized
plate, substantially as set forth.

page_text: Fourth. The combination of the plate receiving frame f adapted to be oscillated
by a rotated time or gauge-drum for the purpose specified, a lever bearing upon
said drum, the bipartite support ppl, the passage and the delivery chute te.
substantially as set forth.
Fifth. In an automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photographic
pictures on the insertion of a coin a sensitized plate provided with a border c",
projecting on that side of the plate where the picture is to be produced sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 30th day of December 1891.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
×45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.