An Improved Magazine Detective Hand Photographic Camera.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1891-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Magazine Detective Hand Photographic Camera.
SARAH TUCKER Nethway, Cotton Lane Moseley near Birmingham Married
WILLIAM JAMES SPURRIER Queenswood Road, Moseley, near Birmingham
Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of our invention is to produce a magazine photographic camera by
machinery with such precision as to bring a really useful camera within the reach
of all; our camera consists of a metal or other suitable material body, fitted with
the necessary lens, shutter & fittings, and a magazine to contain a supply of rims
or frames for the sensitized dry plates, this latter when not in use is carried in the
camera which is provided with a door to admit the same. In constructing our
camera to the top is secured an upright rim with a catch or catches into which
fit the corresponding projections of the slides of the magazine or plate box which
is constructed to contain from 6 to 24 or more dry plates, with a blank or block of
greater thickness than the plate rims into which the plates are inserted, to this
blank or block is attached an arm extending to each side of the magazine provided
with points extending below the rim of the lid, between the said arm and block is
inserted an inner lid having a slot to allow the block with indicator to pass from
one end of the magazine to the other, each end of the bottom of the magazine
opens with a sliding motion allowing the outlet or inlet of the plate, attached to
these slides are the necessary projections; so that there shall be no loose parts
subject to be mislaid, the lid of the magazine is jointed into the body of same by
means of an elongated bearer and slotted joint parts. The magazine fits into the
upright rim on the camera and the projections on the slides fit into a catch.or
catches on the sliding cover also on the camera.
The shutter of known construction
with the exception of the thumb piece by which it is actuated is enclosed in the
camera, for the purpose of readily carrying the camera by the hand, we provide a
loop handle of such length as to allow it to be turned either over the camera or
magazine, the ends of which are attached one to either side and at the top of the
camera, by means of a long joint, we also provide a focussing screen which is
jointed to the bottom of the camera whereon it will lie, and can be raised into
position by a suitable catch.
Dated 17th day of December 1890.
SARAH TUCKER.
W. J. SPURRIER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Magazine Detective Hand Photographic Camera.
We, SARAH TUCKER of Cotton Lane Moseley, near the City of Birmingham and
WILLIAM JAMES SPURRIER, of Queenswood Road near the City of Birmingham,
Agent 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 :-
This invention relates to magazine photographic cameras, and principally of
the hand detective type, although the same may be used with stands.
The
magazine is an attachable and detachable one, mounted upon the top and rear
back part of the camera body, and provided with, fittings and parts for the.
introduction of unexposed plates, and the withdrawal of exposed ones again into
the back of the magazine, instead of as usual, into the extreme back of the camera,
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page_text: and further in means for preventing the introduction and withdrawal of plates,
unless the magazine is in its truly assigned position.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents partly in vertical section, and
partly in elevation, a magazine detective hand photographic camera, constructed
and arranged according to our said invention.
The position of the parts or fittings of the said camera, shows a sensitized plate
within its carrier, in act of passing through an aperture in the top of the camera
into the interior back thereof, or rather, into a receiver, where the said carrier and
sensitized plate, rest, during exposure, and from thence, the said sensitized plate is
removed by inverting or turning the camera topsy turvy, in order to pass the plate
to the back of the magazine, after the camera has been reversed or turned round,
the front placed to the back, and the back to the front, and with the aperture or
port at the back of the magazine open.
Figure 2 represents a horizontal section, upon the dotted lines A, B, Figure 1,
showing the inside bottom of the magazine, and the catches of the respective
covering slides of the ports, which are disposed at-the two opposite sides of the
said bottom.
Figure 3 is a topside plan of the body of the camera, with the magazine removed.
The entrance and exit aperture of the sensitized plates, is shown covered by a
sliding plate, which works upon the outer and top side of the camera.
Figure 4 represents an underside or inverted plan of the magazine, showing both
ports covered by the port-slides, which consist of two flat metal plates, working
upon the underside of the magazine bottom, and with the said slides provided with
he-catches, which respectively engage with she-catches of the entrance and exit
aperture covering plate.
a is the body of the camera, consisting of a rectangular shaped box, enclosed at
back by a jointed door a², jointed or-hung-at its upper part at us, and provided at
its lower-part-with-an-overhanging flange a', so as to make light-tight the end of
the camera..
The inside of this said door, is provided with a receiver b, made alike unto an
open frame, with channelled guides at the sides, a rest at the bottom and open at
top, and which receiver is of the size of the carriers-holding the sensitized plates,
and when the door is closed, the open top of the receiver, is coincident with, a cross
slot or aperture.a,-(of-a-size-suitable to admit the plates), and which aperture is
closed by a sliding plate, resting upon the top of the camera, or at the bottom
of a well or open topped enclosure_a, with an overhanging rear flange a, and
within which well or enclosure the base or lower part of the magazine d, takes, and
which magazine, is alike unto a rectangular shaped box, having a lid №², and an
extended base d³.
The carriers e, with their sensitized plates e² are placed vertically within the
said magazine, and with the sensitized surfaces of the said plates presented forwardly,
while at the end of the unexposed plates, is a divisional or dummy plate e¹, of a
breadth greater than the ports or apertures of magazine and camera, for the
purpose of separating the exposed and unexposed, and for preventing the exposed
plates, from being allowed to again enter the camera, or be re-exposed.
The underside or bottom of the magazine, is provided with two sliding plates.
The plate, is adapted to cover up and uncover, the front port d', of the magazine,
and the plate, is adapted to cover up, and uncover the back port do, and which
ports are of a size sufficient for the free passage through them of the carriers with
their sensitized plates, hereinafter called the sensitized plates.
These port covering plates and f1, work within grooves or rabates (³, on the
underside of the magazine, whilst the inner presented parts of the said plates have
he-catches or lugs, ³, which respectively take into she-catches or recesses c²,
carried by the opposite sides of the plate c, as aforesaid, which is adapted to cover
up the aperture a, whilst the position of the magazine is being reversed.
This plate c, has pushers or outstanding studs, while the plate itself slides
within guides a³, of the top framing of the camera, which has inwardly.directed-

page_text: and overhanging half-hoop projections a³, for preventing the connection or discon-
nection of the magazine to the camera, during the time that the said camera port is
open or partly open.
The front of the camera is fitted with lens g, shutter h, and other cognate
fittings,, whilst the back of the camera has a jointed focussing screen j, jointed
at
When in use the said screen is turned up to the back of the camera, after the
door has been opened, and with its upper part resting against the stop provided
for it. When not in use it lies at the bottom of the camera, as shown at Figure 1.
The magazine is adapted to carry 24 or other number of plates as may be desired.
Assuming that the magazine is full of unexposed plates, and the port closing
plates covering the ports or apertures, and with the camera aperture a³, closed, by
its sliding plate c.
Present the front of the magazine to the back of the camera, then slightly tilt
the former, and pass the front part of the extended base 3, of the said magazine.
under the flange a', of the well or tray recess a", on the top of the camera a.
Then place the said magazine evenly within the well and with the he-catches ƒ³,
of the port covering plate f, lying within the she-catches c, of the plate c, when
the said plate is in the position as represented in Figure 3.
This done slide back
the thumb-studs c³, when the plate will be slid back to dotted lines position
as in Figure 2 and the port , opened, and the plate c, will be simultaneously
slid back also to the position as represented in Figure 2, with the aperture a³, of
the camera, uncovered. Then place the camera with the magazine upon its back,
when the sensitized plates, will fall pile like to the back, and the first one will
fall through the open ports or apertures d, d, with which it is coincident, and by
gravity descend into the camera, and rest within the receiver.
The ports or
apertures are then closed, by the sliding back of the thumb studs
exposure, the magazine is turned round, with the back to the front, and the front
to the back, and on the resliding forward of the thumb studs as aforesaid, the back
port of the magazine is opened, and also the camera aperture coincident with it.
This done the camera and magazine, are together turned upside-down, when the
exposed plate, falls back into the rear part of the magazine, when the ports and
aperture of the camera are again closed, by the sliding back of the respective
plates.
After
To introduce another unexposed plate into the camera, the operation, as before
described, is repeated, and so also is the operation before described repeated for
removing other exposed plates from the camera into the magazine.
Figure 5 of the accompanying drawings, represents partly in elevation, and
partly in vertical section, a magazine photographic camera, constructed according
to a further form of my invention. The magazine, which is mounted and turns
swivelly upon the back top part of the camera body, has inlet and exit ports or
apertures, alike into the ports or apertures, as already described, other than, that
the same are closed, and opened, by coming coincident or not, with the camera
aperture.
Figure 6 is a horizontal section through the dotted lines C, D Figure 5.
a, is the camera body part, a², the door at back, and a plate receiver, with its
open top when the door is closed, being coincident with inlet and outlet plate
aperture a³.
is the magazine containing plates e, disposed vertically, and with the said
magazine, swivelly jointed about its middle at d', so as to bring the outlet and inlet
ports d', d, disposed at the two opposite sides of the bottom of the magazine,
opposite or coincident with the camera aperture or port aº.
The magazine rests and revolves upon the top side a', of the camera as a bed,
whilst the parts are kept in intimate contact, by the weight of the plates contained
within the former.
The bed has rises or swells at, upon which an inverted cup k², on the free end of
a spring k, carried by the magazine d, takes, and there holds the said magazine,

page_text: in position with one of the ports of it, coincident with the aperture in the top of
the camera.
OPERATION.
Assuming the magazine to be full, rotate the same, until the free end of a spring k,
impinges against the rise a', when the former yields and causes the cupped end k²,
to take upon the said rise, and when in this position, the inlet or front part of the
magazine, is coincident with the camera aperture a, when a plate will fall through
the coincident ports or apertures into the camera, and when the parts are in this
position they are held by the spring and stop arrangement.
Now close the aperture or port of the camera, by turning the magazine at right
angles to its former position, then expose the plate, which is now required to be
moved from the interior of the camera, which is done by turning the front of the
said magazine to the back, so that the back port, is brought to the front, and over
the aperture of the camera, when by inverting the same, the exposed plate is
removed to the back of the magazine, by turning both the camera and magazine
upside-down.
These operations are repeated until the whole of the plates are exposed and
reinserted into the back part of the magazine.
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 1
claim is :-
;-
First In a magazine detective photographic camera, providing the same with,
un attachable and detachable magazine, having exit and inlet ports, covered by
opposite sliding plates, arranged and combined with the camera body part, substan-
tially as described and set forth.
Secondly In_a_magazine_detective photographic camera, consisting of_an
attachable and detachable magazine, having exit and inlet ports, opened and closed
by sliding plates, and with the base of the same resting or taking within a well or
tray recess, or upon the top of the camera, fitted with an inlet and outlet plate
aperture, which is opened and closed by a sliding plate, acting in unison with the
sliding plates, as the magazine ports, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly In a magazine detective_photographic camera, with a magaziné
attachment, fitting or providing the back of the inside of the camera or the door
thereof with a frame plate receiver, with an open top, arranged coincident with the
apertures or ports a³, d'; or a³d and which said-receiver, is arranged-and-combined.
with the other parts as described and set forth.
Fourthly In a magazine photographic camera, in the means of operating or
working the slides, for the closing or opening of the ports, and in the combination
of the said ports or apertures with their fittings, substantially as set forth.
Fifthly In the construction and arrangement of the parts of magazine photo-
graphic cameras or magazine detective hand photographic cameras, as described
and set forth in Figures 1 to 4.
:-
Sixthly In a magazine photographic camera, swivelling or centrally jointing
the magazine, upon the top side of the camera box, and with the said camera box
and magazine, provided and fitted with means, substantially as described aud set
forth in Figures 5 and 6.
Dated this 28th day of August 1891.