Year: 1886

page_text: I, HARRY LUCAS, of 32 Little King Street, Birmingham, Lamp Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My present application is based on my Provisional Specification No. 11317/1885.
I propose making my Camera wholly or partly of metal, with the ordinary
bellows body, and a loose base, and I attach the Camera to the base by an improved
method. I make what I may conveniently describe as two grooves, one near each
end of the base and running crosswise on it. These grooves stand above the base,
and face the ends near which they are placed-The back and front of the Camera
fit into these grooves, and are fixed by screws.
The Camera Stand I make of telescopic tubes, with improved methods of
adjusting and fixing them, so as to regulate the height of the Stand. By one
method I put a female screw on the end of one tube which receives another, and on
the inner tube, a free male screwed collar, with one or more cuts across the threads.
The screw collar engages with the female screw, and binds the inner tube at any
desired part.
By another method, I put a spring catch or bolt on one tube, which shoots into
a hole or notch on the next tube, when the tubes are drawn out to the proper
position.

page_text: Improvements in Photographic Cameras and Stands.
I, HARRY LUCAS, of the firm of Joseph Lucas & Son, Little King Street,
Birmingham, Lamp Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS AND STANDS and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
I propose making my Camera wholly or partly of metal, with the ordinary
bellows body, and a loose base; and I attach the Camera to the base by an
improved method. I make what I may conveniently describe as two grooves, one
near each end of the base, and running crosswise on it.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, shews the Camera body fitted to the
base A. The front B, slips into the groove C¹ and the back D, slips into the
groove C, and they are held in position by the screws E¹ and E".
The Camera stand I make of telescopic tubes, with improved methods of
adjusting and fixing them, so as to regulate the height of the stand. Fig. 2. is a
drawing partly in section, shewing my method of adjusting and fixing the sliding
tubes. C. is a collar screwed slightly taper on its inside, and fixed to the end of
the outer tube A.-D is a loose screwed collar, on the inner tube B, and with
several cuts across the threads-When D, is screwed into C, it, D, pinches on the
tube B, and so holds it in the desired position.
Figs. 3 & 4 shew my other method of fixing the sliding tubes, by means of a
spring catch or bolt-Fig. 3 is a sectional drawing, shewing the catch or bolt D,
pressed through a slot in the tube B, by a spring C. Fig. 4, shews the tube B,
fitted into another tube A-E is a collar for strengthening the end of A, and has a
slot F in it. When the inner tube B, is drawn outwards, the bolt D, shoots through
the slot bole F, and so holds the inner tube in position.
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
1st. The method of securing the Camera body to its base, as described and
shewn in Fig. 1.
2nd. The construction of a telescopic Camera stand, using the methods described
and shewn in Figs. 2-3 & 4 for adjusting and fixing the telescopic tubes.
Dated this Oth day of November 1886.
HARRY LUCAS.