IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF BORDERS, TITLES, AND OTHER DEVICES OR ORNAMENTATION ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, AND IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Oliver Sarony, of Scarborough, in the County of York,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF BORDERS, TITLES,
AND OTHER DEVICES OR ORNAMENTATION ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, AND
IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR
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Sealed the 21st October 1876, and dated the 11th May 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Oliver Sarony at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th May 1870.
OLIVER SARONY, of Scarborough, in the County of York. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE PRODUCTION OF BORDERS, TITLES, AND OTHER DEVICES OR ORNAMENTATION
ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, AND IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
My Invention relates to improvements in the production of the fancy borders,
titles, and other devices or ornamentation on photographic pictures, and is chiefly
designed for use in carbon printing although it is equally well adapted for salts of
silver pictures, the object of the Invention being to obtain the title, tint, or fancy
border on the negative so as to dispense with the aid of the registering presses or
registering tinting presses hitherto employed, and the second printing for producing
the title or border on the positive picture, so that a portrait having the appearance
of what is known as a chromotype may be produced in one printing instead of two
as at present.
According to my Invention I attach to the plate holder a slide mounted close in
front of the sensitive plate, said slide being provided with two openings One of
these openings is of oval or other form corresponding in size to that of the picture
desired, the other opening being of sufficient size to include both the picture and
border of the photograph when finished. In this latter opening a piece of colourless
glass or other suitable transparent material is inserted, on which is printed by
lithography or otherwise in vitrified colour, which are burnt in, the title, fancy
border, and a mask to correspond exactly in size and shape to the first opening.
In operating according to this Invention I fix the slide to register at the oval or
other shaped opening first mentioned opposite the lens, and after focussing expose
in the ordinary way through such opening. I then plece the cap on the lens and
traverse the slide to register at the other opening containing the glass with the
mask, and replace the cap by one made by a covering of ground glass and a second
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page_text: covering of tissue paper arranged art distance in front of the glass. I then
expose for a few seconds (the mask protecting the object already produced), and in
this manner produce the border or title on the negative. By this means uniformity
of printing is ensured, and the portrait may be produced in one printing from the
negative and in the ordinary printing frame.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Oliver Sarony in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th November
1876.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
OLIVER SARONY, of Scarborough, in the County of York.
THE PRODUCTION OF BORDERS, TITLES, AND OTHER DEVICES OR ORNAMENTATION
ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, AND IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREFOR."
My Invention relates to improvements in the production of fancy borders, titles,
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and other devices or ornamentation, beneath or around photographic pictures.
is chiefly designed for use in carbon printing, although equally well adapted for
salts of silver picture. The object of the Invention is to obtain by two successive
exposures through two different openings, as hereafter described, the title, tint, or
fancy border on the same negative with the picture so as to dispense with the use
of registering presses and registering tinting presses hitherto employed, and there-
fore with the second printing for producing the title or border on the positive, so
that a print having the appearance of what is known as a chromotype may be pro-
duced in the ordinary printing frame at one printing instead of two as at present.
For the purposes of toy Invention the two openings through which the two parts
of the plate are successively exposed, as hereafter described, may be contained in a
sliding frame fitted to the plate holder and close in front of the sensitized plate, or
they may be contained in separate frames hinged or pivoted within the camera.
In either case the plate holder may be arranged for one, two, or more portraits on
the same plate.
I will describe the openings as used for a single portrait on the plate. The one
opening is of a form and size to correspond exactly to the style and dimensions of
the picture desired, or if larger is fitted with a piece of glass or other translucent
substance having a mask with a clear part or opening in the middle of the style
and dimensions of the desired picture, so that the part of the plate which will be
occupied by the border is masked. The other opening is of suflicient size to include
both the picture and the border, and in it is fixed a plate of colorless glass or other
suitable transparent material, upon which is fixed a mask corresponding exactly in
size and shape to the first opening, and in such position that when the second opening
is made to occupy the place of the first in front of the sensitized plate the said mask
will exactly coincide with and protect the part previously exposed through the first
opening. The plate in this second opening has also printed or otherwise produced
upon the clear portion (by photography, or by lithography, or otherwise, in vitrified
colors, which are burnt in) the title, fancy border, or other device it is desired to
produce beneath or around the picture.
In operating I first bring the first-mentioned opening in front of the sensitized
plate, and having focussed I expose in the ordinary way through such opening to
take the portrait. I then cap the lens and close the dark slide, and having caused
the second opening to take the place of the first I proceed to expose the border.
This second exposure is performed with the aid of a cap specially constructed to
equalize the light and shut out exterior objects, and consisting of a tubo with an
outer covering of tissue paper at one end and a piece of ground glass placed a
short distance behind the paper within the tube. Having replaced the ordinary cap
by this special cap I expose the second time for a few seconds to light admitted
through this cap, and in this manner I produce the border and title on the negative,
the mask in the second opening protecting the picture already produced.

page_text: If the two openings be contained in a sliding frame and more than one portrait
is required on one plate I employ the usual "slide back" camera, the sliding frame
being fitted in a groove on the plate holder. When the two openings with their
plates and masks are contained in separate frames these are hinged or pivoted
within the camera near either side thereof (in much the same way that the well
known dark shutter is pivoted), so as to be capable of folding back out of the
way against the sides of the camera, or of being brought one at a time close against
the sensitized plate in the plate holder.
In order that the frames may be as close as possible to and parallel with the
sensitized plate they are attached to their pivots by curved arms, and they aro
provided with small stops to prevent them actually touching the plate. The pivots
of the frames are prolonged through the top of the camera and provided with milled
heads by which the frames may be turned back against the side of the camera or
against the sensitized plate. The apertures in these frames are fitted with plates
bearing masks and the devices to be reproduced on the negative precisely like
those in the slido above described. I first bring the one frame in front of the
sensitized plate and expose, then cap the lens and turn back the first frame and
bring the second one in front of the plate and expose again to light admitted
through the special cap as in the former case.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing the
same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the hercin-
before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
1stly. The production, as herein described, of fancy borders, titles, and other
devices or ornamentation on the same negative with the picture by successively
exposing different parts of the plato through different openings, constructed and
fitted as herein described.
2nd. The use of the semi-transparent cap in producing the border, title, or other
device on the negative, as and for the purpose herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Oliver Sarony, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Tonthday of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
cight hundred and seventy-six.
OLIVER SARONY. (L.S.)