Patent Document ID: 4310240
Application ID: 06088766
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. Photographic apparatus for sequentially exposing a plurality of image areas on a single card-like film unit in response to successive operating cycles of said apparatus, said apparatus comprising: means for supporting such a film unit at a film plane; means for defining an object plane having a center and being optically arranged in opposed spaced parallel relation to said film plane; means for defining a plurality of fixed separate equal sized image areas arranged with equal spacing between centers thereof in a linear row on the film unit at said film plane; a lens for forming an image at said film plane of an object located at said object plane; means for mounting said lens for movement relative to said object plane center and said row of image areas along a path of travel with the optic axis of said lens mutually optically perpendicular to said object plane and said film plane; exposure means operative during each operating cycle of said apparatus for effecting passage of image forming light through said lens to expose an image area; and means responsive to successive operating cycles of said apparatus for automatically advancing said lens along said path of travel in increments which locate said lens at successive imaging positions whereat said lens is offset from the center of each respective image area, not directly aligned with said object plane center, by a distance so that the rear nodal point of said lens lies on a direct line extending between said object plane center and the center of a corresponding one of said image areas whereby an image formed by said lens of an object centered at said object plane is centered with respect to each corresponding nonaligned image area as well as a corresponding aligned image area.