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W. H. C. BERNITT. 00m OPERATED PHOTOGRAPHIG APPARATUS. No. 473,375.

PatentedA r. 19, 1892. Zfyj p THE NORRIS PETERS cm, rHuTo-\|THO., msumcran, u v

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W. H. G. BERNITT.

0.0m OPERATED PHOTOGRAPHIG APPARATUS.

No. 473,375. Patented Apr. 19, 1892.

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No. 473,375. 7 Patented Apr 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcm VILIIELM HEINR. CONRAD BERNITT, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

COIN-OPERATED PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,375, dated April 19, 1892.

Application filed AprilZQ, 1891- Serial No. 390,889. (No model.) Patented in France July 16, 1890, No. 207,010, and in Belgium July 16,1890, N0,91,285.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILHELM HEINRICH CONRAD BERNITT, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Hamburg, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Operated Photographic Apparatus, (for which I have obtained patents in France, No. 207,010, dated July 16, 1890, and in Belgium, No. 91,285, dated July 16, 1890,) of which the following is a specification.

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 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.

To accomplish these objects my invention involves the features of construction and the combination or arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed, reference being make to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a back view of the apparatus, the rear wall of the casing being removed to better show the inclosed mechanism and its operation; Fig. 2, a sectional side elevation of the same. positions of the oscillating frame 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. Fig. 8 is the front view of a sensitized plate with the protruding rim; Fig. 9, a cross-section of the same; and Fig. 10 illustrates a modification of the same.

Similarletters refer to similar parts th rou ghout 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 a, 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 a in Figs. 3 to 7 represent different.

the casing will be at a proper distance from the said objective to obtain a clear picture. The coin inserted into the aforesaid channel a drops into a receiver arranged on one arm of a weighted lever co in order to release the escapement of a clock-work a which serves to actuate a so-called time or gage drum 1) on the main driving-shaft of the clock-work. This drum 1) is provided on its surface with correspondingly-arranged recesses or protuberances by which the mechanisms for performing the desired action are properly operated.

The sensitized plates 0 which are to be successively brought before the objective are, stored up between vertical guides in a movable box c, sliding on a horizontal guideway c of the main frame of the apparatus. The box 0 is caused to move intermittently by means of a double-armed lever c, engaging with a recess (3 of the rotating gage-drum b, a connecting-rod c and a pawl 0 being connected to the end of a crank-lever c and engaging with a rack 0 on the side of the box 0, of which at each revolution of the drum 1) and at each impulse of the double-armed lever c a fresh plate 0 is carried over the passage 0 in the bottom of the guideway 0*, in order to drop through this passage 0 into a frame f, which serves to hold the plate during the following treatment in the apparatus. In the frame f the sensitized plate is carried between lateral guideways and upon the curved bipartite support 1) p, underneath the lateral guideways, and it is adapted to oscillate about its lateral trunnions f, 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 1) the adjustable shutter arrangement m, attached to the tube of the objective, is momentarily opened and closed as soon as the actuating-lever m meets the proper recess or protuberance m of the gage-drum I), while the sensitized plate in the frame fis exposed to the rays of the light thrown through the obj ective in the tube a. For the further treatment of the picture the frame f is oscillated by means of a cord or rope g, engaging a roller 9 on one of the trunnions f of the frame f under the action of a weight ,0011- nected to one end of the rope and a lever g connected to the other end of the same and being operated by the recessed part g of the drum 1). The latter causes the frame f to alternately turn into a horizontal position in which the plate 0 is subjected to the action of the liquids for developing, fixing, and coloring the picture, and into a downwardly-inclined position, Fig. 7, in which, after each m of the said procedures, the pictureis washed off by distilled water. After the frame f, with the plate c", has. the first time in each case reached the horizontal position the lever (1 d is enabled to drop into a recess d I 5 of the said gage-drum b, whereby the arm (1 of the lever d d releases another lever d the upper bent end of which being connected to a hose 2', which communicates with a ves-. sel 1 and serving to direct the nozzle d of the hose upon the sensitized plate in the frame f. In consequence of this movement of the lever d the pinch-cock d embracing the hose 2', is sim ultan eously opened, and when the lever d d returns into its normal position the said pinch-cock is closed through the medium of a rod d 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 01 of the hose 0 is set at rest by means of the upright arm of lever d The quantity of the liquid thus run upon the sensitized plate, which is so adjusted that it will just be sufiieient for developing the picture, is received within the projecting 5 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 leverg a slight oscillating motion to the frame f is regulated by the gage-drum b. The oscillating motion of the frame f, which takes place in the horizontal position of the latter, is produced by 5 proper corrugations in the ground of the recessed part 9 of the rotating drum, upon which bears the end of the lever g. At the end of this operation the frame is turned into the position, Fig. 7, in which the'liquid for developing the picture will fiow off and the rinsing of the plate take place as soon as the lever h meets a recess or protuberance h on the revolving gagedrum b, and thereby actuate through the rod h the pinch-cock 72, of the hose la, communicating with a conduit and simultaneously turning by means of a pin h of the rod 72 the rose h, connected to the hose 7r, into the required position, Fig. '7, so that the jets of Water will be directed upon the in- 72, which is suspended oo cti ed plate c and the waste water and liqh engages through the mediu f a bifurcated arm over the pin h of a rddflti, and

as the latter is connected to the double armed lever h, which bears on the rotating drum b in the path of the recesses or protuberauces h the rose h will be caused to occupy alternately an upright or inclined position, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 7. The movement of the gage-drum b 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 h becomes free from the recess or protuberance h of the drum 1) the clamp or pinch cock b will again be closed, the rose hof the water-conduit elevated, and the frame then returned into the horizontal position by the movement of the lever g. On the arrival of the frame f in this horizontal position a lever Z and a rodl are similarly actuated, so that when the lever 11' meets with a proper recess Z of the revolving gage-drum b the pinch cook or clamp Z of a second vessel '5, con

taining the liquid for fixing the picture on the sensitized plate, will be opened and the noz: zle Z 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 f is again turned into the inclined position, Fig. 7, and the excess liquid for fixing the picture is thereby discharged into the tank y, whereupon, under the action of the lever h, meet ing a second recess h upon the gage-drum, the plate 0 will be rinsed in the same manner as aforesaid.

Similar acting mechanism and devices are employed for coloring the pictureviz., levers o r, the lever v and a rod 22 which operate the pinch cook or clamp c and a hose with nozzle '0 connected to a third vessel, which causes the liquid contained in the latter to flow upon the picture oscillating with the frame f about the horizontal position. The waste coloring-liquid received within the border of the plate 0 is also discharged into the tank y after the frame f has again occupied the inclined position, Fig. 7, in which the cleansing of the picture with water will be performed in the, above described manner. The picture is now finished; but 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 gage-drum b, the lever g, and the rope g so far, Fig. 5, that it will form the prolongation of an inclined deliverychute to, into which the picture will slide at the right moment to the point w, where it is delivered. This will happen as soon as in this position of the frame f the front part 19 of the bipartite support 19 p is caused by a projection r of the gage-drum b and through the medium of the angle-lever r r and the rodr to swing about its lateral trunnions'r into the position shown in Fig. 5, thereby releasing the plate 0 and simultaneously opening the pas sage to, through which the picture falls on the incline w. As soon as the lever r is lib,

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erated from the projection r of the revolving drum 1) the front part p, as well as the frame f and the other mechanism, return to their initial position, Figs. 2 and 4, in which the balanced escapem ent-lever a previously disengaged by the coin, is enabled to stop the motion of the clock-work a 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-cateh 0c, 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, Figs. 2 and 4, will meet a stop 00 beside the passage 0 underneath the guideway 0 of the box 0, and thereby be pushed back so far that it admits of the entrance of a fresh plate 0 from the box 0.

In connection with the shaft of the gagedrum 1) a small roller t may be used for operating through the medium of a rope t a second roller 2?, keyed 011 a spindle 29, which carries at its front end outside the casing of the apparatus a hand 5, which is designed to indicate upon a suitable scale s the stage which the picture has reached in its production.

lVhile the sensitized plate is under treatment the passage for the introduction of coin into the apparatus maybe closed at its outer end by any known means-as, for instance, by a slide.

hat I claim is- 1. The combination of an intermittent-lymoving plate holding box or reservoir 0, an oscillating plate-receiving frame f, pivoted to swing from a perpendicular to a horizontal position and conversely, a rotating drum Z), and the lever g, 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 coloring solutions, substantially as described.

2. In an automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photographic pictures in exchange for coin deposited therein, the combination of a rotated time or gage drum 1), the levers (Z, Z, and 4), bearing upon the said drum 1), the levers (Z Z and c the pinch cocks or clamps (Z Z and c and nozzles (Z Z e attached to a hose communicating, respectivel y, with the reservoirs 2', containing the solutions for developing, fixing, and coloring the picture, and the frame f, carrying the sensitized plate, substantially as set forth.

3. In an automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photographic pictures in exchange for coin deposited therein, the combi nation of a rotated time or gage drum b, alever h, bearing upon said drum, the rod 7L, rose h, and pinch cock or clamp 7L attached to a hose or flexible pipe of a water-conduit, and the oscillated frame f, carrying the sensitized plate, substantially as set forth.

4. In an automatic apparatus for producing and delivering photographic pictures in exchange for coin deposited therein, the combination of the frame f, carrying the sensitized plate and being caused to oscillate bya time or gage drum for the purpose specified, a lever 0", bearing upon said drum, the bipartite support 1) p, the passage a, and the delivery chute 20, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILH. llllIXR. CON RAD IlllltNl'lT.

Witnesses:

ALEXANDER Srnonr, DIEDRIOH Pnrnnsnn.

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