US722393A - Moving-picture machine. - Google Patents

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No. 722,393. PATENT-ED MAR. 10,1903. W.' P. WARREN.

MOVING PICTURE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 29, 1900.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER P. NVARREN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MOVING-PICTURE MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 722,393, dated March 10, 1903.

application filed December 29, 1900. Serial No. 41,449. (No model.)

To aZZ whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER P. WARREN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Moving-Picture Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus or device for presenting a series of pictures, which are secured to or carried by an endless band or belt, to a lens or lenses which project the pictures onto a screen or curtain. I will describe such a device or apparatus embodying myinvention and then point out the novel features thereof in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of an apparatus or device embodying my invention, partly in vertical section, and also showing in vertical section a portion of a projecting means. Fig. 2 is a detail top view of a part of the apparatus or device shown in Fig. 1 and drawn to a larger scale. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional View, onan enlarged scale, of a portion of the picture or object carrying band. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

A represents a drum, here shown as having a flange, which is suitablyjournaled in standards a. The standards a form part of a framework, which is of any desired arrangement, being so constructed as to support and carry the several parts comprised in the device or apparatus. The drum A is adapted to be rotated, and this may be done in any convenient manner. In the drawings I have shown the journal of the drum as being provided with a gear-wheel a, and meshing with it is a pinion a A crank a gives motion to the pinion a B represents a roller mounted in uprights I). These uprights are vertically adjustable in the upper portion a of the framework. The uprights b are recessed at their longitudinal edges, (see Fig. 2,) and strips 5, fast to the framework, fit in the recesses of the uprights to prevent lateral displacement of the uprights. The uprights b are vertically adjusted in any desired manner-as, for example, by means of pinions 19 which engage with is supported by means of a rod 0, which is held in the uprights b and which passes through a sleeve or collar 0, provided on the check 0. A thumb-screw c is provided for the collar 0 in order that the check may be adjusted about the rod 0.

D represents an endless band or belt, and d the pictures or other objects carried thereby. In the drawings I have shown pictures as being carried by the belt or band. The band or belt D passes around the drum A and around the roll B, and the drum and roll are preferably so arranged relatively to each other as to have the pictures or other objects d on the belt move in an upwardly-inclined direction toward their focal point and to be moved away quickly and rapidly from their focal point. The roll B is preferably many times smaller than the drum as regards their diameters. The pictures or other objects 01 are secured to the band or belt D by means of a hinge-joint made, preferably, from some flexible material. Preferably fabric strips (1 are employed to make the hinge connection.

as being employed for securing or connecting each picture or object with the band or belt D. Each strip, constituting in itselfa hinge, is preferably secured in any desired manner, as by stitching, to the picture adjacent its lower edge, and the strip is secured to the band or belt D at the point at which the edge of the picture would meet the band D if the picture extended at a right angle to the band or belt D, (see Figs. 4 and 5)that is to say, the distance on the strip d between the point 61 at which a strip 01 is secured to the picture and the point d at which the strip is secured to the band or belt is the same as the distance on the picture between the point at and the edge of the card at.

In the operation of the device or apparatus the check 0 is so arranged as to hold the pichas partially passed round the roll B.

' edge 02- of the'picture passes the end of the checkfits weight and the spring in the picture due to its being bent about the roll B cause it to turn quickly on its hinge and pass out of the focal plane.

E represents a lens supported in a suitable framework, and E a light which, as shown, is in the same horizontal plane as the lens and is between the lens and pictures to be projected; It will be seen from this arrangement that the'lens also reflects as well as projects. It will'therefore be seen that I am enabled to reflect or project colors, and it is not necessary that the picture be transparent. The frame carrying the lens is independent of the framework carrying the drum and other parts by which the pictures are moved before the lens. The fact that the lens isseparated from the picture-band support enables the lens to be used for other purposes.'

What I claim as my invention is-' 1. The combination of a band or belt, a plurality of pictures carried thereby, a flexible strip for securing each of said pictures to the band or belt, said strip being secured at one of its edges to the picture adjacent to but disengaged from the lower edge of the picture and at'its other edge to the band at about where the said lower edge of the picture would contact with the band were the pictur at a right angle to the band or belt. 2. The combination of a band or belt, a plurality of pictures, and means for securing the pictures to the band or belt, said means consistingiof a plurality of fabric strips, one edge of each of said strips being secured to the band or belt, and the other edge to the front of the picture adjacent an edge thereof so that the picture may be free at its edge.

3. In a picture-moving machine, the combination of' a rotatable drum, a curved support of. smaller radius than the drum and mounted upon a support adjustable toward and away from the drum, an endless belt'carrying pictures passing around said drum and over the curved support, and a check adjacent to and adjustable together with said support.

4. In a picture-moving machine the combination of a rotatable drum, an 'adjustable roller adjacent said drum the radius of which is smaller than the radius of the drum, an endless band or belt carrying pictures passing around said drum and over said roller, a check adjacent said roller and adjustable together therewith toward and away from the drum, and separate means providing for a relative adjustment between said check and roller.

5. In a picturemoving machine, the combination of a lens and light suitably supported, a second support adapted to be moved toward and away from said first support, said second support carrying a rotatable drum, a roller adjacent thereto, means for adjusting the roller, a band or belt passing about the drum and roller, pictures carried by said band or belt, a check adjacent said roller, and with which the outer edges of said pictures engage, said check adjusted bodily together with the roller.

In' testimony whereof I have signed 'my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WALTER P. WARREN.

Witnesses: V

GEO. E. CRUsE, GEo. II, RAYMOND.

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