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UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE.
SELEST E. MOINE, OF TULIA, TEXAS.
CAMERA ATTACHMENT.1,062,247.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented May 20,1913.
Application filed October 21, 1911. Serial No. 655,936.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, SELEST E. MoINE,
citizen of the United States, residing at
Tulia, in the county of Swisher and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and
useful Improvements in Camera Attach-
ments, of which the following is a specifi-
cation.
This invention relates to improvements in,
1C cameras, more particularly the larger class'
of portrait cameras, and has for its object
to provide a simply constructed attachment
whereby a. portion only of the plate is ex-
posed to receive an impression and then an-
15 other portion of the plate exposed to re-
ceive another impression either of the same
or another subject, and so on consecutively
until the whole surface of the plate is cov-
ered with distinct and independent impres-
20 sions, the attachment being so arranged that
any portion of the plate may be exposed
and impressions' of any size made thereon
without interference and with the back-
ground blended between the subjects.
25 With this and other objects in view, the.
invention consists in certain novel features
of construction as hereafter shown and de-
scribed, and then specifically pointed out in'
the claims.
30 The improved attachment may be applied
without material structural change to any
of the various makes of portrait cameras,
and it is not desired therefore to limit the
invention to any specific construction of
35 camera, but for the purpose of illustration
the improved device is shown applied to a
conventional camera, and in the drawings
employed to illustrate the invention: Figure
1 is a' side elevation of a conventional
40 camera and its supporting base with the
improvement applied, with the "hood" or
shield in section; Fig. 2 is a plan view of
the same without the hood; Fig. 3 is an
enlarged front elevation of the improved
45 attachment; Fig. 4 is a section on the line
4-4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a section on the
line 5-5 of Fig. 4; Figs. 6 and 7 are
perspective views of the interchangeable
cut-off slides; Fig. 8 is a sectional detail of
50 the adjusting rod tension device; Figs. 9
and 10 are views of the horizontally mov-
able blending plates; Figs. 11, 12, 13 and 14
are perspective views of various forms of
horizontally movable blending plates.
55 Corresponding and like parts are referred
to in the following description and indicatedin all.the views of the drawings by the same
reference characters.
The body of the camera is represented
conventionally at 10 supported adjustably 60
upon a base 11. The improved attachment
comprises a casing 12, open at front and
rear and with vertical guideways 13-14
next to the front and rear faces. The cas-
ing 12 is provided with a slot in the upper 65
side communicating. with the guideways 13,
while the upper side of the casing is also
provided at its front with an opening op-
posite the guideways 14 so that cut-off slides
15-16 may be inserters into and removed 70
from the guideways. The cut - off slides
15-16 are provided respectively with open-
ings 17-18, preferably in elliptical form
and of different sizes, the cut-off slides be-
ing interchangeable, as hereafter explained. 75
The opening in the upper side of the casing
12 for the cut-off slide 16, is located opposite
the inner portion of the guideway 14, and
slidably disposed in the guideway in advance
of the slide 16.is a relatively short blending 80
plate 21, the.upper edge of this plate being
provided with serrations to produce the
usual blending effect, as hereafter explained.
The plate 21 is provided with a depend-
ing "tail" 22 which extends through the 85
opening 19 of the casing and is provided
with a transverse slot 23 near its lower end.
Slidable in the guideway 14 next in advance
of the plate 21, is another blending plate'
24 having the usual serrations in its upper 90
edge and provided with a depending "tail"
25 having a transverse slot 26 near its lower
end. Rigidly connected by rivets or other
suitable fastening devices 27 to the "tail"
portion 25 of the plate 24, is another " tail " 95
member 28 having a blending plate 29 at
its upper end, the latter being disposed op-
posite the plate 24 and with serrations in its
upper edge. The plate 29 and its tail mem-
ber 28 are preferably formed of resilient 100
material so that the tail 28 may be bent out-
wardly as indicated in Fig. 11 and by dotted
lines in Fig. 4 to space the serrated edge
of the plate 29 at any required distance for-
wardly of the plate 24, to produce variations 105
in the blending effect, as hereafter explained.
Any suitable means may be employed for
holding the tail member 28 in position in
advance of the plate 24, but preferably a
wedge block 31 will be provided and adapt- 110
ed to be forced between the two tail mem-
bers 25 and 28 as shown in Fig. 11 and thus
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Moine, Selest E. Camera Attachment, patent, May 20, 1913; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth853670/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.