US877078A - Photographic-print box. - Google Patents

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No- 877,078. PATENTED JAN. 21, 1908. M. H. HAVBNHILL & B. A. JBNKINSON.

PHOTOGRAPHIO IRINT BOX.

APPLIOATIOI FILED IBIT. I. 1000.

JI/l/l/l/I/l/ ,VII/III/IIIII/II/I/l/II/II/III/IIII/II/I/I/I/Il/I/I/I/ INVENTORS ATTORNEYS W/TNES ES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIAL HENRY HAVENIIILL AND EDWIN APPLE'IOX .IICNKINSON, OI" .I.\(I\'. \'\'II,I.I I, ILLINOIS.

PHOTOGRAPHIC-PRINT BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Patented Jan. 21, 1908.

Application filed September 7.1906. Serial No. 333.684.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MARTIAL llnxnr liavasmu. and Enwlx .hras'rox JnxxixsoN, citizens of the United States, and residents of Jacksonville, in the county of .\lorgan and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Photographic-Print Box, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to photography, and its object is to provide a new and improved print box, more especially designed for separately storing exposed and non-ex )osed p 1otographic sheets, the arrangement eing such that the exposed sheets or prints are returned to a compartment separate from the one containing the non-exposed sheets, to avoid confusion of the exposed and noncx osed sheets.

he invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the imrovement in an open osition; Fig. .2 is a ongitudinal sectional side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Within a box body A is secured one end B of a partition B, preferably made of nonactinic flexible material, secured at its forward or free end to a frame connected by pivots D with the box body A at the end on which the end B is fastened, as will be readily understood by reference to Fi '2. The pivots I.) are common to a cover adapted to close the box body A and ada )ted to be seated on the frame C, as indicated in Fig. 2, the said cover E being provided with a suitable knob E, to permit of swinging the cover E open to gain access to a top compartment of which t partition B forms the bottom.

The frame C has at its free end a cross piece 0 adapted to engage the box body to limit the downwardly swinging movement of said frame. On swinging the frame (J open the cover E as well as the partition B are carried along to gain access to a lower compartment formed in the box body A. The non-exposed photographic sheets are placed in the upper compartment on opening the cover E, so that the said sheet-s rest on the top of the partition B, and when it is desired to make a photographic print the operator swings the cover I open. removes one of the sheets, lays the same in the printing frame, and, after the desired exposure has been made, the exposed sheet is removed from the printing frame. and then the operator swings the frame open and deposits the exposed sheet in the box body A, it being understood that when the frame is swung open the non-exposed sheets contained in the up )er compartment are lifted, and the box bor y A is opened to )ermit the introduction of the exposed sheet in the bottom of the box body A. When this has been done the frame C is swung back to its normal position and the upper compartment can e again opened by swinging the cover E open, whenever it is desired to use another non-exposed sheet for exposing the same in the printing frame.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the two compartments formed can be. opened independent one of the other, and the operator is enabled to keep the non-exposed sheets completely separate, to avoid double exposures and spoliation of the sheets.

It is understood that when the frame (l is swung into an 0 )en position, the sides of the frame prevent tire non-exposed sheets from slipping out of their com )artment.

The frame (,I is slight y projected at its front end to form a convenient hand hold for the operator to swing the frame into an open position when placing an exposed sheet into the lower compartment.

Ilaving thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

I. A photographic print box, comprising a box body, a frame pivoted at one end to an end of the box body and having at its free end a cross piece to engage the box body, a flexible partition secured at one end to the said box body and at thev other end to the frame, and a cover pivoted to the frame and closing the box.

.2. A photographic print box, comprising a box body, a flexible partition secured atone end inthc said box body, a frame pivoted on the box body, the other end of the said partition being secured to the free end of the said frame, and a pivoted cover adapted to be seated on the said frame.

3. A photographic print box, comprising a box body, a flexible partition secured at one end on the said box body, a frame pivoted on the box body, the other end of the said partition being secured to the free end of the said frame, and a pivoted cover adapted to be seated on the said frame, the pivots for the frame and cover being common to both.

4. A photographic rintbox, comprising a box body, a frame hinged to the box body and adapted to fit upon the same, a cover for the frame, and a flexible partition secured at one end to the box body and at the other end to the free end of the frame.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTIAL HENRY ILWI'JNIHMI. EDWIN Ml'hE'lUN JENKINSON.

Witnesses:

RALPH DUNLAI, E. M. DUNLAP. I

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