UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERASTUS B. BARKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO E. AND H. T.

ANTHONY @t OO., OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT iN CAMERAS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 70,465, dated November 30, 1875; application filed
' November 8, 1875. -

To all whom it may concern: jecting at the back of the camera. vThe po
Be it known that I, ERAsTUs B. BARKER, sition of these rollers is such that, the >weight
of the city and State of New York, have in of the plate-holder being between them and
vented an Improvement in Camera-Boxes, of the camera, tends to press the plate-holder
which the following is a specification : toward the backzof the camera; and hence the
Plate holders or carriages have been made plate-holder will be kept in contact or toward
to slide across the back of the camera-box, the camera-box, and there will not be any
and in some instances conical rollers have opening to admit light, and the plate-holder
been employed to support such holder, but will move with but little friction. But asan
there is considerable friction in moving a coni additional means for lessening friction, the
cal roller along in a straight line, and the sur rollers i are applied at the top of the plate
face ofthe holder is pressed against the back ' holder frame, and bear against the back of the
of the cam era and causes unnecessary friction. camera-box', and, if desired, similar rollers can
My invention consists in combining with a be applied at the lower part of the plate
plate-holder supporting-rollers, that are ar holder. '
ranged to cause the holder to bear against the By this construction the plate-holder is suf
back of the camera-box, and rollers that de ciently free to be moved with ease, and there
termine the approach of such holder to the is no risk of the parts being retained by fric
camera-box and relieve the friction. At the tion, but the holder can be moved freely one
same time the surface of the holder is suf way or the other in taking >two pictures upon-
ciently close to that of the box as to prevent one plate, without disturbing the camera-box.
light reaching the plate. The stop l is applied as usual to limit the
In the drawing, Figure l is a front view, movement of the plate-holder. .
and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, of a por I do not claim rollers upon which the plate
tion of said camera-box. holder carriage is suspended. These, however,
a represents the back of the camera-box, do not lessen the friction _in a horizontal di
and b is the plate-holder, in the form of a rection of the carriage against the back ofthe
frame, adapted to receive the photographic camera-box.
plate. These parts are ofany usual character. I claim as my invention
There is a sill or bottom-flange, c, at the The combination, with the plateholder car
lower edge of the plate holder or slide b, and riage and ledge or sill c, of the rollers e below
also a guide-rib, d, at the upper part of such that sill, and the rollers i at the back of the
holder at the back thereof, which rib d slides carriage, substantially as and for the purposes
behind the tongue d that is formed at the set forth.
. edge ofthe oi'set in the back cof the camera Signed by me this 4th day of November,
box. 1875.
rlhere are rollers e beneath the flange or sill ERASTUS B. BARKER.
c. These rollers are preferably upon the station Witnesses:
ary ~studs f, but they might be upon the ange GEO. T. PINCKNEY,
or sill c, and run upon a stationary ange pro- . CRAs. H. SMITH.