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W. I. TAYLOR.
CAMERA OBSGURA.
No. 248,813. Patented July 5,1881. '

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W. IRVING TAYLOR, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

CAMERA OBSCURA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 248,813, dated July 5, 1881.
Application ?led April 2!), 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: of the frame F’ of a re?ector, F, set at an an

Be it known that I, W. IRVING TAYLOR, a gle of forty-?ve degrees with the axis of the
citizen of the United States, residing at Nor lens‘tube. This re?ector can by this construc
folk, in the county of Norfolk and State of tion be adjusted with relation to its distance
Virginia,haveinvented certain new and useful from the lens d and with relation to the center 55
Improvements in Cameras Obscura, of which of a photograph or other picture that may be
the following is a speci?cation. placed upon the table G. This table is par
My invention relates to improvements in allel with the axis of the lens-tube, and is re
cameras obscura used by painters for outlining tained at any desired height or distance from
10 and enlarging pictures; and the objects of my said tube by means of a thumb-screw, 9, pass 60
improvements are to provide at a small ex ing through a vertical slot, 0, in the shutter,
pense an effective apparatus having a single and entering the back part, G’, of said table.
lens of large diameter supported in a shutter The slotc is covered and the head of the thumb- .
hinged at the bottom to a quadrangular frame screwy is inclosed by the box-cover H,hinged
and provided with an adjustable re?ector, by to the inner side of the shutter O. 65
which means the operator can fasten a small In using this device the operator is not
picture in position on the apparatus without obliged to pass alternately from the glaring sun
leaving the darkened chamber, and reproduce light to the darkened chamber in adjusting or
it enlarged to anyrequired size for painting on placing a picture upon the table G; but by giv
20 a canvas behind the camera by the aid of nat in g a quarter-revolution to the turn-button i, or
ural or arti?cial light. ‘ other fastening securing the upper part of the
Heretofore cameras have been made with a sh utter to the quadrangular frame B, said shut
sliding lens-tube provided with a series of con~ ter will be turned down as shown in Fig. 3.
cavo-convex‘and single convex lenses, a sta The picture is then secured from within the
25 tionary re?ector, and an adjustable table ; but dark chamber upon the table G with tacks or 75
they are much more costly than my apparatus, elastic bands, and the re?ector F adjusted ac
and are not capable of the same adjustment. cordin to the location of the' picture upon
My invention will ?rst be described in con said table. Then the shutter is returned and
nection with the drawings, and then pointed secured in the position shown in Figs. 1 and
30 out in the claims.
2, and the height of the table adjusted from 80
In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a per the inside, as well as the position of the lens (I
spective view of the apparatus. Fig. 2 repre with regard to the re?ector.
sents a vertical section of the same with the The lens-tube is provided with a singlelens
frame closed by the lens-carryingshutter there of relatively large diameter, and gives as good
of. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section of the results as the series of small lenses heretofore
apparatus with the shutter turned partly used, and costs much less. Said tube is cylin
down, as when a small picture is to be secured drical, so that it can be turned end for end in
upon or removed from its table. Fig. arepre the opening made for that purpose in the shut
sents a perspective view of the adjustable re ter 0, and thus the focus of the lens can be
4.0 ?ector. varied with relation to the size of the picture 90
In said drawings, A and A’ represent thetop it is intended to copy or to the size of the
and bottom of a window-opening; B, a quad copy to be obtained. The said copyis generally
rangular frame made to ?ll the window-open~ made upon a painter’s canvas, a sheet of draw
ing. The inner edge of this frame is rabbeted ing-paper, or a white screen placed in the dark
45 to receive a shutter, O, hinged thereto at b, ened room so that its plane shall be perpendic
and through the upper part of this shutter is ular to the axis of the lenstube. An outline
passed the lens-tube I), carrying a single lens, of the drawing can then be drawn by tracing
61. Above this lens-tube is secured to the front the lines thereof as they appear on the white
part of the shutter a frame, E,havinggrooves screen or paper.
50 e in the inner edges thereof to receive the edges The device can easily be taken apart and re
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duced to a compact form by simply removing 3. The combination ot‘a quadrangular frame, I 5
the two screws uniting the table G and re?ec a shutter hinged to the lower part thereof, an -
tor-frame E to the shutter 0. adjustable table, a frame, E, provided With
Having now fully described my invention, I grooves, an adjustable re?ector adapted to
claim slide in said grooves, and an adjustable andv
1. The combination of an adjustable table, reversible lens-tube, substantially as and for 2u
an adjustable sliding re?ector, and an adj usta the purposes set forth.
ble and reversible tube carrying a single lens,
substantially as and for the purpose described. . W. IRVING TAYLOR.
IO 2. The combination of aquadrangular frame,
a shutter hinged thereto, an adjustable table, Witnesses:
an adjustable re?ector, and an adjustable and E. E. MASSON,
reversible lens-tube and lens, substantially as W. B. MASSON.
and for the purpose described.