US968277A - Printing-frame. - Google Patents

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Ws, weisse/S P. C. SOUTHWIGK.

PRINTING FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED Nov.11, 190s.

968,277. Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

UNITED STATES ,PATENT OFFICE.

PLIN C. SOUTI-IWICK, OF SANDWICH, ILLINOIS.

PRINTING-FRAME.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PLIN C. SoUTr-rwroi, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Sandwich, county of Dekalb, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing-Frames, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to frames for making photographic prints, its object being` to provide a construction which will simplify and consequently expedite the printing operation and which will also accommodate sheets of various sizes.

The invention consists in the device hereinafter described and which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of the frame; Figs. 2 and 3 are, respectively, side and end elevations of the same.

The base of the frame is composed of the side members 10 and 11, and end members 12 and 13, all preferably of wood and fitted together by gained joints, as shown at 14. rIhe upper inner edges of these several members are rabbeted, as shown at 15, to provide a seat for a photographic negative 16, from which the imprintis to be made, the depth of this seatbeing substantially the same as the thickness 0f the glass plate, the upper faces of the side members 10 and 11 being, therefore, flush with the upper surface of the plate and the upper surface of the end member 13 being' also preferably at the same level. rlhe pressure plate 17 is hinged to the end member 13, as shown at 18, its inner face being covered by a soft pad 19.

Suitable means are provided for securing the swinging end of the pressure plate 17 to the base. A convenient arrangement for this purpose is shown, comprising a turn Specication of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 2,3, 1910. Application filed November 11, 1908.

Serial No. 462,075.

button 20, pivotally attached to the end member 13 and adapted to engage the upper face of the plate 17, which is shown as cut to form a bevel or cam engagable by the turn button. The vertical thickness of the end member, as 13, is such that its upper face is flush with the upper surface of the plate 17 when the latter is closed.

In use the negative 1G is placed within the seat, or if the print is to be made from films there is fitted-to the seat a plain glass plate upon which the film is laid. The printing paper 22 is now applied to the upper face of the negative, its ends projecting beyond the sides of the frame, if the length of the paper is greater than the frame width. The plate 17 being now lowered and secured by the turn button 20, the exposure to the light is made.

This improved printing frame is especially adapted to time print-ing and permits the use of printing paper only a portion of which is to be occupied by the photograph, such, for example, as mailing' cards. I-Ieretofore it has been necessary to employ a printing frame which would receive the entire sheet and consequently, where a variety of work is to be turned out, the operatoreither uses a number of frames of various sizes or a much larger frame than was required for some of his work.

l I claim as my inventiony In a photograph printing device, in combination, a plate-holding frame, and a cover hinged thereto, the rear end of the cover being flush with the rear end of the frame the sides of the device being open between the frame and cover when the latter is closed.

PLIN C. SOUTHIVICK.

IVitnesses LOUIS K. GILLsoN, E. M. KLATeI-IER.

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