0. BORNMANN.

PHOTOGRAPHIG SHUTTER.
APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, 1912.

‘1,033,524. _ v - Patented July 23,1912.

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 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
CARL BORNMANN, or BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR r0 ANSCO COMPANY, or
I BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SHUTTER.

1,033,524. Speei?cation of Letters Patent.

Application ?led‘ January 12, 1912.
Patented July 23, 1912.
Serial No. 670,915. '

To all whom it may concern: pressing them gently against the base plate,
Be it known that I, CARL Bonximxx, a whereby good, smooth movements of the
citizen of the United States, and a resident parts are secured in a manner well under
of the city of Binghamton, county of stood. ‘ /

Broome, State of New York, have invented 18 is what I call the time stop bar. It is
certain new and useful Improvements in provided with two slots 19, 19, in which
Photographic Shutters, of which the fol engage pins 20, 20, and with a stop 21 which
lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. engages with a similar stop 22 made on the
This invention is an improvement upon edge of the shutter, when the bar is in its
10 that patented to me by United States Let projected position. The shutter wing is 65
ters Patent No. 7%,272 dated November 2-1, pivoted at 23. - ' '
1903 and it embodies many of the features v24; is the exposed end of the actuating le
found therein, combined, however, with cer Ver 10, preferably roughened as shown. 25 '
tain additional features, whereby the shutis the exposed end of the .time stop bar 18.
15' ter is adapted to small cameras, requiring It will be noted that both of these extremi 70
shutter mechanism of comparatively limited ties 24 and 25 project beyond the same side
size. ‘ of the shutter mechanism. This is a con
Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 illus venience, since they are both clearly in sight
trates a front view of the shutter embody when one or the other is to be manipulated.
ing the invention, showing the parts in one 26 is a stop which limits the downward
of the positions they occupy ready for an movement of the shutter wing, its upward
exposure; Fig. 2 illustrates a like view of movement being limited by engagement with
the same parts in the position they occupy ‘the pivot 11 of the lever 10, ‘as shown in
after an exposure has been made and in Fig. 2. I _
25 which they are also ready for another ex 27 is a stop which limits the outward 80
posure which will, however, bemade in the movement of the lever 10.
reverse direction; Fig. 3 illustrates a like _ 28 is a stop which limits its inward move
view of the parts in the position they 00 ment. -

cupy during a time exposure; :Fig. 4 'illus The operation is as follows: The parts be
30 trates an edgewise view, partly in section, ing in the position shown in Fig. 1, it will 85
of that which is shown in Fig. 1, the shutter be seen that the wing of the shutter covers
being omitted to avoid confusion in this the exposure opening 4 in the base plate 1
figure; Fig. 5 'illustrates'an edgtwise view and also that the pin 12 on the inner end of
of that which is shown in F ig, 3. the lever 10 rests in theright hand indenta
In the drawings, 1 represents the base tion 17 in the spring plate 15, consequently _ 90
plate for the shutter, 2 the shutter wing‘, 3 the bellcrank lever 8- is in such position that
the exposure opening therein, 4 the exposurethe spring occupies a position below the
opening in the base plate, 5, the actuating axis of the'shutter wing, in other words, be
spring for the shutter connected at one end low the pivot 23 and also that the time stop
40 to a stud 6, _'or equivalent point of attach vbar 18 is in its retracted position, so that 95
ment on the’ shutter wing, and. at its other its stop 21 lies out of the path of the stop
end to a suitable point of attachment 7, on 22 on the shutter wing. Now to make an
a small bellcrank lever 8 which is‘ pivoted instantaneous exposure, the operator vwith
the thumb or ?nger~ pushes the exposed end
at 9 to the base plate 1. ' 10 is anotherlever
45 pivoted at 11 to, the base plate, which en: 24' of thelcver 10, which is accessible from .100
gages by means of a pin 12, or equivalent the outside of the camera, toward the oppo
connection, in a slot “13 made in the other site end of the slot through which it works
member 14 of the bellcrank lever. in the opposite direction from that which it
15 is a spring plate fastened in any suit is at that time, in so doing, in a manner well
50 able manner, as- by a screw 16, to the base understood, the bellcrank lever 8 will be i.
plate.v It has two indentations, or sockets, carried. in the opposite direction, in other
17 , 17, made in it, in which the end of the words, into the position shown in Fig. 2,
pin 12 ‘can enter and be held._ This device and in so doing the spring will be carried .
also exerts slight pressure upon the bell upwardly and shifted across the line of sup
55 crank lever 8 and the auxiliary lever 10, port of the shutter wing 2, in other words, 11(
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above the pivot 23, and as the spring passes and described [without departing from the
that pivot, its tension_will move the shutter essentials of the invention.
from the position shown in Fig. 1 into that I claim:v
shown in Fig. ‘2, and during the transit of 1. In a photographic shutter, the combi 55
Ca the exposure opening 3 in the shutter wing nation of a pivoted shutter wing, a pivoted
past the exposure opening 4 in the base bellcrank lever, an auxiliary pivoted lever,
plate, the exposure will be made, and at this one end of which engages with one end of
time also the pin 12 on the lever 10 will have the bellcrank lever, the other end of which
entered the opposite depression 17 in the auxiliary lever is adapted to be manipu 60
10 spring plate 15, so that the parts will now lated from the outside of the camera, a
be held in the position shown in Fig. 2, just spring connecting the bellcrank lever with
as they were formerly held in the position the shutter wing, stops to limit the move
shown in Fig. 1, so that jars, shocks, or other ment of the wing, other stops to limit the
disturbing in?uences will not result in a movement of the levers and a time stop 65
15 false exposure. adapted to ‘be moved into and» out of en
To make a time exposure, the lever 18 is gagement with the shutter and to be ma
pulled upwardly from the position shown nipulated from the same side of the camera
in Figs. 1 and 2 into that shown in Fig. 3, as that at which the operating end of the
and by so doing, through the action of the auxiliary lever is manipulated. 70
20 pins 20 in the slots 19, the bar 18 will move 2. In a photographic shutter, the combi
in a parallel direction inwardly toward the nation of a pivoted shutter wing, a pivoted
wing of the shutter, so that the stop 21 upon bellcrank lever, an auxiliary pivoted lever,
the bar will lie in the path of the stop 22 one end of which engages with one end of
upon the shutter Wing. If it now be at the bellcrank lever, the other end of which
tempted to make an exposure, these two auxiliary lever is adapted tobe manipu
stops engaging with each other will arrest lated from the outside of the camera. a
the transit of the shutter wing over the ex spring retaining device adapted to engage
posure opening 4 in the base plate, so that with the levers and retain them in prede~
the opening 3 in the wing will register with termined positions, a spring connecting the 80
the opening 4: in the base plate, and remain bellcrank lever with the shutter wing, and
there during the time of exposure and un stops to limit the movement of the wing.
til the bar 18 is again manipulated, so as 3. ln a photographic shutter, the comhi~
to remove its stop from the .oath of the nation of a pivoted shutter wing, a pivoted
stop 22, whereupon the shuttr: will com bellcrank lever, an auxiliary pivoted lever, 85
plete its transit. Instead of operating the one end of which engages with one end of
bar 18 to terminate the time exposure, the the bellcranlr lever, the other end of which
lever 10 may of course be appropriately op~ auxiliary lever is adapted to be manipulated
erated to return the shutter wing to its pri-v from the outside of the camera, a combined
mary posit-ion, instead of completing its friction and retaining device adapted to im
40 swing. pose friction upon certain of the moving
In Fig. 3 1 illustrate the positions of the parts and to retain them in predetermined
parts during the time of exposure, as above positions, a spring connecting the bellcrank
explained, except that the exposure is in lever with the shutter wing, and stops to
this instance supposed to be made when limit the movement of the wing. 95
the shutter wing is moving from its lower In testimony whereof I have signed my
position into the upper position as shown name to this speci?cation in the presence
in Fig. 1, instead of in the reverse direc of two subscribing witnesses.
tion. - ' CARL BURNMANN.
It will be obvious to those-who are fa Witnesses:
50 miliar with this art that changes may be GEO. wW. TOPLIFF,
made in the details of construction shown H. P. MoxoN.