Device for use in photographically printing enlarged copies of color images
OwnerWilliam R. Damm, Jerry S. Damminventors
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Abstract
The device is characterized by a cabinet including a light-tight processing chamber having a floor, a pair of laterally spaced side walls of congruent triangular configurations, a bellows cover, and a pair of closure panels for closing an access opening provided between the side walls. A repositionable lamp house is attached to and directed downwardly through the cover, while a pair of opaque sleeves is extended through the closure panels for facilitating access to the processing chamber. A readily accessible paper safe and a receptacle for a roll processing tube are provided beneath the floor of the chamber.
Claims9
A color enlarging device for photographically fixing enlarged copies of color images comprising:
- A. a cabinet including a light-tight processing chamber defined by a floor, a pair of laterally spaced upright walls, each being of a right-triangular configuration and having an inclined top edge surface, and a front wall comprising a jamb of rectangular configuration circumscribing an access opening, a pair of closure panels for closing said access opening and a light baffle interposed between said pair of closure panels and said jamb including an endless groove and an endless rib adapted to seat in said groove, and a top closure for said processing chamber including a vertically extensible bellows attached to said walls;
- B. a pair of opaque sleeves mounted on said pair of closure panels and extended therethrough for facilitating access to said processing chamber;
- C. a roll processing tube adapted to be employed in processing exposed sensitized paper within said processing chamber;
- D. means defining a receptacle for said processing tube communicating with said processing chamber through an opening formed in the floor of said chamber;
- E. a paper safe communicating with said processing chamber through another opening formed in the floor of said chamber and a closure panel for closing the other opening;
- F. an easel for receiving and supporting a sheet of sensitized paper adapted to be seated in a light-tight closing relationship with the opening formed in the floor of said chamber;
- G. a lamp house connected to said bellows communicating with said processing chamber and having an optics system aligned with the easel for projecting a color image on a sheet of sensitized paper supported by the easel;
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- H. means including an inclined rail mounted on said cabinet supporting said lamp house for movement in a vertical plane above said processing chamber.
A color enlarging device for providing enlarged color images taken from negatives, slides and the like comprising:
- A. a cabinet having means defining therein an internal, light-tight chamber including a pair of upstanding side walls, each of said walls being of substantially right-triangular configuration including a substantially horizontally oriented bottom edge surface, a front edge surface normally related to the bottom edge surface, and a downwardly inclined top edge surface, a removable closure panel defining an access door for the processing chamber, and a tubular bellows attached to said pair of side walls defining an extensible cover for said processing chamber;
- B. an easel for receiving a sheet of sensitized paper disposed within said chamber;
- C. means for photographically exposing a sheet of sensitized paper received by said easel including a movable lamp housing externally related to the chamber and adapted to project a photographic image on said sheet;
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- D. means for facilitating digital manipulation of the sheet of sensitized paper within said chamber including a flexible sleeve mounted on said cabinet.
In a color enlarging device for providing enlarged color images taken from negatives, slides and the like, the combination comprising:
- A. a cabinet having defined therein a processing chamber normally maintained in a light-tight condition defined by means including a pair of upstanding side walls, each being characterized by a substantially horizontally oriented bottom edge surface, a front edge surface normally related to the bottom edge surface, and a downwardly inclined top edge surface, a removable closure panel defining an access door for the processing chamber, and a tubular bellows attached to said pair of side walls defining an extensible cover for said processing chamber;
- B. an easel disposed within said chamber adapted to receive a sheet of sensitized paper;
- C. means for photographically exposing a sheet of sensitized paper received by said easel including a movable lamp housing externally related to the chamber;
- D. a roll processing tube disposed within said chamber for receiving said sheet of sensitized paper while a light-tight condition for said chamber is maintained;
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- E. means including a flexible sleeve extended into the chamber for facilitating simultaneous digital manipulation of the sheet of sensitized paper and said roll processing tube while maintaining the chamber in a light-tight condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.