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US 4,455,082 AGranted
Cropping kit
OwnerEnn Lepistinventor
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Apparatus for cropping and marking the mount of mounted transparencies, the apparatus including a supporting base having a rectangularly-shaped aperture forming a pathway extending from top and bottom through the base, a set of opposite sides having a slideway extending therethrough communicating with the rectangular aperture, a further set of opposite sides having a further slideway extending therethrough communicating with the rectangular aperture, an elongated masking member with a plurality of variously sized openings spaced along its length and being adapted to be received in sliding engagement within the slideway, a transparency holder having at least one transparency holding aperture and adapted to be received in sliding engagement within the further slideway. The apparatus provides use of an adjusting or slidable masking member that eliminates extraneous images from interferring with the selection process and what comes through the cutout is the selected portion thereof. A magnifying glass attachment placed over the rectangular aperture and a removable light source attached to the underside of the rectangular aperture are used with especially dense or low contrast transparencies.
Apparatus for cropping the image area of a photographic transparency comprising a structure having means forming a generally rectangularly-shaped viewing aperture forming a passway extending from top to bottom through the structure, a set of opposite sides of the structure having a first slideway extending therethrough and communicating with the rectangularly-shaped aperture, a further set of opposite sides of the structure having a further slideway extending therethrough and communicating with the rectangularly-shaped aperture, an elongated masking member with a plurality of various sized openings spaced throughout its length and adapted to be received in sliding engagement within the first slideway, the first slideway constraining the masking member for lengthwise movement of the masking member across the rectangularly-shaped aperture in one direction, and an elongated transparency holder having at least one transparency holding aperture and adapted to be received in sliding engagement within the further slideway, the further slideway constraining the the holder for lengthwise movement of the holder across the rectangularly-shaped aperture in a direction perpendicular to said one direction.
A device for cropping a transparency comprising a transparency holder, a mask having a crop-defining opening therethrough, means supporting the mask in overlying relation to the transparency while constraining the transparency and mask for movement each in a separate direction, the respective directions being mutually perpendicular to each other to enable the opening in the mask to be oriented in registry with a desired portion of the image area of the transparency to define a crop, and indicating means associated with the mask and supporting means to enable the opening to be moved to one edge of the transparency and used as a template to mark the limits of the crop in one dimension on said one edge of the transparency and the opening moved back to exactly the original position with respect to the transparency and thereafter enabling the opening to move to another edge of the transparency in perpendicular relation to said one edge for using the opening as a template to mark the limits of the crop in a second dimension on said another edge of the transparency.
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