‘G; F. E, PEABSALL.

Photographic Printing-Frame.
No. 208,536. Patented Oct. 1,1878.»

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G. FRANK E. PEARSALL, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO E. AND H. T.
ANTHONY & 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PHOTOGgRAPHlC-PRINTING FRAMES.

Speci?cation forming part of Letters Patent No. 208,536, dated October 1, 1878; application ?led
January 21, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

erably thin and rather wider than the frame a,
Be it known that I, G. FRANK E. PEARSALL, and it is connected to the frame a by hooks g,
of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State so that the vignetting apparatus may be con
of New York, have invented an Improvement nected to or removed from the frame a, as oc
in Photographic-Printin g Frames, of which casion may require.
the following is a speci?cation:
Photographs have been printed as vignettes The clamping-frame his hinged to the frame
by intercepting the light around the border of fat 17, and provided with a hook at k, and upon
the picture, and to accomplish this object a this frame h there is a sheet of tissue-paper or
septum with an opening has been used in con similar translucent material at 2.
nection with tissuepaper; but difficulty has oneThe septum or aperture card 1 is made ‘with
or more openings of the desired size and
arisen in properly placing and holding the shape, preferably with zigzag edges, and this
septum so that the opening will conform to the septum is placed upon the frame f with the
negative. .
Various devices have been made for vignet opening in the proper position relatively to
ting pictures, but they have been often compli the picture. Then the frame it is closed down
cated and dif?cult to make use of, as well as and hooked, so as to hold the septum in place
expensive. while the printing is being done in the usual
manner.
I make use of an ordinary printing-frame
From the foregoing the advantages of this
and an adjustable blending attachment consist improvement
‘T' of a frame that supports the septum or
will be apparent to those skilled
aperture card at the proper distance from the in the art, and l remark that this vi gnetting
negative and a binding-frame that clamps the frame may be changed from one printin g-frame
to another.
septum in the position required, and also car
1 am aware that the ordinary printing-frame
ries a sheet of translucent material, such as has been provided with. a vignetting attach
tissue-paper, to lessen the intensity 'of the
light. By this construction I am enabled to ment consisting of a frame with an opening
place the aperture-card in the proper position attached by slotted links, so as to be movable,
in relation to the negative, and to hold the to place the opening at the proper position for
same ?rmly while any number of pictures are the in
picture. In my improvement the clamp
g-frame is in a ?xed position and is very sim
printed from the negative, and but few sep
tums or aperture cards'are required, because ple in construction, and the septum-card only
the card can be moved and the position of the is Imovable between the frame f h.
claim as my invention
aperture changed as required.
In the drawing, Figure l is a vertical sec In combination with a photograph-printing
tion of the printingframe complete, and Fig. frame,
sue-paper
the frames f 71, hinged together, the tis
or similar material in the frame 11,
2 is a plan with the clamping-frame thrown and the aperture-card I, that is placed in po
back.
sition and clamped
The frame a is provided with the rabbeted substantially as set forth. between the frames f h,
opening for receiving the glass negative I),
and the two-part back 0 is hinged at (I, and D.Signed1878.
by me this 17th day of January, A.
provided with the springs e, that serve to press
the sensitized paper against the negative. G. FRANK E. PEARSALL.
This portion of the printing-frame is of ordi \Vitnesses:
nary construction, and may be varied to suit Gno. T. PINOKNEY,
the pictures or negatives. The frame f is pref OHAs. H. SMITH.