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698 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. [OcTOBER 30, 1885. subject, and gather from her that the result is satisfactory and not satisfactory. She gets, she says, a better idea of the dresses, but thinks they are spoilt by the faces. This is a severe judgment upon the unfortunate young lady dressmakers, but we are bound to say there is some truth in it. The faces, with but one or two exceptions, are as expressionless as those of the fashion artist. They are nearly all of the same type, and that type not a particularly fascinating one. We do not know why ladies connected with the dressmaking profession should have large straight mouths, but, according to the forty-eight photographs now before us, this is the rule almost to a woman. The face ceitainly detracts from the costume, and divides the atten tion, and it is doubtful, on the whole, whether the new departure is an improvement. Messrs. Scott and Hopkins, of St. Thomas, Ontario, se cured an excellent photograph of the dead elephant— Jumbo—as he lay by the side of the railway line on which he met his death. The proportions of the dead Colossus are truly mammoth-like, and make the man who, for com parison, is standing by poor Jumbo’s shoulder, look a mere dwarf. Au elephant never lies down when living, or we should perhaps better appreciate its colossal proportions. Qatent Intelligent. Applications for Letters Patent. 12,624. James Sturrock and Marion and Co., 53, Chancery Lane, London, for “ Improvements in photographic cameras.” —21st October, 1885. 12,646. Edward Marlow, 4 and 5, Arcade Chambers, Corpora tion Street, Birmingham, for “ Improvements in attaching the lenses to the ‘ instantaneous shutters ’ of photographic cameras.”—22nd October, 1885. 13,748. Warwick Brookes, 4, St. Ann’s Square, Manchester, for “ Improved apparatus to be employed in printing photo graphic vignettes.”—24th October, 1885. 12,806. Jambs McGhie, 47, West Nile Street, Glasgow, for “Photographic washing apparatus.”—26th October, 1885. 12,809. William Henry Tuck, Clune Vale, Stockwell, London, for “ Improvements in mounts for photographs.”—26th October, 1885. Specifications Published during the Week. > 16,087. Charles Sands and John James Hunter, both of 20 Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, in the county of Middlesex, Manufacturers of Photographic Apparatus for “ Improvements in photographic cameras.”—Dated September 1st, 1885. Our improvements in photographic cameras relate first to a compound rack motion which affords a greater range of motion and a more rapid adjustment than the ordinary simple rack motion, and enables the adjustment for focussing, either fora long or a short focus lens, to be quickly performed without change of gear, and without an undue projection of the tail board, when the front and back of the camera are brought close together for a very short focus lens. It relates secondly to the mode of folding the camera for transport. The claim is— 1. A photographic camera wherein the body and front are both mounted on slides working past one another, and are moved in opposite directions at the same time by the focussing motion. 2. A photographic camera wherein the body and front are mounted on separate sets of slides working past one another side by side in the base board, and moved in opposite directions at once by rack and pinion gear. 3. A photographic camera, wherein the body is pivotted remov ably in its cradle or other support, and is arranged to swing on radius links and fold down on the base board with the focussing screen downwards. 17,002. Alexander Melville Clark, of the firm of A. M. and Wm. Clark, of 53, Chancery Laue, in the County of Middle sex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents, for " Improve ments in photographic apparatus ” (a communication to him from abroad by Henry Correja, a citizen of the United States of America, at present residing at 25, Avenue de Villiers, Paris, France, Artist.—Dated 7th September, 1885. This invention is designed to be used in connection with a photographic camera for taking instantaneous views, and has for its purpose the placing of the object to be taken with unerring certainty in the centre of the sensitive plate, and by it I am enabled to take, with increased facility, pictures of objects while holding the camera in the hand or even in the act of walking, and by a camera fitted with it, and with a drop shutter, pictures of moving animals, and groups of people in crowded cities may readily be taken without causing any obstruction and without even attracting attention, so that groups thus unconsciously photographed are true to life and free from stiffness or pose, which are very desirable artistic qualities. The invention mainly consists in a laterally arranged and adjustable independent tubular attachment to the camera, hav ing its forward end near the lens of the instrument, and fitted internally at or near said end with horizontal and vertical strips or cross hairs, arranged to cross each other at right angles in the centre of the tube, so as to divide the field in the tube into four equal parts, and provided at or near its rear end with two similar cross-strips or cross-hairs, arranged diagonally relatively to the cross-hairs at the forward end of the tube. This device, which is intended for sighting by the operator, I term a “ finder,” inasmuch as by it I find, by sighting through it, the exact period at which the drop-shutter should be operated toplace the object in the centre of the sensitive plate without any focussing of the camera when Liking the picture. In connection with this attachment, or for use in concert therewith, the ground glass of the camera has pencilled or marked upon it lines corresponding, as regards arrangement, with the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal cross-hairs of the attachment. The claim is— 1. The combination with a camera for rapid or instantaneous photographing, an attached sighting tube arranged outside of the instrument, provided with cross-hairs or strips dividing the field within it, and adjustable relatively to the camera, to pro perly place the object on the sensitive plate of the camera as it appears in corresponding position on the field within said tube. 2. The finder or tubular attachment, constructed with vertical and horizontal cross-hairs or strips at or near its one end, and diagonal cross-hairs or strips at or near its opposite end, for use in connection with a camera adapted to produce rapid or instan taneous photographing. 3. The ground glass of the camera, having vertical, horizontal, and diagonal pencil or other marks upon it, in combination with the tube adjustably connected with the camera on its outside, and provided at or near its one end with vertical and horizontal cross-hairs or strips, and at or near its other end with diagonal cross-hairs or strips. 4. In combination with the camera the tube, with its vertical, horizontal, and diagonal cross-hairs or strips, arranged as de scribed, and the adjusting slotted bars. 16,334. Samuel Dunseith McKELLAN, of 18, Brown Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Jeweller and Watch Manufacturer, for “ Improvements in photographic cameras.” —Dated .September 11th, 1885. My invention relates to improvements in the method of attaching the camera body to the base board, aud is for the purpose of affording greater facilities in the adjustment of the camera body on the base board when in use, aud its position relatively with the camera front and lens. In applying my invention for the purpose as above described, I attach, to each side of the base board, a side plate. Each one of these side plates is constructed with a wing, to which is fixed a pin, and upon these pins the camera body is pivoted. One of these side plates may be firmly secured to one side of the base board by- wood screws or other suitable means. The other, or opposite side plate, is made longer, and is formed with slotted holes running horizontally ; I attach this side plate to the side of the base board in any suitable manner—preferably by means of screws passed through the said slots and screwed into the base board. These screws have milled or other suitable heads to enable them to be tightened at discretion, and the backward and forward position of this side plate can, by these means, be determined according to the will of the operator ; the stretcher
