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Automatic angle control device for panoramic camera

  • US 3,183,810 A
  • Filed: 06/27/1962
  • Issued: 05/18/1965
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1962
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. IN A PANORAMIC CAMERA, A HOUSING FOR HOLDING FILM AND HAVING A LENS THROUGH WHICH THE FILM IS EXPOSED, A STATIONARY BASE UNDER THE HOUSING AND ON WHICH THE HOUSING MOVES ANGULARLY ABOUT A SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL AXIS, MOTOR MEANS FOR MOVING THE HOUSING ABOUT SAID AXIS, AN ADJUSTABLE AUTOMATIC STOP FOR DETERMINING THE ANGLE OF MOVEMENT OF THE CAMERA HOUSING ABOUT SAID AXIS AND FOR DETERMINING THE RESULTING WIDTH OF THE SCENE PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE CAMERA, SAID STOP INCLUDING TWO ELEMENTS LOCATED ON TOP OF THE CAMERA AND THE FIRST OF WHICH IS STATIONARY AND THE SECOND OF WHICH MOVES AS A UNIT WITH THE CAMERA BUT IS ADJUSTABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE CAMERA AND ANGULARLY ABOUT SAID AXIS, AN ELECTRIC SWITCH OPERABLE TO STOP THE MOTOR MEANS, A SURFACE ON ONE OF SAID ELEMENTS FOR OPERATING THE SWITCH WHEN SAID ELEMENTS COME INTO A PREDETERMINED POSITION WITH RESPECT TO ONE ANOTHER, SAID SURFACE HAVING AN ACTUATOR MOVABLE INTO AND OUT OF POSITION FOR ACTUATING THE SWITCH AND A MANUALLY-ACTUATED HANDLE THAT SHIFTS THE INITIAL POSITION OF THE ELEMENT THAT MOVES WITH THE CAMERA TO CHANGE THE ANGLE OF RELATIVE MOVEMENT REQUIRED OF SAID ELEMENTS TO BRING THEM TO SAID PREDETERMINED POSITION.

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