British patents listed by Patentee
When
a patent application was received it was given a filing number, until the start of 1916 this number was the number by which the patent was known. Each year the number sequence started again from 1, so to identify a patent the number and year of filing is needed. The highest number reached in any year was 31000. From 1916 the system was changed, the patent number (known as the serial number) was issued at the end of the process and ran contiguously starting at 100,001 and did not re-set each year. When a patent was filed it was still given a filing or application number which did re-start from 1 each year. Between the initial filing or application and the final granting of the patent the filing number may be used to identify the patent. So a number lower than 100,000 may be a patent issued before 1916 or a filing number issued from 1916. Prior to 1852 patent numbers ran contiguously rather than per year and were the filing number.
There are several dates associated with a patent: Initial filing, often a provisional specification would be submitted at this time and a filing number would be allocated; Full Specification provided, generally 6 to 12 months following the initial filing; Patent Published, the serial number is issued (from 1916), generally 15 - 24 months from initial filing. Under the Paris Convention of 1883 foreign patents can use the original date of filing in their own country. These are identified with words like "date claimed under convention".
The modern representation of a patent number is GB999999[yyyy], in earlier years there was no recognised format though 9999/yy is common. Before 1916 the year given is the date of initial filing, after this, the date used is generally the date of publication.
Unlike in many countries, in Britain there was no check made by the patent office for novelty or originality, it was not until around 1905 - 1907 that an examiner made such checks.
Prior to 1919 British patents lasted for 14 years from the time of initial filing, after this until recent times they lasted 16 years. For further information see Stephen van Dulken. "British Patents of Invention, 1617 - 1977. A Guide for Researchers"
The following is a list of patents referred to in the main text.
Acworth, Joseph John
| 3873 | 1901 | Describes a slide-rule actinometer. |
Adams, Arthur Lewis
| 19480 | 1890 | Shutter. Used on the Adams Hand Camera. |
| 20299 | 1890 | Changing boxes especially the use of sheaths to hold the plates. Found on Newman and Guardia and Adams cameras. |
| 12029 | 1892 | Pneumatic delay cylinder where the initial position of the cylinder or piston is altered to vary the speed. |
| 15292 | 1892 | Changing box. The plates are held in a hinged frame that tilts backwards to grip the front plate. |
| 18595 | 1893 | Folding strut camera. Used on the original model Vesta. |
| 9119 | 1894 | Brilliant view-finder having two lenses before the mirror. |
| 13019 | 1896 | Changing box with a flexible bag where an incline at the front of the box lifts the plates enabling the front plate to be gripped when changing plates. |
| 9057 | 1898 | Five sided prism used as a view-finder giving non-reversed image. |
| 23431 | 1901 | Changing box with a bag, tambour shutter and lever to raise the plate. |
| 11670 | 1905 | View-finder connected to the rising front. |
| 18260 | 1906 | Four-way swing front. |
| 2485 | 1907 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 3630 | 1908 | Describes the Vesta. |
| 25849 | 1908 | Reflex camera. |
| 21588 | 1909 | Reflex cameras. |
| 27667 | 1909 | Reflex cameras with a mask to show position of revolving back. |
| 5523 | 1912 | Describes a folding reflex camera. Used on the Folding Minex. |
| 19406 | 1912 | Reflex camera. |
| 17530 | 1913 | Swing or tilting front to a studio camera. |
| 25037 | 1913 | Extending focusing rack for use with reflex cameras. |
| 6644 | 1915 | Front standard of a folding hand camera. Used on the Vaido. |
Adox Kamerwerk G M B H
| 789021 | 1955 | Photographic cameras. |
Aeronautical & General Instruments
| 820413 | 1959 | Describes the shutter release and film-advance mechanism of the Agimatic. |
Aldis, Hugh Lancelot
| 16640 | 1895 | The Stigmatic lens. |
| 5170 | 1901 | The Aldis Anastigmat lens. |
Amalgamated Photographic Manufacturers Ltd
| 324831 | 1929 | Roll-film camera. Used in the Rajar 6. |
| 330438 | 1929 | Use of a stencil to cut bellows. |
Ansco Photoproducts Inc
| 285494 | 1927 | Memo roll-film camera. |
Arbeit, Ernst
| 2305 | 1903 | The Euryplan lens. |
Arundel, S.D.
| 11615 | 1886 | Plate Box with corrugated grooves to hold the plates and flaps to lift out the plates. |
Ashford, J.
| 541 | 1887 | Tailboard camera where the bellows disengage from the front, the rear standard folds onto the baseboard and the front standard folds on top covering the focusing screen. Possibly used on a Ross stereo camera. |
| 6508 | 1900 | Tripod with hinged section to close into a smaller space. |
Atwater, John Larson
| 29599 | 1897 | Describes a detective camera where the plates are changed by inserting the hand into the camera. |
Automatic Coil Winder & Electrical Equipment Co Ltd
| 458546 | 1936 | Photoelectric exposure meters. |
| 625988 | 1949 | Photoelectric exposure meters. |
Ballantine, Matthew
| 4831 | 1904 | Strut and front standard arrangement for a hand camera. Used on the Lizars De-Luxe cameras. |
Ballantine, Robert
| 4831 | 1904 | Strut and front standard arrangement for a hand camera. Used on the Lizars De-Luxe cameras. |
Batault, Emile
| 24647 | 1893 | Describes a folding hand camera that folds into a small space. Used on the Shew Featherweight. |
Bausch & Lomb Optical Co
| 12442 | 1890 | Diaphragm shutter opening to a varying extent. |
| 8353 | 1901 | Two-blade pivoted return shutter. |
| 8358 | 1901 | Two-blade return shutter, rectilinear movement. |
| 8360 | 1901 | Two-blade pivoted return shutter. |
Beck, Conrad
| 8194 | 1892 | Printing frame. |
| 9819 | 1892 | Changing mechanism for a detective camera. Used in the Frena. |
| 9820 | 1892 | Shutter. Used in the Frena. |
| 6489 | 1896 | Changing mechanism. Used in the Frena. |
| 17006 | 1898 | View-finder. Use of a mask placed in the focal point of the front lens. |
| 5120 | 1900 | Changing arrangement for folding hand cameras. Used on the Folding Frena range. |
| 14022 | 1903 | Film pack device. |
| 992 | 1904 | Zambex envelopes and skeletons. |
| 25237 | 1905 | Shutter. Used on the Beck Celverex. |
| 27180 | 1906 | The Isostigmar lens. |
| 14673 | 1908 | The Isostigmar lens. |
| 162829 | 1920 | Describes a pre-set device for an iris diaphragm. |
Beck, Horace Courthope
| 17006 | 1898 | View-finder. Use of a mask placed in the focal point of the front lens. |
| 25237 | 1905 | Shutter. Used on the Beck Celverex. |
| 27180 | 1906 | The Isostigmar lens. |
| 14673 | 1908 | The Isostigmar lens. |
Beck, William
| 6489 | 1896 | Changing mechanism. Used in the Frena. |
| 5120 | 1900 | Changing arrangement for folding hand cameras. Used on the Folding Frena range. |
Beevor, Charles William
| 9057 | 1898 | Five sided prism used as a view-finder giving non-reversed image. |
Bennett, George Henry Phillip
| 662407 | 1949 | Shirley Wellard re-loadable cassette. |
Bettles, Arthur Edward
| 190302 | 1921 | Reflex cameras and focal-plane shutters. |
Billcliff, Joshua
Bing, Joseph Mina
| 348662 | 1931 | Exposure meters, describes the arrangement of scales on an extinction meter. Refers to BP 214939/1924. |
Bloch, Edmond
| 21755 | 1896 | Describes a binocular camera. |
Boehm, Wilhelm
| 334220 | 1929 | Magnesium ribbon holder combined in the same case as an exposure meter. |
Booth, Lionel Barton
| 139719 | 1919 | Dallon telephoto lens. |
| 151507 | 1919 | Dallon telephoto lens. |
Boucher, Paul
| 12156 | 1912 | Actinometer where a small image of the subject is formed. |
Bourdin, Gabriel Jules
| 3175 | 1864 | Covers the Dubroni. |
Bourne, John Cooke
| 674 | 1855 | Describes a combined camera and dark tent arrangement. The lens of the camera moves in a curved slot. |
Branson, F.W.
| 1650 | 1883 | Flap/drop shutter. The flap is spring powered, the drop-plate is rubber-band powered. |
| 2767 | 1884 | Flap/drop shutter. Flap speed controlled by weighted arm, the drop-plate is rubber-band powered. |
| 1120 | 1885 | Describes a tailboard camera. |
| 16373 | 1893 | Use of studs to attach front standard to inner frame. Frame strengthened by using racks of T, L or U section, the racks are cut diagonally to match spiral pinion to give less backlash when focusing. |
| 14102 | 1899 | The front standard does not have a cross piece at the top of the forks, it is strengthened by angled struts on the front of the standard as well as the usual side struts. |
Brauburger, Ernst
| 16593 | 1905 | Focal-plane shutter. |
Brin, A.
| 17143 | 1891 | Brin camera. |
| 6013 | 1892 | Developing and washing apparatus. |
Britannia Works Co
| 17642 | 1892 | Exposure determining. Describes a circular slide-rule. |
Brookes, Warwick
| 4320 | 1881 | Describes a twin lens camera, shutter and changing mechanism. |
| 13340 | 1891 | Suction device for attaching an article to glass. Used on the Limpet finder. |
Brooks, Arthur Augustus
| 11816 | 1908 | Daylight changing system. |
| 25074 | 1908 | Daylight changing system. |
| 25370 | 1908 | Determining when development is complete, used in the A-kla system. |
| 10504 | 1912 | Describes a folding hand camera. |
Brooks, John Boultbee
| 5454 | 1896 | Describes a shutter and general form of a box camera for plates. Used on the B.P. Criterion. |
Brown, Frank Edwards
| 21505 | 1896 | Metal dark-slides with removable inner section, sold by B.J. Edwards. (The patentees traded as W. Edwards of the Steam Cabinet Case Works, Birmingham) |
Brown, J.E.
| 2496 | 1885 | Method of clamping the front standard to the baseboard and clamping the rising front. Used on the 'Combination' camera from Shew and others. |
Brownell, Frank Alexander
| 359 | 1890 | Describes the Folding Kodak. |
| 24269 | 1896 | Rotary shutter and general arrangement of the Pocket Kodak. |
| 13830 | 1900 | Panoramic camera. |
| 3799 | 1904 | Roll-film developing tank. |
| 11585 | 1905 | Folding roll-film camera. |
Buck, William James Henry
| 662407 | 1949 | Shirley Wellard re-loadable cassette. |
Burchett, Arthur
| 24487 | 1893 | Use of green and yellow screens to give better colour rendering. Based on BP 9926/92. |
Bynoe, Frederick Oatley
| 8194 | 1892 | Printing frame. |
| 14022 | 1903 | Film pack device. |
Carkhuff, Norman W.
| 1327 | 1908 | Film developing tank. Films arranged in arcs around a common centre to fit a round tank. |
Carl Zeiss
| 203668 | 1922 | Albada view-finder. |
| 273274 | 1926 | The Tessar lens. |
| 369833 | 1930 | The Tessar lens. |
| 414992 | 1934 | Attaching a photographic camera or the like to an optical observation instrument (Microscope). |
Carpentier, Jules
| 6631 | 1892 | Describes a camera and enlarging apparatus for a rigid hand camera. |
| 1139 | 1901 | Relates to an enlarging camera adapted to correct distortion in negatives owing to their being out of the true plane when originally photographed. |
Carter, Harry Arthur
| 295071 | 1927 | Folding strut camera. Used in the Snapshot. |
Casler, Herman
| 24157 | 1895 | Describes the Presto. |
Chapman, J.T.
| 12389 | 1884 | Describes a folding bed camera with a double-slotted link connecting the baseboard and the back. |
Chessher, Herbert George
| 12105 | 1909 | Roller-blind shutter. Self-capping with two blinds connected by tapes. |
Clark, S.M.
| 6814 | 1888 | Twin lens camera with bayonet lens mount. |
Clarke, Joseph Thacher
| 11891 | 1890 | Changing mechanism. |
| 20852 | 1890 | Shutters and lens fittings. |
| 9819 | 1892 | Changing mechanism for a detective camera. Used in the Frena. |
| 9820 | 1892 | Shutter. Used in the Frena. |
| 19581 | 1892 | Shutter. |
| 23315 | 1892 | Use of notches in film packs to change film. The films have notches along two sides. When a film has been exposed pins in front of the film are slid to coincide with the notches and so release the film. The next film has notches in the alternate position and so is held in place by the pins. Used in the Frena. |
| 2566 | 1893 | Improvements in changing boxes, and arrangement for a detachable box. |
| 17685 | 1893 | Shutter. |
| 6489 | 1896 | Changing mechanism. Used in the Frena. |
Cole, J.
| 5374 | 1894 | A tambour front panel is used to give rising front, moved by rack and pinion. |
Collins, T.J.
| 10103 | 1887 | Method of clamping the front standard to the baseboard. |
Colordeau, Louis Joseph Emmanuel
| 23027 | 1913 | Stereoscopic camera for cine film. Used in the Homéos. |
Coltman, Douglas Claud Wynn
| 587090 | 1945 | Improvements in or relating to bezel stops for lenses. |
Correx Müvek Filmipari Gepgyar Czako Laszlo
Curtis, W.F.H.
| 366 | 1894 | Swing and tilt to back arranged so that the axis of movement is co-incident with the sensitive plate. |
Cusworth, C.
| 4718 | 1887 | Field camera with levers to clamp the front standard. |
Dallmeyer Ltd
| 295071 | 1927 | Folding strut camera. Used in the Snapshot. |
Dallmeyer, Thomas Rudolphus
| 21933 | 1891 | Telephoto attachment fitting behind the prime lens. |
| 24720 | 1899 | Telephoto attachment fitting in front of the prime lens. |
Dawson, John William
| 16813 | 1900 | Describes the Dawson Densitometer. |
Deckel, F.
| 27592 | 1912 | Diaphragm shutter with gear train to regulate the exposure. Used on the Compur. |
Deckel, Friedrich
| 275462 | 1926 | Diaphragm shutter. Used on rim-set Compur. |
Deckel, Friedrich W.
| 744962 | 1952 | Photographic shutters combined with exposure calculators. |
Deckel, Hans
| 744962 | 1952 | Photographic shutters combined with exposure calculators. |
Decoudun, J.
| 13332 | 1887 | Describes a means of estimating the light by introducing varyingly translucent plates in front of the image on the ground glass screen. |
| 11578 | 1888 | Actinometers. Relates to improvements to BP13332/1887. |
Degen, Edouard
| 27986 | 1903 | Exposure meters. Describes Le Photometre Normal. |
Denniss, Alfred Joseph
| 165575 | 1920 | Body for a roll-film camera using sheet aluminium. Used in the Ensignette. |
| 194897 | 1922 | Roll-film hand camera. Used on the Ensign Cupid. Application no. GB19220004312. Specification published in 1923. |
| 207637 | 1922 | Improvements to shutters. Used on the Ensign Cupid. Application no. GB19220024360. |
| 210531 | 1922 | Reflex camera. |
| 210717 | 1922 | Reflex camera. |
| 266494 | 1925 | Reflex camera. |
| 23500 | 1926 | Application number for GB281802. |
| 248274 | 1926 | Sliding lens mount between fixed stops for focusing. |
| 270823 | 1926 | General arrangement for a box camera with hinged body. |
| 271145 | 1926 | Reflex camera. |
| 271186 | 1926 | Positioning of the diaphragm behind a simple lens. |
| 280352 | 1926 | Pressure plate for roll-film cameras. |
| 281802 | 1926 | Hinged spool retaining spindle. |
| 345719 | 1930 | Improvements in catches or fasteners for the cases of cameras. |
| 415770 | 1933 | Improvements relating to rangefinders or telemeters for photographic cameras |
| 15568 | 1934 | Relates to the Ensign Midget. Application number for GB436750. |
Diebel, Otto
| 410306 | 1933 | Shutter mechanism. |
| 414465 | 1933 | Roll-film cameras. Shutter mechanism. |
| 500626 | 1937 | Photographic cameras, shutters. |
| 500791 | 1938 | Photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 500866 | 1938 | Lens mounts for photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 507314 | 1939 | Reflex photographic cameras; lenses. |
Dockree, Walter
Drem Products Corp
| 380430 | 1932 | Exposure meter for printing. |
Driffield, V.C.
| 6013 | 1886 | Relates to a detective camera with one lens for focusing and another similar one for throwing the image on the sensitive plate. |
| 5545 | 1888 | Exposure determining. |
Dye, William George
| 662407 | 1949 | Shirley Wellard re-loadable cassette. |
Eastman Photographic Materials Co
| 24269 | 1896 | Rotary shutter and general arrangement of the Pocket Kodak. |
| 7880 | 1897 | Shutter with two pivoted blades. |
Eastman, G.
| 15542 | 1884 | Roll-film holder. |
| 6950 | 1888 | Roll-film detective camera. |
| 9869 | 1889 | Shutter. |
| 20951 | 1897 | Roll-film holder, the film being wound outside the backing paper. |
Edwards, Valentine William
| 194897 | 1922 | Roll-film hand camera. Used on the Ensign Cupid. Application no. GB19220004312. Specification published in 1923. |
| 207637 | 1922 | Improvements to shutters. Used on the Ensign Cupid. Application no. GB19220024360. |
| 266494 | 1925 | Reflex camera. |
| 23500 | 1926 | Application number for GB281802. |
| 270823 | 1926 | General arrangement for a box camera with hinged body. |
| 271145 | 1926 | Reflex camera. |
| 280352 | 1926 | Pressure plate for roll-film cameras. |
| 281802 | 1926 | Hinged spool retaining spindle. |
| 345719 | 1930 | Improvements in catches or fasteners for the cases of cameras. |
| 415770 | 1933 | Improvements relating to rangefinders or telemeters for photographic cameras |
Edwards, William
| 21505 | 1896 | Metal dark-slides with removable inner section, sold by B.J. Edwards. (The patentees traded as W. Edwards of the Steam Cabinet Case Works, Birmingham) |
Edwards, William Albert
| 17408 | 1904 | Mostly covers the Tudor range of cameras but also shows the method of clamping the front standard to the focusing rack used on the Sanderson. |
| 14916 | 1907 | Describes a spring operated rocking plate pivoted on one of the front standard struts that engages notches in a slide plate. |
| 19108 | 1907 | Describes a mechanism that releases the catches to a reversing back by use of a central button. Used on Sanderson cameras. |
Englisch, Emil
| 410306 | 1933 | Shutter mechanism. |
| 414465 | 1933 | Roll-film cameras. Shutter mechanism. |
| 500626 | 1937 | Photographic cameras, shutters. |
| 500791 | 1938 | Photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 500866 | 1938 | Lens mounts for photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 507314 | 1939 | Reflex photographic cameras; lenses. |
Foulkes Winks, Benjamin
Franke, Paul
| 497517 | 1938 | Film-advance mechanism and automatic film loading. |
Franks, Louis Aubrey
| 13055 | 1890 | Shutter. Used on the Presto camera. |
Frauenstein, Hugo
| 410306 | 1933 | Shutter mechanism. |
| 414465 | 1933 | Roll-film cameras. Shutter mechanism. |
| 500626 | 1937 | Photographic cameras, shutters. |
| 500791 | 1938 | Photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 500866 | 1938 | Lens mounts for photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 507314 | 1939 | Reflex photographic cameras; lenses. |
Frennet, Jules
| 28448 | 1908 | Folding reflex camera. |
Furnell, T.
Gaisman, Henry Jaques
| 9005 | 1914 | Original patent for what became Autographic film. |
| 9006 | 1914 | Original patent covering cameras adapted to use Autographic film. |
Gale, C.H.
| 3076 | 1888 | Field camera, the front forks have a slot within which the studs on the lens board can move for vertical adjustment. Centre swing and base tilt to back. Focusing pinion pushes into recess for storage. Sold by Marion as the Cyclone. |
Gandolfi, S.
| 13449 | 1891 | Method of attaching the front standard to the baseboard. |
Gaumont, L.
| 26068 | 1902 | Describes the Block Notes. |
Geiger, Martin
| 275462 | 1926 | Diaphragm shutter. Used on rim-set Compur. |
Gerrard Industries Ltd
| 379344 | 1931 | Arrangement of mirrors in a three-colour camera. |
Giles, Walter Frederick
| 28174 | 1906 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 15548 | 1908 | Focal-plane shutter. Used on the Unit shutter. BP 22134/1904 is referenced. BJA 1909, p. 1193. (Advert.). |
Gill, Bertram Thomas
| 379344 | 1931 | Arrangement of mirrors in a three-colour camera. |
| 379345 | 1931 | Method of focusing all three images in a three colour camera at the same time. |
Gimblett, John Archibald Linden
| 20187 | 1915 | The fluid in a developing tank is agitated by introducing air under slight pressure. |
Goerz, Carl Paul
| 23378 | 1892 | The Double Anastigmat. |
| 17844 | 1894 | Sector shutter. |
| 21458 | 1894 | Improvements to the Double Anastigmat. |
| 16593 | 1905 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 1468 | 1907 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 17624 | 1908 | Strut camera. Used on the Folding Pocket Tenax. |
| 27772 | 1913 | Method of collapsing the front standard in a folding hand camera. |
Gosling, Arthur Glendower
| 614330 | 1948 | Photoelectric exposure meter, describes the Chum. |
Gotz, J.R.
| 10594 | 1885 | The camera back is connected by short links to the slides running on the edge of the baseboard, this is arranged to provide a tilting back. Tilting front is also provided. |
| 2042 | 1887 | The base of the back has a curved rack to provide a tilt movement. |
Griffin & Sons
| 20088 | 1909 | Spring arrangement to attach supplementary lenses to a camera lens. |
Griffiths, Walter
| 14753 | 1892 | The conventional baseboard is replaced by telescoping tubes. Illus. YBP 1894, p. 542. |
Grubb, Thomas
| 2574 | 1857 | Improved achromat lens. |
Guardia, J.
| 5742 | 1892 | Roller-blind shutter, rack and pinion setting arm and pneumatic regulation. |
| 13857 | 1892 | Changing box, use of a pressure plate. |
| 20649 | 1892 | Shutter, pneumatic regulation. |
Guthe, Paul
| 171024 | 1920 | Folding hand camera. Used on the Patent Etui camera. |
Hainsworth, Frank
| 271186 | 1926 | Positioning of the diaphragm behind a simple lens. |
Hare, George
| 1699 | 1875 | Describes the Hare transfer box. |
| 3035 | 1882 | Describes the '1882' pattern folding plate camera. |
Harting, Carl August Hans
Hasselkus, John William
Heidecke, Rheinhold
| 497517 | 1938 | Film-advance mechanism and automatic film loading. |
Henry, L.C.V.
| 15657 | 1891 | Describes a strut camera where the lens board is pivoted between the struts and able to tilt. Rise is also possible. Incorporated in a Shew Eclipse model. |
Hickox, Herbert Edward
| 5438 | 1901 | Describes a while-you-wait ferrotype camera. |
Hill, Henry
| 12029 | 1892 | Pneumatic delay cylinder where the initial position of the cylinder or piston is altered to vary the speed. |
| 18595 | 1893 | Folding strut camera. Used on the original model Vesta. |
| 9119 | 1894 | Brilliant view-finder having two lenses before the mirror. |
Hillman, Albert George
| 379344 | 1931 | Arrangement of mirrors in a three-colour camera. |
| 379345 | 1931 | Method of focusing all three images in a three colour camera at the same time. |
Hobson, H.W.
| 3019 | 1892 | Tapering the end of screw threads. |
Holmes, Alfred William Robert
| 270823 | 1926 | General arrangement for a box camera with hinged body. |
Holmes, Herbert
| 789 | 1896 | Method of connecting front standard to the camera baseboard for stereo use. |
| 20860 | 1900 | Use of spring plate and studs to locate the front standard on the baseboard. |
| 2442 | 1902 | Method of inserting and retaining film spools. |
| 17408 | 1904 | Mostly covers the Tudor range of cameras but also shows the method of clamping the front standard to the focusing rack used on the Sanderson. |
| 14916 | 1907 | Describes a spring operated rocking plate pivoted on one of the front standard struts that engages notches in a slide plate. |
| 19108 | 1907 | Describes a mechanism that releases the catches to a reversing back by use of a central button. Used on Sanderson cameras. |
| 27461 | 1910 | Mechanism for tensioning and releasing roller-blind shutter. Also applied to Focal-plane shutters. |
Holmes, Leonard
| 789 | 1896 | Method of connecting front standard to the camera baseboard for stereo use. |
Holmes, Leonard Edwin
| 789 | 1896 | Method of connecting front standard to the camera baseboard for stereo use. |
Hora, Tudor Travers
| 16353 | 1906 | Focal-plane shutter especially the de-coupling of the blind rollers to adjust the slit. |
Houghton, George
| 20860 | 1900 | Use of spring plate and studs to locate the front standard on the baseboard. |
| 2442 | 1902 | Method of inserting and retaining film spools. |
HoughtonButcher Manufacturing Co
| 165575 | 1920 | Body for a roll-film camera using sheet aluminium. Used in the Ensignette. |
| 194897 | 1922 | Roll-film hand camera. Used on the Ensign Cupid. Application no. GB19220004312. Specification published in 1923. |
| 207637 | 1922 | Improvements to shutters. Used on the Ensign Cupid. Application no. GB19220024360. |
| 210531 | 1922 | Reflex camera. |
| 210717 | 1922 | Reflex camera. |
| 266494 | 1925 | Reflex camera. |
| 23500 | 1926 | Application number for GB281802. |
| 248274 | 1926 | Sliding lens mount between fixed stops for focusing. |
| 270823 | 1926 | General arrangement for a box camera with hinged body. |
| 271145 | 1926 | Reflex camera. |
| 271186 | 1926 | Positioning of the diaphragm behind a simple lens. |
| 280352 | 1926 | Pressure plate for roll-film cameras. |
| 281802 | 1926 | Hinged spool retaining spindle. |
| 345719 | 1930 | Improvements in catches or fasteners for the cases of cameras. |
| 415770 | 1933 | Improvements relating to rangefinders or telemeters for photographic cameras |
| 15568 | 1934 | Relates to the Ensign Midget. Application number for GB436750. |
| 521606 | 1938 | Photographic cameras, rangefinders. |
| 563875 | 1944 | Describes an auto-stop and film-advance mechanism. |
Houghtons Ltd
| 17408 | 1904 | Mostly covers the Tudor range of cameras but also shows the method of clamping the front standard to the focusing rack used on the Sanderson. |
| 19943 | 1906 | Printing frame were a pressure bar, operated by a screw, grips the paper to the negative. |
| 14916 | 1907 | Describes a spring operated rocking plate pivoted on one of the front standard struts that engages notches in a slide plate. |
| 19108 | 1907 | Describes a mechanism that releases the catches to a reversing back by use of a central button. Used on Sanderson cameras. |
| 27461 | 1910 | Mechanism for tensioning and releasing roller-blind shutter. Also applied to Focal-plane shutters. |
| 6121 | 1913 | Focal-plane shutter. |
Howell, C.
| 15926 | 1900 | Rack and pinion used to raise the lens board. Howell was a partner in the Midland Camera Co. |
Hunter, Douglas Gordon
| 563875 | 1944 | Describes an auto-stop and film-advance mechanism. |
Hunter, J.J.
| 1898 | 1884 | Swing and tilt adjustment using a cradle with curved surfaces attached to the baseboard. Used on the 'Patent Swing' studio camera. |
| 16087 | 1884 | Describes a camera with the front and back standards moved by racks running each side of a single pinion. The patent was used on the 'Imperial' and an earlier model from S&H. |
| 4808 | 1887 | Use of a slotted disc to set tilting back. |
Hurter, F.
| 5545 | 1888 | Exposure determining. |
Höegh, Emil von
| 23378 | 1892 | The Double Anastigmat. |
| 21458 | 1894 | Improvements to the Double Anastigmat. |
Ilford Ltd
| 19962 | 1905 | Exposure determining. |
Isaacs, Frederick Myer
| 25655 | 1903 | Filter or supplementary lens attachment for box cameras. |
Isaacs, Lewis Myer
| 25655 | 1903 | Filter or supplementary lens attachment for box cameras. |
Isaacs, Myer Lewis
| 25655 | 1903 | Filter or supplementary lens attachment for box cameras. |
Jackson, Alfred Charles
| 19329 | 1894 | Shutters, lenses and lens fittings. Used on falling plate cameras. |
| 3055 | 1896 | Falling plate camera and shutter. |
| 27102 | 1896 | Changing mechanisms, focusing etc. Used on falling plate cameras. |
| 5564 | 1900 | Folding darkroom lamp. |
Jeffrey, A.
| 941 | 1892 | Describes a folding strut camera. |
Jeyes, John William
| 15292 | 1892 | Changing box. The plates are held in a hinged frame that tilts backwards to grip the front plate. |
| 13019 | 1896 | Changing box with a flexible bag where an incline at the front of the box lifts the plates enabling the front plate to be gripped when changing plates. |
Jones, Alexander James
Kapella Ltd
| 377537 | 1931 | Improvements in lenses. The Speed Panchro. |
| 461304 | 1935 | Improvements in lenses. |
| 587090 | 1945 | Improvements in or relating to bezel stops for lenses. |
Kemper, A.C.
| 23487 | 1892 | Describes a small roll-film camera, shutter etc. Used on the Kombi. |
| 2544 | 1895 | Describes the Kombi. |
Kenngott, Wilhelm
| 1740 | 1905 | Diaphragm shutter. Used on friction brake Koilos. |
| 4024 | 1907 | Diaphragm shutter. Used on Koilos with pneumatic delay. |
Kershaw, Abram
| 22698 | 1904 | Reflex cameras, mirror movement and shutters. |
Kershaw, Cecil
| 324831 | 1929 | Roll-film camera. Used in the Rajar 6. |
Kershaw, J.
| 10798 | 1891 | Roller-blind shutter. BP 5014/1885 is related. |
Kershaw, Norman
| 330438 | 1929 | Use of a stencil to cut bellows. |
Kidd, R.L.
Koch, Conrad
| 410306 | 1933 | Shutter mechanism. |
| 414465 | 1933 | Roll-film cameras. Shutter mechanism. |
| 500626 | 1937 | Photographic cameras, shutters. |
| 500791 | 1938 | Photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 500866 | 1938 | Lens mounts for photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 507314 | 1939 | Reflex photographic cameras; lenses. |
Kodak Ltd
| 359 | 1890 | Describes the Folding Kodak. |
| 13830 | 1900 | Panoramic camera. |
| 3799 | 1904 | Roll-film developing tank. |
| 11585 | 1905 | Folding roll-film camera. |
| 1327 | 1908 | Film developing tank. Films arranged in arcs around a common centre to fit a round tank. |
| 11687 | 1908 | Leaf shutter |
| 440353 | 1936 | Rangefinder in a roll-film camera. |
| 454134 | 1936 | Means of adjusting and securing the film-plane. |
| 454144 | 1936 | Tongue and groove light seal between body parts. |
Krügener, R.
Lacroix, J.B.J.
| 10278 | 1891 | Falling plate camera. |
Lancaster, W.J.
| 5363 | 1885 | Rotary shutter. |
| 5364 | 1885 | Baseboard in three parts with pull-out section and second section moved by rack and pinion. Locking nut on pinion. |
| 3879 | 1886 | Use of an iris diaphragm. |
| 1533 | 1887 | Use of eccentric discs to clamp the dark-slides in place. |
| 1365 | 1889 | Darkroom lamp. |
| 1631 | 1889 | Curved slot on front standard forks to control tilt and collapsing of camera. Tilting back by clamping plates on the rear standard to short uprights running on the baseboard, these uprights (and therefore the whole back) are clamped to the baseboard by a screwed rod extending the width of camera. Bellows are made parallel for a short distance near the camera back. Used on the 'Extra Special' model. |
| 18167 | 1889 | See-Saw shutter. |
| 15495 | 1890 | Describes a detective camera. Used in the Rover. |
| 5828 | 1893 | Method of clamping and collapsing front standard, tilting back arrangement. Used on the Imperial Instantograph. Dark-slide with hinged top to load plates. |
Lawley, Walter
| 5598 | 1881 | Camera with provision for holding and changing plates internally by passing a hand through a light-tight sleeve. |
Leber, Alois
| 444105 | 1936 | Exposure meters - extinction. Describes the Leudi. |
Lee, Horace William
| 377537 | 1931 | Improvements in lenses. The Speed Panchro. |
| 461304 | 1935 | Improvements in lenses. |
Leitz
| 235560 | 1924 | Camera, shutter etc. |
| 371252 | 1932 | Rangefinder with moveable mirror or prism moved by the focusing movement of the camera lens. |
| 379954 | 1932 | Rangefinder coupling adjusted from the focusing mount of the camera lens through intermediate mechanism. |
| 383233 | 1932 | Interchangeable cam rings to connect lenses of different focal length to a rangefinder. |
| 383911 | 1932 | Film re-wind knob that can be pulled clear of obstructions on the top plate. |
| 386887 | 1933 | Use of a right-angle prism behind a rangefinder eye-piece so that viewing can be at right angles to the line of sight. |
| 386888 | 1933 | Angular view-finder, Wintu etc. |
| 412880 | 1934 | Escapement mechanism for slow shutter speeds. |
| 474509 | 1937 | Motor drive attachment. |
| 479453 | 1938 | Rapid film advance using a trigger and pulley. |
| 504606 | 1938 | Motor drive attachment. |
Levi J & Co
| 25655 | 1903 | Filter or supplementary lens attachment for box cameras. |
Levi, Samuel Joseph
Litchfield, Thomas
| 124636 | 1918 | Describes a folding hand camera. |
Lomax, Frank Sharp
| 391953 | 1933 | Tube being one coil of a spring forming a lens hood. |
Lowdon, G.
| 4102 | 1885 | Describes the Shew Eclipse. |
Lumière et ses Fils
| 22988 | 1904 | Autochrome. This, the first Autochrome patent, proposed that the plate be coated with grains coloured red, yellow and blue, the plate was then again coated with a tacky layer followed by a second coating of grains of the same colour, these would overlap in places producing a screen of six colours - red, yellow, blue, orange, green and blue-violet. |
| 25718 | 1904 | Autochrome. The second Autochrome patent proposed a single coating of grains but of multiple colours. |
| 9100 | 1906 | Autochrome. The third Autochrome patent referred to the grains being flattened by rolling. |
Lyons, G.
| 14648 | 1891 | Front standard is made detachable by using spring bolts on the forks. Two positions for the forks locked by a single pair of struts. |
Lyth, E.J.
| 8054 | 1889 | Use of an extra large pinion wheel to adjust the focus. A folding handle rotates the pinion wheel, a sliding bolt locks the position. |
Macadie, Hugh Sutherland
| 458546 | 1936 | Photoelectric exposure meters. |
| 625988 | 1949 | Photoelectric exposure meters. |
Mackenzie, Frederick
| 7751 | 1899 | Envelope adapter. |
| 5212 | 1906 | Envelope adapter. |
Magic Introduction Co
| 21727 | 1893 | Describes the Photoret. |
Mallett, Walter
| 9057 | 1898 | Five sided prism used as a view-finder giving non-reversed image. |
Mason, Percy George
| 8721 | 1912 | Describes the side struts of a folding hand camera. Used in the Sibyl range of cameras. |
| 8722 | 1912 | Sector shutter. Used on the Sibyl camera. |
| 158194 | 1919 | Reflex cameras and focal-plane shutters. Used in the Folding Reflex. |
| 158601 | 1919 | Reflex cameras and lens fittings. Used in the Folding Reflex. |
Mattioli, G.
| 11476 | 1890 | Two-blade pivoted return shutter. |
Maugey, Pierre
| 887 | 1858 | A thin membrane is used as a lens diaphragm. |
Mayer, Emil
| 214939 | 1924 | Exposure meters. |
| 216831 | 1924 | Exposure meter for printing. |
Mayo, Alfred Croger
| 26158 | 1933 | Application number for the Purma camera. |
| 430648 | 1933 | Improvements in or relating to cameras with focal-plane shutters. Application no. GB19330026158, published in 1935. |
| 445907 | 1934 | Photographic roll-film cameras. Application no. GB19350007981. |
| 7981 | 1935 | Application number for the Purma camera GB445907. |
| 473123 | 1936 | Improvements in or relating to photographic cameras with focal-plane shutters. Application no. GB19360003684. |
| 489960 | 1938 | Describes a shutter lock when the lens is retracted into the body of the camera. Application no. GB19370003606. |
| 489961 | 1938 | Describes the Purma shutter. |
| 642319 | 1950 | Covers film winding movement and connection to the shutter. Application no. GB19470016000. |
McAlpine, George Leonard
| 20088 | 1909 | Spring arrangement to attach supplementary lenses to a camera lens. |
McKellen, Samuel Dunseith
| 319 | 1884 | Turntable in base of camera to dispense with the tripod top. |
| 6688 | 1884 | Pivoting lens board enabling it to swing forward onto the baseboard whilst front standard swings backwards when collapsing the camera. |
| 8463 | 1884 | Inner sliding frame on a field camera for focusing, the frame is moved by a rack and pinions at each end of the frame. |
| 16334 | 1884 | Horizontal swing given to the back by pivoting it to plates that move along each edge of the baseboard. |
| 7951 | 1886 | The dark-slides are held in position by wooden strips that are moveable to accommodate different sizes of dark-slide. The strips unscrew and can be placed for vertical or horizontal use. |
McLaughlin, G.
| 9756 | 1886 | Use of a metal frame in place of the conventional baseboard, the sides of the frame can telescope for focusing. Arrangement for tilting back and swing front. |
Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Ltd
| 550631 | 1943 | Photoelectric exposure meters. |
Miall, Frank
| 4131 | 1889 | Changing mechanism and shutter for a detective camera. |
| 19770 | 1889 | Plate holders for use in changing boxes. |
Middlemiss, W.
| 15887 | 1884 | Describes a field camera with two angle-plates sliding on the inner frame to which the front standard is pivoted. |
| 5450 | 1886 | Development of patent 15887/1884, the front standard is held in place by pins that can pivot and be disengaged to collapse the camera. Advertised by Marion (YBP 1891). |
Miller, Tom
| 12669 | 1890 | Falling plate camera mechanism. |
| 2279 | 1891 | Describes a falling plate detective camera. |
Moore, Harry Charles
| 9342 | 1912 | Describes a while-you-wait ferrotype camera. |
| 285543 | 1926 | Self-developing camera. |
Morgan, W.T.
Multiscope and Film Co
| 21830 | 1904 | Describes a panoramic camera. |
Nerrlich, Eugen Albrecht Richard
Newman & Guardia
| 9599 | 1902 | Focal-plane shutter and mirror for a single lens reflex. |
| 19363 | 1902 | Focal-plane shutter and mirror in a single-lens reflex. |
| 25285 | 1903 | Reflex cameras. Used on the Square Reflector. |
| 16857 | 1905 | Folding hand camera especially the view-finder. Used on the Sibyl camera. |
| 8721 | 1912 | Describes the side struts of a folding hand camera. Used in the Sibyl range of cameras. |
| 8722 | 1912 | Sector shutter. Used on the Sibyl camera. |
| 158194 | 1919 | Reflex cameras and focal-plane shutters. Used in the Folding Reflex. |
| 158601 | 1919 | Reflex cameras and lens fittings. Used in the Folding Reflex. |
| 183626 | 1921 | Hood for a rear focusing screen. |
| 182237 | 1922 | Tripod that folds into a walking stick. |
| 271330 | 1926 | Shutter, two blade pivoted return type. Used on the Sibyl Vitesse and Excelsior cameras. |
| 290023 | 1927 | Hinged back to a roll-film camera. Used on the Sibyl Excelsior camera. |
Newman & Sinclair
| 20016 | 1910 | Shutters and reflex cameras. |
| 13820 | 1912 | Leaf shutter. |
Newman, Arthur Samuel
| 7156 | 1886 | Pneumatic shutter. Used on the early Newman shutter (fitting in the diaphragm slot of e.g. field cameras). |
| 8329 | 1886 | Changing box where the exposed plate is raised by a crank lever in the bottom of the box. |
| 19274 | 1890 | Shutters, pneumatic regulation. Patent refused. |
| 19480 | 1890 | Shutter. Used on the Adams Hand Camera. |
| 20299 | 1890 | Changing boxes especially the use of sheaths to hold the plates. Found on Newman and Guardia and Adams cameras. |
| 5742 | 1892 | Roller-blind shutter, rack and pinion setting arm and pneumatic regulation. |
| 13857 | 1892 | Changing box, use of a pressure plate. |
| 20649 | 1892 | Shutter, pneumatic regulation. |
| 9599 | 1902 | Focal-plane shutter and mirror for a single lens reflex. |
| 19363 | 1902 | Focal-plane shutter and mirror in a single-lens reflex. |
| 25285 | 1903 | Reflex cameras. Used on the Square Reflector. |
| 16857 | 1905 | Folding hand camera especially the view-finder. Used on the Sibyl camera. |
| 20016 | 1910 | Shutters and reflex cameras. |
| 13820 | 1912 | Leaf shutter. |
Newton & Wright
| 124636 | 1918 | Describes a folding hand camera. |
Nièll, Magnus
| 21510 | 1899 | Describes a folding camera. Used in the Pocket Cyko. |
| 24350 | 1901 | Describes a folding hand camera. |
| 21295 | 1904 | Describes the Ticka. |
| 28464 | 1907 | Describes a roll-film strut camera. Used in the Ensignette. |
| 14489 | 1908 | Fitting of roll-film spools |
| 117399 | 1917 | Describes a folding strut camera. Used in the Ensign Midget. |
North, C.G.
| 18542 | 1888 | The focusing pinion has reduced sections so that when these are moved over the rack it is out of gear. |
O'Reilly, Walter
| 10823 | 1888 | Describes a small rigid hand camera and changing method. Used in the Demon. |
Optische Anstalt CP Goerz AG
| 220615 | 1923 | General arrangement for a box camera. |
Ostermeier, Johannes
| 324578 | 1930 | Flash bulb, used in the Sashalite. See also: Ostermeier, BP 357239/1931; Hauser & Co. BP 368383/1932, BP 368531/1932. |
Park, Henry
| 11386 | 1885 | Dovetailed wedge-shaped fitting on the camera to fit tripod top. |
| 14262 | 1886 | Describes a conventional field camera with an inner moveable frame on which the front standard is mounted. |
Parkinson, H.C.
| 4110 | 1896 | Describes a monorail. |
Parr, Bernard Arthur
| 521606 | 1938 | Photographic cameras, rangefinders. |
Peacock, John Atkins
| 271330 | 1926 | Shutter, two blade pivoted return type. Used on the Sibyl Vitesse and Excelsior cameras. |
| 290023 | 1927 | Hinged back to a roll-film camera. Used on the Sibyl Excelsior camera. |
Peacock, Thomas
| 183626 | 1921 | Hood for a rear focusing screen. |
| 182237 | 1922 | Tripod that folds into a walking stick. |
Peck, G.
| 1830 | 1894 | Describes a monorail camera. |
Pemberton Billing, Noel
| 423035 | 1933 | Photographic cameras; exposure meters; developing-apparatus. July 18, 1933. Describes the general form of the Compass. |
| 423226 | 1933 | Photographic lens fittings and mounts. |
| 428003 | 1933 | Stand heads. Nov. 3, 1933. Describes panoramic heads and tripod fittings. |
| 428455 | 1933 | Photographic shutters. Nov. 3, 1933. Describes the Compass shutter. |
| 445611 | 1934 | Photographic-film holders. Oct. 15, 1934. Describes a carrier for photographic films. |
| 447901 | 1934 | Photographic roll-film cameras. |
| 428516 | 1935 | Contact printer and projector. |
| 437945 | 1935 | Photographic lens fittings and mounts. |
| 452013 | 1935 | Photographic-film holders. |
| 463943 | 1935 | Photographic roll-film cameras. Sept. 4, 1935. Describes a roll-film back. |
| 465102 | 1935 | Photographic cameras. July 16, 1936. Describes a camera back similar to the Compass. |
| 467837 | 1935 | Photographic roll-film spools. Dec. 23, 1935. |
| 478342 | 1936 | Photographic cameras. |
| 480108 | 1936 | Improvements in or relating to carriers for photographic sensitised material. |
| 489557 | 1938 | Folding camera with four or more plates forming the body that hinge and collapse. Not present on the Compass. |
Phillips, Arthur Claud
| 587090 | 1945 | Improvements in or relating to bezel stops for lenses. |
Phillips, Forbes Alexander
| 5438 | 1901 | Describes a while-you-wait ferrotype camera. |
Phillips, William Henry
| 8515 | 1894 | Exposure determining. |
Pickard, Arthur Gray
| 22136 | 1895 | Use of springs and notches in the side struts to locate normal position of front and rear standards. Locking of inner focusing frame by bolts. Focusing screen attached to reversing frame by two flat springs allowing screen to move outwards when slide is inserted. |
| 6238 | 1912 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 125615 | 1916 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 128626 | 1917 | Describes the T-P Gun camera. |
| 338390 | 1929 | Hood on a reflex camera fitted with a pocket for the shutter of a dark-slide. |
Pickard, Edgar
| 511 | 1890 | Rubber grip to fit the shutter to various size lenses. |
| 20253 | 1892 | Exposed indicator for dark-slides. |
| 4081 | 1893 | Changing the slit width of a focal-plane shutter by the use of chains. |
| 12976 | 1894 | Roller-blind shutter. Two blinds moving in opposite directions. Used on the Studio model. |
| 1924 | 1895 | Roller-blind shutter. Use of a safety blind to cover the lens when setting the shutter. Improvement of BP 17516/1891. |
| 16544 | 1896 | Describes a focusing screen that is held in place by springs acting along one edge with a spring loaded bar holding a dark-slide in place. |
Pickard, George Arthur
| 15640 | 1900 | Folding hand camera especially a self-erecting front. |
| 18631 | 1901 | Dial to calculate the shutter speed from the slit width and tension setting. |
| 14137 | 1903 | Front standard and lens board arrangement with springs to retain the lens board within the forks. Spring clamp to retain lens panel. |
| 20330 | 1904 | Means of compressing the bulb of a pneumatic release. |
| 4515 | 1905 | Method of arranging the struts to bring the front and rear standards of a field camera close together. |
Piercy, Ernest Vary
| 23670 | 1903 | Roller-blind shutter where the setting cord is pulled back into the case. |
Potter, Rowland Samuel
| 19962 | 1905 | Exposure determining. |
Proctor, Thomas Richard
| 19943 | 1906 | Printing frame were a pressure bar, operated by a screw, grips the paper to the negative. |
Prout, George Frederick
| 27461 | 1910 | Mechanism for tensioning and releasing roller-blind shutter. Also applied to Focal-plane shutters. |
| 6121 | 1913 | Focal-plane shutter. |
Purma Cameras Ltd
| 473123 | 1936 | Improvements in or relating to photographic cameras with focal-plane shutters. Application no. GB19360003684. |
| 489960 | 1938 | Describes a shutter lock when the lens is retracted into the body of the camera. Application no. GB19370003606. |
| 489961 | 1938 | Describes the Purma shutter. |
| 701368 | 1953 | Describes a pin used to prevent the shutter from being released on the Purma Plus. |
Quemby, James Charles
| 662407 | 1949 | Shirley Wellard re-loadable cassette. |
Rayment, A.
| 1675 | 1886 | Method of fixing the front standard to the baseboard using vertical rods inside the forks. |
| 18542 | 1888 | The focusing pinion has reduced sections so that when these are moved over the rack it is out of gear. |
Rayment, Arthur
| 14648 | 1891 | Front standard is made detachable by using spring bolts on the forks. Two positions for the forks locked by a single pair of struts. |
Rayment, E.
| 18542 | 1888 | The focusing pinion has reduced sections so that when these are moved over the rack it is out of gear. |
Rayment, F.L.
| 18542 | 1888 | The focusing pinion has reduced sections so that when these are moved over the rack it is out of gear. |
Redding, Henry Joseph
| 6898 | 1884 | Folding darkroom lamp. |
| 17328 | 1888 | Luzo roll-film camera. |
Reeves, John Horace
| 338390 | 1929 | Hood on a reflex camera fitted with a pocket for the shutter of a dark-slide. |
Reid & Sigrist Ltd
| 722838 | 1953 | Photographic cameras with flashlight synchronizers. Application no. GB19520011460. Lindsay Leslie is given as inventor. |
Reid, J.G.
| 8122 | 1893 | Changing box where the exposed plate is raised into the bag by the draw-slide. |
Reynolds, R.
| 1650 | 1883 | Flap/drop shutter. The flap is spring powered, the drop-plate is rubber-band powered. |
Ricard, E.
| 10278 | 1891 | Falling plate camera. |
Richard, Jules
| 10064 | 1893 | Shutter and changing mechanism for a stereo camera. |
| 27646 | 1912 | Roll-film camera, especially the use of a glass plate against which the film is pressed and film-advance release mechanism. Used in the Homéos. |
| 23027 | 1913 | Stereoscopic camera for cine film. Used in the Homéos. |
| 20623 | 1914 | Film spools. Used in the Homéos. |
Roberts, Walter George
| 25849 | 1908 | Reflex camera. |
| 27667 | 1909 | Reflex cameras with a mask to show position of revolving back. |
Rochester Optical and Camera Co
| 9013 | 1903 | Describes the original Premo film pack. |
| 9014 | 1903 | Describes a holder (adapter) for a film pack. |
Ross, T.W.
| 550631 | 1943 | Photoelectric exposure meters. |
Rouch, A.S.
| 5938 | 1885 | Tailboard camera, especially the fitting of the front and rear standards. Used in the 'Long and Short Focus' camera. |
| 4145 | 1888 | Changing mechanism. |
Rouch, S.W.
| 1448 | 1878 | Stand camera with a hinged baseboard to protect the focusing screen and a front standard mounted on a short focusing rail. |
| 6613 | 1887 | Changing mechanism, shutter for a detective camera. Used on the Eureka. |
Rowden, George Vere
| 20187 | 1915 | The fluid in a developing tank is agitated by introducing air under slight pressure. |
| 150663 | 1920 | Developing tank for roll films, in which a slide is provided for feeding the film in a double layer into the tank. |
Rudolph, Paul
Salmon, Arthur
Samuels, T.
| 7201 | 1884 | The object is to dispense with the tilting back and sliding front. The lens is supported on a 'U' shaped bracket allowing rise, tilt and shift. |
Sanderson, Frederick Herbert
| 613 | 1895 | Sanderson front standard support struts. |
| 20862 | 1900 | Tallbody feature to prevent bunching of the bellows from obscuring the image. |
| 114 | 1901 | Device to set the front standard at any angle. Covers the front standard bolts. |
Sands, C.
| 2783 | 1881 | Shutter. |
| 1898 | 1884 | Swing and tilt adjustment using a cradle with curved surfaces attached to the baseboard. Used on the 'Patent Swing' studio camera. |
| 4808 | 1887 | Use of a slotted disc to set tilting back. |
Sands, Charles
| 2940 | 1857 | Stereo Viewer. Handle on the hinged top-flap. |
Sands, H.C.
| 16087 | 1884 | Describes a camera with the front and back standards moved by racks running each side of a single pinion. The patent was used on the 'Imperial' and an earlier model from S&H. |
Sangamo Weston Ltd
| 531996 | 1941 | Photoelectric exposure meters. |
SangerShepherd, Edward
Sarjeant, W.L.
| 4624 | 1886 | Describes an actinometer using paper prepared with bromine salt, the paper is held in a circular case. |
Savage, R.W.
| 6533 | 1891 | An interrupted screw (bayonet) is used to attach and disconnect the bellows to the front standard. The tilting back is guided by a curved slot. Back adapted to fit an enlarger or copying device. |
Scheimpflug, Theodor
| 1196 | 1904 | Relates to a method and apparatus for reducing or enlarging the dimensions of a photograph by inclining the original and reproduction. |
Schlichter, Wilhelm.
| 276346 | 1928 | Exposure meters - extinction. |
Schubert, Herman
| 410306 | 1933 | Shutter mechanism. |
| 414465 | 1933 | Roll-film cameras. Shutter mechanism. |
| 500626 | 1937 | Photographic cameras, shutters. |
| 500791 | 1938 | Photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 500866 | 1938 | Lens mounts for photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 507314 | 1939 | Reflex photographic cameras; lenses. |
Scorer, W.
| 12573 | 1888 | Turntable operated by a rack and pinion, general arrangement for focusing and folding the camera. |
| 14537 | 1889 | The lens is mounted within eccentric discs to provide rise and cross front. Other improvements cover tripod fixing. |
| 3743 | 1890 | Covers the fitting of dark-slides to reversing frames, especially an arrangement of catches that prevents the shutter of the slide being withdrawn until it inserted into the camera back. |
Scott, J.A.
| 17642 | 1892 | Exposure determining. Describes a circular slide-rule. |
Scott, T.
| 12389 | 1884 | Describes a folding bed camera with a double-slotted link connecting the baseboard and the back. |
Sershall, G.J.
| 10012 | 1890 | Celluloid vignettes. |
Shew, Fox
| 11394 | 1891 | Improvements to strut cameras. |
| 15657 | 1891 | Describes a strut camera where the lens board is pivoted between the struts and able to tilt. Rise is also possible. Incorporated in a Shew Eclipse model. |
| 24647 | 1893 | Describes a folding hand camera that folds into a small space. Used on the Shew Featherweight. |
Sigriste, J.G.
| 24567 | 1898 | Describes the shutter, changing mechanism and general form of a rigid bodied camera. Used in the Sigriste camera. |
| 12180 | 1899 | Describes the shutter, changing mechanism and general form of a rigid bodied camera. Used in the Sigriste camera. |
Skinner, J.H.
| 8054 | 1889 | Use of an extra large pinion wheel to adjust the focus. A folding handle rotates the pinion wheel, a sliding bolt locks the position. |
| 12001 | 1890 | Method of clamping tripod turntable. |
Slinger, Frank
| 6238 | 1912 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 125615 | 1916 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 128626 | 1917 | Describes the T-P Gun camera. |
Smethurst, Phillip Charles
| 475590 | 1937 | Smethurst High-Light Meter. |
Smith, A.
| 939 | 1889 | Changing mechanism for a detective camera. |
Smith, Clement Alfred
Smith, George
| 3014 | 1881 | The rear standard has a rounded base and is clamped by a screw passing through the baseboard. The standard pivots on a ball or cylinder for adjustment, the screw tightens on the ball when clamped. Sold as the Sciopticon, a distinctive tailboard type camera. |
Smith, John Henry
| 1145 | 1902 | Describes a slide-rule actinometer using a tape or ribbon. |
Smyth, Herbert
| 21873 | 1899 | Changing mechanism and shutter for a rigid stereo camera. Used in the L.S.C. Royal. |
Soc du Photochrome
| 4874 | 1905 | Describes a three-colour falling late camera. |
Spratt, Alfred Sidney
| 11303 | 1893 | Folding tripod. The sections are automatically secured into place by a spring catch as the tripod is unfolded. |
| 23387 | 1894 | Printing Frames. Spring catch arrangement to clamp the back in place. |
| 3634 | 1895 | Method of connecting the front standard to the baseboard. |
| 23883 | 1895 | Front standard connected to the baseboard by two studs, each side of the standard, these engage slots one of which is segmental allowing the standard to pivot forward for removal. |
| 3648 | 1904 | Printing Frames. Includes a spring to raise the paper from the negative. |
Spratt, George Albert
| 11303 | 1893 | Folding tripod. The sections are automatically secured into place by a spring catch as the tripod is unfolded. |
| 23387 | 1894 | Printing Frames. Spring catch arrangement to clamp the back in place. |
| 3634 | 1895 | Method of connecting the front standard to the baseboard. |
| 23883 | 1895 | Front standard connected to the baseboard by two studs, each side of the standard, these engage slots one of which is segmental allowing the standard to pivot forward for removal. |
| 3648 | 1904 | Printing Frames. Includes a spring to raise the paper from the negative. |
Spratt, Henry James
| 11303 | 1893 | Folding tripod. The sections are automatically secured into place by a spring catch as the tripod is unfolded. |
| 23387 | 1894 | Printing Frames. Spring catch arrangement to clamp the back in place. |
| 3634 | 1895 | Method of connecting the front standard to the baseboard. |
| 23883 | 1895 | Front standard connected to the baseboard by two studs, each side of the standard, these engage slots one of which is segmental allowing the standard to pivot forward for removal. |
| 3648 | 1904 | Printing Frames. Includes a spring to raise the paper from the negative. |
Staley, Alfred Edward
| 18121 | 1907 | The Staley-Wheeler telephoto attachment. |
Stanley, William Ford
| 3268 | 1882 | Focusing scale attached to the baseboard. |
| 4528 | 1885 | Field camera with an attached focusing hood and magnifier. |
| 2811 | 1886 | Cameras, especially fixing the front standard to the baseboard using studs. |
| 4624 | 1886 | Describes an actinometer using paper prepared with bromine salt, the paper is held in a circular case. |
Starnes, H.S.
| 5598 | 1881 | Camera with provision for holding and changing plates internally by passing a hand through a light-tight sleeve. |
Steenbergen, Johan
| 410306 | 1933 | Shutter mechanism. |
| 414465 | 1933 | Roll-film cameras. Shutter mechanism. |
| 500626 | 1937 | Photographic cameras, shutters. |
| 500791 | 1938 | Photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 500866 | 1938 | Lens mounts for photographic cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1937. |
| 507314 | 1939 | Reflex photographic cameras; lenses. |
Steiner, Kurt
Stevens, Frank Herbert
| 378270 | 1932 | Use of a condenser lens combined with the focusing screen. |
Stillman, William James
| 3069 | 1871 | Describes a folding bellows camera where the baseboard is in three parts, the outer two parts fold up to cover the rear and front standards. |
Stirn, C.P.
| 9655 | 1886 | Waistcoat camera. |
Stuart, John
| 18534 | 1949 | Application number for the Wrayflex. |
| 18535 | 1949 | Application number for the Wrayflex. |
| 691103 | 1950 | Reflex camera. Describes the Wrayflex. Application no. GB19490018534. |
| 691170 | 1950 | Reflex camera. Describes the Wrayflex. Application no. GB19520016662. |
| 698409 | 1950 | Reflex camera. Describes the Wrayflex. Application no. GB19490018535. |
Sun Camera Co
| 6533 | 1891 | An interrupted screw (bayonet) is used to attach and disconnect the bellows to the front standard. The tilting back is guided by a curved slot. Back adapted to fit an enlarger or copying device. |
Sutton, Thomas
| 2193 | 1859 | 'An improved panoramic lens for taking photographic pictures'. |
Tapper, Ambrose Henry
| 480108 | 1936 | Improvements in or relating to carriers for photographic sensitised material. |
Tartara, Giuseppe Giovanni Battista
| 131149 | 1918 | Camera for continuous operation or still exposures, produced as the Sept. |
| 146054 | 1920 | Improvements to BP 131149 (Sept). |
Tattersall, Henry Percy
| 20226 | 1900 | Method of fixing the front standard to the baseboard to provide lever focusing. |
| 18631 | 1901 | Dial to calculate the shutter speed from the slit width and tension setting. |
Tattersall, W.
| 6775 | 1899 | Method of clamping the front and rear standards by 'V' section plates working on grooves along the baseboard. The plates are pulled together by a bolt running the width of the baseboard. Found on a camera by McBean. |
Taylor Taylor & Hobson Ltd
| 507184 | 1937 | Improvements in or relating to objectives for photographic or like purposes. |
Taylor, Harold Dennis
| 22607 | 1893 | The Cooke Anastigmat lens. |
| 15107 | 1895 | The Cooke Anastigmat lens. |
Taylor, T.S.
| 3019 | 1892 | Tapering the end of screw threads. |
Taylor, W.
| 3019 | 1892 | Tapering the end of screw threads. |
Terrett, Joseph
| 489960 | 1938 | Describes a shutter lock when the lens is retracted into the body of the camera. Application no. GB19370003606. |
| 489961 | 1938 | Describes the Purma shutter. |
Thornton, John Edward
| 2670 | 1886 | Field camera with front standard that can be disengaged for collapsing. Double pinion acting on the focusing rack. Circular lens panel carrying several lenses. Flexible focusing screen that winds onto a roller. |
| 12238 | 1886 | Roller-blind shutter. |
| 13240 | 1886 | Field camera with front standard that can be disengaged for collapsing. Hole in baseboard with a turntable to fix tripod. Plumb bob. Circular lens panel carrying several lenses. |
| 14421 | 1886 | So that Waterhouse stops are not lost they fit into a metal frame attached to the side of the camera, to hold them in place a leaf spring has an attached peg that fits into the holes of the stops. |
| 511 | 1890 | Rubber grip to fit the shutter to various size lenses. |
| 20253 | 1892 | Exposed indicator for dark-slides. |
| 4081 | 1893 | Changing the slit width of a focal-plane shutter by the use of chains. |
| 1924 | 1895 | Roller-blind shutter. Use of a safety blind to cover the lens when setting the shutter. Improvement of BP 17516/1891. |
| 22136 | 1895 | Use of springs and notches in the side struts to locate normal position of front and rear standards. Locking of inner focusing frame by bolts. Focusing screen attached to reversing frame by two flat springs allowing screen to move outwards when slide is inserted. |
| 16544 | 1896 | Describes a focusing screen that is held in place by springs acting along one edge with a spring loaded bar holding a dark-slide in place. |
| 3118 | 1898 | Dark-slides. The top of the draw-slide has corrugations into which strips of velvet, attached to the dark-slide, can fit. |
| 3240 | 1898 | Aluminium case for roller-blind shutter. |
ThorntonPickard Manufacturing Co
| 3118 | 1898 | Dark-slides. The top of the draw-slide has corrugations into which strips of velvet, attached to the dark-slide, can fit. |
| 15640 | 1900 | Folding hand camera especially a self-erecting front. |
| 14137 | 1903 | Front standard and lens board arrangement with springs to retain the lens board within the forks. Spring clamp to retain lens panel. |
| 22207 | 1903 | Roller-blind shutter mechanism. Used on the Royal model. |
| 23670 | 1903 | Roller-blind shutter where the setting cord is pulled back into the case. |
| 20330 | 1904 | Means of compressing the bulb of a pneumatic release. |
| 4515 | 1905 | Method of arranging the struts to bring the front and rear standards of a field camera close together. |
| 6238 | 1912 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 125615 | 1916 | Focal-plane shutter. |
| 128626 | 1917 | Describes the T-P Gun camera. |
| 338390 | 1929 | Hood on a reflex camera fitted with a pocket for the shutter of a dark-slide. |
Treitschke, Friedrich
| 108458 | 1916 | Automatic diaphragm where the iris is kept open by a tensioned spring that, when released, closes the iris. |
Tylar, William
| 22557 | 1896 | Strut camera dark-slides and shutter. Used on the Tit-Bit. |
Underwood, E.
| 5965 | 1885 | Field camera with a turntable or cut-out for the lens in the baseboard. |
Underwood, T.A.
| 5965 | 1885 | Field camera with a turntable or cut-out for the lens in the baseboard. |
Valsts Elektrotechniska Fabrica
| 494544 | 1937 | Photographic roll-film cameras. Claimed under the convention date: 1936. Describes the Minox. |
| 495149 | 1937 | Photographic roll-film cameras. |
| 506749 | 1937 | Photographic lens mounts. Claimed under the convention date: 1936. Describes the Minox. |
Vergara, F.J.
| 2390 | 1886 | Dark slide for film. |
Vevers, C.C.
| 7489 | 1890 | Describes a back with swing and tilt. Used on the Perfection model. |
Voigtländer & Sohn
| 388997 | 1933 | Covers the focusing and rangefinder coupling used in the Prominent. |
| 409217 | 1933 | Twin lens reflex cameras especially inclining the viewing lens to compensate for parallax. |
| 441980 | 1934 | Trigger release for photographic shutters. |
Voigtländer, F. von
Walker, James Hubert Phipps
| 19172 | 1900 | Device to hold shutter blades open for focusing, for example on a Unicum shutter. |
Walker, W.H.
| 15542 | 1884 | Roll-film holder. |
Walters, Edward Cecil
| 8721 | 1912 | Describes the side struts of a folding hand camera. Used in the Sibyl range of cameras. |
| 8722 | 1912 | Sector shutter. Used on the Sibyl camera. |
Warmisham, Arthur
| 507184 | 1937 | Improvements in or relating to objectives for photographic or like purposes. |
Watkins, Alfred
| 1388 | 1890 | Describes an actinometer on the principle of the slide-rule for determining the exposure to be given to a plate. |
| 14364 | 1893 | Relates to a simplified form of patent BP 1388/1890. Describes the Watkins Junior. |
| 23894 | 1893 | For Factorial development. Includes the Factorial Calculator and an instrument for timing development, using the Factorial method, based on a multi-chambered sand glass. |
| 25000 | 1894 | Relates to an instrument for calculating the time of exposure. |
| 26281 | 1898 | Describes a watch type actinometer. Relates to BP 14457/1884, BP 14364/1893, BP 25000/1894. |
| 19331 | 1900 | Describes a watch type actinometer sold as the Watkins Dial. |
| 27822 | 1902 | Describes a watch type actinometer sold as the Watkins Bee. |
Watson, Thomas Parsons
| 7359 | 1886 | Dark-slides. Small plates are on the draw-slide to prevent the removal of the draw-slide. |
| 9948 | 1887 | Catches for dark-slides to lock the draw-slide in place. |
| 18099 | 1888 | Method of connecting the front standard to the baseboard and locking rising front etc. Used on the Acme camera. |
Watson, William
| 9057 | 1898 | Five sided prism used as a view-finder giving non-reversed image. |
Wheeler, Owen
| 18121 | 1907 | The Staley-Wheeler telephoto attachment. |
Whitehead, Charles Edwin
| 391953 | 1933 | Tube being one coil of a spring forming a lens hood. |
Whitehead, Frank Philip
| 15548 | 1908 | Focal-plane shutter. Used on the Unit shutter. BP 22134/1904 is referenced. BJA 1909, p. 1193. (Advert.). |
Whitfield, George Sydney
| 9044 | 1908 | Describes the Paget colour screen process. |
Wilby, J.A.
| 6775 | 1899 | Method of clamping the front and rear standards by 'V' section plates working on grooves along the baseboard. The plates are pulled together by a bolt running the width of the baseboard. Found on a camera by McBean. |
Wilkinson, Alfred
| 22633 | 1900 | Printing frame using pins on the back that fit into slots on the side of the frame to prevent slippage. |
| 22793 | 1901 | Print roller. |
| 21768 | 1902 | Print trimmer. |
| 22150 | 1902 | Drying rack for plates. |
| 19198 | 1908 | Tripod with legs of U section. Sold as the Jaynay Quickset. |
Wilkinson, John
| 22633 | 1900 | Printing frame using pins on the back that fit into slots on the side of the frame to prevent slippage. |
| 22793 | 1901 | Print roller. |
| 21768 | 1902 | Print trimmer. |
| 22150 | 1902 | Drying rack for plates. |
| 19198 | 1908 | Tripod with legs of U section. Sold as the Jaynay Quickset. |
Willis, Arthur George
| 480108 | 1936 | Improvements in or relating to carriers for photographic sensitised material. |
Wishart, George
| 941 | 1892 | Describes a folding strut camera. |
| 7751 | 1899 | Envelope adapter. |
| 10097 | 1904 | Envelope adapter. |
| 15958 | 1905 | Envelope adapter. |
| 4992 | 1906 | Envelope adapter. |
| 5212 | 1906 | Envelope adapter. |
Woodhead, Charles Godfrey
| 15640 | 1900 | Folding hand camera especially a self-erecting front. |
Woods, Alfred
| 14137 | 1903 | Front standard and lens board arrangement with springs to retain the lens board within the forks. Spring clamp to retain lens panel. |
| 22207 | 1903 | Roller-blind shutter mechanism. Used on the Royal model. |
Wratten, Sidney Herbert
| 3633 | 1910 | Wratten Safelight. |
Wray Cameras Ltd
| 18534 | 1949 | Application number for the Wrayflex. |
| 18535 | 1949 | Application number for the Wrayflex. |
| 691103 | 1950 | Reflex camera. Describes the Wrayflex. Application no. GB19490018534. |
| 691170 | 1950 | Reflex camera. Describes the Wrayflex. Application no. GB19520016662. |
| 698409 | 1950 | Reflex camera. Describes the Wrayflex. Application no. GB19490018535. |
Wynne, Charles George
| 507184 | 1937 | Improvements in or relating to objectives for photographic or like purposes. |
Wynne, George Frederick
| 10617 | 1893 | Describes a watch type actinometer. |
| 14865 | 1897 | Print meter. |
| 6380 | 1914 | Describes a watch type actinometer with a 'hunter' type of case. |
Zeiss Ikon AG
| 405208 | 1934 | Coupled rangefinder, "having a deflecting device of two refracting wedges which are rotatable in opposite directions". |
| 419915 | 1934 | Coupled rangefinder, "having two spherical or cylindrical lenses of opposite sign mounted so as to be relatively rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the plane of measurement and producing zero deviation of the rays in the infinity position". |
| 459821 | 1935 | Photographic cameras; exposure meters. |
| 467039 | 1937 | Photoelectric exposure meter, scale and pointer designed for low-light levels. |
Zion, Joseph
| 11302 | 1895 | Describes a rigid bodied camera, shutter and changing mechanism. |