US1685584A - Print or film holder - Google Patents

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Sept. 25, 1928. 1,685,584

M. F. DEAN PRINT OR FILM HOLDER Filed March 14, 1927 F1q. 1 z G- [Mme RunREis am a: I

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UNITED sT TVESYTI PATENT or FVIVCE.

MICHAEL E. DEAN, OF INDIA NAPOLIS, INDIANA.

j .rnm'r'on FILM HOLDER.

Application filed March 14, 1927. Serial No. 175,408.

I This invention relates to a holder for small- X-ray. films 'or prints, particularly those of teeth.

The chiefohject of the invention is to provide a support for a film or print of the character indicated that does not require a covering for the holder aperture. Another object of the invention is to propluralityof films and'progressively ex o the same for observation.

One feature of the invention, in addition the accomplishment of the foregoing object,

, consists in the mounting of a multi 1e holder 7 Y In the drawings Fig. 1 is a front view of that are adapted to register with each other in a. container and providing upon t .face ofsaid container suitable lines-arranged to receive data relative to the print or prints mounted in the holder. The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following'description and claims:

a holder of the character indicated. Fig. 2

is a vertical section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. i

1 and in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 3

is a developed view of-the blanks forming the multiple holder. I v In the drawings indicates a pair of discs maintained in spaced relation by the blank portions 11 in the form of segments and the central portion 12 inthe'for'm of a star." The spacers 11 and 12 may be formed from a sin-..

gle sheet of cardboard orthe like. Between each pair of adjacent segments 11 there-is formed a radial passage or groove 13. Each circular disc 10 is provided with cut-outs 14.-

I and register with the groove and be positioned therein such that a ledgeis formed upon the inner end and opposite sides of the cut-outs in spaced relationto the segments 1 and the star Herein six receiving pockets are provided in the'disc holder. The film which is of standard size, approximately one inch by one and one-half inches in length, is

' fore has been employed.

holder isadapted to contain sufficient film for' a full setof teeth and that no transparent cover-is required for the aperture as hereto- A case maybe provided for the holder if desired and herein the same is shown sub-- stantially square and it consists of an elon gated blank folded at its mid-portion as at I 16 to provide a front face17 and a back face 18.- Extending through the circumscribed square is the retainer and pivot forming member'19 which pivotally supports the multiple disc holder described. The two sides 17 and 18 at their adjacent unattached ends are secured together by suitable means 20 to form 'a'casing for the multiple disc holder. The multiple disc holder intermediate its ends.

upon opposite sides, is cut out as at 21 to expose a portion of the disc holder for finger engagement so that the disc holder can be rotated to expose the respective films mounted therein through an aperture 22 formed in each other. Thefront face of the case includes an aperture 23 through which a nu meral designation carried by the disc is exeach face of the case and in registration with i posed and in opposed relation adjacent said aperture 22 is a legend therefor. The upper part of the case may be suitably inedand printed to contain information relative to the patient.- The lower portion of the case may be similarly provided with a) chart to receive information disclosed by the films. If the holder is not loaded prior to mounting in the case, the holder may be loaded by positioning the mouth 15 in registration with one of the cut-outs 21 and radially "sliding the film into the pocket or groove 13 and if it does 'not seat as shown in Fig. 3, the film therein being shown dotted and indicated by the numeral 30, the same may be seated byengaging the film when it is exposed through the, registering apertures 22.

The invention claimed is: i

'1. A holder of the character indicated, comprising a pair of easing forming plate portions each including an aperture registering with a corresponding aperture in the other, and a film and print holder pivo'tally supported therebetween and havinga portion pro] ecting beyond the same for finger engagement said holder comprising a plurality of plates, each apertured and withthe apertures registering with each other and adapted to register with the first-mentioned plate registering apertures, and spacing means between plurality of grooves therebetween each registering with one of the holder plate registering apertures for X-ray film and print reception, exposure and examination.

2. An X-I'ay film and print holder including a casing having a front and back with a pair of registering openings therein, suitable rulingson the face of said casing for re ceiving a record relative to the print and film mounted therein, and a print and film holder movably supported thereby including a pair of plates in spaced relation with registering apertures therein for X-ray print reception adapted to register with the casing apertures for print examination.

3. An X-ray print and film holder comprising a pair of plate portions in spaced relation, each including an aperture adapted to register with the other for the transmission of light therethrough, said plate portions being suitably cut away at the periphery and a multiple print or film holder comprising a pair of plates secured in spaced relation including a plurality of radial grooves therebetween and arranged in spaced relation about a common axis and equidistant therefrom, said last-mentioned spaced plates each including a similar number of apertures, adjaeent apertures re istering with each other and the rooves, and means pivotally supporting said grooved and apertured plates between said first-mentioned plate port-ions, whereby each of the registering pair of apertures of the spaced plates and groove is adapted to successively register with the registering apertures of the first-mentioned plate portions, the latter being suitably cut away to expose a portion of the second-mentioned plates for rotating the second-mentioned plates within the first-mentioned plates, said cut away portions being of such character as to permit the radial reception of prints into the groove of the second-mentioned plate portions for registration with the apertures thereof.

In witness whereof I have hereunto afiixed my signature.

,. MICHAEL'F. D AN,

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