Projection Apparatus (1917)

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Bausch & Lomb Optical C o m p a n y Combined Balopticon with Arc Lamp Model CRA Figure 1—Combined Balopticon with Lamp House Tilted for Projection of Opaque Illustrations and Objects. To those who have direct current and for some reason desire an arc lamp as illuminant, this model of the Combined Balopticon will appeal. If it is desired to use moving pictures, for instance, Model CRA with moving picture attachment, as described on a following page, makes an ideal equipment. The Combined Balopticon as here offered is designed along lines that have been found by experience to be most satisfactory from the standpoints of efficiency and convenient manipulation with this type of illuminant. When pro- jecting from opaque objects, the lamp house, with arc lamp and condensing system, is shifted to the inclined position, shown in Figure 1, so that the beam of light falls directly on the object, is collected by the projection lens and directed to the screen by the first-surface mirror above the lens. By this system a brilliant illumination is insured. In projecting lantern slides the lamp house is placed in the horizontal position, shown in Figure 2. The light from the condensing system in the front of the lamp house passes through the dark chamber in approximately parallel pencils to 54