Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1929)

140 BETTER THEATRES SECTION OF October 26, 1929 NEW INVENTIONS 1,727,349. MOTION-PICTURE-FILM SPLICE. Donald F. Lyman, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., a Corporation of New York. Filed Jan. 22, 1927. Serial No. 162,772. 12 Claims. (CI. 88—19.5.) A motion picture film strip comprising longitudinally aligned sections of film of a cellulosic plastic material having at each edge a longitudinally extending, wear taking portion, and a splice of the welded type uniting the ends of the film sections only between the wear taking portions. 1,727,136. SOUND AMPLIFIER. Anthony Seufert, Albuquerque, N. Mex. Filed Mar. 29, 1926. Serial No. 98,203. 1 Claim. (CI. 274—24.) In a talking machine amplifier, a tone arm, a sound box, a pair of elbows connecting the sound box with the tone arm, one of said elbows having a swivel connection with the tone arm and the other a swivel connection with the sound box, the adjacent ends of said elbows being provided with flanges of which one is provided with diametrically disposed arcuate slots of approximately ninety degrees in length, and set screws mounted in the flange of the other elbow and traversing the slots in relative angular or turning movement of the two elbows. 1,728,932. PHONOGRAPH RECORD. John E. Guernsey, Indianapolis, Ind. Filed Nov. 25, 1927. Serial No. 235,527. 2 Claims. (CI. 274—42.) A sound record provided with a record groove and an auxiliary spiral groove continuing beyond the inner end of the record groove and so formed as to cause the tone arm of a reproducer to be moved toward the center of the disc, then away from the center of the disc and then toward the center of the disc a distance greater than the initial movement toward the center of the disc. 1,727,263. MULTIPLE-DISK-TYPE TALKING MACHINE. Edgar Osmond Yeager, Coraki, and Robert Hamilton York, Swan Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Filed Apr. 24, 1925. Serial No. 25,702, and in Australia Apr. 26, 1924. 10 Claims. (CI. 274—10.) 1,729,048. METHOD OF MAKING TALKING MOTION PICTURES. George Francis Myers, New York, N. Y. Filed July 10, 1922. Serial No. 573,864. 2 Claims. (CI. 88—16.2.) A multiple disk talking machine including a carrier ring rotatable in a plane disposed at an angle to the horizontal, overlapping record-carrying tables, an axle spindle for each table, bearings for said spindles symmetrically spaced on the carrier ring and disposed at an angle to the plane of said ring, the angular relation of the spindle bearings and the plane of rotation of the carrier ring being such that the tables are successively brought to horizontal position in operative relation to the reproducer, means for lifting the reproducer from each record at the finishing point thereof, for swinging the reproducer clear to accommodate the incoming movement of the succeeding record table and for thereafter lowering the reproducer on to the last mentioned record table with the reproducer needle located at the starting point of the record. 1,728,974. ARCUATE FILM SPLICE. William F. McLaughlin and Alfred J. Swing, Bloomfield, N. J., assignors to Automatic Film Machine Corporation, New York, N. Y., a Corporation of Delaware. Filed Apr. 8, 1927. Serial No. 182,8—19.5.) s 143. 3 Claims An arcuate film splice for repairing breaks in motion picture film, wherein the two ends of the film are arcuately cut to form convex and concave ends which ends are brought into overlapping relation and cemented together. 1,727,356. MOTION-PICTURE APPARATUS. George F. Phillips, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., a Corporation of New York. Filed Dec. 8, 1927. Serial No. 238,620. 10 Claims. (CI. 88—18.4.) In motion picture apparatus, a structure constituting a guideway for a film band, mechanism including a film engaging member having a normal path of movement traversing said guideway for engaging and advancing a film therethrough, said film engaging member only being manually movable out of its normal path of movement, and a device positioned away from the guideway in a position to engage and hold the film engaging member only when out of its normal path. A method of producing sound synchronously with the actions in a motion picture film that is being projected, consisting in running the film containing a picture record through a projection machine, making a separate and independent sound record synchronously while the film is being shown, and operating the sound record synchronously with the picture record. 1,726,834. FILM DRIER. George W. Hopkins, Cleveland, Ohio. Filled Dec. 7, 1927. Serial No. 238,390. 21 Claims. (CI. 34—26.) The method of drying films which consists in directing air onto both sides of the film and proportionately distributing the air over the film surfaces to cause the various surface portions of the latter to be dried simultaneously. 1,727,105. SOUND AMPLIFIER. Jesse B. Hawley, Wilmette, 111., assignor, by mesne assignments, to United Reproducers Corporation, St. Charles, 111., a Corporation of New Jersey. Filed Sept. 27, 1924. Serial No. 740,160. 11 Claims. (CI. 181—27.) A sound amplifier comprising a horn member formed with a central passage, a flaring annular wall extending rearwardly from the forward end of said passage, a flaring reflector opposite the forward end of said central passage and spaced from the same and the wall to provide a reflex passage therebetween for the sound leaving the forward end of the central passage, a threaded block in the central passage and formed with apertures having stream-line surfaces to provide minimum obstruction to the passage of sound waves, a threaded adjusting member carried by the reflector and threadedly engaging said block to provide for the adjustment of said reflector relative to said horn member.