Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

412 AYLING October from copper deposits caused by carbon sputtering or falling molten copper, a special heat-treated glass deflection shield, 2x/2 inches by 4 inches, is inserted between the arc and bottom portion of the reflector. The copper deposits will collect on this shield which can be replaced from time to time at very little cost. There is negligible light loss as a result of this glass. A special safety feature is a door-operated line switch to assure that all power to the arc is turned off when the lamphouse door is open. Another line switch (toggle-type) is conveniently located at the top rear section of the lamp. The lamphouse, constructed entirely of sheet metal, has a large cubical content for the size of the arc, resulting in a cool operating LEAD SCREW LEAD SCREW Fig. 3 — Lamphouse. lamp. The lamphouse door is equipped with a colored glass window for viewing the arc characteristics. An arcescope screen, located at the top rear of the lamp, projects a side pinhole image of the carbons for convenience to the operator in keeping a correct focus. A five-wire braided cord, from the lamp, is plugged into the yoke terminal box, thereby completing the circuit to the power supply. This method of electrically connecting the lamp and base provides for quick disconnect when disassembling the "Trouper" into two units. Many times the operator must trim the lamp in semidarkness. A door-operated trimming light adds to his convenience. LENS OPTICAL SYSTEM The lens optical system is a new method of efficiently utilizing all light passing through the aperture. (Fig. 4.)