Claims
- 1. In an apparatus for producing microform records from light reflecting hard copy wherein a light image reflected from the hard copy is reduced to micro-image size and applied at a film imaging station to film means which is photosensitive to an image by the light reflecting hard copy, said apparatus including a hard copy-supporting station including a generally horizontal, opaque, hard copy-supporting platform, lighting means mounted above said platform which lighting means is to be energized when a record of a piece of hard copy placed on said platform is to be made, an image-receiving and projecting means for receiving hard copy reflected light from a piece of hard copy placed on said platform and for providing a micro-image thereof directed upon said film means, the improvement wherein said platform is mounted for movement between an operative horizontal position at said supporting station and a position removed therefrom, a transparent plate provided at said supporting station exposed when said platform is removed therefrom for placement of a transparency thereon, and light field producing means for projecting upwardly through said transparent plate and into said image-receiving means selectively a uniform light field where the image on the transparency is to be the only image to be recorded on said film means or an image-containing light field where the image on said transparency is to be superimposed upon the image of said image-containing light field.
- 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said image-receiving and projecting means is located above said hard copy-supporting station and said light field producing means is located below the same for projecting said light fields upwardly through said transparent plate and into said image-receiving means thereabove.
- 3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said platform in its operative position is located above said transparent plate.
- 4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein said platform is pivotally mounted for movement between said horizontal operative position and a vertical position above said transparent plate.
- 5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said transparent plate is located below the top of a recess normally covered by said platform in the operative position thereof, and wherein movement of said platform exposes said transparent plate and exposes the defining walls of said recess within which said transparency may then be placed.
- 6. In an apparatus for producing microform records from light reflecting hard copy wherein a light image reflected from the hard copy is reduced to micro-image size and applied at a film imaging station to film means which is photosensitive to an image by the light reflecting hard copy, said apparatus including a hard copy-supporting station including an opaque hard copy-supporting platform and image-reducing projection means for directing upon said film means a micro-image of the light reflected image from hard copy placed on said platform, the improvement wherein there is provided a transparency supporting station including transparency-supporting means and means for directing through a transparency on said supporting means and into said projection means a light field which projects the image on said transparency upon said film means, said light field directing means being a cathode ray tube, and means for energizing said cathode ray tube to provide a light field on the screen thereof which is projected through said transparency-supporting means into said projection system.
- 7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said energizing means produces a uniform light field on the screen of said cathode ray tube.
- 8. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said energizing means produces a light field on the screen of said cathode ray tube which forms a page of data to be recorded on said film means.
- 9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein there is provided at said transparency supporting station an image-producing transparency forming an image overlay superimposed on the image projected from said cathode ray tube screen into said film means by said image-reducing projection system.
- 10. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said hard copy-receiving platform is movable into and out of a hard copy supporting position, and said hard copy imaging and transparency-supporting stations being one and the same station, said transparency-supporting means being adjacent to the surface of said platform which supports said hard copy when the platform is in a hard copy supporting position.
- 11. The apparatus of claim 6 or 10 wherein said transparency-supporting means is a horizontal transparent plate through which said light field is directed upwardly through a transparency placed upon said plate into said projection system, and said hard copy-supporting platform is a horizontal platform upon which hard copy is placed so that light reflected down upon said hard copy is reflected up into said projection system.
- 12. In an apparatus for producing microform records including an image-receiving and projection means for receiving light images and for providing a micro-image thereof directed upon said film means, the improvement comprising a transparency-supporting station including transparency-supporting means and means for directing through a transparency on said supporting means and into said projection means a light field which projects the image on said transparency upon said film means, said light field directing means being a cathode ray tube, and means for energizing said cathode ray tube to provide a light field on the screen thereof which is projected through said transparency-supporting means into said image-receiving and projection means.
- 13. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein said energizing means produces a uniform light field on the screen of said cathode ray tube.
- 14. The apparatus of claim 12 or 13 wherein there is provided at said transparency supporting station an image-producing transparency forming an image overlay superimposed on the light field projected from said cathode ray tube screen onto said film means by said image-receiving and projection means.
- 15. The apparatus of claim 12 or 13 wherein said transparency-supporting means is a horizontal transparent plate through which said light field is directed upwardly through a transparency placed upon said plate.
- 16. In an apparatus for producing microform records said apparatus including an image-receiving and projecting means for receiving light-defined images and for providing a micro-image thereof directed upon film means, the improvement comprising a transparent transparency support means facing said image-receiving means and provided for placement of a transparency thereon, an image-containing transparency on said support means, and light field producing means on the opposite side of said support means facing said image-receiving means for selectively projecting through said transparency support means and the transparency thereon and into said image-receiving means a uniform light field where the image on the transparency is to be the only image to be recorded on said film means or an image-containing light field where the image of said image-containing light field is to be superimposed upon the image of said transparency.
- 17. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein said energizing means selectively provides a uniform or an image-containing light field on the screen of said cathode ray tube.
Related Application
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 98,388, filed on Nov. 29, 1979, and now abandoned entitled APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING MICROFORM RECORDS FROM MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES.
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