Image selector apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS TO SELECTIVELY POSITION AN IMAGE OF A MULTIPLE IMAGE DOCUMENT CONTAINING A PLURALITY OF IMAGES ARRANGED DIVIDED INTO AT LEAST TWO PARALLEL ROWS AT A VIEWING STATION OF AN OPTICAL SYSTEM HAVING A FIXED OPTICAL AXIS, SAID APPARATUS INCLUDING IN COMBINATION DOCUMENT SUPPORT MEANS TO SUPPORT A MULTIPLE IMAGE DOCUMENT WITH ONE IMAGE THEREOF AT THE VIEWING STATION OF THE OPTICAL SYSTEM, MEANS MOTIVELY OPERATED TO MOVE THE SUPPORT MEANS IN A PLANE PAST THE VIEWING STATION WHEREBY THE IMAGES OF THE DOCUMENT ARE SUCCESSIVELY POSITIONED AT THE VIEWING STATION, SAID LAST RECITED MEANS INCLUDING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR, A FIRST DRIVE MEMBER DRIVEN BY SAID MOTOR AND ADAPTED TO ADVANCE SAID SUPPORT MEANS IN A LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION, AND A SECOND DRIVE MEMBER DRIVEN BY SAID MOTOR AND ADAPTED TO ADVANCE SAID SUPPORT MEANS IN A LATERAL DIRECTION, WHEREBY EACH OF SAID DRIVE MEMBERS ARE COUPLED IN IMAGE SHIFTING RELATING TO EACH OTHER, AND UNI-SETTING SELECTOR MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID SUPPORT MOVING MEANS TO SELECTIVELY EFFECT POSITIONING OF A SELECT IMAGE OF THE DOCUMENT SUPPORTED ON SAID SUPPORT MEANS TO BE POSITIONED.