Opaque microphotograph reader

Claim 1

A PORTABLE MICROPHOTOGRAPH VIEWER COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION: AN ELONGATED BASE HAVING A TRANSVERSE WALL THEREON THAT IS POSITIONED UPRIGHT WHEN THE VIEWER IS BEING USED AND WHICH OPERATES TO DIVIDE SAID BASE GENERALLY INTO A FIRST FORWARD SEGMENT AND A SECOND REARWARD SEGMENT AS LOCATED RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER AND WITH THE FIRST SEGMENT BEING OF SUBSTANTIALLY LESSER LENGTH THAN THE LENGTH OF SAID SECOND SEGMENT, CASING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID BASE AND COOPERATING WITH THE BASE SEGMENTS AND SAID TRANSVERSE WALL TO DEFINE A FIRST GENERALLY ENCLOSED COMPARTMENT AND A SECOND ELONGATED COMPARTMENT ABOVE THE BASE AND WITHIN THE LATERALLY PROJECTING CONFINES OF THE UPRIGHT WALL, SAID BASE, TRANSVERSE WALL AND CASING MEANS CONSTITUTING COMPARTMENT DEFINING ELEMENTS WHICH SUBSTANTIALLY DETERMINE THE SIZE OF COMPARTMENTS PROVIDED IN SAID VIEWER, MEANS DEFINING AN APERTURE OPENING THROUGH SAID CASING MEANS TO SAID FIRST COMPARTMENT, A CONTACT GLASS POSITIONED IN SAID APERTURE AND BEING ADAPTED TO BE CONTACTED BY THE SURFACE OF A MICROPHOTOGRAPH, LIGHT MEANS GENERALLY CONTAINED WITHIN SAID FIRST COMPARTMENT FOR DIRECTING LIGHT THROUGH SAID CONTACT GLASS AND AGAINST SAID MICROPHOTOGRAPH, MEANS FOR FOCUSING THE IMAGE REFLECTED FROM SAID MICROPHOTOGRAPH, A FIRST REFLECTING MEANS BEING ADAPTED TO REFLECT SAID IMAGE, SAID CASING MEANS INCLUDING A COVER PIVOTABLY MOUNTED ON SAID BASE AND, IN THE CLOSED POSITION, BEING ADAPTED TO COOPERATE WITH SAID BASE TO GENERALLY ENCLOSE SAID SECOND COMPARTMENT, A SECOND REFLECTING MEANS POSITIONED ON THE INNER SURFACE OF SAID COVER AND, WHEN SAID COVER IS IN THE RAISED POSITION, BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE AND REFLECT THE IMAGE PROJECTED FROM SAID FIRST REFLECTING MEANS, AND AN ELONGATED VIEWING SCREEN OF SUCH GREATER LENGTH THAN THE HEIGHT OF SAID TRANSVERSE WALL PIVOTABLY MOUNTED ON ONE OF THE COMPARTMENT DEFINING ELEMENTS HERETOFORE RECITED AND BEING ADAPTED TO BE SELECTIVELY SWUNG TO A STOREDAWAY POSITION REARWARDLY OF THE UPRIGHT WALL AND LONGITUDINALLY WITHIN SAID ELONGATED SECOND COMPARTMENT OR TO AN OPERATIVE, RAISED POSITION, AND WHEN IN SAID RAISED POSITION BEING ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE IMAGE PROJECTED FROM SAID SECOND REFLECTING MEANS, WHEREBY A DESIRED PORTION OF SAID MICROPHOTOGRAPH MAY BE VIEWED.