Multiple-image portrait camera

Claim 1

AN EASILY-OPERATED, MULTIPLE-IMAGE PORTRAIT CAMERA CAPABLE OF PRODUCING, SUBSTANTIALLY SIMULTANEOUSLY AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE LAST OF A PLURALITY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPOSURES, A COMPLETE SET OF PROOFS FOR PRESENTATION TO THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBJECT AND A COMPLETE SET OF NEGATIVES FOR USE IN MAKING FINISHED PRINTS THEREFROM, SAID CAMERA COMPRISING FINDER MEANS, A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR CAMERA BACK INCLUDING ADAPTER MEANS FOR HOLDING A LIQUIDCONTAINING FILM ASSEMBLY OF A SELF-PROCESSING CATOGORY WHICH INCLUDES A SINGLE PHOTOSENSITIVE AERA OF A GIVEN FORMAT, AND RETAINING MEANS FOR SLIDABLY MOUNTING SAID ADAPTER MEAND TO EFFECT ITS ATTACHMENT AND REMOVAL RELATIVE TO SAID CAMERA, A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR CAMERA FRONT SUBSTANTIALLY INTEGRAL WITH SAID RETAINING MEANS OF SAID CAMERA BACK AND MOUNTING IN PARALLEL PLANES THEREWITHIN A PLURALITY OF IDENTICAL LENSES, LIKE PLURALITY OF IDENTICAL DIAPHRAGM AND A SIMILAR PLURALITY OF IDENTICAL SHUTTER MECHANISMS, COMPARTMENTATION MEANS PROVIDING A LIKE PLURALITY OF COMPARTMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID LENSES, DIAPHRAGMS AND SHUTTER MECHANISMS FOR DEFINING A SIMILAR PLURALITY OF EXPOSABLE AREAS WITHIN SAID PHOTOSENSITIVE AREA, EACH OF SAID COMPARTMENTS HAVING AN OPEN RAREND ADJACENT TO A FOCAL PLANE ESTABLISHED BY SAID LENSES, A PLURALITY OF SHUTTER-MECHANISM ACTUATING BUTTOMS DISPOSED IN A LINE ACROSS THE UPPER SURFACE OF SAID CAMERA FRONT FOR PERFORMING THROUGH SUPERIMPOSED SLIDABLY-MOUNTED PAIRS OF ELONGATED BARS CONNECTING WITH SAID SHUTTER MECHANISMS A SEQUENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPOSURES, AND SHUTTERMECHANISM RESETTING MEANS FOR MANUALY RE-COOKING ALL OF SAID SHUTTER MECHANISMS SIMULTANEOUSLY, THE ADJACENT BUTTONS OF EACH PAIR OF SAID SUTTER-ACTUATING BUTTONS, WHEN OPERATED SEQUENTIALLY, ACTUATING INDEPENDENTLY GIVEN SUPERIMPOSED PAIR OF SAID BARS SO AS TO PROVIDE OPERATION OF A VERTICALLY DISPOSED PAIR OF SHUTTER MECHANISMS COOPERATING THEREWITH, THE INDEPENDENT ACTUATION OF SAID BARS BEING PERMITTED BY A SIDEWAY DISPLACEMENT OF ALTERNATE OVERTURNED EXTREMITES OF SAID BARS TO WHICH SAID BUTTONS ARE ATTACHED.