Apparatus for photographically composing advertisements in column format from advertisements on individual cards

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APPARATUS FOR COMPOSING AND ARRANGING CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS OF VARIABLE LENGTHS IN A COLUMN FORMAT WITH INDIVIDUAL ADVERTISEMENTS ABUTTING ONE ANOTHER, WHICH ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INDIVIDUALLY MOUNTED ON SEPARATE CARDS, THAT ARE CODED TO INDICATE THE LENGTH OF THE ADVERTISEMENT, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A PHOTOGRAPHIC STATION THROUGH WHICH ADVERTISEMENT BEARING CARDS ARE PASSED, AN IMAGING STATION THROUGH WHICH SENSITIZED MATERIAL FOR RECEIVING IMAGES OF THE ADVERTISEMENT IS PASSED, MEANS INCLUDING AN OPTICAL SYSTEM AND A SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION FOR PROJECTING AN IMAGE OF THE ADVERTISEMENT ON A CARD MOVING THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STATION ONTO SENSTIZED MATERIAL MOVING THROUGH THE IMAGING STATION, CONTINUOUSLY DRIVEN CONVEYOR MEANS FOR CARRYING AN INDIVIDUAL CARD UNINTERRUPTEDLY THROUGH SAID PHOTOGRAPHIC STATION, INTERMITTENTLY ACTUATED DRIVING MEANS FOR MOVING SENSITIZED MATERIAL THROUGH SAID IMAGING STATION, MEANS FOR READING THE CARD CODING AS THE CARD IS CARRIED THROUGH SAID PHOTOGRAPHIC STATION, AND CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID CODE READING MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID DRIVING MEANS TO MOVE A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF SENSITIZED MATERIAL CONTINUOUSLY THROUGH SAID IMAGING STATION IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE MOVEMENT OF A CARD THROUGH SAID PHOTOGRAPHIC STATION, WHEREBY THE SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF SENSITIZED MATERIAL BEING MOVED THROUGH THE IMAGING STATION IS VARIABLE AND DEPENDENT ON THE LENGTH OF THE ADVERTISEMENT ON THE CARD MOVING THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STATION IN SYNCHRONISM THEREWITH.