Photo composing machine

Claim 1

IN A PHOTO COMPOSING MACHINE THE COMBINATION OF: A FRAME; A HOLLOW CIRCULAR IN CROSS-SECTION CYLINDRICAL DRUM ASSEMBLY ROTATABLE CONCENTRICALLY OF ITS CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION AND MOVABLE AXIALLY RELATIVE TO SAID FRAME; A LIGHT SOURCE SUPPORTED STATIONARILY RELATIVE TO SAID FRAME AND DISPOSED ADJACENT SAID HOLLOW DRUM ASSEMBLY; A PLURALITY OF CIRCULAR CHARACTER SUPPORTING LIGHT TRANSMITTING PORTIONS ON SAID DRUM; EACH CHARACTER SUPPORTING ADJACENT THE NEXT CHARACTER SUPPORTING PORTION LONGITUDINALLY OF THE AXIS OF SAID DRUM ASSEMBLY; PHOTOGRAPHIC MEANS ADJACENT SAID DRUM AND DISPOSED TO RECEIVE SHADOW IMAGES OF CHARACTERS BY PROJECTION OF LIGHT FROM SAID SOURCE THROUGH SAID LIGHT TRANSMITTING CHARACTER SUPPORTING PORTIONS; FIRST MEANS FOR MOVING FILM RELATIVE TO SAID PHOTOGRAPHIC MEANS; A SUBSTANTIALLY ANNULAR STRUCTURE HAVING AN ANNULAR ROW OF IRREGULAR PORTIONS COMPRISING ALTERNATE PROJECTIONS AND RECESSES, SAID IRREGULAR PORTIONS CARRIED BY SAID DRUM ASSEMBLY; MEANS INDEXING EACH ONE OF SAID IRREGULAR PORTIONS WITH ONE OF SAID CHARACTER SUPPORTING PORTIONS; SAID IRREGULAR PORTIONS CORRESPONDING IN MAGNITUDE WITH THE REQUIRED FILM MOVEMENT DISTANCES WITH RESPECT TO CHARACTERS ON ONE OF SAID CHARACTER SUPPORTING PORTIONS; SECOND MEANS ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID IRREGULAR PORTIONS; A POTENTIOMETER OPERABLE BY SAID SECOND MEANS AND POWER OPERATED MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID POTENTIOMETER, WHEREBY SAID POWER OPERATED MEANS IS RESPONSIVE TO THE MAGNITUDE OF ONE OF SAID IRREGULAR PORTIONS FOR OPERATING SAID FIRST MEANS A PREDETERMINED AMOUNT TO MOVE SAID FILM A PROPER DISTANCE SO THAT EACH CHARACTER PHOTOGRAPHICALLY REPRODUCED THEREON WILL BE PROPERLY SPACED RELATIVE TO ADJACENT PHOTOGRAPHICALLY REPRODUCED CHARACTERS.