This camera is somewhat similar to the same designer's film camera, both in shape, in size, and in its employment of a heavy spring motor for the driving power. It uses 4X5 inch plates, and carries a 10 to 12 inch lens.

The plate-changing operation is unique. As shown diagrammatically in Fig. 52, the unexposed plates are carried in a magazine on top of the camera, the exposed ones in a magazine inserted in the body of the camera, directly below the unexposed magazine. The bottom plate of the exposed pile drops into a sliding frame and is carried along the top of the camera to the exposing position. After exposure, the plate is carried back and drops into the receiving magazine. In order for the plate to fall only the proper distance at each stage of the cycle, special plate sheaths are necessary. These are cut away to form edge patterns which clear or engage control fingers so as to ride or fall through the sliding frame as required.

The camera is entirely automatic in operation. Regulation of the exposure interval is by a special form of variable length escapement controlled through a Bowden wire, in a manner parallel to that in the Brock film camera, described elsewhere. These plate cameras were never produced in quantity.