Arthur H Crapsey
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Arthur H Crapsey was an influential camera designer working for Kodak, who had a hand in a great many designs. Between 1948 and 1958 Crapsey was credited with patents for a large number of cameras, including:
- Kodak Automatic 35
- Kodak Bantam RF
- Kodak Brownie Bull's-Eye
- Kodak Brownie Flash 20
- Kodak Brownie Hawkeye
- Kodak Brownie Holiday
- Kodak Brownie Starflex
- Kodak Brownie Starlet
- Kodak Brownie Starmatic (with Mary Eaton)
- Kodak Pony 135 & 828
- Kodak Pony II (with Frank Zagara)
- Kodak Signet 35
- Kodak Signet 40
- Kodak Signet 50
- Kodak Signet 80
- Kodak Stereo
Crapsey also took out patents for parts of cameras (e.g. strap attaching device, US no. 2,521,903; a film cartridge, US no. 3,617,013) and his patents are referenced by many later patentees (e.g. for the Lomo Dalek/Supersampler, US Patent D476674).
Crapsey is acknowledged as the main designer of the Kodak Brownie Star series. He had possibly been inspired in some designs by Walter Dorwin Teague.
Sources
- Soloway, Rick and Ralph London, "Some Camera Designs of Arthur Crapsey, Henry Dreyfuss and Raymond Loewy", Photographica Digest (official journal of the Western Photographic Historical Society), Vol. 13, No. 11, Nov. 2006.
- London, Ralph and Rick Soloway, "Camera Designs of Walter Dorwin Teague", Photographic Canadiana, Dec 2006, Toronto, Canada.
- Free Patents Online
