[W&B] Help with Foreign Patents

[SBShohet at aol.com]

Colleagues--especially Ben, Ralph, Rob, Dan, Dave and Milan: 

 Can any of you help me to search for a GERMAN (or perhaps French) patent?   
I recently bought an interesting Magazine Detective called, in France, Le 
Cinquante Plaques.

 It is very curious in that rather the conventional stack of plates in thin 
holders it uses an accordian-like paper cartridge package with 50 'celluloid' 
dry plates which in operation are stripped from the paper by a complex roller 
system.   Eaton Lothrop established That the camera was originally a Dr. 
Krugener design (loosely derived from his Delta line) and it apparently carries a 
circa 1888 (German, or perhaps French) patent to someone named E. Garbe. He in 
turn may licensed Krugener to manufacture it. 

 The dates given for the camera vary all over -- from 1888 all the way to 
1900.   Since this period covers the advent of roll film (which perhaps made this 
unnecessarily complex camera instantly obsolete) I'd very much like to find 
the original E. Garbe patent which I assume relates to the film cartridge 
system. However, without a number it is way beyond my skill to find it.

Can any of you help?    Steve  
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