DE8904698U1 - Device with movable color discs - Google Patents

Description

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Device with movable color discs

The innovation concerns a device with several color disks that can be rotated and/or moved against each other?*.

So-called color mixing disks have become known in which several circular color disks are arranged one above the other on a central, centric axis in an ^{approximately} round housing. The color disks can be moved against each other and are visible from the outside in transmitted or incident light.

By shifting the individual discs against each other, a color can be seen in the window of the device, which is created by subtractive color mixing of the individual color discs lying on top of each other. This known device is only based on one color mixture, i.e. different colors are to be created. A device of this type is used in printing technology for the representation of the color space that can be reproduced using printing technology.

However, with such a known device it is not possible to influence the coloring of pattern elements and other optical structures.

The present innovation is therefore based on the task of developing a device of the type mentioned above in such a way that a practically unlimited number of colors and shapes can be assigned to any pattern elements and optical structures.

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To solve the problem, the innovation is characterized by the fact that pattern elements are applied to the color disks that can be moved against each other.

With the given technical theory, a completely new play of colors, shapes and combinations is achieved, the like of which was previously unknown.

By applying different pattern elements to the individual color disks, which can be moved relative to one another, a practically unlimited combination of individual pattern elements is possible, which can be made to overlap with one another by rotating and/or moving the individual color disks.

In a preferred embodiment of the present innovation, a single optical pattern element is broken down into different sub-elements, whereby the respective sub-element is part of the pattern element. This means that a specific figure is broken down into sub-figures.

This opens up a wide range of different areas of application for this innovation.

This means that the various structures of the elements all arise from a common surface or basic shape or basic structure (hereinafter referred to as the basic structure) and can be combined with any number of structures that also arise from a basic shape in such a way that the combinations again produce a meaningful, desired or meaningfully random structure.

For example, if you only use three color disks in the preferred colors cyan, magenta, and yellow, you can achieve so-called full tones with high color saturation or, optionally, half tones with lower color saturation.

If you use a resolution of a pattern element into, for example, five sub-elements, you get a total of a possible number of ₃ combinations of 1Z5. i

It is important that these five sub-elements (as used in a | preferred embodiment) are on each of the 1

Color discs are present and can be aligned with each other.

To make it easier to find a particular combination, each element of each color can be given a number.

With this version of the current innovation, there are a variety of different areas of application:

1. Design of geometric structures, such as the design of fabric patterns (Scnöttenkärö) or ornamental patterns for various 7 application areas, e.g. in decoration technology, carpets, »,■ glass art and the like. Ij

2. Application in botany: si

Colors and structures can be created for aesthetic purposes or for research purposes, e.g. of butterflies, the like | also colors of bird plumage and the like. An application in " behavioral research is also possible.

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3. Application in daily life, especially in the fashion sector.

Human skin colors and the corresponding clothing can be determined and combined in finely graded colors.

4. Application in technology:

The coloring of vehicles, e.g. cars, motorcycles and the like

To be selected, please read the technical details of these vehicles.

5. Color theory:

The innovation makes it possible to present the theory of colors and, in particular, to create color compositions in an artistic way, namely color balances and color imbalances.

For aesthetic purposes, for example, paintings can be broken down into individual structures and the corresponding colors, and different colors of the given structures of the painting can be selected using the innovative device.

ckgngQ -je£ «o also possible to change the structure, so that in addition to the different colors of the structures, the structures themselves can also be changed and combined.

In a preferred embodiment of the present innovation, the color disks are designed as round disks that sit on a common, central axis and can be rotated against each other.

In another embodiment of the present innovation, however, it is planned to use linear colour discs instead of round ones.

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It is recommended to use "sliding color disks" which can be moved against each other in one direction, e.g. in the direction of their longitudinal axis.

It is only important that the partial elements are arranged on each color disk and that the partial elements can be aligned precisely when these color disks are moved.

In a third embodiment, it is intended that there are not circular color disks, but only circular sector-shaped color disks, for example, which can be rotated against each other.

The present device can be viewed both in incident light and in transmitted light, or a light source can be installed which creates a particularly attractive play of colors.

This innovation is described in more detail using several examples and drawings.

The drawing and its description reveal further advantages and features of the innovation.

Show it:

Figure 1: schematic partial section of a first embodiment of the device;

Figure 2: schematically shows part of a colour disk;

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3 to 8: the resolution of a coughing disorder according to Figure 3 into certain

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sub-elements;

Figure 9: a plan view of the second embodiment of a device according to the innovation and

Figure 10:d1e Side view of the device according to Figure 9.

In ^accordance with the ^{present invention} , the device consists of two housing plates 1, 2 arranged parallel and at a distance from one another, which preferably consist of a plastic material and are opaque.

If opaque housing plates 1, 2 are used to implement the embodiment according to Figure 1, then it is a prerequisite that at least two windows 4, 5 aligned with one another are arranged in each of the housing plates 1, 2. It is preferred here if a lens 3 is arranged in at least one of the windows in order to ensure a better viewing of the color disks 6-8 arranged inside the device.

Any parallax error that may occur between the discs is eliminated by installing a lens system instead of lens 3, because this lens system is then focused exactly on the plane of the color discs 6-8.

In a further embodiment not shown in detail5, it can be provided that a lighting source is arranged in the rear window 5.

The two housing plates 1,2 form a gap 27 between them in which the color disks 6,7,8 are arranged so that they can rotate. The color disks 6-8 are mounted on the

a common axis 14 that allows them to rotate against each other. The axis 14 is fixed in the housing plates 1,2.

It was previously stated that when choosing opaque housing panels 1,2, at least one aligned window 4,5 must be arranged in each housing panel 1,2.

Instead of using one aligned window 4,5, of course, several aligned windows can be arranged around the circumference of the housing plates 1,2. The housing plates 1,2 are themselves also circular, as are the color disks 6-8 themselves.

However, if the housing plates 1,2 are made of a transparent material, the windows 4,5 can be completely omitted and it is thus possible to view the color disks over the entire area of the housing plates 1,2.

The color disks 6, 7, 8 are extended beyond the radially outer edge of the housing plates 1, 2. The color disk 6 has a radially outer grip ring 9, while the rear color disk 8 has a rear grip ring 11 of the same design.

In the space between the two opposite grip rings 9,11 another, middle grip ring 10 is arranged, which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the middle color disk 7.

According to Figure 2, the grip rings 9 to 11 each have teeth 15 on their radially outer ends so that they can be easily rotated against each other.

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The grip rings 9,10,11 and thus the color disks 6-8 can be locked against each other with a so-called index lock, i.e. they can be fixed or locked in certain rotational positions relative to each other.

For this purpose, it is provided as a possible embodiment that, for example, the lower surfaces of the mutually adjacent grip rings 9 _: J1 are provided with point-shaped caps 12 lying on a circular ring, with each point-shaped cap being assigned corresponding locking recesses in a circularly extending locking groove on the respective outer surfaces of the middle grip ring 10.

This results in an index locking of the associated grip rings 9,10,11.

Instead of the index locking described, other locking mechanisms are of course possible.

The purpose of this proposed locking mechanism is to bring the optical structures (pattern elements 17) attached to the color disks 6*8 into register, i.e. to cover them with exact registration. By designing the locking mechanisms as precisely as possible, the individual partial elements 18-22 are covered with exact registration, as described in more detail in the following figures. This means that even the finest structures can be resolved.

Figure 2 also shows that the color disks 6-8 can be rotated relative to one another in the directions of the arrows 16.

In Figures 3-8, a possible example of implementation is shown:

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Coloring and internal structure of a butterfly, which is shown as a pattern element in Figure 3.

According to the innovation, each color disk 6,7,3 now has the sub-elements 18-2Σ shown in Figures 4 8. All sub-elements 18-22 are part of the entire pattern element 17.

By choosing the pattern element 17 as a butterfly, the optical structure is predetermined. The term "optical structure" refers only to the outline of this butterfly, because the partial elements 18-22 can be combined almost arbitrarily, both in their structure and in their coloring, by rotating the color disks SS.

The combination possibilities are limited by the number of sub-elements 18-22 applied to the color discs 6,7,8 and the number of color discs available.

It is important to note that on each color disk 6, 7, 8 the sub-elements 18-22 shown in Figures 4-8 are arranged in a circle, as will be described later with reference to Figure 9.

In a preferred development of the present innovation, the sub-elements 18-22 are again divided into different sub-areas. It is important that the individual sub-areas of the sub-elements 18-22 complement each other sensibly. In this way, there is a partial overlap of sub-areas that are assigned to one another, but also a recess of sub-areas that are assigned to one another.

The parts of Figures 4, 5,6,7 and 8 complement each other

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to each other and fill the contour of the entire pattern element 17 as per Figure 3.

If you place the partial surfaces of Fig. 8, 9 and 10 on top of each other, you will get a black overall surface due to the subtractive color mixing sought here, which is part of the pattern element 17.

The same combination also results from the partial areas in Figures 4 and 6.

In accordance with the desired design aspect, different partial areas cannot be made to overlap with one another, i.e. they can be left out, so that the corresponding recessed area of the color disc underneath comes into its own, thus creating a completely different color and structural impression of the recessed partial area.

The above description shows the universal applicability of this innovation.

The opposite procedure can also be used, for example by having this pattern element as shown in Figure 3, whereby the pattern element itself is formed by superimposed structures on the different color disks in such a way that a completely black pattern element 17 results.

By swiveling individual parts 18-22 on the different color disks 6-8 away from each other, the previously black pattern element 17 can be dissolved and structures of a different color and shape then appear in the pattern element 17.

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Figures 9 and 10 show another embodiment, which
the structures of Figures 3-8 are used.

In this embodiment, two housing plates 31,32 are made of
made of transparent plastic material and are again connected to one another in ^a rotationally fixed manner via an axis 14. One housing plate 32 is &Iacgr;

by a handle 33 downwards uorlünaprt. t

In the space 27 between the housing plates 31,32, three color disks 36,37,38 of different colors are again rotatably mounted on the axis 14 - as _an example. ;

Due to the fact that the housing plates 31,32 are completely
are transparent, there is no need to attach them to each other
aligned windows 4,5, as shown in the example according to
Figure 1. The housing plates 31,32 are completely visible, as shown in Figure 9.

The individual structures applied to the color discs 36-38 are ! therefore easily recognizable. _·

Each colour disc 36-38 is projecting upwards over the housing plates 31,32 :|

by a lever 39,40, 41, whereby preferably each J

Lever 39-41 has a coloured surface 42 at its outer end, which is connected to the > Color of color disc 36-38 matches. ' For better orientation, it is now planned that the - Color disks a Kuster contour 43 is given, which for example |

corresponds to the outline of the butterfly shown in Figure 3. K This pattern outline serves as a better orientation so that you can

Figures 4-8 shown sub-elements 18-22 in the range of this %

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Pattern contour 43 can be aligned. This avoids registration errors.

However, the pattern contour 43 can also be omitted and other optical aids can be used to precisely cover the individual sub-elements 18-22.

Instead of the pattern contour 43, for example, an auxiliary frame can be provided, through which the viewer looks and in which he must align the various partial elements 18-22, or instead of this auxiliary frame, a lens or another optical aid can also be used.

If you now rotate the color disks 36-38 against each other, you also rotate the partial elements 18-22 on the color disks 36-38 against each other and try to make them coincide in the area of the pattern contour 43.

The various possibilities that result from this in terms of structure and color changes have already been explained above using Figure 3.

Instead of forming the rear housing plate 32 from a transparent material, this housing plate can also be made from a matt material, which results in a different optical effect. This results in a higher color saturation in transmitted light and, when viewed in transmitted light, the room environment is prevented from becoming disturbingly visible.

In a preferred development of the present innovation, a fourth "color disk" carrying the pattern contour can be

h^tuu be added by gluing the contour 43 shown in Figure 9 onto the inside of the rear housing plate 32. This design ensures a better possibility of precisely covering the individual parts.

It is therefore an aid to fit the three colour discs 36-38, which are to be rotated against each other, onto the contour.

What is not shown in detail in this embodiment is that the color disks 36-38 shown here can also be locked against one another. It is important that the auxiliary contours can be omitted if the contour itself is integrated in the sub-elements 18-22. The described color disks preferably consist of a film material on which highly saturated colors are applied.

In the example shown in Figures 4-8, solid tones with 100% area coverage were shown in the individual colors; of course, any halftones with a screen size between 0 and 100 % area coverage are also possible here.

When selecting the colors of the color discs, it is preferred that the individual colors are coordinated in such a way that, in a subtractive color mixture, all the color discs in the full-color discs together form a black surface.

Claims (1)

DBJ- RUNGMAN MfllMT ATTORMiY UnMmZttohtn/ourrtf.: W 643-31-ku/ka Bttto tn dar answer D-8990 Undau (Lake Constance) Rome««· 10 ■ PMtfteh 3160 ItvZdctMn tourr». In the NwMoM of Yb«rWI»oi (Mom 5. 1989 Applicant: Mr. Gerhard Herner, Iiierdaaa 6, 8960 Keapten/AiigXu Protection on DTowels 1. Device for producing achromatic and colorful pattern elements and image structures for design purposes, characterized in that partial elements of image structures are applied to individual transparent color disks that can be rotated and/or moved relative to one another, so that new color and structural image elements are produced by combining these partial image elements. PMschackfeonlo MQndian414848-80B (9^70010080) -Z- 2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in &zgr; e i suppose that the various sub-elements all fit together from a common surface or basic shape or structure and are arranged with any number of other sub-elements that also fit together from a basic shape in such a way that the combinations again create a meaningful, desired or meaningfully random image structure. 3. Device according to one of claims 1 to 2, characterized in that all sub-elements are each applied to at least three color disks with the subtractive primary colors cyan-blue, magenta-red and yellow. 4. Device according to one of claims 1 or 3, characterized in that certain partial elements are applied congruently on all three color disks. 5. Device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the color disks carry pattern elements. 6. Device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the color disks are circular or sector-shaped, sit on a common axis and can be rotated relative to one another. 7. Device according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the color disks can be moved linearly relative to one another. 8. Device according to one of claims 1-7, characterized in that it comprises a light source. « t • * t ·