US171221A - Improvement in stage-scenery - Google Patents

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. STAGE SCENVERY. No..171,2Z1. Patented Dec. 21., 1875.

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in improvements in the construction offstage of stage-scenery so that the grooves in the stage i and above the same, now rendered necessary 7 and use my invention, I will describe the conthe stage and behind the borders, which suflicient' distance apart from eachother. to answer the purpose for whichthey are intendthe cleats 0, provided with openings, through GEORGEtP, scenes, or

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invented, made, and applied to use Improve reference marked thereon, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of myinven- 3 is an end view of 'thesame. Fig. 4 is a rear view of a flat constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 5 is a rear view of a wing constructed in accordance In the drawing, like parts of the invention are indicated by the same letters of'reference. The nature ofthe present invention consists scenery, as more fully hereinafter set forth l the object of the invention being the construction in theioperation of stage-scenery, may be dispensed with, the scenes or scenery'may be expeditiously'and easily operated, and much time now consumed in properly supporting scenery, as at present constructed, may be saved or cconomized.

To enable those skilledin the arts to make struction and operation of the same.

A showsthe stage of a theater, constructed in the usual way, except that the groovesto form ways in which the flats or wings shall be moved to and fro, as desired,are dispensed with. The grooves also usually placed over the stage to form ways for the upper portions of the flats or wings to be received in are dis pensed with, and in their stead I employ :a series of bars or rods, B, extending across bars or rods B are securely fastened at their ends in a proper manner, and are placed a ed. Upon the rear of thewings O are placed Specificationjfo rming part of Letters Patent No. 17 1,221, dated Decembe I f November 10, 1875.

width ofthe Wings 0, two hooked rods, D

which is inserted a rod, D, having its upper BeooKLYN, NEW YORK.

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3 end turned over to form a hook, d.. This rod is; free to move up and down in the cleats c.

The flats E are constructed similarly to the wings (J, save that, being generally twice the moving freely in twice the number of perforated cleats, are employed. a In addition to the rodsD, lemploy a series of castors 0r rollers, e, inserted in the slotted ilower ends-of the ings 0 and flats E, and free to revolve upon spindles passed through them centrally, al-

though I am well aware that my invention can becarried out without employing them; yet, in many cases, particularly in the manipulation of the flats E, theywillbe found effi c ent and labor-saving. a y i a Such being the construction, the operation may be thus set forth. The wings or flats to be used are placed in their proper position upon the stage, the hooked rods are raised up so as to bring the hooks over the proper bars or rods B, and the hooked rods are then drawn down until the hooked ends are securely passed over the rods or bars B: The wings or flats may then be moved easily to and fro across the stage, and as the rods are free to turn in the cleats upon' the back of the wings a or flats, the same may be placed in any position desired, either vertical or at any desired angle. When desired to place a flat at an angle, one of the hooked rods by which it is held is placed over one of the bars or rods, and the other hooked rod is placed over the next or any one bar or rod back of it, the desired angle at which the flat shall stand being determined by the hooked rods passed over the rods or bars.

It willbe observed that the shifting of the flats or wings can be thus expeditiously-and easily accomplished; that the necessity of em- :ploying, in certain cases, props or supports for the same is dispensed with ;-that the grooving of the stage is rendered unnecessary, thus allowingthe stage to be used for purposes where scenery is not required; and that what is known in theaters'as a box scene can be formed by combining any of the flats or wings, and without the employment of scenery specially designed for the purpose, and without. the use of braces, nails, screws, &c., or

the use of the hammer. The cost, too, of l 1521,1875; application f led l manipulating and sustaining the scenery em} 2. The combination of one or more bars, B,

'jiloy'egl'i's materially lessened, and the work is a wing, G, or flat E,h00ked rod D, and the cusgreatly expedited. ters 0r*r0llers e, substantially as and for the Hav ng now set forth my invention, what I purposes indicated. 'clziim'asnew is+ 1 1. The combination with one or more bars 0r-rcds,'B,0faJwing',,O, or flatE, and hooked rod 1 1n presence cf D, substantially as and for the purposes de- A. SIDNEYDOANE scribed. V i W; E. WINSLOW.

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