US1980548A - Changeable exhibitor - Google Patents

Description

M. S. QUINTE CHANGEABLE EXHIBITOR Nov. 13, 1934.

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This invention relates to a novel structural device and accompanying color transformation method which may be conveniently alluded to as a changeable exhibitor, the same being primarily adapted as an advertising display novelty.

In carrying the principles of the present inventive idea into actual practice, I have adopted a practical structural assemblage of features calculated to demonstrate and fulfill the desired characteristics of an invention of this class in a dependable and satisfactory manner.

Relying upon certain well-recognized optical principles, I have observed that by placing a transparency over a background having contrastingly colored images, objects, and characters depicted thereon, and resorting to the use of predetermined colors or hues in the construction of said transparency, those portions of the illustrated objects portrayed by corresponding hue or color become substantially obliterated.

For example, it has been ascertained that by printing or otherwise displaying a picture or the like on a white background and making the picture of two distinguishable colors, black and red for instance, and by then placing a red transparency such as Cellophane or the like over the picture, the corresponding red portions or section of the picture are rendered substantially invisible whereby to transform the picture in an amusing, fantastic, and novel manner.

An invention perfected in accordance with the principles of the present disclosure is particularly useful for advertising, educational, and amusement purposes, and in its preferred embodiment, it comprises essentially the provision of satisfactory structural means embodying the use of superimposed images, figures and the like in different contrasting colors, and adjustable means such as a colored panel which when properly adjusted, causes a predetermined part of the image to remain prominent and visible and the remaining part rendered substantially invisible.

Other features and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a plan View of a preferred embodiment of the invention demonstrating or illustrating the principles of the inventive conception.

Figure 2 is a view like Figure 1 with the multiple panel-equipped slide removed to expose the various pictorial images, objects, and characters.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through .1 the assembly shown in Figure 1.

(c1. in- 28) Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary perspective View of the slide or color eradicator.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary View of one end portion of the base depicting in enlarged proportions 0 a duplex figure or image.

Figure 7 is a fragmentary end view of the opposite end of the base or background.

Figure 8 is a fragmentary view of a portion of the Slide. 5

Referring now to the preferred embodiment of the invention as disclosed in the accompanying illustrative drawings and utilizing corresponding reference characters to designate like parts throughout the views, I first call attention to the numeral 9 which designates what may be described as a base. This comprises a backing board 10 of appropriate material and proportions faced or covered with a sheet of drawings of characters or other images.

The drawing sheet is denoted by the numeral 11 and is preferably of white paper which serves as the background. The numerals 12 merely designate spaced parallel stripes which define distinguishable picture or display frames. In these frames are printed, drawn, or otherwise displayed various objects, figures, numerals, and the like. For example, at the extreme left is a definite picture 13 of a girl drawn in black outline, 14 to represent what may be designated as a bathing girl, said bathing girl being attired in a dress or other article of apparel indicated in dotted lines by the numeral 15. In the present illustration, the. dotted lines are red and the outline 14 is black. Thus we have two drawings of contrast ing colors superimposed one upon the other in order to permit the principle of the invention to be properly described. The black and red colors are of course in contrast to the white background.

In panel or frame number 2 the same idea is carried out through the use of arithmetic examples generally differentiated by the numeral 16. It will be observed that certain of the ordinals or numerals 17 are in solid black and the dotted line figures or numerals 18 are colored red. In panel number 3, the numeral 19 designates a conventional musical notation staff with the lines and other indicia in black and the notes in black and red respectively. In panel number 4, the numeral 20 illustrates a similar principle, using readin matter, with certain of the words in black and others in red. In each instance, and in all of the panels the shaded or dotted line features indicated red while the solid line features represent black. The numeral 21 in the last panel Referring again to the slide 24, this comprises a frame 25 having guides 26 slidable in guide channels 27 on the baseboard as shown in Fi ure 4. The numeral 28 designates. aretaining frame divided into sight openings and serving to hold in place the transparency or panel 29. This panel may be a glass plate, a sheet of celluloid, Cellophane, or equivalent transparent material. In the present form of the invention herein shown, it is colored red, the hue or shade being approximately the same as the features 15, 18, and so on in the arrangement depicted In Figure 2.

The numeral 30 merely designates a finger grip carried by one end of the slide whereby it may be adjusted to the desired position with respect to the different display panels.

The gist of the idea. is in the provision of a base'having guides to accommodate a slidable panel, said base being provided with a background containing individual printed areas representing the desired figures and images, etc. The slidable screen is designed to match and co-operate with the base and contain a glass or other transparency or plate of a predetermined .color. Contrasting or comparing the exposed printed matter in Figure 2 with the covered matter shown in Figure 1, the principle of the invention will be clear to the reader. In other words, as the slidable screen is moved into the position shown in Figure l, the various transparent panels thereof match or register with the display panels in the base, and owing to the coloring of the transparent plate 29, certain of the printed matter is obliterated. Otherwise stated, the color of the glass plate-being red, and the color of certain features of the printed matter being red, the

latter features are obliterated and only the solid black features are permitted to be visible. Thus,

the double acting printed features are transmany ways such as for example, in color comics,

for advertising purposes, for transforming sheet music from one tempo and time into another,

.fcrliterature, for camouflaging arithmetic tables and examples, etc.

' A point to beborne in mind in connection with the inventionis that each picture or printed area embodies main and supplemental or comple mental features, the main feature being complete when the supplemental or secondary feature is obliterated from view. Moreover, while I have utilized the color red in describing the results attained, it is obvious that other corresponding colors, hues, and shades may be utilized.

A careful consideration of the foregoing description in conjunction with the illustrative drawings will enable the reader to obtain a clear understanding of the purpose, features and advantages, the explicit construction, and the invention as hereinafter claimed.

It is to be understood that minor changes in shape, size, relative proportions, and materials may be resorted to in practice without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the invention as now claimed.

I claim:

A structure of the class described comprising a base including a backing board having upper and lower longitudinal guides, a facing sheet fastened to the visible surface of said backingboard, longitudinally spaced divider elements converting said sheet into distinct displayareas, distinguishable pictures printed on the sheet in each area, each picture being composed of a primary part printed in black and a complementary part printed in red, and a slidable color screen comprising. a frame slidably mounted in said guide, said ,frame including a red transparent plate of glass or equivalent material, said plate being divided into distinct areas registrable with the first-named area in a manner to permit the red colored portion of the printed matter to be obscured from view.

MICHAEL S. QUINTE.

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