US800560A

US800560A - Changeable picture.

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Publication number: US800560A
Application number: US22711504A
Authority: US
Inventors: Wilhelm Faber; Adolf Friedmann; Julius Menzel; Otto Saeger
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1904-10-04
Filing date: 1904-10-04
Publication date: 1905-09-26
Anticipated expiration: 1922-09-26

Description

No. 800,560. PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905. W. FABER, A. FRIEDMANN, J. MENZEL & 0. SAEGER. GHANGEABLB PICTURE.

APPLIGATION FILED 00124, 1004.

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WILHELM FABER, OF OHARLOTTENBURG, ADOLF FRIEDMANN, OF BERLIN, AND JULIUS MENZEL AND OT O SAEGER, OF GHARLOTTENBURG,

GERMANY.

CHANGEABLE PICTURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed October 4. 1904. Serial No. 227,115.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that we, WVILHELM FABIGR, residing at Oharlottenburg, ADOLF FRIEDMANN, residing at Berlin, and JULIUs MENznL and OTTO SAEGER, residing at Charlottenburg, Germany, subjects of the Emperor of Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Changeable Pictures, of which the following is a full, exact, and clear specification.

This invention relates to a new or improved method of manipulating transparent pictures with the object of obtaining singular effects, such as apparent movements, lifting of eyebrows, reddening of faces, and the growing of flowers, &c.; and it consists in the combination of one or more transparent pictures with a main picture by bringing them into such a position or positions that they combine with the main picture, the whole being illuminated from the front, and according to this invention one, two, or more pictures are brought into positionmechanically one after the other, so as to combine with and alter the effect of a main picture.

If two pictures only combine in producing an ultimate effect, the main picture only need be transparent; but if more than two pictures are employed in the combination all are required to be transparent with the exception of the last one.

In order that this invention may be fully understood, it will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate by sectional diagrammatic views three alternative methods. of carrying this invention into practice.

Referring to Figure 1, a transparent surface asuch asa sheet of glass, for instance is mounted behind an opening in the case 0, and upon this surface the main picture is carried. Behind this main surface a sheet 7) of cloth, paper, or other suitable material carrying the part or parts intended to alter the main picture is arranged, the said sheet being secured at the top, while a suitable spring, such as a, normally keeps the sheet 7) out of contact with the main picture a. To the lower end of the sheet Z) an electromagnet m is secured, entering partially into a solenoid (Z, so that upon the electric circuit being completed the magnet m is drawn into the solenoid (Z and the sheet 6 pulled against the main picture a and can now be seen therethrough, and

thus combines with the main picture to form a whole. As soon as the magnet m is released from the solenoid (Z the spring 0 draws the sheet 6 away from the main picture.

According to the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, the auxiliary picture is secured to a frame f, hinged to the top of the main picture a, and a spring 9 normally retains it out of contact therewith. An electromagnet m and solenoid (Z are provided for the purpose of bringing it into contact with the mainpicture, as in the form first described, the difference being that in this arrangement the electromagnet m is operated approximately horizontally instead of vertically.

According to the arrangement illustrated in Fig. 3, the frame 7, carrying the auxiliary picture, is operated pneumatically, for which purpose the said frame is preferably hinged to the bottom of the main picture, as shown, so as to normally fall out of contact therewith, while a small bellows v; is arranged between the top of the auxiliary picture and the back of the casing c or other suitable fixed part. An infl ating-bulb l; communicates with the bellows 11 by means of a tubular connection Z, so that by pressing the inflated ball the bellows a is sufliciently inflated to raise the auxiliary picture into contact with the main picture.

It is obvious that any number of auxiliary pictures may be employed within practical limits, which one after the other would be brought into position, as herein described, to combine with and alter the effect of the main picture.

Any suitable mechanism may be employed for obtaining a periodically recurring changesuch, for instance, as a clock and an electromotor or the like, the arrangement of which will be well understood.

Having now particularly described and as certained the nature of our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is 1. In a picture for producing singular effects the con'ibination with a stationary transparent picture of a corresponding movable picture provided with means to bring it alternately in and out of contact with the stationary picture, substantially as described.

2. A com bination-picture comprising a stationary transparent picture and a corresponding non-transparent movable picture, provided our names, this 7th day of September, 1904:, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

VILHELM FABER. ADOLF FRIEDMANN. JULIUS MENZEL. OTTO SAEGER.

\Vitnesses:

ERNST KATZ, ALBERT SCHENK, W OLDEMAR HAUP'r, VILLIAM MAYNim.