US870504A

US870504A - Mutoscope.

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Publication number: US870504A
Application number: US35408107A
Authority: US
Inventors: Paul Frost
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1907-01-25
Filing date: 1907-01-25
Publication date: 1907-11-05
Anticipated expiration: 1924-11-05

Description

PATENTED NOV. 5, 1907.

P. FROST. MUTOSGQPE. APPLIOATIOH PIL ED JAN.25. 1907.

Witnesses.

OFFICE.

PAUL FROST, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

moscors.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1907.

Application filed January'25.1907. Serial lilo. 354.081.

To all'who'in it concern:

My invention relates to mutoscopes and has for its object to drive the mutoscope and simultaneously operate a phonograph and automatically close circuit through various colored lights, the phonograph and lights preferably but not necessarily operating in bar mony and in accordance with the moving picture displayed, as will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed.

Referring to the drawings in which like parts are similarly-designated, Figure 1', is a view of case showing stereoscopic lenses and the ear pieces of the phonograph. Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section and Fig. 3 is a l transverse section through the case.

The apparatus comprises the usual picture roll a on which are preferably but not necessarily, stereoscopic pictures of successive positions of the objects presented, said pictures projecting radially from the roll. The usual deflector b is mounted in the case to rifiie the pictures past the view point. The stereoscopic lenses u are mounted as shown.

On the roll a is a worm. wheel d that is operated by a worm-e on the end of a shaft f suitably mounted in the case. The shaft f is driven by bevel gear wheels 9 from an electric motor h whose shaft'drives also, by a belt or cord i, the phonograph cylinder in.

The reproducing horn l'of the phonograph is connected to the tubes m that lead to the ear pieces 'n.

For illuminating the pictures the la'mpsp, o o of different colors are suitably supported from the case between the riflie bar b and the lenses u and are auto y matically included in the circuit of a battery t. To accomplish this the lamps are connected by wires p, p

p to contacts q, q, and q supported in a bracket 1 which as shown also forms a bearing for one end of the picture roll shaft 0. This shaft carries a contact 1 electrically connected to the shaft c which in turn is connected through the trailing contact 10 to battery t and a single wire a from the battery to all of the lamps complete the electric connections. By rotating the shaft 0 the contact 1' successively closes circuit through the contacts q, q and q to automatically include the lamps in succession in the battery circuit. The order and arrangement of the contacts q q and q can be altered to suit the circumstances and several contacts or groups of contacts can be placed in the path of the contact 1' connected to the same lamp, the order of the illumination is of course optional with the maker.

Instead of single pictures, I prefer to use stereoscopically made pictures to be viewed through stereoscopic lenses. The colored lights and the phonograph are preferably operated to be in harmony so that the lighting eilects scenery and actions are accompanied by proper phonographic reproductions and may simulate and reproduce all the parts of a theatrical performance or an. opera.

1. The combination with a mutoscope, of a phonograph driven in unison with the views presented. an electric illuminating circuit containing diflerently colored lights, and means on the rotating mutoscope picture drum to directly control said lights.

2. The combination with a mutoscope ot a phonograph driven in unison therewith, an electric lampcircuit containing a plurality of dlflerently colored lamps, fixed contacts adjacent the picture drum of the mutoscope, and contacts on the drum to close an electric circuit through the iixe'd contacts and lamps by the rotation of the drum.

3. In combination, :1 mutoscope the individual pictures of which are stereoscopic pictures, a phonograph driven in unison with the pictures. an electric light circuit conmining a plurality of differently colored lamps, contacts fixed in proximity to the mutos cope drum and contacts on the mutoscope drum to close the circuit through said contacts to any one of the lamps.

Intestimonythat i claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL FROST.

Witnesses:

Jonas-ans Ham, Wonnnuaa Haven