A. ENGELSMANN.
`APPARATUS FOR SHOWING KINEMATOGRAPHIG PICTURES.
`'APPLIUATION FILED JAN.7. 1910.
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`UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
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`AUGUST ENGELSMANN, 0F CHARLOTTENBURG, GERMANY.
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`APPARATUS FOR SHOWING KINEMATOGRASPHIC PICTURES.
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`Specification of Letters Patent.
`Patented Mar. 5, 1912.
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`Application filed January 7, 1810. Serial No. 536,870.
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`To all whom it may concern:
`Be it known that 1, AUGUST ENGELS-
`MANN, a subject of the German Emperor,
`and residing at Charlottenburg, near Ber—
`lin, Germany, have invented certain new
`and useful Improvements in Apparatus for
`Showing Kinematographi'c Pictures,
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`which the following is a specification.
`My invention relates to apparatus for
`showing kinematographic pictures, and a
`primary object is to provide such appara-
`tus comprising hidden, displaceable and ad«
`justable reflecting surfaces onto which kin-
`ematographic pictures
`are projected in
`front of an adjustable slanting sheet of
`glass which serves simultaneously as a mir—
`ror inwell—known manner and is arranged
`in front of a scenic background. The ob-
`ject of this arrangement
`is to enable the
`represented living pictures . to appear
`in
`space, as it were, in front of the stationary-
`scenic background with the aid of kinemato-
`graphic films well-known in themselves
`which represent
`scenes without a back-
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`ground.
`One illustrative embodiment of my in-
`vention is represented diagrammatically in
`elevation in the accompanying drawing.
`Referring to the drawing, H denotes the
`scenic background which may be provided,
`similarly ’as in the case of stages, pano-
`ramas and the, like, with plastic representa-‘
`tions; .G designates the transparent sheet
`of glass here shown as mounted in a frame
`and pivotally connected at its lower. edge
`to the front of the stage H’ and which can
`be slanted optionally and through which
`the spectators eye B can see the back-
`ground I-I.
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`W, W' designate suitable and reflecting,
`e. 9. white surfaces pivoted at their lower
`edges,- each to a slide Y adapted to move
`longitudinally, or rotate about adjustable
`fastenings T so that the reflected rays pass-
`ing from said surfaces may be thrown .on
`any portiOn of the glass sheet Gr to
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`V the required effect in the audience.
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`' fleeting surfaces W, W’ are shown in the
`drawmg as mounted in frames and through
`their pivotal connections with the slides
`Y, Y, they can be slanted at any desired
`angle. On the surface W, W’
`the mov-
`ing pictures without a background are
`thrown by the kinematographic ap ara-
`tuses K., K,. These pictures are re ected
`by the sheet of glass G and appear to the
`spectator to be more or less in space back
`from the sheet of glass, the point 1 on sur-
`face W appearing at 1’ , and the point 2 on'
`surface W’ appearing at 2’.
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`I claim :—
`1. Combined with a stage having a back-
`ground, an adjustable transparent sheet piv-
`otally connected at its lower edge at the
`front of said stage, a reflectingsurface below
`said stage and in front of said transparent
`sheet pivotally mounted to be moved about
`a horizontal axis and a vertical axis, and
`also to be moved horizontally in a straight
`line,
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`a kinematograph
`adjusta 1y
`mounted to project pictures on said reflect-
`ing surface from whence they are reflected
`to the transparent sheet and thence to an
`audience, whereby said reflected pictures
`appear
`in space behind.
`the transparent-
`sheet and before said background, which
`latter therefore forms a portion of the'
`scene, and where, owing to the adjustabil-
`"ity of the reflectin surfaces, the apparent
`positions of the ‘re ected ima es with rela-
`tion to the background may fie changed.
`2. Combined with a stage having. a back-
`ground, a transparent sheet of glass ad'ust-
`ably mounted at its lower edge at the rent
`of said stage, a plurality of independent
`reflecting surfaces, each reflecting surface
`being pivoted at its lower edge on a hori-
`zontally movable
`slide
`adapted to - be
`turned on a vertical axis, and a plurality of
`’kinematographs below said stage between"
`the background and the reflecting surfaces,
`each kinemato raph adapted to project pic—
`tures on one 0 said reflecting surfaces and
`from thence to the glass plate where said
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`pictures appear to the audience in space be?
`tween said plate or sheet and the». back-
`ground, each kinemato 9.1311 ,and its accom—
`panying reflecting sur ace being mdepeud—
`ently adjustable and so arranged that ple-
`tures. produced by one kinematogra'ph can
`be made to appear 1n space Independently
`of the pictures produced by the other lune-t
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`recede, and
`:Iuetograph, land to advance,
`' pass one. another.
`‘In testimony whereof, I Eflix my signa-
`ture in the Krese'nce of two witnesses.
`UGUST ENGELSMANN. ’
`-Witnesses:
`WOLDEMAR Hem,
`EDWARD J. Bm'rs.
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