Devices for the production of multiple images

• US 3,205,598 A
• Filed: 04/05/1963
• Issued: 09/14/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Maurice Grosse
• Original Assignee: Maurice Grosse
• Inventors: Grosse, Maurice
• Application Number:
  US04/270,980
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• US Class Current: 40/436
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/00 Advertising or display means not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/12 using special optical effects

Claims

1. A DEVICE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MULTIPLE IMAGES COMPRISING A SHEET OF TRANSPARENT MATERIAL PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF RELATIVELY SMALL MIRRORED REGIONS INTERSPERSED BY A PLURALITY OF RELATIVELY SMALL UNMIRRORED TRANSPARENT REGIONS, A NON-TRANSPARENT REFLECTING SURFACE SPACED REARWARDLY OF THE SAID SHEET AND FACING THE MIRRORED REGIONS THEREOF, INDICIA ASSOCIATED WITH THE REFLECTED SURFACE AND A SOURCE OF LIGHT ADAPTED TO ILLUMINATE THE INDICIA, WHEREBY A VIEWER FACING THE FRONT OF THE ILLUMINATED DEVICE CAN SEE THE INDICIA TOGETHER WITH A DISCONTINUOUS INFINITE MULTIPLE IMAGE THEREOF, AND WHEREBY RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE VIEWER AND THE DEVICE PRODUCES THE ILLUSION OF FLICKERING OF THE SAID MULTIPLE IMAGE.