An Appliance for Shewing by Shadows on a Screen, Objects Appear- ing to Move.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Shewing by Shadows on a Screen, Objects Appear-
ing to Move.
We, LOUIS ANTOINE GARCHEY, Manufacturer of ceramic ware, and ANTONIN REGNY,
Chemical Engineer both of Tassin la demi Lune (Rhone) in the French Republic, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to means of shewing on a screen the shadows of objects, to
which the appearance of motion is given by the movement of the light.
For this purpose we draw, paint or otherwise mark on 'a translucent screen those
parts of the objects which are not intended to show any movement; and in a plane
some distance behind the screen we fix those parts which are intended to have the
appearance of movement. By moving the light, the shadows of those parts are caused
to move, on the screen relatively to the fixed parts. Thus the bodies or parts of the
bodies of persons or animals may be figured on the screen, while figures of their limbs
or some of them are placed behind the screen; then by moving the light to and fro,
the shadows of the hinder figures can be made to move on the screen so as to give the
appearance of natural movements of the limbs.
Dated this 5th day of September 1906
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Appliance for Shewing by Shadows on a Screen, Objects Appear-
ing to Move.
We, LOUIS ANTOINE GARCHEY, Manufacturer of ceramic ware, and ANTONIN REGNY,
Chemical Engineer both of Tassin la demi Lune (Rhone) in the French Republic, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to means of shewing on a screen the shadows of objects, to
which the appearance of motion is given by the movement of the light.
For this purpose we draw, paint or otherwise mark on a translucent screen those
parts of the objects which are not intended to shew any movement; and in a plane
some distance behind the screen we fix those parts which are intended to have the
appearance of movement. By moving the light, the shadows of those parts are
caused to move on the screen relatively to the fixed parts. Thus the bodies or parts
of the bodies of persons or animals may be figured on the screen, while figures of their
limbs or some of them are placed behind the screen; then by moving the light to and
fro, the shadows of the hinder figures can be made to move on the screen so as to give
the appearance of natural movements of the limbs. Fig. 1 of the accompanying
drawings represents a translucent front screen having on it a drawing of a figure except
Din 1

page_text: that some of the limbs, which are shewn black, are drawn on a screen interposed
between the front screen and the light. By moving the light to and fro laterally
the shadows of those limbs are thrown on the screen so as to appear in different
attitudes.
The figure may thus be seen as shewn by the white and lightly shaded parts in
Fig. 1 or as shewn in Fig. 2 or in intermediate positions, giving the appearance of
movement of the limbs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
An appliance consisting of figures having parts drawn on screens so arranged that
by movements of a light behind the screens the shadows thrown imitate natural
movements, substantially as described.
Dated this 27th dox of May 1907
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.