AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING PICTURES, PHOTO- GRAPHS, INSCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND DEVICES,
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by The Honourable Robert Nunes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 1st November 1871.-A communication from abroad by
the late Benjamin Nunes, of Montego Bay, in the Island of
Jamaica.
I, The Honourable ROBERT NUNES, of Falmouth, in the Island of
Jamaica, now residing at Lancaster Street, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park,
in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR EXHIBITING PICTURES, PHOTO-
GRAPHS, INSCRIPTIONS, AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS AND DEVICES," com-
municated to me from abroad by the late Benjamin Nunes, of Montego
Bay, in the Island of Jamaica," to be as follows: -
The object of this Invention is the construction of apparatus for the
exhibition of pictures, photographs, inscriptions, and other representa-
tions and devices in order to produce certain amusing, striking, and
singular effects.
The apparatus is so constructed that when a number of pictures or
other devices are prepared copies of such pictures or devices on
a

page_text: smaller scale will be respectively exhibited at pleasure in a case or
frame. For instance, a case is made with an aperture therein, several
tablets are prepared bearing pictures, one picture on each side thereof,
the picture of each side and of each tablet being different.
Then on
applying one of these tablets on the case and subsequently removing it
a fac simile of the picture on the uppermost surface of the tablet but on
a smaller scale will be shewn at the aperture in the case.
I proceed to describe the manner in which the Invention may be
carried into effect. Within a case is fitted a disc or annular or
otherwise shaped piece of steel or other material, susceptible of magnetic
attraction. This disc or piece is capable of turning on a pivot, axis, or
equivalent within the case, and it bears on its surface a set or series of
pictures or other devices arranged consecutively. On the upper or outer
surface of the case an aperture is formed of suitable size and shape to
allow one of the pictures or devices of the set to be exposed thereat
when under, or opposite, or against such aperture. Several separate
tablets are prepared, cach tablet bearing a picture on each side. These
pictures correspond with those on the disc or turning piece within the
case, except that the latter are on a smaller scale than those on the
tablets. Within each tablet is a magnet or magnetized bar or needle.
The magnet of each tablet is disposed in a different direction, that is to
say, the magnet of one tablet is directed to one point of the compass
and that of the next to another point of the compass, and so on.
a tablet is laid on or applied against the case the magnet therein will
attract a part of the disc, ring, or other piece within the case, and cause
it to come under or opposite the aperture, and thus the reduced fac
simile which is on that part of the disc or turning piece will come
opposite the aperture, so that it will be exposed to view at the aperture
when the tablet is removed.
When