Improvements connected with Kaleidoscopes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1893-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Kaleidoscopes.
I, WILLIAM SPEIRS SIMPSON, of 49 Battersea Park Road, County of London,
Civil Engineer, 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 improvements connected with kaleidoscopes, the object
being to obtain variable displays of colours from falling particles of glass, or its
equivalent, either falling direct from a reservoir, or with splashing effect from
or by a liquid caused by the rotation of a well, or of a fan, or of both well and fan
on which the glass, or the liquid acts.
My invention is represented in the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 is a section of a kaleidoscope, in which are two chambers for deviceing
appliances, and having the barrels so connected that each has an independent
movement if the other be held, or both may be movable as one if not so held.
Figure 2 is an internal elevation of the second barrel in which are a series of
wells for collecting small bits of glass or sand when at the bottom and for dropping
such glass or sand from funnel mouths as they, i.e. the funnels, arrive at the top,
which is effected by the rotation of the end barrel, such glass or Band with or
without a liquid falling across the path or line of sight, and producing a new effect
in conjunction with the design produced by coloured glasses in the second or
ordinary chamber of the kaleidoscope.
and
or,
a clear
A is the eye glass in the barrel B in which the reflectors C, C, are arranged in
the usual manner.
D is the chamber containing the bits of coloured glass, and by
which the well known devices or designs are produced by turning the barrel B.
E is the second and larger chamber containing grains of glass, sand,
liquid, preferably spirits of wine, or distilled water in a desired quantity.
In addition to the grains of glass or sand, the liquid can be within the chamber E
with or without small buoyant or flocculent bodies capable of rising to float,
becoming partially submerged, or of having slow sinking properties. F, F, are
wells with funnel spouts around the inner periphery of the chamber E with
openings G at one side only, so that as said barrel E is rotated in one direction,
the grains of coloured glass or of sand with the liquid enter the wells F, F, and are
retained in such until the wells arrive at the upper part, the grains of glass then
falling from the funnel spouts H cross the vision to produce an animated picture in
addition to the ordinary kaleidoscope effect obtained from the coloured glasses in
the smaller chamber D. I, I, are vanes or angle blades set in the chamber E
outside the field of the ordinary picture for the purpose of catching the grains and
diverting them to fall across the field of vision when the barrel E is turned in the
opposite direction.
If the barrel E be held, and the barrel B with the reflectors C, C, be rotated,
the design first seen only changes from reflection due to the circular movement of
the reflector glasses, so that the designs, although changed, will repeat themselves
at each revolution, whereas in an ordinary kaleidoscope, any movement of the
barrel B produces a positive change of design, which cannot be repeated at will, as
with my improvements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1 The construction of kaleidoscones with an additional chamber containing wella

page_text: for collection and distribution of liquid, particles of glass, or sand, to fall across the
field of vision, to produce an animated picture in conjunction with the ordinary
kaleidoscope effect obtained from pieces of coloured glass in a second chamber, as
described and substantially as shown in the annexed drawings.
2. Constructing a kaleidoscope with two barrels capable of independent
movement for producing kaleidoscopic effect, as described, with repeated reflecting
variations only, or combined ordinary kaleidoscopic and falling spray effect sub-
stantially as described and shown.
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said William Speirs Simpson.