Improvements relating to Stage Dresses and other Stage Properties.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 13th Sept., 1893--Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Stage Dresses and other Stage
Properties.
I, ABRAHAM CRYER of 18 Brunswick Street, Burnley Wood, Burnley, Lancashire,
Stage Artiste, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a means of producing novel and attractive effects on the
stage, especially during dark scenes, and consists in painting the dresses and other
properties with luminous paint and subjecting them to a strong light before
appearing on the stage. The paint I prefer to employ consists of about 1 lb. of
ordinary luminous powder, and 2 or 3 lbs. of india-rubber varnish, reducing it, if
too thick with benzoline, naphtha or the like.
This is laid out in any suitable manner, and the articles are exposed to a
powerful light, such as magnesium or electric light, immediately preceding
their appearance on the stage, so that they will be self luminous, and produce
ghostly and other effects, lasting for about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.
Dated this 6th day of December 1892.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Stage Dresses and other Stage
Properties.
I, ABRAHAM CRYER of 18, Brunswick Street, Burnley Wood, Burnley
Lancashire, Stage Artiste, 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 a means of producing novel and attractive effects on the
stage, especially during dark scenes, and consists in painting the dresses and other
properties with luminous paint and subjecting them to a strong light before
appearing on the stage. The paint I prefer to employ consists of about 1 lb. of
ordinary luminous powder and 2 or 3 lbs. of indiarubber varnish, reducing it if too
thick with benzoline, naphtha, or the like.
This is laid on in any suitable manner, and the articles are exposed to a powerful
light, such as magnesium or electric light, immediately preceding their appearance
on the stage, so that they will be self luminous, and produce ghostly and other
effects, lasting for about 10 minutes, or a quarter of an hour.
The indiarubber varnish is employed in place of the material commonly used in
luminous paints, as the latter will easily crack and will not allow of the motion of
the dresses without breaking off.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Improvements in the production of stage effects, in which the stage dresses
and other properties are coated with luminous paint and subjected to a strong light
immediately before the appearance on the stage, substantially as and for the
purposes specified.
2. Improvements in the production of stage effects, in which the stage dresses and

page_text: other properties are coated with a luminous paint, formed of a mixture of ordinary
luminous powder and indiarubber varnish, reduced to the required thickness, the
objects being subjected to a strong light before their appearance on the stage,
substantially as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 13th day of September 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.