An Improved Greeting or other like Card.
Year: 1889

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by the BERLINER KUNSTDRUCK-UND-VERLAGS-ANSTALT,
of 22, Marien-Strasse, Berlin, in the German Empire, Printers.]
An Improved Greeting or other like Card.
I, MONTAGUE LOUIS JONAS, of 16 and 17 Barbican, in the County of London,
Printer and Publisher, 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
The object of this invention is to produce a magic or transformation card, suitable
for greeting and other like cards, bearing a design or picture whose character or
appearance can be changed and restored again at pleasure.
The magic card consists of two pictures or designs, placed one above the other,
and having between them a reinoveable or sliding sheet, or card, of opaque material.
The upper picture or design is printed on some transparent fabric, or material,
such as fine silken gauze, in faint tint sufficiently distinct to make it visible when
the removeable or sliding sheet, or card, lies beneath it, and the outline of this picture
or design coincides with that portion of the one beneath agreeing with it. The
lower picture or design is printed in very bright, lively, and brilliant colors upon any
opaque material, such as bristol-board, so that when the removeable or sliding card
is withdrawn from between the two designs or pictures, the brilliant colors of the
lower one will appear through the fine transparent texture of the upper one with
such brightness as to render the outline on this upper one practically invisible, the
outline of the lower picture or design appearing in place of it.
By this invention not only a contrast, such as the change of winter to summer,
can be produced, but transformations such as the figure of a child into that of an
angel with wings, or the effect of evening twilight into a bright summer's day, and
many other similar and pleasing effects can be equally well obtained.
In order that my said invention may be more fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings
hereunto annexed.
Fig. 1, is a front view of the magic card, before the transformation has taken
place. It has printed on it any desired picture or design-the drawing shews a
stork.
Fig. 2 is a similar view, shewing the removeable card withdrawn, and the trans-
formation taken place-the picture below is now visible and shews the stork holding
in its beak a baby which it has taken from a cot.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of fig. 1.
a is the front portion or face of the magic or transformation card which may
be made of any suitable material, and having in it an opening, to the back of which
is attached the transparent fabric or material b, upon which is printed, in a faint
tint, the leading feature of the design or picture ; c is the back portion or foundation
of the card upon which is printed in lively colors the lower picture or design, like-
wise containing the leading feature, but with certain additions thereto, viz.: the baby
and the cot. The edges of this back portion or foundation are furnished with strips
or fillets c, c², c³, c, of suitable material to form a frame, in which the opaque
card d is free to slide, when the front portion or face a is secured in place upon the
upper and lateral of such strips or fillets. The opaque card d is provided with a
fillet or stop d', which, by coming against the lower strip or fillet e, when the
card d is drawn down, prevents such card from being entirely withdrawn from the
frame.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
1. A magic or transformation card consisting of two surfaces each bearing a
design or picture, one, in faint tint, the other in brilliant colors, and whose leading
feature coincides, the upper surface being transparent and the lower opaque, in com-
bination with an interposed sliding sheet of opaque material which, when withdrawn,
permits the brilliant design or picture on the lower surface to become visible through
the transparent surface and predominate over the faint design or picture thereon,
substantially as described.
2. A magic or transformation card substantially as described and shewn in the
annexed drawings.
Dated this 1st day of Inle 1980
ERNEST DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street, Loudon, Agent for the Applicant.