Illuminating Apparatus for Serpentine Dances.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1897
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Illuminating Apparatus for Serpentine Dances.
I, ION VERNICI, Artist, of Vienna 1V, Favoritenstreet 52, in the Empire of
Austria, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The apparatus represented in the accompanying drawing, in Fig. 1 in vertical
longitudinal section, in Fig. 2 viewed from above, has for its object to throw a
favourable and effective light on the so-called serpentine dancer while performing
on the stage.
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The essential part of the invention consists in having a glass-plattform
which the dancer performs, capable of being lowered and raised and fitting into
a part of the stage podium P while from all sides or at least from the three
visible to the public, the right, left and front, the light is thrown through the
glass-platform by means of reflectors L placed below the podium P upon the
dancer and her dress.
Instead of a simple glass-platform a a complete box-shaped structure B, open
however below, might be substituted, which would consist of glass-platforms a
forming the upper and the four side-walls and held together by frame-like pieces.
Such an apparatus would be particularly convenient as regards the raising and
lowering of the podium together with the dancer.
As represented in the drawing the best arrangement would then perhaps be
to have fastened into the eyes d which are fixed below at the four corners of the
frame work b, draw-cards s which are first led upwards over pulleys r, r separately,
then two together as far as the middle of B and finally all from together down-
wards.
It would thus only be necessary to pull the four misted descending cards, that is,
to draw them up, in order to raise B with the dancer, and by reversing the process
to lower it.
The chief point is, to allow the rays of light coming from below through the
stage podium to play freely from all sides on the dancer and her costume, while
at the same time the lighting apparatus is invisible to the public.
Dated this 23rd day of August 1897.
For ION VERNICI,
Bernhard Brockhues.

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
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The apparatus represented in the drawing filed with the Provisional Specification
in Fig. I in vertical longitudinal section, in Fig. 2 viewed from above has for
its object to throw a favourable and effective light on the so-called serpentine
dancer while performing on the stage.
The essential part of the invention consists in having a glass-platform a on
which the dancer performs, capable of being lowered and raised and fitting into
a part of the stage podium F while from all sides, or at least from the three
visible to the public, the right, left and front, the light is thrown through the
glass-platform by means of reflectors L placed below the podium l' upon the dancer
and her dress. Instead of a simple glass-platform a a complete box-shaped
structure B open however below, might be substituted, which would consist of
glass-platforms a forming the upper and the four side-walls and held together
by frame like pieces. Such an apparatus would be particularly convenient as
regards the raising and lowering of the podium together with the dancer.
As represented in the drawing the best arrangement would then perhaps be
to have fastened into the eyes d which are fixed below at the four corners of the
frame work b, draw-cards s which are first led upwards over pulleys », r separately,
then two together as far as the middle of B and finally all four together down-
wards.
It would thus only be necessary to pull the four descending cords that is, to
draw them up, in order to raise B with the dancer and by reversing the process
to lower it.
The chief point is, to allow the rays of light coming from below through the
stage podium to play freely all sides on the dancer and her costume, while at the
same time, the lighting apparatus is invisible to the public.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1.) In illuminating apparatus for serpentine dances by which the light is
directed from below through transparent plates upon the dancer, the new arrange-
ment thereby characterized, that a glass-plate a of a proportional size for allow-
ing the dancer to act thereupon, and capable of being lowered and raised is
arranged in a part of the untransparent stage podium P whilst the light is directed
not vertically but obliquely from below upon the dancer from the three sides
where she is visible to the public through reflectors L arranged invisibly, for the
purpose to raise and lower the lancer with the glass-plate and to make her appear
in each position in the reach of the glass-plate a entirely enveloped in a luminous
mantle, without cast shadows and obscurities.
2.) A special construction of the apparatus characterized by Claim 1.) thereby
characterized, that the glass-plate a is supported on the margins by open frames b
and formed as a chest like body for the purpose to guide easily the plate a in rais-
ing and lowering it and to be enabled for making it pretty large without increas-
ing too much the thickness of the same.
For ION VERNICI,
Bernh. Brockhues.