Improvements in Pyrotechnic Devices.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pyrotechnic Devices.
1, HENRY JOHN PAIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at the Gilsey
House, in the City, County, and State of New York, United States of America,
Pyrotechnist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to represent by colored lights, suspended in air,
a letter, monogram, design, portrait, figure, or other device..
This I accomplish, in carrying out my invention, by a parachute and long light
stick such as bamboo suspended therefrom, and from which stick hang cords to
which the colored lights or pyrotechnic devices are connected.
I employ a rocket and its long stick for conveying these devices up into the air.
The connecting fuses burn away simultaneously with the explosion of the rocket
so as to liberate the parachute, and the colored lights and the stick are suspended
by the parachute, and the colored lights hang therefrom.
The rocket case and stick fall to earth, and the distended parachute floats in the
air with the other devices hanging therefrom.
1 prefer to fold the parachute and the cords therefrom and place them in the
hollow head of the rocket, also to collect into a bunch the colored light devices
and connect their fuses together and place them in the hollow head of the rocket
with their fuses toward the powder chamber of the rocket, and by which they are
ignited as the powder explodes.
The rocket stick is preferably grooved along its outer face to receive the light
stick of bamboo, and is provided at its lower end with a shallow socket for said
stick, and the rocket head and bamboo are connected by the encircling fuses which
burn off when the powder of the rocket explodes.
The various cords connected to the light bamboo stick extend along the same
and enter the rocket head to the parachute and to the group of lights.
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Fyrotechnic DEVICES.
I, HENRY JOHN PAIN, residing at the Gilsey House, No. 1202 Broadway, in
the City, County and State of New York, United States of America, Pyrotechnist,
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 :-
The object of my invention is to represent by colored lights suspended in air a
letter, monogram, design, portrait, figure or other device.
This I accomplish in carrying out my invention by a parachute and long light
stick, such as bamboo, suspended therefrom, and from which stick hang cords to
which the colored lights or pyrotechnic devices are connected. I employ a rocket
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page_text: and its long stick for conveying these devices up into the air. The connecting
fuses burn away simultaneous with the explosion of the rocket so as to liberate the
parachute, and the colored lights and the stick are suspended by the parachute
and the colored lights hang therefrom. The rocket case and stick fall to earth
and the distended parachute 'floats in the air with the other devices hanging
therefrom.
I prefer to fold the parachute and the cords therefrom and place them in the
hollow head of the rocket, also to collect into a bunch the colored light devices
and connect their fuses together and place them in the hollow head of the rocket
with their fuses toward the powder chamber of the rocket, and by which they are
ignited as the powder explodes.
The rocket stick is preferably grooved along its outer face to receive the light
stick of bamboo, and is provided at its lower end with a shallow socket fór said
stick, and the rocket head and bamboo are connected by the encircling fuses which
burn off when the powder of the rocket explodes. The various cords connected to
the light bamboo stick extend along the same and enter the rocket head to the
parachute and to the group of lights.
In the drawing,
Fig. 1 is an elevation representing a rocket and connected bamboo stick.
Fig. 2 in larger size represents the rocket proper, and
Fig. 8 is a cross section at a, a, of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 represents the parachute, bamboo stick and depending group of colored
lights as delivered from the rocket, and Fig. 5 represents the same parts, on a
smaller scale after the group of colored lights have separated by the burning of
the fuses and the supporting cords have settled perpendicularly.
a represents the rocket body having a powder chamber as usual. 5 is the hollow
head thereof, and e'the stick connected by bands of wire 1, 2 to the body a.
The stick c is preferably grooved along its outer face and notched for the
wires 1, 2, and it is provided with a shallow socket at the lower end.
The light stick d (preferably of bamboo) rests in the groove of the stick cand
in the socket at its lower end, and bands of fuses 3, 4 connect the stick d with the
head of the rocket.
The parachute e is of ordinary construction and adapted to be folded and placed
within the head of the rocket with the cords 5 that connect the parachute to the
stick & passing out of the head band along said stick.
The group of colored lights are to be of any desired character, and they are
preferably connected together at their respective fuses by a band of 'fuse, 7, and
they are placed in the lower part of the head b with the strings 6 that connect
them to the stick d passing out of the head and along said stick. The group of
colored lights in the head have their fuses next to the body or powder chamber a
so as to be readily lighted when the rocket explodes.
The firing of the rocket conveys the stick d and its connected devices up into
the air, and approximately at the explosion of the flight of the rocket or when the
same explodes, the burning powder lights the fuses of the colored lights, burns off
the fuse bands 3 4, blows to 'pieces the head b and in so doing liberates the
parachute e and lights f. Simultaneous therewith the rocket stick falls away from
the stick d to earth, the parachute opens and the stick d assumes a horizontal
position, and the group of lights hang by their cords as shown in Fig. 4. In
this position the fuses of the lights are burning and separation soon occurs from
the burning off of the connecting fuse 7 when the cords of lights separate and
assume the vertical position shown in Fig. 5, and the design or display appears to
view.
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:-
First. The combination with a narachute
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Het stick such as hambakond

page_text: connecting cords, of cords depending from the stick and lights connected therewith
to form a design &c., and a device such as a sky-rocket and its stick for conveying
the parachute stick and lights in a compacted condition up into the air and
liberating the same, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Second. The combination with the body a, head band grooved stick e composing
the rocket, of the light stick d such as bamboo connected to the rocket, the
parachute e, and group of colored lights f compacted and placed within the hollow
head b, and the connecting strings extending out of the head and connecting with
the stick d, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
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Dated this 15th day of February 1895.
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.