Patent ID: 8444274

Claim:
A reciprocating animation slide projector enclosed in a housing on a support, wherein said projector comprises: an illumination means; a power system; a solenoid; a set of wires that travels from a circuit board to a solenoid having an elongated translating rod extending therefrom, said translating rod capable of reciprocating in a forward-and-back motion over a cylindrical track; a frame enclosing a transparent slide having at least two adjacent, nonidentical but similar images that are related, but slightly varied; an elongated slot on a top facing length of said translating rod, said elongated slot seats said removable slide cartridge inserted therein; a lens operatively positioned relative to said illumination means; a removable slide cartridge actuated by said solenoid, and a fixed plate placed in front of said slide cartridge and behind said lens, said plate for blocking excess light emitted from said illumination means so that said light is channeled, and not diluted, specifically through a window thereon and towards said lens; wherein said removable slide cartridge reciprocates in repeated succession between said at least two adjacent, nonidentical but similar images on said transparent slide to give an impression of movement of the projected image.