Illuminated display with half-silvered mirrors and discrete refractor plates
AssigneeMechtronics Corporation
InventorArthur L. Torrence
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Abstract
An illuminated picture display having a surrounding scintilating show of lights, including a housing holding a front half-silvered mirror and a rear mirror, the mirrors being proximate to one another and at a small angle to one another, congruent openings in the mirrors to receive a transparency for display, a light within the housing for illuminating the transparency, a plurality of lamps between the mirrors along the periphery, and a programmed timer causing the lamps to blink on and off in predetermined sequence, and a refraction plate mounted in front of the front half-silvered mirror proximate to the opening in the front mirror, so that the transparency is displayed surrounded by a flashing light display. A fiber optics system may be used instead of the plurality of lamps.
Claims24
An illuminated display for displaying a transparency, said display including
- a housing, a half-silvered mirror mounted at the front of said housing,
- a second mirror mounted within said housing behind said half-silvered mirror and spaced therefrom, an unsilvered opening in said second mirror,
- a plurality of light sources mounted within said housing between said mirrors and about the periphery thereof, and
- means, within said housing and behind said opening, to illuminate said transparency,
- whereby said transparency will produce an image visible at said half-silvered mirror and the light from said plurality of light sources will be multiply-reflected between said mirrors to produce multiple images thereof.
An illuminated picture display having a surrounding scintillating show of lights, said display including
- a housing having mounted therein a front half-silvered mirror and a rear mirror, said mirrors being proximate to one another and at a small angle to one another,
- congruent openings in said mirrors to receive a transparency for display, means within said housing for illuminating said transparency,
- a plurality of light sources between said mirrors along the periphery thereof, and means causing said plurality to blink on and off, and
- a refraction plate mounted in front of at least portions of said front half-silvered mirror proximate to said opening in said front mirror,
- whereby said transparency may be displayed surrounded by a flashing light display.
An illuminated picture display having a surrounding scintillating show of lights, said display including
- a housing having mounted therein a front half-silvered mirror and a rear mirror, said mirrors being proximate to one another and parallel to one another,
- an opening in said rear mirror to receive a transparency for display, means within said housing for illuminating said transparency,
- a plurality of light sources between said mirrors along the periphery thereof, and means causing said plurality to blink on and off in a programmed manner, and
- a discrete refraction plate mounted in front of at least portions of said front half-silvered mirror proximate to said opening in said front mirror,
- whereby said transparency may be displayed surrounded by a flashing light display and said transparency will disappear from view when said illuminating means is off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.