Optics: image projectors – Cabinet encloses projector and one side of screen
Patent
1993-12-10
1996-05-07
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Optics: image projectors
Cabinet encloses projector and one side of screen
353DIG2, G03B 2100
Patent
active
055151205
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The object of this Invention Patent is a continuous slide projector which has considerable advantages and innovations compared with different projectors used for the same or similar purposes up to present.
More specifically, the invention conceived is a projector set, with a screen which is a mirror the user may look at himself in.
At present, and with reference to the state of present techniques, it is worth mentioning the existence of slide projectors which consist of a projector and a screen that is independent of the former, on which the slides are projected.
There are various disadvantages to these types of projectors, among which there is partial or total interruption of the slide when someone or something intercepts the ray of light emitted by the projector toward the screen, or the unaesthetic appearance of the screen when not in use.
In order to avoid such disadvantages, a continuous slide projector has been conceived, the object of this patent, which in a preferential functioning mode, without this being limiting, works through a parallel base housing, the front side of which has a screen that acts as a screen for projection, as well as being a mirror in which the user may look at himself.
At the front of the projector, located immediately above the screen, there is an illumination set, equipped with the corresponding lamp, which is duly covered. Once this lighting set is activated, it allows the front surface of the screen to act as a mirror, which the user may see himself in.
Likewise, there is a projection set placed inside the housing, which may be of the incandescent lamp type, properly placed before a succession of slides laid out on a carriage that places them in the ray of light given off by the projector light, so they are projected on the screen included in the set. Said movement may be driven by an electric motor built into the device the projection is to be housed in.
Likewise, the projector housing shall bear several control buttons to independently activate the set in mirror or slide projector mode.
In order to achieve a more detailed description of the invention, this shall refer to the attached figures in which, for example, without this being limiting at all, the preferred form of construction has been described.
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 represents a partial section perspective view of the projector, showing its main components.
FIG. 2, shows the block diagram of the electronic set which controls the system.
FIG. 1 shows a continuous slide projector of the type described, which fundamentally consists of a slide, projector, screen and a carriage to feed slides in continuously.
The slide strip is a continuous band -1- with the printed images which are to be shown on the successive step forward of the transparent strip.
The projector set consists of a mirror -2-, side walls -3- and a light box, which has a reflective screen at the rear -4-, a first source of light -5- which in the example is formed by two fluorescent tubes, a second source of light -18-, and the electronic starter -6- for the light sources.
The drive mechanism for the images consists of a frame consisting of a body -7-, two spools -8-, one at each end of the frame, which roll the transparent film -1-, each one at one of its ends, two motor reducers -9-, one for each spool; two rollers to support the transparent strip and a set of side rollers -10- to guide the strip; and an electronic control set which will be described hereunder, and the user may start and stop the projector using switch -11-, as well as by manual control of the images using selector -12-.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the electronic set which controls movement of the strip and exhibition time, lights switching on and off, and in order to do so it has an exciter -13- linked to the motor and light system and a control unit for the power system -14-, linked through a logical control unit -15- to the aforementioned exciter -13- through some interface circuits -16-, and it also has a set of the safety and protection devices required -17-. new and origina
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Brosemer Jeffery J.
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Dowling William C.
Imagen Viva, S.L.
Michaelson Peter L.
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