Illumination – With showcase or show window
Patent
1989-12-11
1991-08-13
Lazarus, Ira S.
Illumination
With showcase or show window
312114, A47F 1104
Patent
active
050401025
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a mirror arrangement for showcases, show windows, showrooms, theater sets or the like, having plane mirrors forming both side walls and front wall and rear wall of a compartment of tetragonal base, with the mirrors being arranged perpendicular to the base and having inwardly facing reflecting surfaces wherein the side walls are parallel to each other and the front wall or rear wall extends rectangular to the side walls, with the front wall being a semireflecting mirror and wherein a light source is provided for illuminating the compartment.
Such a mirror arrangement is known e.g. from the DE-OS No. 27 30 679. This mirror arrangement includes parallel front and rear walls so that the base of the compartment defines a rectangle. The mirror arrangement gives an observer, who views the compartment through the front wall, the impression of an infinitely deep space. The observer sees an object placed into the compartment in almost endless sequential arrangement, with images from the front alternating with images from the rear. By the parallel arrangement of the front and rear walls, the light rays are reflected toward each other so that the mirror images of the object rapidly loose contrast and become darker with increasing simulating depth, and the mirror image located in the sequence "further behind" will hardly show details of the respective side of the object. Moreover, the parallel arrangement of the front and rear walls of the compartment only generates mirror images of the front and back of the object, with the mirror images which show the rear and the mirror images which show the front overlapping over a major part. Further, the known mirror arrangement gives the observer the impression that the sequential arrangement of the mirror images of the object is attained rectilinear in depth direction. Rectilinearity of the sequential arrangement of the mirror image may, however, bore the observer so that the interest in the image as produced by the known mirror arrangement rapidly diminishes. Such a reaction by the observer is undesired when using the mirror arrangement for showcasing objects for advertising purposes.
An alternative embodiment of the mirror arrangement known from the DE-OS No. 27 30 679 avoids the drawbacks encountered through the parallel arrangement of the front and rear walls by forming the rear wall through two mirrors which extend at an angle to each other. However, this embodiment of the known mirror arrangement has the drawback of generating mirror images of the object in such great number and in such a plurality of directions that the overall image appears to the observer as completely disorganized and cut up and renders it difficult for the observer to recognize the one mirror image which shows the object from a side which is of special interest to him. This confusion becomes even greater the more objects are exhibited in the compartment. This alternative embodiment of the known mirror arrangement is thus not suitable for advertising purposes or to inform the observer about the looks of those sides of the real object which are invisible from the front, and especially unsuitable for exhibiting several objects.
It is the object of the invention to design a mirror arrangement of this type in such a manner that the observer is able to view in an orderly manner mirror images even of several objects located in the compartment and to clearly see the objects from all sides, with the rectilinear juxtaposition of the mirror images being avoided. The overall image thus gives the observer considerable information about the objects and draws attention to the objects without becoming boring after a short period.
In accordance with the invention, this object is attained by a mirror arrangement in which the front wall and the rear wall are not parallel to each other. The base of the compartment is thus trapezoid, with the parallel side walls defining the base and the front wall and rear wall defining its legs, with one of the legs i.e. the front wall or the rear wall extendin
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Feiereisen Henry M.
Hagarman Sue
Lazarus Ira S.
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