Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Article having latent image or transformation
Patent
1987-02-02
1989-09-19
Epstein, Henry F.
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Article having latent image or transformation
427 11, 427264, 434346, B44C 122
Patent
active
048680206
ABSTRACT:
This invention pertains to the fields of graphic arts and graphic communication. The principal use of this invention is to communicate visually with a new graphic method--a method of putting a translucent overlay on one color of pastels uniformly on a piece of paper and then removing it by erasure in order to create a desired image. The paper can be imprinted before the overlay is applied in order to give a foundation for the erasure. One prior method of graphic communication has been to put a color or several colors on a paper nonuniformly to create a desired image. Likewise, another prior method has been computer-generated images on cathode ray tubes. Both of these prior methods require training and skill. Neither are easily accomplished. This new method requires no artistic or computer skill and gives excellent results. Further, this new graphic method can be renewed by rubbing the translucent overlay back to a uniform color and an additional image created by erasing again. This invention can be used by commerce and by education to make communication more explicit. For example, in eduction, school children could indicate by erasure the states that were Confederate on a paper with this treatment and imprinted with a line drawing of the United States. Rub and Show Graphics have many applications; it is a form of highlighting by removal, not highlighting by adding like prior methods, and it is renewable.
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Page 616, the title page and verso of the title page of Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary-G. C. Merriam Co., publishers, Springfield, Mass., U.S.A.
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