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Moving-Picture Machine.

Description: Patent for an improved machine to play films (moving-pictures), synchronizing both sound and picture in a single machine. Division of another patent by the same inventor (Serial No. 765,959) for a sound record film, and is intended to be used in conjunction with said patent.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Phonographic Attachment for Moving-Picture Machines

Description: Patent for an invention that is "the provision of mechanism whereby a sound record may be made or reproduced synchronously with the taking or reproduction of moving pictures" (Paragraph 100). In addition, the invention enables sound and picture to be recorded on the same machine, so that they sound and the picture match.
Date: March 26, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of and Apparatus for Producing Transformation Effects

Description: Patent for a method of creating transformation effects through the use of particular colors of illumination, to be used in the theater, amusement houses, or other performances. The invention involves using lights whose colors can either "absorb" or "wash out" certain objects or designs of the same color while revealing objects of a complementary color.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Station Indicator

Description: Patent for an indicator that lets passengers on a train know which street they are passing and which station they are at.
Date: January 11, 1916
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Switch Operating Mechanism for Electric Railways.

Description: Patent for a switch-operating mechanism for electric railways that uses a movable display band to control movement through an electrically operated switch. The arrival of the railway car or street car at a point adjacent to the switch automatically throws the switch to automatically shunt the car from one line to another without a motorman or switchman's intervention.
Date: May 25, 1915
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Projecting Motion-Pictures.

Description: Patent for an improvement to motion picture projectors that lowers the operating speed, thus reducing the amount of film needed for movies, and eliminates flickers in the projection. This patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 27, 1917
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Electric Advertising Sign

Description: Patent for an electronic sign that works by a conveyor-belt like band printed with advertisements being rotated, allowing the owner to show many advertisements while saving space.
Date: July 1, 1919
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Advertising-Sign

Description: Patent for large outdoor advertising sign that is inexpensive to illuminate but still catches attention by providing the illusion of movement.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Advertising-Sign.

Description: Patent for an advertisement sign with a translucent display band that illuminates different sections of letters, numbers, or figures, in various colors, giving the appearance of animation.
Date: August 5, 1919
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animated Sign

Description: Patent for a display apparatus to be implemented as animated advertising signs which successively display different images by controlling the timing of changes in the colors of light used to flood the front and to backlight the display surfaces. The images are created in such a way that certain elements created in certain colors become absorbed or are made invisible when illuminated by certain colors of light. An apparatus controls the cyclical changes of the colored lights used by the sign.
Date: September 5, 1922
Creator: Craig, Richard M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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