23,321. McCormick, L. Oct. 15. Theatrical appliances.-Relates to apparatus for representing a fire on the stage, and consists of a device for representing the burning - down of an object, particularly of a tree. The trunk is made in telescoping sections 1, 2, 3, and has in its interior a shaft which also is made in telescoping sections 4, 5, 6. Each section of the shaft has about its upper end a ring a carrying streamers of ribbon or the like b, the ring on each section being somewhat larger than the one above it and its streamers longer, as shown. Inside the portion 3, an air blower c directs a current of air upwards through the trunk to blow the streamers upwards to imitate flames, and lamps g are used to illuminate the streamers. The sections are lowered by any suitable means, and the section 2 as it moves downwards strikes a projection i and pulls down a portion j so that the trunk is made to appear to be burning inside, the effect being enhanced by lamps k and streamers l. In a modification, only one ring a is employed, carrying sets of streamers of different length which are released one after another by pulling strings.
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