US PATENT SUBCLASS 472 / 65
.~ Illusion caused by visual imitation of event occurring in nature (e.g., rain, snow, fire, etc.)


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472 /   HD   AMUSEMENT DEVICES

57  DF  ILLUSION OR STAGE DEVICE {17}
65.~ Illusion caused by visual imitation of event occurring in nature (e.g., rain, snow, fire, etc.)


DEFINITION

Classification: 472/65

Illusion caused by visual imitation of event occurring in nature (e.g., rain, snow, fire, etc.):

(under subclass 57) Amusement device wherein the illusionary effect produced by the device is a simulation, which can be seen by a person, of an occurrence or phenomenon that is naturally produced or naturally exists in the external world; and wherein the means for producing the simulation is hidden from the person.

(1) Note. The phenomenon or occurrence can be any one of a wide variety of events found in nature as, for example, rain, snow, fire, a tornado, a hurricane, a waterfall, a rainbow, the rising or the setting of the sun or moon, etc.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

61, for a device which produces an illusion which simulates an event that occurs naturally in nature, which device uses either a projected picture or special light effect.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

40, Card, Picture, or Sign Exhibiting, particularly

409+, for an attention attracting display device which may be amusing in nature and which has free article movement (e.g., a snowfall simulator, etc.,); and subclasses 427+ for an attention attracting display device having special effects as, for example, a display device which includes means to convey to the observer an illusion of movement of an object such as falling snow or water or flickering fire light.

352, Optics: Motion Pictures, particularly 85+, for an apparatus for producing a special illusionary

effect for the production of motion pictures.

428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles,

13+, for exhibiting apparatus which are encased or enclosed and which contain a product of nature or a replica thereof.