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Abstract

A figure placed into a first unit and watched through a transparent door is made to disappear and simultaneously to reappear in a remote second unit from which it may be removed. The first unit, also referred to as the sending unit, comprises a housing which includes a multi-chamber turntable which can contain one or more figures. A door in the first unit includes a half silvered mirror and an additional chamber so that a figure in a turntable chamber can be made to seem to dissolve and disappear. A second multi-chamber unit, also referred to as a receiving unit, substantially identical to the first, is connected to the first unit by wires. Selected chambers of the second unit are filled with figures substantially identical to the figures to be sent by the first unit. Initially, a first figure is placed into the first unit. The transparent door closes and locks and the figure seems to dissolve by the transfer of lighting to the additional chamber in the door. Simultaneously, an identical figure is made to appear in the second unit. After the dissolve process, the previously visible chamber of the first unit has indexed so as to place a vacant chamber in its previous location. The door of the first unit then opens and the vacant chamber inspected. The door of the second unit also opens and the figure removed for inspection. Encoding magnets in the figure being sent identify the figure to cause the multichambered turntable in the receiving unit to index to the correct chamber. In an alternative embodiment operated on similar principles, a pair of turntables in the same unit rotate in a coordinated manner to cause a figure to transmogrify into another figure. Simultaneous cross dissolves are also possible in the alternative embodiment.

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