US430030A - Puzzle - Google Patents

Description

(N9 Model.)

F.JONE S.

PUZZLE.

No. 430,030. 'Patented June 10, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLOYD JONES, OF POMPTON PLAINS, NEW JERSEY.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,030, dated June 10, 1890.

Application filed March 11, 1890. Serial No. 34:3,158. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FLOYD JONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pompton Plains, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invent-ion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it. appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in puzzles of that character and class wherein a suitable box or other receptacle is provided with a variety of sub-compartments and passage-ways leading from compartment to compartment.

The object of the invention is to provide a new device of this character wherein a difierent arrangement of compartments is provided, giving a new and possibly a more difficult game, the object being, as in all such puzzles, to get the animals represented by marbles or other spheres from one or more compartments into a predetermined compartment.

The novelty in the present instance resides in the peculiar construction of the box or receptacle whereby a new arrangement of compartments and passage-ways is produced, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and then particularlypointed out in the appended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a top plan of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a suitable receptacle. It may be a box or any other analogous receptacle having side and end pieces a, which serve to prevent loss or displacement of the marbles or other spheres. The interior of the box is divided, as shown in the drawings, by means of suitable strips B, which are arranged as follows: Beginning at one end, substantially at the middle thereof, is a short strip or piece b, which is glued or otherwise affixed in place and joining the end piece of the receptacle with a strip or piece 0, which is arranged substantially parallel to the said end, but of less length than the end piece, so as to leave a passage at each side. From the strip a there extends a strip or piece d, substantially parallel with the side piece of the receptacle, but of less length than said side piece, so as to leave a passage-way e the full. length of the box. Upon the opposite side there is a piece f, of less length than the strip or piece (Z, and extending in a slightlyangular direction instead of parallel with the side piece. Extending from the strip 0, between the strips or pieces (Z and f, and of less length than the strip f, is the strip 9, which extends at an angle to the said strips, as clearly shown in Fig 1. At the end of the receptacle, opposite the strip or piece 0, there are arranged the three strips or pieces h, t', and j, the two latter being arranged substantially parallel with the sides of the receptacle and the other at an angle thereto, as shown, the piece j being shorter than the piece 2'.

In practice the game will be to get the spheres from the receptacle or passage-way e into the compartment Z. This, owing to the peculiar arrangement of strips and passageways, will be found to be a very difficult task.

Any number of spheres may be employed in playingthe game, and marbles or any other suitable devices may be used.

That I claim as new is The game apparatus described, comprising a receptacle having straight sides and divided into compartments and passage-ways by means of strips confined within the receptacle and arranged as follows: the strip a, parallel with one end of the receptacle, the strip 1), connecting the strip 0 with the said end, the strip (1, .extending from the strip a, parallel with the side of the receptacle, of less length than the side, the strip f upon the opposite side and extending at an angle to the side, the intermediate strip g at an angle to the strips d and f, and the strips h, i, and j near the opposite end of the receptacle, and arranged substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FLOYD JONES.

\Vitnesses:

E. V. G. VAN SAUN, SAMUEL VAN SAUN.

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