DE8103943U1 - SLIDING BALL - Google Patents

Description

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Jos ten, Gerhard »Dipl.-Ing.

Sliding ball

The purpose of the invention is the production of a play and combination device in a handy form and with individually adjustable degrees of difficulty. The combined task is to bring twenty regular clods, which are slidably mounted on the surface of a ball, back into a clearly defined starting position after any adjustment.

As far as I know, a so-called Rubik's Cube that is already on the market has the following disadvantages:

It can not set different difficulty levels, so that some players desperate.

The players can purchase the solution sample.

Only the corner parts are assigned to three orders.

The assembly of the cube takes place in the manufacturing plant and not by the buyer.

The cube format is not particularly suitable for trouser pockets, etc.

The cube cannot be remodeled.

I have set myself the task of eliminating these disadvantages of the cube and I need three parts in different quantities for this.

Part 1: A sphere with twelve fixed poles according to

Section I-I in drawing 1 Part 2: Twenty identical clods per sphere according to the

Views in drawing no.2 Part 3: Color attachment plates in various designs for the

Pole and the clods. . ♦

To part 1

The spherical shape was chosen to allow the clods to move around in a variety of ways.

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The surface of a sphere with radius R is to be divided into 20 equilateral, curved triangles. The distance a between the corners according to Section II enables a simple division. Due to this construction, five triangles with a corner meet at twelve points on the spherical surface. These points are the axes of the poles. The poles are truncated pyramids; its dimensions result from the construction of part 2.

The poles have two functions. They hold up through the removable The polar caps represent the clods on the surface of the sphere and are also the fulcrum for the five adjacent clods.

To part 2

The shape of the clods should enable movement in three levels and assignment to three poles. The 20 identical and movable clods are obtained from a spherical shell, the inner radius of which is equal to the radius R of part 1. Like part 1, this shell is divided into 20 identical areas and dismantled. The preparation of the flexibility of the globules to the poles of the part 1 is by way of example performed in the drawing no. 2 for that soil, which is in part 1 between the marked A, D and E Poland. The necessary trimming of the corners of the original clods according to the above construction takes place in such a way that a circle with the radius that touches the opposite side of the clod is drawn around each of the three corners. This also determines the radius of the truncated pole pyramid on the surface of part 1 with the radius R. Special precautions for holding the clods in the desired position between the poles and guide elements for moving the clods around the poles are not described, since they are dependent on the material and production. The general dimensions can also be freely selected.

To part 5

The color attachment plates must be interchangeable and serve to identify the poles and clods as well as to classify the

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Difficulty level. You are not with the drawings has been given special consideration.

Interaction of the parts

If 20 clods are placed on part 1 and held in place by inserting the polar caps, the result is that shown in drawing no shown view. You can see one half of the sliding ball with six different colored poles and the associated ones Clods in their starting position. The poles are covered with monochrome colored panels, the clods, on the other hand, are in their starting position divided in terms of area so that the area adjacent to the pole matches the color of the pole. When there are shifts of the clods, it is very easy to find a disordered position of the clods which has to be repaired. For example, if you shoot the clods arranged around the pole with the color A in drawing no. 3 by one position clockwise, then the order around pole A is still preserved, but the order of poles B to F is disturbed, because e.g. the color E. is applied to the color F of the pole F. In the starting or solution position, however, only areas of the same color are allowed at the poles issue.

Each clod is assigned to exactly three poles and can therefore be moved in six directions (e.g. the clod with the colors A, B and F around the poles of the same color). With a single pushing maneuver, you have nine new positions Disposal.

There are five levels of difficulty, depending on the number of used pole colors.

Grade 1: Two colors. The poles of one half of the sphere are of the same color (e.g. A, B, C, D, E, F).

Grade 2: three colors. The poles of two adjacent blocks are of the same color (e.g. A, D, E, F).

Grade 3: four colors. The poles of a floe are of the same color (e.g. A, D, E).

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Grade 5: Six colors. Opposite poles are equal

colored (see drawing no. 3).

% Grade 6: Twelve colors. The division is arbitrary.

The corresponding color attachment plates are to be used accordingly. This results in the effect that the sliding ball not only has to be loosened, but also prompts conversion measures.

After all, the sliding ball that I invented has the advantage that it does not have to be assembled at the factory, but loosely packaged can be put on the market with a few instructions, so that the manufacturing costs are extremely low.

Claims (2)

Protection claims 1. Push ball as a game device, characterized in that on a ball (part 1) twenty movable, approximately area-wide and identical in size clods (part 2) as well as twelve fixed poles at equal intervals like this are arranged that five clods can be moved together around a pole with the task of one to restore a certain starting position of the clods after any displacement. 2. sliding ball according to claim 1, characterized in that each clod alternatively around the three adjacent poles is designed to be displaceable.