EP0057376A1 - Puzzle-Würfel - Google Patents

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EP0057376A1
EP0057376A1 EP82100370A EP82100370A EP0057376A1 EP 0057376 A1 EP0057376 A1 EP 0057376A1 EP 82100370 A EP82100370 A EP 82100370A EP 82100370 A EP82100370 A EP 82100370A EP 0057376 A1 EP0057376 A1 EP 0057376A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/08—Puzzles provided with elements movable in relation, i.e. movably connected, to each other
    • A63F9/0826—Three-dimensional puzzles with slidable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged, e.g. Rubik's cube
    • A63F9/0838—Three-dimensional puzzles with slidable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged, e.g. Rubik's cube with an element, e.g. invisible core, staying permanently in a central position having the function of central retaining spider and with groups of elements rotatable about at least three axes intersecting in one point

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  • the invention relates to a puzzle cube with a cube body, the sides of which are formed by cube units, each of which is part of three cube disks, the center axes of the cube body being rotated by 90 ° relative to the remaining cube body part, and one inside the cube body arranged bearing component with which the cube units which are centered with respect to the associated cube side interact, while the other cube units have cams on the inside which engage behind the guide surfaces of the center cube units, the cams of the corner cube units interacting with the cams and guide surfaces of the adjacent cube units.
  • a 3 x 3 x 3 version of such a puzzle cube is known (The Mathematical Intelligencer, September 1979, pages 29 and 30, Springer-Verlag).
  • Each nine outer sides of the cube units are provided with the same color, so that in the initial state each side of the cube body has a color.
  • the cube body therefore has six different colored areas, which can be adjusted again after an arbitrary adjustment of the individual cube units.
  • Each cube unit can be rotated about three mutually perpendicular axes that go through the center of the cube. It takes with it all cube units that are in the same plane when viewed in the direction of rotation.
  • Each cube unit is therefore part of three disks arranged perpendicular to each other, which can be rotated about a central axis of the cube. Therefore, each cube unit can only be rotated together with the associated disk, whereas it can be regarded as stationary only with respect to the cube body. A diagonal rotation of the cube units is also excluded.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a puzzle cube that provides a 4 x 4 x 4 arrangement of the cube units with the same adjustment options as the known cube.
  • the bearing component has an inner core, preferably a spherical core, on which eight spherical guide elements are arranged at a constant distance, which are connected to the core via a web and form concentric guide channels in three perpendicular planes of diameter, into which the cams of the middle four of 16 cube units on each cube side engage and along are guided in a circular path, the cams of the guide surfaces of the central cube units that undercut the cube units adjacent to the central cube units and grip a circular path and are assigned blocking means to one half of the bearing component such that the cube units assigned to this half can only be rotated relative to the other cube units together with the bearing component are.
  • the four middle cube units can be displaced in relation to the bearing component in the invention, in order to enable all disks of the cube body to be adjusted.
  • the middle cube units are provided with cams which are guided by correspondingly shaped guide surfaces of the bearing component in such a way that rotation about the three mutually perpendicular center axes can take place.
  • the corner cube units and the remaining cube units work in turn only together or together with the middle cube units so that the cube body composed of the individual cube units is held together.
  • the guide surfaces of the intermeshing cube units ensure that the desired rotation possibility is obtained. Leading contact with the bearing component is not necessary, but is advantageous for reasons of guidance and improved stability.
  • the blocking means are necessary insofar as the position of the bearing component must not remain undefined in the case of a relative movement between two parallel disks, for example may assume an intermediate position, because otherwise an adjustment of disks arranged perpendicular to it will no longer be possible. It is therefore necessary to couple one of the two disks to the bearing component in a rotationally fixed manner when two disks rotate relative to one another.
  • the blocking means are formed by sections of the webs projecting into the guideways.
  • the webs are preferably formed in one piece with the core of the bearing component, that of it is advantageously spherical.
  • the spherical guide elements are delimited by two parallel equilateral spherical triangles concentric to the center and the other sides of the guide elements form the radially outer wall section of the associated guide channel. In this way, approximately continuous guide channels are formed, which are only interrupted at the points where they are crossed by the other channels.
  • the guide elements in one piece with the core of the bearing component. According to a further embodiment of the invention, however, it is expedient to provide the spherical guide elements as separately shaped parts which can be connected to the webs. This configuration is also particularly advantageous for the assembly of the individual cube units to the finished cube body.
  • the sides of the middle cube units facing adjacent middle cube units lie in a great circle plane.
  • the cams of the middle cube units are preferably also spherically shaped and connected to the middle cube unit via a web section.
  • the central cube units are formed in two parts, of which an inner part is formed with the web portion and the cam and the two parts can be connected to one another.
  • the connection like the connection of the other parts, is preferably made by gluing. Instead of gluing, however, a latching connection can also be provided, in particular if the individual parts are molded from plastic.
  • FIG. 1 shows a cube body 10, the six sides of which are each formed from 4 x 4 cube units.
  • Three different cube units A, B and C are provided, of which A represents the corner cube units, C the middle cube units and B the remaining cube units .
  • Each the cube units A, B and C can be rotated together with the cube units which lie in one plane about a central axis of the cube.
  • a possibility of rotation is shown in Fig. 2.
  • Four horizontal disks 11, 12, 13 and 14 can be seen, each of which is realistically rotated relative to one another about a vertical axis of the cube.
  • the same possibility of rotation arises around the two axes lying orthogonally in the horizontal.
  • the possibilities of rotating the individual cube units result from their construction or from the construction of a bearing component, as can be seen in more detail
  • the assembled state of the bearing component in FIG. 4 is denoted overall by 15.
  • the representation according to FIG. 4 is only used for the purposes of illustration.
  • the structure shown in FIG. 4 cannot be carried out without the associated cube units being installed beforehand.
  • the bearing component 15 has a spherical core S, for example made of solid plastic. However, the massive design is irrelevant to the function of the cube shown.
  • a total of eight webs P1, P2, P3, P4 are formed on or attached to the outside of the spherical core S. Overall are Eight webs are provided, each of which is assigned to an eighth surface of the spherical core surface.
  • the shape of the webs P1 to P4 can be seen in FIGS. 12 to 15, which will be discussed further below.
  • the webs P1 cannot be seen in FIGS. 4 and 6. Overall, one is provided from the web P1, also from the web P4.
  • the webs P2 and P3 are provided three times each. Spherical guide elements Q are connected to the webs (see FIGS.
  • the eight spherical guide elements Q are of identical design and, together with the mutually facing and spaced and parallel guide surfaces, form three circular guide channels 17, 18, 19 which are perpendicular to one another and which are arranged in the mutually perpendicular diameter planes of the bearing component 15 3 and 4, the guide elements Q, ie their radially outer and inner surfaces, form spherical guide surfaces concentric with the spherical surface, which likewise represents a guide surface (see FIG. 3).
  • the central cube units C are provided with cams 20, which are transverse in cross section section of the guide channel section between the guide element Q and the spherical surface corresponds. Accordingly, an edge region of the spherical guide element Q projects into a spherical recess 21 of the middle cube units.
  • the cube units C are flat on the abutting sides, as shown at 22, this plane lying in a diameter plane of the ball S.
  • the middle cube units C have incisions 23 on the opposite side, so that two cube units C arranged adjacent to one another form a dovetail-shaped undercut for a dovetail-shaped cam 24 of the other cube units B (it goes without saying that the cube elements A, B and C are each constructed identically so that the description of details on this applies to all others.)
  • a spherical body 25 is formed as a cam on a corner of the cube element A, two parallel opposite spherical triangular flats being provided at the same distance from one another, the rear one (in FIG. 8) intersecting the cube A in the corner region.
  • the remaining surfaces of the body 25 are formed by flat annular surface sections 26, 27 and 28.
  • the cam 29 is a spherical trapezoid with a rear and a front spherical trapezoidal surface, the rear being adjacent to a spherical cut on an edge of the cube B; the spherical section is designated 30.
  • the other sides which are opposite one another in pairs are flat annular surface sections 31 to 34.
  • the lower surface 32 of the cam 29 lies in the same plane as the lower surface of the cube B, while the upper surface 31 is at a distance from the upper side of the cube B. This distance corresponds to the projection of the cam 25 over the lower surface of the cube A, so that the cam 25 can be placed with the surface 28 on the surface 31 and comes to rest against the surface 30 with the free surface on the back.
  • the structure of the cube element C and its associated cam 20 is relatively complicated, as can be seen from FIG. 10.
  • the shape of the cam 20, however, results, as already mentioned, from the shape of the bearing component, consisting of spherical core, webs P1 to P4 and spherical guide elements Q.
  • the cam 20 is connected to the cube unit C via a web 35.
  • the unit consisting of cube element C and cam 20 is formed in two parts, as can be seen from FIG. 11. The two parts are labeled C1 and C2.
  • C1 contains the cam 20, the web 35 and a cube section 36, the square surface of which lies opposite the web 35 and can be inserted in a square recess 37 of the cube section C2, the connection between the Parts C1 and C2 can be done for example by gluing, but also by a snap connection. It should be mentioned at this point that it is avoided to go into the individual curved surfaces of the component according to FIG. 10, since the individual surfaces, their distances and radii result from the interaction with the other cube parts, in particular the cube elements B and the bearing component 15.
  • the web P1 which occurs only once, is designed so that it blocks all sides of the associated guide element Q.
  • the blocking sections each extend into the respective guide channel up to the axis plane of the guide channel.
  • the web P4, which also only occurs once, is designed so that it leaves all sides of the guide element free.
  • the assembly is carried out as described below.
  • the corresponding web P1, P2, P3 or P4 is placed on the ball S and surrounded by three parts 01 (see Fig. 11), which are assembled with a spherical guide element Q.
  • the parts S are attached , P1, P2, P3 or P4 and Q with each other. This attachment can be done by a plug and / or snap connection or an adhesive connection.
  • a corner cube element A and three remaining cube elements B are attached to the partial structure. These are held in their position by three parts C2 (see Fig. 11), which are connected to the associated C1 parts. The remaining seven corners are constructed in the same way.
  • all parts of the cube elements and the bearing component are shaped so that they interlock seamlessly. They are also shaped so that they are all massive in themselves. Neither is necessary for the puzzle cube according to the invention to function.
  • the individual sliding or guiding surfaces can be interrupted.
  • the individual parts can be hollow or partially hollow. The only decisive factor is that the described coupling of the individual parts is obtained independently of the relative position to one another and also their desired possibility of movement.

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