EP0823269A1 - Spielkugel mit an dessen Umkreis verschiebbaren Steinen - Google Patents

Spielkugel mit an dessen Umkreis verschiebbaren Steinen Download PDF

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EP0823269A1
EP0823269A1 EP96112754A EP96112754A EP0823269A1 EP 0823269 A1 EP0823269 A1 EP 0823269A1 EP 96112754 A EP96112754 A EP 96112754A EP 96112754 A EP96112754 A EP 96112754A EP 0823269 A1 EP0823269 A1 EP 0823269A1
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Hong-Ling Chang
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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
    • A63F9/0857—Three-dimensional puzzles with slidable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged, e.g. Rubik's cube with elements slidably connected to a visible central body, e.g. beads in grooves

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  • the present invention relates to a toy sphere and more particularly, to a toy sphere with tile elements slidably disposed to a periphery thereof and a user may shift the tile elements disposed thereon to arrange the tile elements into a desired form.
  • Rubik's Cube or "magic cube” which is a cube and each one of six sides of the magic cube is divided into nine elements with the same color, every row and every column of the elements in each side can be respectively rotated about a vertical axis and a horizontal axis.
  • a user is then required to operate the magic cube to arrange the colors of the elements to be a certain form, such as to arrange all the elements with the same color on the same side of the cube.
  • the magic cube only provides the user the chance to rotate the elements, the user cannot shift the elements by sliding on any one of the six sides.
  • Another toy is a rectangular plate on which nine positions are defined, each one of the nine positions has the same size and there have eight tiles disposed to the plate. A user can shift one of the tiles to the remaining empty position and by this manner the eight can be re-arranged to be a certain pattern. This toy only provides the user a chance to slide the tiles.
  • the present invention intends to provide an improved toy which is a sphere with tile elements disposed thereto wherein the sphere is composed of three circular members and each of the circular members are perpendicular with each other.
  • the tile elements can have their positions changed by moving along the three circular members so as to mitigate and/or obviate the above-mentioned problems.
  • the present invention provides a toy sphere which includes three circular members sharing the same center, each of the three circular members having an axis and the three axes being arranged to be perpendicular with each other.
  • Each one of the three circular members has a track defined in an outer periphery thereof and the three tracks communicate with each other at intersections.
  • a plurality of tile elements each have a lower portion and an upper portion, with a neck connecting the lower portion and the upper portion. The lower portion and the neck of each of the tile elements are slidably engaged with the tracks such that the tile elements can be shifted along the three tracks.
  • a toy sphere in accordance with the present invention generally includes three circular members 1a , 2a and 3a which share the same center.
  • Each of the three circular members 1a, 2a and 3a has an axis perpendicularly extending through a center of a plane where the respective circular member 1a/2a/3a is located and the three axes are arranged to be perpendicular with each other.
  • Each one of the three circular members 1a, 2a and 3a has a track defined in an outer periphery thereof and the three tracks communicate with each other at intersections therebetween.
  • the toy sphere is composed by four one-fourth sphere portions 30, each one of the one-fourth sphere portions 30 including a part of each of the three circular members 1a, 2a, 3a.
  • the one-fourth sphere portion 30 includes a part 301 of the circular member 1a and a part 303 of the circular member 3a, each of the two parts 301/303 is a half circular section of the respective circular member 1a/3a.
  • a part 302 of the circular member 2a is connected between a respective middle point of the two parts 301, 303 curved peripheries and each of the curved peripheries 301, 302, 303 having an upper layer 31 and a lower layer 32 and a perpendicular connecting portion 34 connected between the upper layer 31 and the lower layer 32.
  • the lower layer 32 extends longer than the upper layer 31 such that any two opposite upper layers 32 define a track therebetween, such as positions where the numerals 322, 324 lead to.
  • the lower layer 32 has studs 306 extending laterally therefrom and recesses 38 defined laterally therein such that the two adjacent one-fourth sphere portions 30 can be combined together by mutually inserting the studs 36 into the recesses 38.
  • each of the studs 36 has a flange 362 (see Fig. 3) extending radially from a periphery thereof so as to securely received in the respective recess 38, by means of an interference fit.
  • a plurality of tile elements 20 each have a lower portion 24 and an upper portion 22, a neck 26 connected between the lower portion 24 and the upper portion 22 such that the lower portion 24 and the neck 26 are slidably engaged with the tracks 322, 324.
  • the upper portion 22 has a flat upper surface.
  • the tile elements 20 can be shifted along a certain track or be transferred to other tracks at the intersecting positions of two tracks such that the toy sphere has variety of ways in which the tile elements 20 thereof can be shifted and is suitable to be operated by children or adults.
  • Fig. 4 shows another embodiment of the tile element 20' wherein an upper surface of the tile element 20 is an arcuate surface.
  • Fig. 5 shows a second embodiment of the toy sphere wherein the toy sphere is composed eight one-eighth sphere portions 40, each of which is configured as a half of the one-fourth sphere portions 30 shown in Fig. 2 when divided from a central center of the track 324 of the part 302 of the circular member 2a.
  • Each of the one-eighth sphere portions 40 also has an upper layer 42 and a lower layer 43 and, a perpendicular connecting portion 401 is connected between the corresponding upper layer 42 and the lower layer 43 such that a track 44 is defined between the upper layer 42 and the lower layer 43.
  • the lower layer 43 has a plurality of studs 46 extend laterally therefrom and recesses 48 defined laterally therein such that each of two one-eighth sphere portions 40 of the eight one-eighth sphere portions 40 can be combined together by receiving the studs 46 into the respective recesses 48 in the way described relating to Fig. 2.
  • the tile element 20'' has a neck 26' with a square cross-section and the tile element 20 in Fig. 2 has a neck 26 with a round cross-section.

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EP96112754A 1996-08-08 1996-08-08 Spielkugel mit an dessen Umkreis verschiebbaren Steinen Withdrawn EP0823269A1 (de)

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CA002182927A CA2182927A1 (en) 1996-08-08 1996-08-08 Toy sphere with card elements slidably disposed to a periphery thereof
EP96112754A EP0823269A1 (de) 1996-08-08 1996-08-08 Spielkugel mit an dessen Umkreis verschiebbaren Steinen

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CA002182927A CA2182927A1 (en) 1996-08-08 1996-08-08 Toy sphere with card elements slidably disposed to a periphery thereof
EP96112754A EP0823269A1 (de) 1996-08-08 1996-08-08 Spielkugel mit an dessen Umkreis verschiebbaren Steinen

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Cited By (5)

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WO2000072929A1 (en) * 1999-05-26 2000-12-07 Marco Spykerman Spherical logic puzzle
GB2373196A (en) * 2001-01-26 2002-09-18 Zoran Vasilevic A Puzzle
WO2004110575A1 (en) * 2003-06-18 2004-12-23 Oezer Mehmet Emre A three dimensional puzzle
ES2315065A1 (es) * 2005-12-01 2009-03-16 Mariano Fuertes Frutos Juego esferico de composicion espacial.
ITUB20153874A1 (it) * 2015-09-24 2017-03-24 Franco Cosentino Giocattolo e relativo uso.

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GB2088728A (en) * 1980-12-05 1982-06-16 Elzett Muevek Ball puzzle with sliding elements
CH632418A5 (de) * 1981-06-18 1982-10-15 Imag Verlags Ag Vorrichtung zum herstellen von folgemustern mittels verschiebbarer elemente am vorrichtungskoerper.
EP0522223A1 (de) * 1991-07-09 1993-01-13 Ming-Zen Liu Puzzlevorrichtung
EP0578621A1 (de) * 1992-07-06 1994-01-12 Alfredo Iacovacci Puzzle
US5449175A (en) * 1993-09-27 1995-09-12 Nagy; Gyula K. Manipulative puzzle
FR2723853A1 (fr) * 1994-08-23 1996-03-01 Dien Chen Tsun Puzzle jouet spherique

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2088728A (en) * 1980-12-05 1982-06-16 Elzett Muevek Ball puzzle with sliding elements
CH632418A5 (de) * 1981-06-18 1982-10-15 Imag Verlags Ag Vorrichtung zum herstellen von folgemustern mittels verschiebbarer elemente am vorrichtungskoerper.
EP0522223A1 (de) * 1991-07-09 1993-01-13 Ming-Zen Liu Puzzlevorrichtung
EP0578621A1 (de) * 1992-07-06 1994-01-12 Alfredo Iacovacci Puzzle
US5449175A (en) * 1993-09-27 1995-09-12 Nagy; Gyula K. Manipulative puzzle
FR2723853A1 (fr) * 1994-08-23 1996-03-01 Dien Chen Tsun Puzzle jouet spherique

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2000072929A1 (en) * 1999-05-26 2000-12-07 Marco Spykerman Spherical logic puzzle
GB2373196A (en) * 2001-01-26 2002-09-18 Zoran Vasilevic A Puzzle
WO2004110575A1 (en) * 2003-06-18 2004-12-23 Oezer Mehmet Emre A three dimensional puzzle
ES2315065A1 (es) * 2005-12-01 2009-03-16 Mariano Fuertes Frutos Juego esferico de composicion espacial.
ITUB20153874A1 (it) * 2015-09-24 2017-03-24 Franco Cosentino Giocattolo e relativo uso.

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