US1120161A - Puzzle. - Google Patents

Description

T. A. RANDALL.

PUZZLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.13,1913,

1,120, 1 61 Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

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THOMAS A. RANDALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PUZZLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1914;.

Application filed November 13, 1913. Serial No. 800,827.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS A. RANDALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at 2067 Story avenue, New York city, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, 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 invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to games and toys, and more especially to puzzles; and the object of the same is to produce a device of this kind in which an image made in the shape of a sitting or kneeling human figure is to be manipulated by shaking the casing or receptacle until the image assumes a de sired position therein and the puzzle is solved.

The invention consists also in the provi sion of an imitation chair within the recep' tacle and a path leading to the chair, and the puzzle may be solved by requiring that the player shall agitate the casing until the image sits upon the chair.

The object is carried out by details herematter more fully described and claimed, and shown in the drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a plan View of this improved puzzle, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 2-2 thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 are cross sections on the lines 3-3 and l l of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a perspective detail of the plate and seat.

The numeral 1 in the drawings designates a box-like casing having a transparent top 2 of glass, mica, or possibly fine wire mesh, secured upon the upper edge of the casing in any suitable manner as by a beading 3 and nails or tacks 4. The shape of the casing is unimportant, but it may well be rectangular as shown in the drawings and by preference I would make its bottom 5 flat so that it will rest squarely on a table or other object, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4.

The numeral 6 designates a plate, preferably of metal and made rather thin, and this plate is secured in any suitable manner along the bottom 5. One end of this plate is continued into an integral and narrow tongue 8 constituting What I call a path, and the remote end of this strip or tongue of metal is bent into the shape of a seat or chair 9 as best seen in Fig. 5. Finally one or more images 10 made in the shape of a sitting or kneeling human figure as seen at the left of Fig. 2, are provided, and it is obvious that the configuration of this image or figure is such that it may kneel as there shown in full lines or it might sit on the chair or seat 9 as indicated in dotted lines. As will be observed from Fig. 3, the sides of this image are rather flat so that it could lie on either side, to render the proper placing of the image more difiicult and the height of the interior ofthe casing or receptacle is such that it is quite possible for the image to be jiggled about therein to a considerable extent. Although but one image is shown, there may be several, and they may be painted in different colors or made of dili'erent metals, as I prefer to make the images of metal in order to give them weight.

The object oi the puzzle is to seat the image on the chair, or perhaps the object would be to cause the image to kneel, or if there are two images the puzzle might be solved by seating one and causing the other to kneel. at any proper point. The puzzle will be solved by agitating the casing until the image is thrown oil of the bottom and onto the path 8, and is moved along the same and takes its seat on the chair 9; and obviously this will be quite dillicult to accomplish.

The parts are of the desired proportions and materials, excepting as hereinbe'fore mentioned, and details are obviously not essential.

WVhat is claimed as new is:

1. A puzzle comprising a box-like casing having a transparent top, and an image loose therein and made in the shape oi? a combined sitting and kneeling human figure having flat sides.

2. A puzzle comprising a receptacle having a transparent top, a seat within the receptacle, a pathway leading to said seat and an image loose therein and made in imitation of a sitting human figure and designed to be manipulated along said pathway onto said seat.

3. A puzzle comprising a box-like casing having a transparent top, an image loose within said receptacle and made in the shape of a sitting human figure, and a plate secured at one end within the receptacle and having its other end formed into the shape of a chair or seat.

4. A puzzle comprising a box-like casing whose top is transparent, a plate secured across the bottom near one end of the same In testimony Wherof I have hereunto set and eontlnued thence lnto a narrow tongue, my hand 1n presence of two subscrlblng W1tthe remote end of sa1d tongue belng formed nesses.

into the shape of a chair or seat, and an v THOMAS A. RANDALL. image loose Within said receptacle and Witnesses:

formed in the shape of a sitting human fig- GEORGE JAPP,

ure. JANET W. JAPP.

Oopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, 10. G.

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