US1206054A - Puzzle. - Google Patents

Description

C. A. TRULL.

PUZZLE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-26,1916.

Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

(Emma/L ce T20 LL LFHRENCEH- UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE,

CLARENCE A. TRUIIL, or Waco,- TEXAS.

PUZZLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patente d Nov. 28, 191

. Application filed February 26, 1916. Serial 110, 86,693.

It is another and more. particular object of the invention to provide a puzzle consistinggprimarily in the provision of a. suitable base having a. pluralityof channels or grooves cut in its surface extending in various angular directions and differently colored With'respect to each other, and a plurality of movable members corresponding to each of the colored channels and movable therein, whereby, by proper manipula .tion, the members of one color may be assembled, in a groove or channel of the saine color. 1

With the above and other ob ects in view,

my invention consists'in the novel features of. construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described,'claimed and illustrated in the 'a'ccompanying drawing. in which,

' Figure l is a plan view of my puzzle; and Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 2- -2 of Fig. 1.

Referring in detail to the drawing, 5-

designates the base Section of a substantially rectangular body. This base section has a plurality of channels or grooves indicated at 6, 7 and 8 respectively, cut in its upper surface. T.hese channels have concave base 'walls, and these walls are differently colored, preferably red, white and blue respectively.

A pair of balls 9 are provided for each groove and are colored correspondingly thereto. These balls may roll freely in the grooves. and are permanently held therein by means of'a top section 10 of the base which is relatively thin and is fixed or. sc

cured in any suitable manner upon the surface of the body section 5. his to be observed that the balls are of substantially the same diameter as the grooves in the base sectlon 5 so that one hall cannot pass another in said grooves. The top section 10,

is also provided with slots, indicated at 11, '12fand 13 respectively, which have a commoncommunicating point in like manner to the'channels 6, 7 and-8, and coincide with a sufiicient distance above the upper surface of the base section 10 through the slots the lattei.,cliann el s.' The balls9 project to therein to enable the-fingers to be readily engaged with said balls.

It will be observed from reference to Fig 1, that the, slots and channels define the letter Y, and each arm of the Y is sutliciently long to contain three of "theballs :9. In the operation of the'device, assumingthatballs of the same color are arranged in a groove of a different color as shown .in

Fig. "1, the would-be solver is required. to

place the colored balls in groovesof corresponding colors. In order to do this, it is the balls'in the grooves is-n'ecessary and considerable patience is required before the balls will be arranged in the desired manner. 'The operation may be' reversed and manifest that considerable manipulation-of the balls of the same color assembled in a groove of a different color which is quite as difficult as the operation first referred to. It is thus seen that, in an exceedingly simple device, I have produced a veryinteresting and amusing puzzle. 1

lVhile I have above referred to a preferred form of the-body for the puzzle, it will be understood that the same may- .be

of any'preferred shape in plan,.and the length of the grooves and the number of balls increased if desired." The device is also susceptible of other obvious modifications and it will, therefore, be understood that I reserve the-privilege of adopting all such legitimate changes as may be-fairly embodied within the spirit and scope of the invention as'claimed.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I desire to claim and sccure'by Letters Patent is -1. A puzzle consisting of a base having a plurality of grooves in its sur'fac'e'extending in different angular directions and havinga common communicating point, the Walls of each'groove being colored differently from the Wallsv of the remaining.

grooves, and a plurality of movable elements for each groove corresponding in color thereto. l 1

2. A puzzle consisting. of a base having a plurality of grooves in its surface communicating at the samepointya plurality of ele-b' ments for each groove movable therein, the

several grooves and certainof the elements having a common characteristic whereby the same may be distinguished from the remaining elements and every other groove.

3. A puzzlerconsisting of a base having a plurality of grooves in its surface extending in different ang ular directions and hav ing a, common communicating point, the

, ivalls of each groove being dii'ferently'col- 'o'red from the valls of the other grooves, and a plurality of balls corresponding 1n color to the respective grooves 'and'of such diameter as to be movable 1n the grooves.

at. A puzzle consistingof a base having aplurality of grooves in its'surface extending in diii'erent' angulardirections and hav- .ing a common communicating point, the

Walls of each groove being difi'erently colored from the walls of the other grooves, a plurality of balls of substantially the same diameter as the respective grooves and colored correspondingly thereto, and means for retaining the balls in the grooves {but per mitting of their free rolling nioveinent therein. 7 5. A;puzzle consisting of a base having a plurality ofgrooves 1n its surface extending in difierent angular directions and having a common communicating point, the Walls of each groove belng differently colored from the walls of the remaining grooves, a)

plurality of balls for each groove colored correspondingly thereto,. each groove being of such length as tocontain one ball in addition to the number of balls which are of the same color as saiclgroove and means -secured upon the base to-retaiii the b'alls'in the grooves but permit of their free rolling movement, therein. V 1

In testimony whereof 1 hereunto aflin my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

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