US1296955A - Puzzle. - Google Patents

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A.1. HENDERSON PUZZLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. Is. |918.

Patented Mm. 11,1919.

5m uawtoz JASPER HENDERSON, 0F DALS, TEXAS.

1 PUZZLE.

y To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that'T, ALFRED J. HENDER- soN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dallas, inthe county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Puzzle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a puzzle, one of its objects being to provide a hrase which spells the same words beginning at either end of `the phrase, and to so larrange the letters of the words that by following certain lines vacross a surface, the phrase can beA spelled beginning at any point on the margin of the surface and continuing to any selected pomt on the margin A certain amount of skill is required in order `to spell out the words of the phrase so as to bring the user to the selected marginal point and thel use of the device in this manner enablesit to be employed with considerable pleasure,

rendered .more dicult.

asapuzzle.,

' With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear :as the description proceeds, the' lnvention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinaftermore fully described and pointed out in the claims,

.it being understood that various changes may be made in the arrangement of the parts withouty departing from the spiritor sacmaining letters lrificing any of the advantages of the -int.

ventionv as set forth in the claims. l l

the pre- Tn said drawings l Figure 1 is a planview'of the puzzle. Fig. 2v is an edge view thereof. v 'Referring to. the figures by characters of reference 1 deslgnates a thin board or other structure which can be of any form desired and on the l.margin of which are spaces inl which appear the letter A and extending both faces of the structure at right angles to each otherare parallel columns 2 forming, at their points of intersection, square spaces' containing the reof the phrase to he spelled.

across one or i .Specification of Letters Patent.

f whereby the same phrase will be spe commencing with any selected letter onthe atented Mar. it, Tgg.

Application led September 18, 1918. Serial No. 254,618.

This phrase is Able was Tere T saw ElbaV and, Y as will be apparent, reads the same when spelled from either end. The letters are arranged inwardly from the margin, the first spaces from the mar n in each column containing the letter lB, the second s ace the letter L, the third space the letter etc., to the center of the surface where the middle letter R of the phrase appears. Obviously the entire phrase can be readily traced along either ofthe central-diagonal columns but by selecting a point ofstarting at the margin and a'point of stopping, it

often proved a, puzzle to get from one point g i to the other without using the same letter more than once. Fonexample to begin at the point 3 and stop at the 'point 4 any of the courses marked by theldotted lines could be followed and by specifying certain letters on the chart that must be used in' ell ing the phrase, thefsolution of thepuzz e is 1. A puzzleincluding a surface on which are provided intersecting columns, there 'bev 'are provided intersecting columns, there bee ing an .arrangement of letters inthe spaces formed by the intersection of the columns and on the margin at the ends of the columns lied by margin and following a certain lcolumnor columns to any otherselected letter on the.

margin.

Tn testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signa.- ture in the presence of two witnesses.A l

' J ALFRED JASPER MNDEBSoN.

'lditnesses'zl 'I J. 0. HUMPHREYS, TRYING; T. Ursnaw.

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