US3178332A - Mosaic comprising a plurality of permanently detachable mosaic elements - Google Patents

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US3178332A
US3178332A US84204A US8420461A US3178332A US 3178332 A US3178332 A US 3178332A US 84204 A US84204 A US 84204A US 8420461 A US8420461 A US 8420461A US 3178332 A US3178332 A US 3178332A
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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
    • A63F9/10—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B44—DECORATIVE ARTS
    • B44C—PRODUCING DECORATIVE EFFECTS; MOSAICS; TARSIA WORK; PAPERHANGING
    • B44C3/00—Processes, not specifically provided for elsewhere, for producing ornamental structures
    • B44C3/12—Uniting ornamental elements to structures, e.g. mosaic plates
    • B44C3/123—Mosaic constructs
    • 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
    • A63F9/0669—Tesselation
    • A63F2009/067—Tesselation using a particular shape of tile
    • A63F2009/0683—Tesselation using a particular shape of tile quadrangular
    • A63F2009/0684—Parallelogram
    • A63F2009/0686—Rhombus
    • 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
    • A63F9/10—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
    • A63F2009/1094—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles non-planar

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  • the present invention relates to a mosaic comprising a plurality of removable mosaic elements and a base whose upper side has a depressed portion or upwardly facing spherical surface in which said mosaic elements fit together if laid according to a correct configuration.
  • a perimeter is formed in the base within which the mosaic elements are to be laid, the nondepressed, or raised, perimeterhaving moreover the function of preventing the mosaic elements'laid in the depressed portion of the base from shifting.
  • Such a base cannot do more than prevent the elements from shifting for if the base is jolted and certainly if it is turned upside down the mosaic elements will fall out of the base.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a mosaic having a semi-permanent character, which means that a mosaic once it has been laid cannot be disturbed by jolts or other involuntary acts, but practically speaking may only be taken apart intentionally.
  • the invention employs a base so formed that the bottom is shaped according to a concave spherical surface.
  • This depressed concave portion is surrounded by an upstanding peripheral margin.
  • the mosaic elements encompassed by the margin and placed in the depressed portion of the base will bear tightly against one another.
  • the mosaic elements are substantially shaped according to a truncated pyramid so that, if said elements are placed with their lower side somewhere on the depressed bottom of the base, the geometrical pyramidal vertex of all elements will coincide with the center of the concave spherical surface.
  • the mosaic according to the invention is formed with a base made from a resilient material. It is also possible for the mosaic to have the inside of the upstanding margin provided with a resilient member on the inner perimeter of the peripheral margin.
  • the base may be formed with a relatively small opening in the bottom.
  • a mosaic element located above the opening may be pushed away from the base by inserting a suitable tool through the opening and against the element to be removed.
  • FIGURE 1 is a plan view of a mosaic according to the invention, comprising a resilient mosaic bottom and a plurality of mosaic elements placed thereon;
  • FIGURE 2 is a vertical sectional view according to line IIII in FIGURE 1;
  • FIGURE 3 is a similar section as the one shown in FIGURE 2, but shows a mosaic base which is substantially made from non-resilient material;
  • FIGURE 4 shows two mosaic elements on an enlarged scale.
  • the mosaic according to FIGURES l and 2 comprises a mosaic base generally designated by the reference unice meral 1 and a plurality of mosaic elements 2 to be placed thereon.
  • the mosaic base comprises a bottom portion 3 and an upstanding margin 4.
  • the mosaic base is made from a somewhat resilient material, 'so that the margin P 4 locally may be bent outwardly to some extent.
  • an opening 5 which is large enough topassones finger or other suiting to FIGURE 2 the mosaic elements according to this embodiment have the shape of a diamond in plan view.
  • the upper surface 6 is, as appears from FIGURE 2, concave "in accordance with a surface of a sphere, the radius of the sphere being large as compared with the height of the mosaic elements 2, for example in a ratio of :1.
  • the upstanding margin 4 is slightly inwardly inclined in such a manner that the margin, at least as regards to its inner side, is at right angles to the adjacent portion of the upper surface 6 of bottom portion 3.
  • the lower side 7 of bottom portion 3 is entirely flat, so that the base, if placed on a table or hung against a wall etc., is stable.
  • FIGURE 3 shows a base having the same shape as the base shown in FIGURE 2, but which is made from nonresilient material. Instead thereof a strip 8, extending around the inner circumference of the margin, is mounted against the upstanding margin of the base.
  • the strip 8 is of resilient material, such as e.g. rubber.
  • FIGURE 4 on an enlarged scale shows two mosaic elements generally designated by 9 and 10 respectively.
  • Said elements 9 and 10 each have in plan view the shap of a diamond.
  • the inner wall 11 of the upstanding margin 4 in FIG- URE 2 and the inner wall 12 of the strip 8 of FIGURE 3, respectively, are so dimensioned as to be slightly narrower than the circumference of the joint mosaic elements 2 placed on the spherical surface 6 in the correct configuration. This, therefore, means that the margin 4, or the strip 8 as the case may be, will exert an inwardly directed force on the mosaic elements bordering on the margin.
  • the inwardly directed force exerted by the margin 4 or the strip 8 will have a component which forces said mosaic elements against the spherical surface 6 of the bottom portion 3 of the base. This force is sufiicient to prevent the complete mosaic laid on the base from being disturbed unintentionally.
  • the mosaic base instead of making the mosaic base entirely or partly resilient it is also possible to form the mosaic elements of resilient material, in which case the mosaic base would be of non-resilient material.
  • a mosaic assembly comprising abase member having disposed therein a plurality of removable mosaic elements, said base member including a substantially flat outer bottom surface, a concave. spherical-inner surface delimited by slightly inclinedupstanding walls; each of said removable mosaic elements defining a truncated pyramid so that the geometricalpyramidal vertexof allremovable mosaic elements coincides with the geometrical center of said concave spherical inner'surface.
  • a mosaic according to. claim 1 in which the inside of the upstanding Walls is provided with a resilient member extending the whole inner circumference of said walls to exert an inwardly directed force on said removable mosaic elements.
  • a mosaic according to claim 1 in which an opening is disposed in the bottom of the base member, whereby a mosaic element located thereabove may be removed from said base member disassembling said mosaic by applying a force through said .opening against said element.
  • a mosaic assembly according to claim 1 in which said removable mosaic elements are disposed contiguous one to the other, said removable'mosaic elements being disposed in a configuration providing a force bearing relation thereby obviating the necessity for adhesive.

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US3451681A (en) * 1966-08-29 1969-06-24 Anthony M Rossetti Illuminated puzzle
US3637217A (en) * 1970-02-13 1972-01-25 Sherman Kent Puzzle with pieces in the form of subdivided rhombuses
USD281339S (en) 1983-06-13 1985-11-12 John Hinnen Puzzle toy
JPS61165798U (forum.php) * 1985-04-02 1986-10-14
USD495378S1 (en) 2003-09-22 2004-08-31 Martin James Sugden Manipulable puzzle cube
US20050184458A1 (en) * 2004-02-25 2005-08-25 Sugden Martin J. Manipulable puzzle cube
US20050206079A1 (en) * 2002-05-21 2005-09-22 Marijn Van Herel Game for promoting the spatial perceptibility
USD514102S1 (en) * 2003-10-17 2006-01-31 International Business Machines Corporation Modular storage system
US20070262521A1 (en) * 2006-05-12 2007-11-15 Williams Sonoma, Inc. Learning puzzle of geometric shapes
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US3107918A (en) * 1959-09-17 1963-10-22 Edlen George Puzzle

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US3451681A (en) * 1966-08-29 1969-06-24 Anthony M Rossetti Illuminated puzzle
US3637217A (en) * 1970-02-13 1972-01-25 Sherman Kent Puzzle with pieces in the form of subdivided rhombuses
USD281339S (en) 1983-06-13 1985-11-12 John Hinnen Puzzle toy
JPS61165798U (forum.php) * 1985-04-02 1986-10-14
US20050206079A1 (en) * 2002-05-21 2005-09-22 Marijn Van Herel Game for promoting the spatial perceptibility
USD495378S1 (en) 2003-09-22 2004-08-31 Martin James Sugden Manipulable puzzle cube
USD514102S1 (en) * 2003-10-17 2006-01-31 International Business Machines Corporation Modular storage system
US20050184458A1 (en) * 2004-02-25 2005-08-25 Sugden Martin J. Manipulable puzzle cube
US6974130B2 (en) 2004-02-25 2005-12-13 Martin James Sugden Manipulable puzzle cube
US20070262521A1 (en) * 2006-05-12 2007-11-15 Williams Sonoma, Inc. Learning puzzle of geometric shapes
US20240157227A1 (en) * 2022-11-14 2024-05-16 Teresa DeCarlo Two-way jigsaw puzzle

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