US466121A

US466121A - Puzzle

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Publication number: US466121A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-12-29
Anticipated expiration: 1908-12-29

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(NmModeL) A. E. PAIGE.

PUZZLE.

No. 466,121 Patented Dec. 29, 1891.

INVEN'I'OR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR E. PAIGE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,121, dated December 29, 1891.

Application filed August 5, 1891.

Serial No. 401,780. (No model.) Patented in Canada August2'7, 1891, No- 37,220.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR E. PAIGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia,in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys or Puzzles, (for which I have received Letters Patent in the Dominion of Canada, dated August 27, 1891, and numbered 37,220,)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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to toys or puzzles; and it consists of an inclosure containing a diaphragm which separates said inclosure into compartments at different levels, said diaphragm being provided with an aperture so proportioned as to permit of the free passage from one compartment to another of a movable body contained within said inclosure, each of said compartments being of a depth only slightly greater than the diameter of the movable body. By slightly tilting the inclosure the movable body, which is normally in the lower compartment, may be rolled under the aperture and tossed through it into the upper compartment, the operation, however, requiring considerable manual dexterity, because the relative height of the compartments and movable bodies is so nearly the same. To increase the amusement thus afforded, I prefer to construct my invention with several of such bodies inclosed, and I have thus shown it in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 isa section of Fig. 1 on line a: 00.

A is the inclosure, which I prefer to make a closed quadrangular box, having its upper side A formed of transparent material.

'of my invention.

B is the diaphragm, having an aperture 1). I prefer to make this diaphragm of semi-transparent material, so that by looking through the transparent top A (which is employed to prevent the escape of the movable bodyor bodiesthat is to say, to normally maintain it or them within the inclosure) the movable bodies 0 may be observed while under the diaphragm B.

It is obvious that the shape of the inclosnre may be varied, and that. the aperture may be otherwise placed than in the central position shown without departing from the spirit Therefore, although I have shown and described the form which I prefer, I do not desire to limit myself to such construction; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A toy orpuzzle consisting of an inclosure adapted to retain a number of movable bodies and having a transparent face, and a diaphragm embodying an aperture separating said inclosure into compartments at different levels, which compartments are of a depth slightly greater than the diameter of movable bodies placed therein, whereby the difficulty of jumping a body from one compartment to the other is increased, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination, an inclosure having a transparent face and a semi-transparent diaphragm which separates said inclosure into compartments at different levels, an aperture in said diaphram, and a movable body, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

' ARTHUR E. PAIGE.

Vitnesses:

ALBERT J. ZAHM, JAMES H. BELL.