US485314A

US485314A - Puzzle

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Publication number: US485314A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-11-01
Anticipated expiration: 1909-11-01

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A. E. WOOLF.

PUZZLE. No. 485,314A Patented Nov. 1, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED E. IVOOLF, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,314, dated November 1, 1892. Application filed February 3, 1890. Serial No. 339,368. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED E. I/VOOLF, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Puzzle, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to puzzles or toys, and has for its object to provide a puzzle or toy comprising a fixed part and a movable part so related to each other that the elfort to get the movable part on the lixed part will afford amusement and develop patience and skill of manipulation.

The invention consists of the device described herein, and the particular form in which I prefer to embody my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a view of the entire puzzle. Fig. 2 represents one of the movable pieces adapted to be placed on the pin. Fig. 3 shows the pin secured in the cork or closure of the receptacle, and Fig. 4 is an inverted View of said puzzle to show the manner of Working.

A transparent vessel or receptacle is filled or partially filled with fluid and should be closed to prevent the escape of such fluid. This vessel or receptacle is provided internally with a projecting object or part which basa fixed position with relation to the body of the receptacle and moves therewith. One or more movable objects or pieces ol a shape to iit the internally-projecting piece are contained within the receptacle. The material of which these movable pieces are made depends somewhat on the fluid in the receptacle and should be such as is unaffected by and impervious to the fluid, so as to avoid deterioration and a change in their specific gravity.

I prefer to make the vessel or receptacle of glass in the form of a spherical bottle or a globe having lines therein to designate or represent the meridians, as shown at C C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 the parallels of latitude, as shown at A A A A, and the equatoi, as shown at B, and having a neck with an opening therethrough extending from the body of the vessel or receptacle, all as shown in the drawings. The cork or other closure E lits in the opening in the neck and forms a convenient base for the projecting portion which in this case is a pin D, extending nearly through the receptacle and being either straight and perpendicrar its entire length to the iiat outer side F of the cork or bent or hooked at the end. The movable pieces G are rings or pieces of rubber or other-substance impervious to Water, of any desired shape or color, with holes large enough conveniently to admit entrance on the point of the pin. The fluid is preferably water or some other transparent or translucid liquid. The hole may be a perforation extending entirely through the movable piece or merelya cavity or hollow extending only partially through it, and the shape of the movable piece is permanent.

The operation of this particular embodiment of my invention isvas follows: The operator grasps the receptacle in any c onvenient place-as, forinstance, theneck-andbyturn ing and manipulating the receptacle causes the relative positions of the lixed and the movable pieces to change, the movable pieces always tending to assume a certain horizontal position with relation to the fluid in the receptacle without regard to the actual position of the receptacle and the fixed piece. By skillful manipulation the movable pieces or rings may be made to pass over and upon the fixed piece, due to the agitation of the Huid. The outer surface of the portion O opposite the closure is preferably made dat, to make a suitable bottom.

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

l. In a puzzle, the combination of a transparent closed receptacle containing a translucid liquid, an interiorlyprojecting pin D, and one or more punctured impervious bodies G, adapted to be placed upon said pin D, substantially as described.

2. A toy or puzzle comprising a closed receptaele containing fluid and a fixed and a movable object within the receptacle, the movable object being of a permanent shape and having a hole therein corresponding to the shape of the fixed obj ect, whereby it is adapted IOO by the agitation of the fluid to be placed ovei.` the fixed object.

3. A toy or puzzle comprising a receptacle containing fluid and a fixed and a movable object Wihin the receptacle, the movable object having a hole whereby it is adapted to be placed upon the fixed object.

4. In a toy, a closed receptacle for Iiuid, formed with a neck having an opening and a closure for said opening having an object flxedly secured thereto, in combination with an n object floating on the liquid and adapted to