US527522A

US527522A - Toy or puzzle

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Publication number: US527522A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-10-16
Anticipated expiration: 1911-10-16

Description

(No Model.)

F. R CUNNINGHAM 8v G. A. HITGHCOGK.

TOY 0R PUZZLE. No. 527,522.

Patented Oct. 16, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK .RUSSEL CUNNINGHAM AND GEORGE AUSTIN HITCIICOCK, OF WARE,

I MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY OR PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,522, dated October 16, 1894.

Application filed December 4, 1893. Serial No. 492,770. (No model.)

To aZZ whom'it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANK RUssEL (JUN- NINGI-IAM and GEORGE AUSTIN HITOHCOCK, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Ware,in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys or Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

, The object of the invention is to design a toy or puzzle which will afford a cheap and In mechanical construction it consists essentially of locating mwithin a box having a transparent top, a ball in combination with a number of rings, the

ball to be maintained in position by being fixed upon a pin or other support.

The puzzle consists in so shaking or otherwise manipulating the box, as to put all the When the rings are in semblance to a figure of the planet Saturn. Hence the name: Saturns rings. 1

We will now describe more particularly our invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1, represents a general view of the toy or puzzle. Fig. 2, is a plan view, with the rings placed at random on the bottom of box. Fig. 8, is a vertical cross sectional view. Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In Fig. 1, A, represents the ball fixed upon a pin '11. a, b, c, d, represent four rings in position surrounding ball A. The rings may be of metal or any suitable material. If one or more of them be made of a lighter mate'- rial than the others, the difficulty of putting them over the ball is considerably increased.

or other material and finished in gilt or any trio with ball A, which are printed or other- -ber otrings four, itmay be more or less.

. wise figured upon the material covering or forming the bottom of the box. These do not appear in Fig. 1, being covered by the rings. These circles mark the position WlllCll the rings shouldoccupy when the puzzle is performed.

Stars or other celestial phenomena may be printed or otherwise figured upon the material covering or forming the box.

Although we prefer to finishthe interior of box a light blue and represent the stars, ball, &c., in gold, they may be given any desired color.

Although we have chosen to make the num- What We claim as our invention is In a toy or puzzle adapted to being held in and manipulated by the hand, a fixed ball in combination with a number of rings of difierent sizes, located within a closed box having a transparent top, substantially as specified.

FRANK RUSSEL CUNNINGHAM.

GEORGE AUSTIN IIITGHCOOK.

Witnesses:

A. F. RICHARDSON, (3. C. HITOHCOCK.