US552721A

US552721A - Puzzle

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Publication number: US552721A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 1913-01-07

Description

(No Model.)

PUZZLE. Y No. 552,721. .Patented Jan. 7, 1896.

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THOMAS F. SCIIOFIELD, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 552,? 21 dated January '7, 1896.

Application filed January 10, 1895.

To alt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS F. ScHoFIELD, of Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State f ul Improvement in Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in puzzles in which a central group of characterized surfaces or pockets have in connec' tion therewith an auxiliary surface or pocket adjacent to the central group and upon each of two opposite sides thereof, and a number of chips or disks characterized in the same manner as the central group of surfaces or pockets and equal to the number of surfaces or disks in the central group are adapted to be moved from surface to surface or pocket to pocket into a certain predetermined arrangement from a different prescribed arrangement.

I11 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the group of characterized spaces or pockets with the disks removed therefrom and the holder containing the characterized surfaces or pockets opened. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the disks in the prescribed arrangement on one side of the folding holder. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the position of the disks after they have been transferred onto the opposite side of the folding holder into position to begin the solution.

The holder for the characterized surfaces or pockets consists of two folding sections A A hinged together along the line a. On the central group of pockets, denoted by B on the section A, and B on the section A. In the present instance I have shown nine of the characterized pockets in the central group arranged in the form of a square, and on the two opposite sides of the central group I have shown the auxiliary surfaces or pockets Z) 73 adjacent to the group B, and b 12 adjacent to the group B. The different surfaces or pockets are characterized in the present instance by color, and to indicate this the names of the different colors have been printed upon the several surfaces or pockets.

The groups of surfaces or pockets of the sections A and A are so located that when the sections. A A are closed together face to face the said groups will coincide throughout their marginal and division lines; but the Serial No. 534,486. (No model.)

the present instance shown of circular formto more clearly distinguish them from the surfaces or pockets on or in which they rest; but in practice they may be made square or any shape found desirable. They are characterized to correspond with the surfaces or pockets of the central groups B B, in the present instance by color, the names of their colors being printed thereon, and for my present purposes I prefer to have them characterized upon opposite sides.

Starting with the disks in the position which they occupy in Fig. 2, each on its surface or pocket corresponding to itself-2'. (2., green upon green, red upon red, &c.the section A may be folded over onto the section A, so as to hold the several disks in their positions, and the whole may then be reversed to bring the section A down and the section A uppermost. The section A may then be turned over into the position shown in Fig. 3, leaving the disks on the surfaces or pockets of the section A as shown in Fig. 3, and the puzzle will be solved by moving the disks from space to space without allowing at any time one of the disks to skip over a space occupied by another disk until the disks have been arrangedto correspond with the surfaces or pockets on the section A-t'. 6., green upon green, red upon red, &c. There is a further limitation during this manipulation of the disks, and that is that only those which are further characterized by a star, in the present instance the disks green, red, or blue, may be moved into the auxiliary surfaces orpockets upon the opposite sides of the central group and denoted by white and a star in the present drawings.

When the puzzle has been solved on the section A, the section A may be folded over upon it, the whole then reversed and the section A opened. This will leave the disks in essential, as the said characterized surfaces or pockets may be left flush upon both of the sections and the pressure of the two sections together be relied upon to hold the disks in position while being transferred.

hat I claim is The puzzle, comprising a folded base or support, each of the adjacent faces of the folding base or support being provided with a central group of characterized surfaces or pockets so arranged upon the said sections of the support that they will register when the said folding support is closed, one of said folding sections being further provided with an auxiliary pocket or characterized surface upon each of two sides of the central group, and chips or disks corresponding in number to the number of surfaces or pockets in one of the central groups and characterized to correspond to the individual surfaces or pockets of the group, substantially as set forth.

THOMAS F. SOHOFIELD. lVitnesses J. A. MURRAY, A. J. BLANCHARD.