US570858A - Combined paper-weight and game or puzzle - Google Patents

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. J. M. WA'DDEL. COMBINED PAPER WEIGHT AND GAME 0R PUZZLE. No. 570,858. Patented Nov. 3, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN M. \VADDEL, OF GREENFIELD, OHIO.

COMBINED PAPER- WEIGHT AND GAME OR PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 570,858, dated November 3, 1896. Application filed Tune 5, 1893. Serial No. 476,614. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHN M. TADDEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Greenfield, in the county of Highland and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Combined Paper-Veight and Game or Puzzle, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to combine with a paper-weight a game, puzzle, or other means for temporarily amusing, interesting, or relaxing the mind.

It consists of the means shown in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification, and particularly referred to and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical diametrical section of a device complete, illustrating one form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view of the same arranged as a puzzle. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the base with the top removed. In this form it is arranged as a game. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the base, illustrating another form of my invention. Fig. 5 is a diametrical sectional view of the same.

Referring first to Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, the base A and crown-piece B are made of glass or other transparent material, although the base may be of opaque material, if desired, but for cheapness glass is preferred. The base is formed with an annular groove a to receive the annular flange b, which projects down from the top of the crown-piece B. In the center of the base is an upwardlyprojecting disk at, having its edges notched, as shown. The inner surface of the base inclines upwardly from the notched disk a to the inner wall of the groove a. I c are globes of metal which are placed within the space between the base and crown-piece before the parts are cemented together. The face of the disk (0' (shown in Fig. 2) is marked opposite two of its notches with the figures, upon one side 18 and upon the other side 93, while the disk shown in Fig. 3 has its notches, of which there are eighteen, numbered from 1 to 6, corresponding with the numbers on the ordinary die.

3 5 By lifting the weight and turning it around until the balls by circumferentialforce travel around the outer rim, but against the flange 1), and then placing the weight at rest, the balls will gradually travel down the inclined face of the base until they are arrested and stopped in one or other of the notches in the edge of the disk (1,.

In Fig. 2 two balls or globes are shown, and the puzzle is solved by working the balls or globes into the numbered notches.

In Fig. 3 three balls or globes are used, and as they settle they will occupy three of the notches in the disk, the game being similar to a game of dice thrown wit-h three cubes numbered from 1 to 6.

In Figs. 4 and 5 the outward]y-projecting notched disk is omitted and an annular row of slight depressions is formed around the inner rim of the inclined floor of the base. In place of the notched disk the center portion of the floor inclines upward within the annular row of depressions to the center of the base, forming a slight cone-shaped proj ection, the floor thus inclining in both directions toward the row of depressions. These depressions are numbered like the notched disk in the previously-described figures, and the base in this case, as in the other, may be either transparent or opaque. If opaque, the figures must be applied to the upper surface of the floor, but I prefer in both cases to make the base A of glass or other transparent material and print the figures or other desired characters upon a separate disk of paper or similar material, and cement the same underneath the base, so that they will show through. In Fig. 5 this paper disk is represented by the character a It is obvious that the form of the upper face or floor of the base may be varied without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention, as it is only necessary that settlingdepressions be formed in it into which the globes a must rest by gravitation after being thrown out or disturbed by agitation of the weight.

hat I claim is- 1. The combination of the base A, the peripherally notched and numbered disk a projecting centrally from the floor of the chamber, the crown 13 secured to the base, forming the chamber between the base and crown, i

said base and crown being both formed of glass, and the globes c confined within the chamber when the parts are secured together, substantially as shown and described.

9. The combination of the circular base A,

crown being also formed of glass, and the globes c confined Within the chamber and adapted to be thrown by agitation 0r centrif- 5 upper surface or floor formed with inclined surfaces leading to recesses or depressions, the disk a secured underneath the base and having numbers or characters to designate the depressions in the floor of the base, the

IO crown B secured to the base and forming a chamber between the base and crown, the

returned and settled in said depressions when the weight is at rest.

JOHN M. VADDEL.

Vitnesses A. E. ROBINSON, JNo. F. WADDEL.

made of transparent material and having its I ugal force from the settling depressions and I 5

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