US600280A

US600280A - Puzzle

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Publication number: US600280A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-03-08
Anticipated expiration: 1915-03-08

Description

W.H.BM-ERY.

(No Model.)-

PUZZLE. 0

Patented Mar. 8

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IVILLIAIWI II. EMERY, OF AUBURN, MAINE.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,280, dated March 8, 1898.

Application filed May 6, 1897. Serial No. 635,320. (No model.)

To all 1071 0727, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. EMERY, a W citizen of the United States, residing at Auburn, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles; an d 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.

My invention has relation to puzzles; and the object is to provide a device of this character which may be made at small cost and which will prove interesting to both young and old.

With this object in view the invention consists of certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of my improved puzzle, showing the parts assembled in position to be separated. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken through the ball-race and removable rod, showing the pin in the act of engaging the spherical body; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the rod.

In said drawings, 1 denotes a tubular body or section of the puzzle, the exterior of which preferably has the outline of a bottle. 2 denotes the rod, which is adapted to said body and when in place has the appearance of an ordinary cork or stopper. The inner Wall of the tubular body has an annular groove or ball-race 3, in which is seated a ball or spherical body 4. The lower end of the rod is recessed and is provided with a ball-socket 5, at one side of which projects a pin 6. It is evident that when the ball is in the ball-race the rod cannot be removed from the tubular body for the reason that the ball will project into the annular recess, and when it is attempted to withdraw the tubular body the inner shoulder 7 of the recess will abut against the ball.

To separate the parts, the rod is partially withdrawn, so as to bring the pin opposite the groove or recess in the tubular body. The rod is then turned until it engages the ball and is then turned the half of a revolution, which carries the ball around the groove, and then by giving it a slight turn in the opposite direction the ball will be seated in the socket of the rod, and in this position the rod may be withdrawn from the tubular body.

Although I have specifically described the construction and relative arrangement of the several elements of my invention, I do not desire to be confined to the same, as such changes or modifications may be made as clearly fall within the scope of my invention Without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A puzzle comprising a tubular body having an annular ball-race in its inner wall, a rod having an annular recess provided with a ballsocket and a pin located at one side of the socket, the distance between the ball-socket and the inner end of the rod being less than the distance between the ball-race and the closed end of the bore of the tubular body, whereby the rod has a rotary and 1ongitudinal movement, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. EMERY.

Witnesses:

HERBERT C. ROYAL, MAUDE M. LYEETH.