US622354A - harvey - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES A. HARVEY, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,354, dated April 4, 1899. Application filed December 29, 1897. Serial No. 664,483. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES ARTHUR HAR- vEY, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of vwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to devise a simple and entertaining puzzle or game; and it consists, essentially, of a box provided with a' flat bottom, two or more stalls located at different parts of the bottom, and of a corresponding number of capsules, each containing a globular weight, the puzzle being to so manipulate the box as to place one capsule or brownie7 in each stall, substantially as hereinafter more specifically described and then definitely claimed.

Figure l is a perspective view of my puzzle or game. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of one of thecapsules or brownies used therewith.

-In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

In Fig. I, A is a shallow box, preferably of cardboard. stalls B, preferably one in each corner. These stalls are formed by L-shaped strips of card a, which are securely glued or otherwise fastened to they sides of the box and its bottom. Upon the cardboard strips a rests the glass cover O, which in the drawings is 'shown broken away, except at the far corner.

D are small capsules, forming what I call brownies, which are provided with the paper legs b.

The object of the game is to so manipulate` the box as to place one of these brownies in each of the stalls B. The task would be comparatively easy but for the special construction of these brownies, which is illustrated in Fig. 2.

It will be seen'v that the capsule D is of the ordinary construction of the gelatin capsule used to'contain medicines; but it is provided within with a small shot E, which, rolling from end to end when the capsule is upon an inclined surface, gives the latter the peculiar erratic jumping motion which constitutes the chief obstacle to placing any given brownie in any given position. The paper legs or proj ec- In the corners of the box I form .the task of getting them into thedesired corners is much simplified.

Although I show four stalls in the box, a fewer or larger number may be employed, according as it is desired to make the puzzle simpler crm-ore difcult of solution.

In some cases it may be advisable to use a plurality of capsules, but have only a portion Aof them provided with the shot E. For instance, four brownies might be used and only one or two of them have the shot E inclosed, and as those having the shot can only be distinguished from those without by the manner in which they move it might thus be rendered more difficult to place all the brownies in their stalls.

From the above description it will be seen that I have devised an entertaining and amusing puzzle which is both simple and cheap to construct.

What I claim as my invention is l. As a puzzle, a rectangular box provided with a flexible bottom and a stall in each of its four corners, in combination with a similar number of elongated capsules, one or more of which contain a small globular weight and are provided with paper legs, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a puzzle, an elongated capsule containing va small globular weight, in combination with legs of paper or other simple material connected to the outside of the capsule, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Toronto, December 17, 1897.

JAMES A. HARVEY.

In presence of- JOHN G. RIDoUr, J. EDW. MAYBEE.

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