US672895A

US672895A - Puzzle.

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Publication number: US672895A
Application number: US3749300A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles E Fischer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1900-11-23
Filing date: 1900-11-23
Publication date: 1901-04-30
Anticipated expiration: 1918-04-30

Description

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. FISCHER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 672,895, dated April 30, 1901. i Application filed November 23, 1900. Serial No. 37,493. (No'medel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES E. FISCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook andvState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Puzzle, of which the following is a specification. .This invention relates to puzzles; and the object is to provide a simple, cheap, and amusing puzzle.

With the above object in view the invention consists in the novelfeatures of construction hereinafter fully described, particularly pointed out in theclaims, and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a puzzle embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a transverse sectional view taken on the line 2 2 thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective 'viewof one of the gates.

Referring now more particularly to theaccompanyiug drawings, A'designates a baseboard, preferably rectangular in outline and having secured about its edges Iianges B, which prevent the marbles'with which the puzzleis played from rolling from the board. Positioned uponthe board are lpins ork projections C, so arranged as to form acircuitous path. At one end of the'board a plurality of open-ended compartments D are formed by pins E, placed in alinement. Each compartment bears the name of one of the nations of the world which `participated inthe capture of Pekin-namely, England, Russia, America, Germany, and France-while the word Pekin is printed in large letters across the boa rd at the inner ends of. said compartment-s, as illustrated. The compartments are closed by swinging gates, as illustrated, each gate `being composed of a piece of metal bent intermediate its ends to form a loop F, which is placed upon one ofthe pins, so as to pivot the Y gate. `This loop is `placed nearer oneend of the gate than the other, so as to provide a gate portion Gclosing one of the compartments,.- and a gate portion H, abutting one of the pins of the next compartment, so as to close saidi compartment also and prevent the opening of the gate of that compartment until the gate portion G of the compartment on the left is Thus each compartment excepting the one on the left is provided with a double gate, and the gates of the compartments must be opened successively, beginning with the one on the left, or the first of thel series.

'Adjacent to the opposite end of the board the word Home is printed, and from this point the marbles I must be started to begin the solution of the puzzle. These marbles I correspond in number to the nations represented, and each marble bears a color, said colors corresponding to the colors of the several, compartments.

The object is to roll the marbles by tilting vthe board through the circuitous path and.

lodge the same in the proper compartments, the game being designed to represent the taking of the gates of Pekin by the foreign nations.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A- puzzle comprising a base-board and a plurality of balls adapted to move thereon, and bearing distinguishing marks or characters, in combination Witha series of pins secured to said board to form a circuitous path,

`a plurality of compartments arranged at one end of the board and bearing distinguishing marks or characters corresponding with the marks or characters carried by the balls, and

swinging gates controlling the entrance to said compartments, substantially as described.

2. A puzzle consisting of a base-board and a plurality of balls adapted to move thereon, in combination with a series of pins arranged upon the base-board to form acircuitous path, a plurality of compartments formed at one vend of the board, and swinging gates controlling the entrance of said compartments, each gate having a portion closing the entrance to the next compartment and positioned inadvanceof the gate of that compartment, substantially as described.

' CHARLES E. FISCHER.

v Witnesses:

OTTO SCHULZ, GEO. WINTEESTEIN.