Year: 1897

page_text: I, JAMES HENRY COGHLAN BOIG, of 10, Rossett Avenue, Liverpool, Master
Mariner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
In constructing the puzzle toy according to this invention, I take a sheet of
cardboard, metal, celluloid or their equivalent and form in it a tortuous passage
or slot leading from the edge to the centre, forming a maze. Such passage is, here
and there, blocked by a gate or baulk and the edges of the passage or slot are
preferably coloured to represent hedges. I then cut the sheet into a number of
comparatively small pieces of unequal size and shape, and in doing this I prefer
to divide the gates or baulks. The solution of the puzzle consists in piecing the
several pieces together so as to form the original maze.
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J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent (Qual. by Exam.),
St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.
I, JAMES HENRY COGHLAN BOIG, of 10, Rossett Avenue, Liverpool, Master
Mariner, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:--
In constructing a puzzle toy according to this invention, I take a sheet of
cardboard, metal, celluloid, or their equivalent, and form in it a tortuous passage
The drawing
or slot, leading from the edge to the centre, thus forming a maze.
hereto annexed illustrates a puzzle toy according to my invention. The material
of the sheet is denoted by the letter a, and the passage or slot by the letter b.
A convenient method
Such passage is here and there blocked by a gate or baulk, c.
of forming the passage 6 will consist in passing the sheet under a punching
machine provided with a die, cut to form the pattern shewn in the annexed
drawing, or an equivalent pattern. I then cut the slotted sheet into a number of
comparatively small and irregularly shaped pieces, and in doing so I prefer to
divide the gates or baulks c, as shewn in the drawing by the lines d. This division
of the slotted sheet into pieces may be effected in the punching machine simul-
taneously with the punching of the slot, or may be done subsequently in the same
different machine.

page_text: The edges of the passage or slot 6 may be coloured to represent hedges, whereby
a foot-path is portrayed; or they may be coloured or formed to represent icebergs
and ice-floes, so as to depict a navigable passage through ice, whereby the diffi-
culties attending Polar expeditions may be illustrated.
The entrance to the passage is denoted by the letter e, whilst the goal is indicated
by the letter f.
The solution of the puzzle consists in piecing together the irregularly shaped
pieces of cardboard or other material, so as to provide a tortuous but otherwise
unobstructed passage from e to f, as shewn by a dotted line in the drawing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
A puzzle toy consisting of a number of irregularly shaped pieces of cardboard
or other suitable material, which pieces, correctly pieced together, portray or
depict or form a tortuous way or passage, obstructed by baulks formed by pro-
jections which meet in the centre of the passage, the solution of said puzzle
consisting in arranging the said pieces so as to form such tortuous passage, sub-
stantially as herein described with reference to the drawing.
J. A. COUBROUGH,
Registered Patent Agent (Qual. by Exam.),
10 St. George's Crescent, Liverpool, Agent for the Applicant.