Improvements in Puzzles or Games.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 6th June, 1891-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Puzzles or Games.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communi-
cation to me from abroad by William Henry Fitler, of Sayre, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Inventor,) to be as follows:
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This invention relates to a new game or puzzle; and it consists of a circular basc
recessed upon its upper side, and having a tower arranged centrally upon it. A
spiral channel-way winds up the tower from the channel around the base and the
tower, to the top thereof, and suitable recesses are made in the side of the tower,
level with the spiral channel. Marbles are placed in the channel around the base
of the tower.
The puzzle consists in manipulating the tower in such a manner as to raise the
marbles from the base to the top of the tower without their entering the openings
in the side of the tower.
J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Puzzles or Games.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, (a com-
munication to me from abroad by William Henry Fitler, of Sayre, Pennsylvania,
U.S.A. Inventor,) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has relation to game-puzzles; and it consists in the construction
and novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in
the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.
The object of my invention is to produce an amusing game-puzzle, whereby a
leaden ball is caused to travel up a helical way or path constructed on the outside
of a tower having windows, without allowing the ball to fall off or into one of the
windows.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 is a side view of my improved game-puzzle ;
Figure 2, a vertical section of the same.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in both the figures, A designates a tower constructed of
any suitable material, but preferably of wood, and made conical, as shown, and has
secured at its base a suitable support a, circular in form, and somewhat larger than
the base of the tower, and has formed around its periphery a vertical flange B,
which forms an alley-way C between the flange and the tower. At the apex of the
tower is formed a cup-shaped recess D, provided at its outer edge with a channel-
way E.
F designates a helical way or path secured on the outside of the tower and
extends from its base to the channel-way E at the apex of the tower, and, as will
be noticed, the upper face or bed of the way or path is slightly curved down-
ward and inward to throw the ball, as hereinafter explained, against the side of the
tower. At suitable points in the tower are formed circular openings or windows G,
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page_text: their lower edges being flush with the bed of the way or path, as shown, and
slant inward at right angles to the slope of the tower. The tower has rising from
its apex a rod or shaft II, and has secured under its base a suitable manipulating-
knob I.
In operating my puzzle I employ a leaden ball J, the greatest width of diameter
of which falls just inside of the outer edge of the way or path.
To accomplish the puzzle, proceed as follows: Place the leaden ball in the alley-
way at the ha-e of the tower; take hold of the knob under the base of the tower
with the right hand, and the rod or staff at the apex with the left hand; turn the
tower by means of the knob until the leaden ball starts on the way or path;
continue to turn the tower by the knob until the leaden ball reaches the channel-
way, when it will readily enter the recess at the apex of the tower, and at all times
keep the ball in front of you. Great care must be taken in passing the windows
that the ball does not enter them.
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 :
1. In a game-puzzle, the combination, with the tower having at its base an
alley-way, of the helical way or track extending from its base to its apex, and
windows or openings in the tower flush with the bed or way, substantially as
described.
2. In a game-puzzle, the combination, with the tower having at its base an
alley-way, a helical way or path extending from its base to its apex, the windows
in the tower flush with the way or track of the recess at the top of the tower,
and a channel-way connecting the helical way with the recess, for the purpose
specified.
3. In a game-puzzle, the combination, with the conical tower having at its base
an alley-way, the helical way or track extending from its base to its apex, the
recess in the apex of the tower, and a channel-way leading from the way or track
to the recess, of the windows or openings in the side of the tower flush with the
upper face of the helical way, the inanipulating-knob at the base of the tower, and
the staff or rual rising from the apex, substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of June 1891
J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.