Improvements in Puzzles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Nov., 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec., 1894
EDWIN PEAR PURKIS 121 Stratford Road in the City of Birmingham in the
County of Warwickshire Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-
To make the puzzle I take a sheet of cardboard, wood or metal and cover it on
both sides with maps or pictores or a map on one side and a pictore on the other.
I then cut from it numerous round, square dimond, octagon or any other shape
peices as near as possible at equal distances apart leaveing a margen between each
peice cut out, 1 then cut the remainder of the sheet through transversally takeing as
many transverse cuts as there are holes made by the round, square, diamond
octagon or any other shaped peice cut out of the sheet, the number of the cuts of
either shape depending upon the size of the puzzle I wish to make. The puzzle
being to place the whole of the numerous peices so cut into there relative positions
to form the maps or pictures placed on the sheet.
Dated the 28th day of March 1894.
Improvements in Puzzles.
I EDWIN PEAR PURKIS of 121 Stratford Road, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
To make the puzzle I take a sheet of cardboard, wood, or metal and cover it on
both sides with maps or pictures, or a map on one side, and a picture on the
other. I then cut from it numerous round, square, diamond, octagon, or any other
shaped pieces as near as possible at equal distances apart, leaving a margin between
each piece cut out. I then cut the remainder of the sheet through transversely
taking as many transverse cuts as there are holes made by the round, square,
diamond, octagon, or any other shaped piece cut out of the sheet, the number of the
cuts of either shape depending upon the size of the puzzle I wish to make.
It will be seen that my invention relates to puzzles of the description in which
when the parts are placed together in a certain manner a complete picture or map
or both picture and map are formed and it consists of improvements in the shape of
the parts into which the puzzle is cut, and also in placing maps or pictures on both
sides or a map on one side and a picture on the other.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I append a sheet of
drawings to this Specification, on reference to which my invention will be easily
understood.
Figure 1. is a view of the obverse side of the puzzle, which in this case has a
picture upon it.
Figure 2 is a view of the reverse side which has a map upon it.

page_text: Upon one side of a sheet of cardboard wood or metal is fastened or printed a
map. Upon the other side of the same sheet is fastened or printed a picture.
Circular pieces A are cut from the sheet of cardboard or other material forming
the puzzle and the circular openings left by this means are intersected by straight
cuts a running both longitudinally and transversely of the sheet of cardboard or
other material forming the puzzle; and these cuts a divide the sheet into a number
of parts or sections of a determined shape or shapes. The shape shewn is a
convenient one but others may be adopted such for instance as square octagon or
diamond shape. The pieces a¹ cut from the edge which forms the boundary of the
puzzle are somewhat modified and differ in shape from the pieces which are nearer
the centre.
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. A puzzle substantially as shewn and described.
2. A puzzle having a picture or map upon each side substantially as described.
3. A puzzle having a map upon one side and a picture upon the other, substantially
as shown and described.
4. A puzzle which has maps or pictures upon both of its sides and which is
divided into pieces or sections in the manner and for the purpose described and
shewn.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1894.
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
106, Priory Park Road, Kilburn, N.W., Agent for the Applicant.