An Improved Puzzle Advertisement Card.
Year: 1897

page_text: An Improved Puzzle Advertisement Card.
I, WILLIAM EVANS, Engineer, of 27, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention for an improved puzzle advertisement card consists in an adver-
tisement card cut or slit so as to have a narrow strip joined at each end to the
card, a double headed folded strip, and a ring; the folded double headed strip
being passed over the narrow strip and the ring being situated on the folded strip
between the heads and the narrow strip. The puzzle is to remove the ring. To
effect this, the ring is passed down the narrow strip to near its fixed ends and the
headed strip is then removed and leaves the ring free to be pulled off the narrow
strip.
Dated this 25th day of June 1807
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.
An Improved Puzzle Advertisement Card.
I, WILLIAM EVANS, Engineer, of 27, Chancery Lane, in the County of London,
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:-
This invention for an improved puzzle advertisement card consists in an advertise-
ment card cut or slit so as to have a narrow strip joined at each end to the card;
a double headed folded strip, and a ring, the folded double headed strip being
passed over the narrow strip and the ring being situated on the folded strip
between the heads and the narrow strip. The puzzle is to remove the ring. To
effect this, the ring is passed down the narrow strip to near its fixed ends and the
headed strip is then removed' and leaves the ring free to be pulled off the narrow
strip.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings Fig. I is a front elevation
of a puzzle advertisement card constructed according to this invention and Fig. 2
is a sectional end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1 show-
ing a slightly modified shape of puzzle advertisement card."
The advertisement card a which may be made of any convenient configuration
is cut or slit to form the narrow strip c fixed at its ends in the card a. The
double headed folded strip d is folded at the centre of its length, and the strip is

page_text: approximately of the same size as the strip c. The hole of the ring e is made
of such a size that the strips.c and d will pass easily through it but the heads on
the strip will not pass through it.
In order to put the parts of the puzzle in position the narrow strip c is pulled
out from the face of the card bending the card and the strip at about their centres
but not sufficiently to make a mark or crease. The ringe is then passed along
the strip towards its fixed ends. One head of the strip is then passed between
the folded strip and the ring e and pulled through until the folded part at its
centre bears against the strip e, and the parts left free will assume the position
shown in the drawings.
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To remove the ring, the stripe is pulled out from the face of the card bending
the card and strip in opposite directions. The ring is then passed down the
folded strip to near its fixed ends, when it will be found that the headed end
of the strip can be passed between the folded strip c.
On the card are inserted advertisements and in endeavouring to solve the
puzzle the advertisements are forcibly impressed upon the mind of the user.
In Fig. 3 the heads on the folded strip d are shaped to represent a bottle, and
the ring is made in the form of a flower.
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:
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1. A puzzle advertisement card consisting of a card slit to form a narrow strip
fixed at each end to the card, a double headed folded strip adapted to be looped
over the narrow strip in the card, and a ring held on the double headed 'folded
strip, and capable of being placed thereon and removed therefrom in the manner
described.
2. An improved puzzle advertisement card, substantially as described with
reference to the drawings.
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WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.