An Improved Portable Maze, Applicable for Exhibition Grounds or other Places.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th June, 1890-Accepted, 5th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Maze, Applicable for Exhibition Grounds or
other Places.
I. HENRY ASTON JONES, of College Yard, Worcester in the County of the same
City, Merchants Clerk do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved portable maze which can be put together or
taken down in a very short space of time and is specially applicable for exhibition
grounds but may be erected in other places.
According to this invention I construct the boundaries of the maze and the
boundaries of the paths thereof in the form of palisades railings or hoardings and
provide any suitable number of swing gates in convenient spots, these swing gates are
so placed that when opened so as to allow exit from one passage they effectually block
up and conceal the entrance to another passage through which the person in the maze
should pass.
Springs are attached to the gates to return them to their normal
positions when released or the gates are weighted so as to swing back when release.
Turnstile gates may be used in place of or in addition to the swing gates, the said
turnstile gates being provided with a ratchet and pawl arrangement so that cach
turnstile can revolve in one direction only.
Each turnstile revolves in one part of its course through or between fixed arms
carried by the frame of the gates, allowing a person to pass through the turnstile but
preventing return.
DALAL L 1
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CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Maze, Applicable for Exhibition Grounds or
other Places.
I, HENRY ASTON JONES, of College Yard, in the City and County of Worcester,
Merchant's Clerk, 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 relates to an improved portable maze, which can be put together or
taken down in a very short space of time, and is specially applicable for exhibition
grounds, but may be erected in other places.
According to this invention I construct the boundaries of the maze and the
boundaries of the paths thereof in the form of palisades, railings, or boardings, and
provide any suitable number of swing gates in convenient spots, these swing gates are
so placed that when opened so as to allow exit from one passage, they block up and
conceal the entrance to another passage through which the person in the maze should
pass. Springs are attached to the gates to return them to their normal positions when
released, or the gates are weighted or hung so as to swing back when released.
Turnstile gates may be used in place of, or in addition to, the swing gates, the said
turnstile gates being provided with a ratchet and pawl arrangement, so that each
turnstile can revolve in one direction only, and each turnstile revolves in one part
of its course through or between fixed arms carried by its boundary allowing a person
to pass through the turnstile, but preventing return.

page_text: And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which similar letters indicate corresponding parts throughout.
Figure 1 is a plan of a maze fitted with gates and turnstiles, and Figure 2 is an
elevation of a turnstile taken on the line X X Figure 1.
In the construction of my portable maze, I provide a sufficient quantity of any kind
of palisades, railings, or boarding, and place the same so as to form the pattern of the
maze desired, such for example as that shewn in Figure 1, although I do not confine
myself to the particular shape or configuration there shewn. I then securely support
or hang the gates or turnstiles, or both, in their proper positions, and the maze is now
constructed.
In Figure 1 the arrows indicate the direction in which the gates and turnstiles
turn. The dotted lines shew the way into and out of the centre of the maze. The
fixed arms A A shewn in Figure 2 are attached to, or formed in one with, the adjacent
palisades, railings, or boardings B.
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) An improved portable maze constructed of palisades, railings, boardings, or
other easily erected fencing substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described
and illustrated.
(2) In a portable maze such as is herein described and shewn the use of revolving
-turnstiles-or-swing gates, or both substantially as and for the purpose set forth and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 4th dore of June 1800
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CASTLE SMITH.
Per F. W. Golby,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.