A New or Improved Puzzle.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1895-4ccepted, 22nd June, 1895
A New or Improved Puzzle.
I, THOMAS HEATON, of 3, Topping Street, Blackpool, Oyster Merchant, 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 puzzle, and has for its object to provide
a simple and inexpensive device which will afford considerable amusement and
require ingenuity in performing.
In carrying out my invention, three shapes are cut from cardboard, wood or
the like, which have to be fitted together in a particular manner so as to form
the figure of a horse, or like animal. The upper portion of the puzzle is cut
so as to give the appearance of an animal in external configuration, and the
other two pieces are somewhat similar in form to legs. This arrangement causes
a misleading impression so that the person attempting to do the puzzle naturally
endeavours to fit the parts together so as to form four legs attached to a body.
This however is not the method by which the puzzle is completed, as the under
edge of the top piece is cut so as to form the back and head of a horse, and the
other parts are forked or notched in such a manner that when the three pieces
are properly fitted together, a horse or like animal will be outlined by the three
pieces, the form of the horse being made by the blank space left. The horse so
formed will be represented as galloping.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 represents the three parts separate before being fitted together, and
Fig. 2 is a view of the completed puzzle.
A is the upper part of the horse, and as shown clearly in Fig. 1 it has a rough
outline of a horse but not completed, the head being apparently complete and the
body partially formed. The two leg pieces B and C are formed with the notches
or central cuts b and c which separate the pieces in what appear to be two legs.
These notches really form the outline of the legs in the completed figure as shown
clearly in Fig. 2, the body of the horse being formed by the under edge of the part A
and the upper extremities of the pieces B and C. The head, neck, and tail are also
completed by the upper extremities of B and C. A complete figure is thus formed
in a totally different manner from that which would naturally be attempted on
looking at the separate pieces, and ingenuity is required to complete the puzzle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.-
(1.) An improved puzzle consisting of three pieces which have to be fitted
together in such a manner that the space left between the parts will form an
outline of a horse or other animal, substantially as described and for the purposes
specified.
(2.) The improved puzzle, consisting of three separate parts, each having the
appearance of part of an animal, fitted together so as to form the shape of a horse

page_text: by the blank spaces left between the parts, substantially as described and shown in
the accompanying drawings, and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 21st day of May 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.