An Improved Toy or Puzzle.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Toy or Puzzle.
I FREDERICK WALTER DENNIS of 1811 Mason Strest Omaha in the County of
Douglas and State of Nebraska, United States of America, Brickmaker 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:-
Fig. 1 is a top plan view of my invention.
Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. 1 cut on the line xx.
My invention is entitled "The Champion of the Ring" and consists in the base
tboard A bounded by a rim B its upper edge rising about 1 inch above the upper face
of the base and set in the upper face of said base, and about one inch on the inside
from said rim is a partition C, coloured red, having in its lower right hand corner an
opening c.and in its upper left hand corner an opening c¹.
Inside of raid partition C and about an inch from the same is another partition D
coloured white having in its upper right hand corner an opening d and in its lower
left hand corner an opening d¹.
On the inside of said partition and about one inch from same are four corner pieces,
E in the upper right hand corner and coloured green, F in the upper left hand corner
and coloured blue, G in the lower left hand corner and coloured red and H in the
lower right hand corner and coloured black.
Between said corner pieces are. left openings e in the upper centre, f in the left
hand centre; g in the lower centre and in the right hand centre of the board.
In the inner corner of the corner partition E is built a house I also coloured green
and having in it a door i which opens directly to the centre of the ring.
In the inner corner of the corner partition F is built another house J coloured
blue the same colour of the partition having in it a door j which opens directly to
the right.
In the inner corner of the corner partition G is another house K coloured red, the
same colour of the partition and having in it a door which opens to the centre of
the ring.
In the inner corner of the corner partition H is built a house L. coloured
black, same colour as the partition and having in it a door which opens directly to
the left.
On the inside of said corner pieces is an octagon ring about five or six inches in
diameter marked by a single wire fence M which is driven into the base. Said wire
fence is just high enough to let the four men Kilrai, Rin, Greenfiel and Mitche
represented by the four marbles 1, 2, 34 respectively and coloured blue, green, red
and black respectively pass in and out under said wire, but said wire fence is low
enough to keep Sulliva represented by the large marble No. 5 in the ring.
In the centre of said ring is a house N having a door n opening directly to the
bottom left hand corner of the board. The covering of said house is coloured green.
The colouring is for the purpose of ornament and to more easily distinguish the
parts of the puzzle.
Thus as will be seen there are tracks O, P and Q square R and ring field S for
the small marbles to play in whilst the larger marble is confined inside the wire
fence.
The game is played as follows.
Place the large marble No. 5 in the ring and the four smaller ones in the outside
track 0, take the board and carefully manipulate it so as to run the marbles to the
centre and work the black one into the black house L next the green one No. 2 into
the green house I, next the blue one into the blue house J and next the red one into
the red house K and then run the large one No. 5 into the centre house N without
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page_text: letting any of the smaller ones out of their houses and if any one should come out
while you are attempting to put No. 5 in his house you must run him back before
Sulliva is put in. All this must be done by manipulating the board and none of the
men are to be touched by the finger or anything else during the process.
The person who gets all the men into their homes first in the order above described
wins the game.
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. The puzzle board consisting of the base A, rim B inside partitions C and D
having the corner openings c c and d d² corner pieces E. F G and H having the
houses I J K and L respectively, the ring, fence M mounted on posts m and centre
house N, said houses having doors i j k l n respectively for marbles to play in and out
of substantially as shown and described.
2. A puzzle consisting of the board having the base A, rim B inside partitions C
band D, having the corner openings c, c¹ and d, d¹, corner pieces E F. G and H
having the houses I. J K and L respectively, the ring fence M mounted on the posts m
and centre house N and marbles 1. 2. 3 4 and 5, said houses having doors i j k l and n
respectively for said marbles to play in and out of substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 5th day of December 1889.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.