Improvements in Puzzles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
[Communicated from abroad by HERMAN F. WOLFF, of 909, Vine Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Manufacturer.]
Improvements in Puzzles.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:—
My invention has reference to puzzles and consists of a certain device fully
set forth in the following Specification and accompanying drawings forming part
thereof.
It consists of a disc, metalic or other substance, perforated, a certain number
of the perforations have a uniform pitch of centers, but in a very irregular
arrangement.
Promiscuously distributed around these perforations are other perforations, whose
pitch of centers are variable and irregular.
Combined with my perforated dise I use a ring, cut transversely. The diameter
of this ring from a line drawn through the center thereof to the center of the
body of opposite sides is equal to the pitch of the series of the uniformly distanced
holes above referred to.
The
The puzzling feature of my device consists in carrying the ring from the central
hole to the outer periphery in & by the proper course. This proper course being
the series of perforations whose pitch of centers are uniform, although their linear
relation is very irregular as described, and after the said ring has been carried out,
to carry it back again by the same route. The manner in which I carry the ring is
specifically as follows. I first straddle the disc by the separated ring until the
walls of its separated ends come opposite or coincident with the proper hole,
which is one of the holes forming the series leading to the central one.
annular body of the ring is then rotated through this hole, after which J
oscillate the ring until I again bring the walls of its separated ends coincident
with another of the series of holes composing the circuit and so on. To make the
device as puzzling as possible I place an occasional hole with the same pitch as
the circuit-holes laterally in the path of the ring, which if entered by the ring,
further progress thereof will be impossible until the said ring is withdrawn and
pursues its predetermined course.
Like marks or figures are used in the different views to represent corresponding
parts.
Fig. 1 is a plan of my device showing the predetermined path of my ring.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the ring.
Fig. 3 is a part section of the disc and side elevation of the ring showing the
position in which the ring must be placed just previous to entering any of the
plate perforations.
In Fig. 1 the course or circuit of the ring is indicated by the arrows, & the
perforations from 1 to 31 must be consecutively entered by the ring before the
puzzle will be solved. The dotted line Fig. 1 from W to W¹ indicates the pitch
of these holes. They correspond in pitch to the distance between the dotted
lines A, B Fig. 2. The arrow C, Fig. 1 shows the discharging hole for the ring
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page_text: or the entrance hole therefore depending upon which direction the said ring is
moving.
I of course do not limit myself to the number of holes, nor to their course.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is,
1st. A puzzle consisting of a perforated disc with perforations arranged in a
circuitous and irregular path from center to perimeter, and a ring separated
transversely and adapted to engage in said holes consecutively, whereby the said
ring can be carried from center to circumference & vice versa.
2nd. A puzzle consisting of a perforated disc with perforations arranged in a
circuit from center to perimeter, combined with a ring separated transversely
and adapted to engage in the said perforations, as and for the purpose set
forth.
3rd. A puzzle consisting of a perforated plate having some of its perforations
of uniform pitch, others variable, and a ring, separated transversely and adapted
to engage in the perforations of uniform pitch and whereby the said ring can
be consecutively passed from hole to hole until the limit of a predetermined
course is reached.
Dand his 14
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.