IMPROVEMENTS IN INTELLECTUAL GAMES OR PUZZLES AND IN THEIR MANUFACTURE
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Masters Nisbett, of Horselydown, in the County of
Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN INTELLECTUAL GAMES OR
PUZZLES AND IN THEIR MANUFACTURE."
Sealed the 27th December 1879, and dated the 12th September 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Masters Nisbett at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th September 1879.
JAMES MASTERS NISBETT, of Horselydown, in the County of Surrey.
PROVEMENTS IN INTELLECTUAL GAMES OR PUZZLES AND
FACTURE."
IN
THEIR
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The Invention consists in forming letters or devices of wood or any suitable
material, and inlaying them in a ground work of different color, either as
separate letters, monograms, naines of persons or places, or any words, or com-
bination of words, or devices. The letters or devices being divided into several
pieces of varying forms and sizes, a puzzle (more or less intricate according to the
number and variety of the pieces) is produced to place them all in their proper
positions..
The improvements in the manufacture consist in using sheets of carton pierre or
paper pulp or other material in a plastic or other suitable state, and impressing
therein or thereout the spaces for the letters or devices from block impressions or
dies of the same, made of metal or otherwise, then by the same or other dies or
blocks pressing or punching out of any convenient material the letters or devices
which will fit the impressed spaces in the aforesaid sheets, said letters or devices
to be coloured a different colour from the sheets which form the background,
and also divided into pieces of intricate shapes, &c., by hand or otherwise.
The ground and inlaid devices may however be formed in other ways as at
present by fret saws, &c., but cutting, punching, or impressing the ground
sheets and the devices out of or through paper will be found the best and formi
the most durable work.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Masters Nisbett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
March 1880.
JAMES MASTERS NISBETT, of Horselydown, in the County of Surrey. " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN INTELLECTUAL GAMES OR PUZZLES AND IN THEIR MANU-
FACTURE."
The Invention consists in forming letters or devices of wood or any suitable
material, and inlaying them in a ground work of different color, either as separate
letters, monograms, names of persons or places, or any words or combination of
words, or devices. The letters or devices being divided into several pieces of
varying forms and sizes, a puzzle (more or less intricate according to the number
and variety of pieces) is produced to place them all in their proper positions.
The improvements in the manufacture consist in using sheets of carton pierre or
paper pulp or other material in a plastic or other suitable state and impressing
therein or thereout the spaces for the letters or devices from block impressions or
dies of the same, made of metal or otherwise, then by the same or other dies or
blocks pressing or punching out of any convenient material the letters or devices
which will fit the impressed spaces in the aforesaid sheets, said letters or devices
to be colored a different color from the sheets which form the background, and
also divided into pieces of intricate shapes, &c., by hand or otherwise. The ground
and inlaid devices may however be formed in other ways as at present by fret
saws, &c., but cutting, punching, or impressing the ground sheets and the devices
out of or through paper will be found the best and form the most durable work.
To these new puzzles I give the name of "Eclipse."
The accompanying Drawings explain more clearly how a word (Mary) may be
composed in the described manner, Fig. 1 showing all components of letters
placed in their proper position, except the last letter, where the two pieces A and B
are not yet laid in. These two pieces A and B are shown separately in Figs. 2
and 3, Fig. 2 being a side view, and Fig. 3 a front view.
The hollow spaces in Fig. 1 are left blank while the various pieces laid in are
scoured in different direction.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Masters Nisbett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of March, A.D. 1880.