A Box, Balls, and Net Puzzle.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 21st Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Box, Balls, and Net Puzzle.
WILLIAM FFOLLIOTT, Clergyman Little Missenden Vicarage, near Amersham
Bucks., Vicar of Little Missenden do hereby, declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
To consist of an oblong box constructed of wood or cardboard the top to be of
glass & having a net at one end & a round hole communicating large enough to
allow seven balls to pass into the net which is to be coloured in sections the seven
rainbow colours. The puzzle consists of getting the balls to pass into the net in the
order the sections are coloured; the box to contain seven balls coloured to
correspond with the sections of the net.
Dated this 13th day of December 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Box, Balls, and Net Puzzle.
I, WILLIAM FFOLLIOTT, of Little Missenden Vicarage, near Amersham, in
the County of Buckinghamshire, Church of England Clergyman, 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 relates to improvements in puzzles, which consists of a glazed box
with a coloured net and seven coloured balls.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Figure 1, is a view of the glazed front of the box with the balls and net.
Figure 2, is an end view of the box to which the net is attached.
This invention is constructed of a box a from any suitable material glazed with a
glass front b.
In the interior I place seven balls each coloured as follows:-
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. At the end of the box a I cut
an opening and on the outside I fix a net e! by means of a ring c and staples or
clips. The said net e¹ is divided by dotted lines o, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, to indicate the part
coloured red e, orange f, yellow g, green h, blue i, indigo j, and violet k, and is
attached to the ring c by any flexible material.
The colours on the balls d correspond with the colours in the net e¹.
The object of the puzzle is to get the balls d by manipulation into the net in the
order of colours of the rainbow as herein before described.
If preferable divisions or arches may be fixed on the floor in the interior of the
box for the balls to pass through.
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 :-
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1. In a puzzle, the combination of the seven coloured balls & box a glass front b
opening ring c and coloured net e', substantially as herein described and according
to the accompanying drawing.
2. In a puzzle, the combination of the balls & coloured red, orange, yellow, green,

page_text: blue, indigo, and violet, and the corresponding colours in the net e', substantially as
herein described and according to the accompanying drawing.
3. In a puzzle, the combination of divisions or arches fixed to the floor of the box
for the balls to pass through, substantially as described.
4. In a puzzle, the balls d passing through an opening to fall in the net e¹,
substantially as described.
Dated this 15th day of September 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.