Improvements in Puzzles.
Year: 1890

page_text: United States of America),
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 4th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th July, 1890-Accepted, 9th. Aug., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Puzzles.
I FLOYD JONES of Pompton Plains, in the County of Morris and State of New
Jersey, United States of America, Inventor, 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 certain new and useful improvements in puzzles of that
character and class wherein a suitable box or other receptacle is provided with a
variety of sub-compartments and passage-ways leading from compartment to
compartiment.
The object of the invention is to provide a new device of this character wherein a
different arrangement of compartments is provided, giving a new and possibly more
difficult game, the object being, as in all such puzzles, to get the animals represented
by marbles or other spheres from one or more compartments into a predetermined
compartment.
The novelty in the present instance resides in the peculiar construction of the box
or receptacle whereby a new arrangement of compartments and passage-ways is
produced, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and then
particularly pointed out in the appended claim.
The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with
the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in
which-
Figure 1 is a top plan of my improved device.
Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.
Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a suitable
receptacle.
It may be a box or any other analogous receptacle having side and end pieces a,
which serve to prevent loss or displacement of the marbles or other spheres.
The interior of the box is divided, as shown in the drawings, by means of suitable
strips, B, which are arranged as follows:
Beginning at one end, substantially at the middle thereof, is a short strip or
piece 6, which is glued or otherwise affixed in place and joining the end piece of the
receptacle with a strip or piece c, which is arranged substantially parallel to the said
end, but of less length than the end piece, so as to leave a passage at each side.
From the strip c there extends a strip or piece d, substantially parallel with the side
iece of the receptacle, but of less length than said side piece, so as to leave a passage-
way e the full length of the box.
Upon the opposite side there is a piece f, of less length than the strip or
piece d, and extending in a slightly-angular direction instead of parallel with the
ide piece.
Extending from the strip e, between the strips or pieces d and f, and of less length
han the strip f, is the strip g, which extends at an angle to the said strips, as clearly
hown in Fig. 1.
At the end of the receptacle, opposite the strip or piece c, there are arranged the
aree strips or pieces h, i and the two latter being arranged substantially parallel

page_text: with the sides of the receptacle and the other at an angle thereto, as shown, the piece j
being shorter than the piece i.
In practice the game will be to get the spheres from the receptacle or passage-way e
into the compartment 7.
This, owing to the peculiar arrangement of strips and passage-ways, will be found
to be a very difficult task.
Any number of spheres may be employed in playing the game, and marbles or any
other suitable devices may be used.
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:
The game apparatus described, comprising a receptacle having straight sides and
divided into compartments and passage-ways by means of strips confined within the
receptacle and arranged as follows: the strip c, parallel with one end of the receptacle,
the strip b, connecting the strip c, with the said end, the strip d, extending from the
strip c, parallel with the side of the receptacle, of less length than the side, the
strip upon the opposite side and extending at an angle to the side, the inter-
mediate strip g at an angle to the strips d and f, and the strips h, i, and j
near the opposite end of the receptacle, and arranged substantially as shown and
described.
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.