An Improved Ball Puzzle.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd May, 1890-Accepted, 7th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ball Puzzle.
I, ALBERT LEONHARDT of 3 Hilda Road, Brixton, in the Parish of Lambeth,
County of Surrey, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to a new method of creating a Puzzle.
This invention consists in allowing various coloured balls to circulate inside a
glass topped and smooth flatbottomed box without any stops or other obstacles
whatsoever to impede the free movement of the balls, and in directing that said
balls should take positions on coloured fields marked out on the inside of the
bottom of said box and corresponding in colours with the colours of the balls
themselves.
D911 CA 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ball Puzzle.
1, ALBERT LEONHARDT, residing at 3 Hilda Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrey,
Clerk, 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 refers to a new method of creating a Puzzle.
My invention consists of a round, glass-topped and flatbottomed box, made of
cardboard or other suitable material, four inches in diameter and three quarters of
an inch in depth, outside measurement, inside of which box a number of differently
coloured balls about half an inch in diameter and made of any suitable hard material,
are allowed to freely circulate without being hampered in their movements in any
direction, by obstacles or impediments of any description. Inside the box on the
bottom, round the edge a row of coloured spaces are marked out, which correspond
in number, colour and width with the balls circulating inside the box. The arrange-
ment of the colours in this row is immaterial. The number of the balls may be from
seven up to eleven and the colours all different one from another, but I find the
most convenient number of balls to be ten and always two coloured alike, so that
five different colours are represented. The choice of colours is immaterial. Both
the box and the balls may be made either larger or smaller than the dimensions
beforementioned, as long as the box and the balls are either increased or reduced in
size both in the same proportion; there may also be two rows of coloured spaces
marked out on the bottom inside the puzzle and so arranged round the edge of the
bottom that theso two rows are exactly opposite each other; but the result will be
the same, whichever size or method may be employed.
With the above described apparatus the following puzzle can be solved. Shake
the box slightly so as to make the balls move about and then manipulate the box
so as to get the balls in a row on their respective colours as marked on the bottom
inside the box. When two rows have been marked out, only one of them at a time
has to be chosen for that purpose.
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 :-
For creating an improved Ball Puzzle, apparatus consisting of a round, glass-

page_text: topped and flatbottomed box made of cardboard or other suitable material, containing
a number of differently coloured balls and having a corresponding number of
coloured spaces marked out on the bottom inside the box, the said balls to be
manipulated in the manner hereinbefore set forth, and said box to be inside free from
any stops or cavities, or any other obstructions or impediments whatsoever to guide
the balls into their places on the respective colours and keep them in their respective
places when once there, or otherwise to interfere with their free circulation inside
the box in any direction, while the box is being manipulated for the purpose of
solving the puzzle.
ALBERT LEONHARDT.