A Puzzle Device.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1898
A Puzzle Device.
I, ROBERT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of 93 Mulgrave Street, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 :-
A puzzle device, according to this invention, comprises a case having, preferably,
two chambers or spaces, and two movable objects or parts within them, which bear
upon them representations of objects or the like; the end to be attained by the
puzzle being that these two movable parts, or the objects represented upon them,
shall be caused, by moving or shaking the article, to take some relative position to
each other in their chambers or spaces.
The forms in which the puzzle device may be made up in, or take, are in
considerable variety; some examples of which are given in the drawings hereto
annexed, and I will further describe my invention with reference to examples, it
being however to be understood that the invention is in no way restricted to the
special forms or examples given in such drawings.
In the different figures or modifications, the same letters and figures of reference
are used to denote the same or equivalent parts wherever they occur.
Referring to these drawings, Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 an elevation,
partly in section, showing one application of my invention. In this case, the
objects represented on the moving parts are eyes, and the end to be attained in to
get the separate eyes into a central and proper position on each side of the device.
This article is made of a base plate a, and chamber casings b, consisting of pressed-
up annular discs, having central glass windows c, the latter being kept up to the
metal of the discs 6 by washers d; or tongues cut out of the plate a may keep
them in position. The casing discs are held onto the plate a by clips a' on the
edge of a, which grasp the edges of the discs. The moving parts are designated e,
and they consist of discs of metal, cardboard, or suitable material, with a projecting
central part, on which, practically, they are supported and move on the plate a.
In this case the base plate a has an extension a² which constitutes a handle; and
it may have on its face, as shewn, the representation of a nose and mouth of a
person, while the moving parts e contain representations of the eyes on their upper
surface.
In Figures 3 and 4 (which are plan and part sectional elevation respectively),
the chamber casing within which the moving parts are place and move, are
made in one; and consist of a transparent material, such as "xylonite"; and in
this case, if desired, the outer part of the cases can be renderel opaque in any
suitable way, leaving the central portion, only, transparent. In other re-pects this
modification is substantially similar to that above described, except that the
extension a is in the form of a handle.
In the modification shewn in plan and part sectional elevation in Figures nud 6,
the chamber casings b are placed on the underside of the plate a, instead of above,
as above described; and this plate is provided with glass windows e above the
central part of the chamber casings. In this case, the moving parts rest upon
the bottoin of the chamber casings d, while the plate a is extended across as
shewn; but this plate, if desired, may be extended, as indicated in dotted lines,
into a circle, or other shape, and bear upon its surface the representation of a
complete face, with the exception of the parts occupied by the windows C while

page_text: the parts have upon them the representation of the eyes. Thus, practically, the
whole device, when the eyes are in their central or proper positions, represents a
complete face or head.
The modification shewn in Figures 7 an 18 (which are plan and part sectional
elevation, respectively) of the device, consists in supporting the moving parts
upon central fixed pivots. The action in this case is that the moving parts e
will only have rotary motion upon their pivots; whereas, in the other cases shown,
the motion is one of translation and rotation.
Figures 9 and 10 show in plan and part sectional elevation, a modification
wherein the two chamber casings & have separate base plates, and these two parts.
are connected together by a bar a constituting a handle to the device.
From the examples shown and described with reference the drawings, it will
now be plain how the invention may be modified or constructed as to firm or
detail, and as to the objects represented on the device, or the moving parts
thereof, and any differ largely, and therefore it is considered unnecessary to enter
further into any specification of possible modifications in these respects.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim in-
1. The herein described jazzle device, namely, a device consisting of or
etamprising two (or more moving parts, and spaces or chambers in which said
moving parts have movement: operating substantially as set onth.
2. The different modifications of puzzle devices particularly as set forth with
reference to and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 15th day of October 1895.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15 Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents,