CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUCTION OF LOZENGES, WHEREBY THE SAME IN ADDITION TO THEIR ORDINARY USAGE ARE RENDERED USEFUL FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND FOR PURPOSES OF. AMUSEMENT
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Wilson, the elder, and Joseph Wilson, the younger,
both of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, for the Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUCTION OF
LOZENGES, WHEREBY THE SAME IN ADDITION TO THEIR ORDINARY USAGE ARE
RENDERED USEFUL FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
AND FOR PURPOSES OF.
AMUSEMENT."
Sealed the 25th February 1879, and dated the 27th September 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Wilson and Joseph
Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th September
1878.
JOSEPH WILSON, the elder, and JOSEPH WILSON, the younger, both of Glasgow,
in the County of Lanark, North Britain. "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUCTION OF LOZENGES, WHEREBY THE SAME IN ADDITION
TO THEIR ORDINARY USAGE ARE RENDERED USEFUL FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
AND FOR PURPOSES OF AMUSEMENT.'
"
This Invention, which relates to certain improvements in the manufacture or
construction of lozenges, has for its object to render such lozenges in addition to
their ordinary usage a means of education, also as a source of amusement.
Under one head the improvements consist in manufacturing or constructing the
said lozenges in pieces and forms which fit into or against one another after the
manner of what is commonly known as the puzzle or dissected map, or puzzle or
dissected picture. On one or both of the flat sides the lozenges are stamped or
printed in one or more colours with portions of a map or pictorial or other device,
the whole of which appears when the respective lozenges are united or placed
ID:

page_text: together in the order corresponding to the map, design, or other picture so stamped
or printed thereon.
Under a second head the improvements consist in so cutting or dividing the
substance of which the lozenges are made that when placed together they form in
outline the representation of an animal, building, or other animate or inanimate
object, or a geometrical or other diagram composed of lines, either straight or
curved, and angles. In this second case the lozenges may or may not be stamped
or printed on one or both flat surfaces with a pictorial or other device.
Under a modification of the Invention the lozenges may be wholly cut or divided
from each other, or partially cut or divided or perforated, so as afterwards to be
easily separated; and they may be commercially dealt with, that is to say, sold in
the divided or non-divided state.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph Wilson and Joseph Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 24th March 1879.
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JOSEPH WILSON, the elder, and JOSEPH WILSON, the younger, both of Glasgow,
in the County of Lanark, North Britain. CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OR CONSTRUCTION OF LOZENGES, WHEREBY THE SAME IN ADDITION
TO THEIR ORDINARY USAGE ARE RENDERED USEFUL FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
AND FOR PURPOSES OF AMUSEMENT."
Our said Invention relates to certain improvements in the manufacture or
construction of lozenges, and has for its object to render such lozenges in addition
to their ordinary usage a means of education and a source of amusement.
The improvements constituting our Invention consists under one head in manu-
facturing or constructing the said lozenges in pieces and forms which fit into or
against one another after the manner of what is commonly known as the puzzle or
dissected map or puzzle, or dissected picture. Lozenges so constructed and fitted
together are illustrated in Figures 1 to 5 of the accompanying Drawing. The
lozenges illustrated in Figure 1 are of a square form, in Figure 2 of irregular forms,
in Figure 3 of a diamond form, in Figure 4 they have straight and curved sides,
and in Figure 5 by their dovetail shape they interlock the one with the other.
On one or both of the flat sides the lozenges are stamped or printed (in one or
more colours if desired) with portions of a map or pictorial or other device, the
whole of which appears (as shewn with regard to Figures 1 and 2) when the
respective lozenges are united together in the order corresponding to the map,
design, or other picture so stamped or printed thereon. A paper having a similar
map, picture, or device marked thereon may be provided as a guide to the placing
of the pieces in their correct positions. The divisions in Figure 1 may represent
lines of latitude and longitude.
A second head of our improvements consists in so cutting or dividing the
substance of which the lozenges are made that when placed together they form in
outline the representation of an animal, building, or other object, as shewn in
Figure 6, or geometrical or other diagram composed of lines either straight or
curved, and angles, as shewn in Figures 7 and 8, which represent respectively a
cross and a rectangular figure. The lozenges formed under this modification may
or may not be stamped or printed on one or both flat surfaces with a pictorial or
other device.
The various lozenges may under both heads of our Invention be marked with
letters or signs, as shewn in Figure 7, so that the said lozenges may be placed
correctly together by the aid of a paper similarly marked and constituting a key or
guide.
Under a modification of the Invention the lozenges may be wholly cut or divided
from each other, or partially cut or divided or perforated, so as afterwards to be
casily separated; and they may be commercially dealt with, that is to say, sold in
the divided or non-divided state.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and the system, mode, or manuer in or under which the same is or may be
used or practically carried into effect, we would observe in conclusion that what we
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
us by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
Constructing or manufacturing lozenges in pieces and forms which fit into or

page_text: against one another to form pictorial or other devices, or to form the outline of an
object, as herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Wilson, the elder, and Joseph Wilson,
the younger, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-first day
of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
nine.