US1273089A - Puzzle. - Google Patents

Description

M. L. OGLE.

PUZZLE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 4, 1912.

Patented July 16, 1918.

MARY LIGHT OGLE, OF COVIINGTON, KENTUCKY.

PUZZLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1918.

Application filed October 4, 1917. Serial N 0. 194,809.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY LIGHT OGLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Covington, in the county of Kenton and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple, unique, new and useful puzzle, made up into conventional form by the use of odd shaped cards or blocks. The particu lar conventional form with which the puzzle is formed when solved is that of a short armed cross, one form of which is called the red cross.

In the present instance it consists of four base or key pieces and ten filler or filling out pieces.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification:

Figure 1 is a made up or solved form of the puzzle,

Fig. 2, is a view of the longest piece of the key or base of the puzzle,

Fig. 3, is a similar view of the piece next in length which forms part of the key to the puzzle,

Fig. 4, is a similar view of the shortest piece of the key part of the puzzle, there being two of these pieces of approximately equal length, and

Fig. 5, is a View of one of the triangular filler pieces which are disposed around the key or base to form the remainder of the puzzle.

The base or key parts to the puzzle are marked 1, 2, 3 and 4 and the filler parts 5.

The pieces 1 and 2 have straight body lines 10, but are inclined at their ends, as are also the pieces 3 and 4, the angles or inclined ends, however, in the pieces 3 and 4 are in an opposite direction to the inclined ends on parts 1 and 2, at one end when laid in the puzzle, as shown, to form its key'or base. The inclines on pieces 1 and 2are marked 6 and the inclines on pieces 3 and 4 are marked 7 The triangular shaped pieces 5, of which there are ten in this construction, are made of the form or contour shown and have the short lines or edges 8 and the long line or edge 9.

To work the puzzle and thus form the cross, the pieces 1, 2, 3 and 4, which form the key of the puzzle, are laid side by side as shown in Fig. 1, said pieces at their lower extremity all being in the same plane, but at their other extremity are divided, the ends of strips 1 and 2 forming a perpendicular line to form one side of the top short arm and the upper ends of parts 3 and 4 extending laterally at a right angle to form the upper edge of the right side short arm. The ten triangular pieces are then disposed and placed as shown in Fig. 1, that is 2 are placed to fill out the top and side arms and four are placed to make the lower arms, thus forming the cross and solving the puzzle.

While I prefer to make the parts as shown herein, it is of course understood that I may deviate somewhat from the exact configuration herein shown and still keep within the scope of my invention.

The pieces may be made of any color, but are preferably made red, and they may be made of any kind of material.

What I claim as new and my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is;

A puzzle consisting of fourteen pieces, four pieces formed like strips having straight sides and inclined ends, these strips forming the key of the puzzle, and ten tri-' angular shaped pieces, said pieces when laid so that their edges meet, forming a cross with short arms.

Witness my hand at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 27, 1917.

MARY LIGHT OGLE.

Witnesses:

H. E. CARsTENs, M. M. GROGAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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