US1551265A - Puzzle game - Google Patents

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Aug. 25, 1925. 1,551,265

G. R. PERRY PUZZLE GAME i Filed April 8. 1922 lN'vENToR Gea. E @my ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 25, 1925.

UNITED STATES GEORGE R. PERRY, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PUZZLE GAME. i

Application md Api-i1 s, 1922. serial no. 550,563.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. PERRY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzle Games, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the prinrcipal objects which the present invention has in view are: To interest a player; to promote skill and judgment in handling the game; to provide amusement; and to simplify and cheapen the construction.

Drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a game apparatus, constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; and

Figure 2 is a section, taken as on the line 2-2 in Figure 1.

Description f As shown in the drawings, a box-like structure or container is provided having a glass cover 7 which' is supported by rela-- tively heavy wooden strips 8. Each strip 8 is shown provided with a series of pins 9, the heads of which are covered by a strip of any suitable sealing means such as paperl 10. The sealing strip is extended over the relatively thin bottom member 11, as well as the glass cover 7. The bottom 11 and the sides 12 are preferably formed from cardboard, the structural strength being provided for the apparatus by the end pieces 8 and the glass cover 7.

In playing the game or solving the puzzle a series of rolling members o-r balls 13 are employed. These balls are pierced to provide small threading holes 14. The number of balls has preferably a definite relation to the number of the pins in either series.

The game or puzzle consists in so manipulating the container as to place the balls on the pins and in equa-l number throughout. That is to say, if there are ten balls, as shown in the drawings, the game and puzzle is to thread two balls on each of the.. pins 9 in either series. This is accomplished by tilting the box so that the balls 13 are rolled to rest against 'one of the longer sides of the box. The distance from the side of the boX adjacent to the end pin is about equal to half the diameter of the ball, which means that if any ball is addressed properly to the point of the pin, the ball may be caused to slide down over the pin. The length of the pins is such as to support two of the balls comfortably. The distance between the pins is such that when any pin is filled with balls, no other ball can gain access between the balls on such `pin and the adjacent pin. In the playing of the game it is recommended that the container be so held in either hand as to cause the balls to roll to one side. One of the balls will then either lie adjacent to the point of the first pin or will become impaled thereon. The next ball in turn will come toward the same pin and will likewise lie either directly against its point or will become impaled thereon as a result of light tapping on the edge of the container with the forefinger of the other hand. These may be brought into place readily by rolling along the adjacent side of the container. In all cases care must be observed not to allo-w a ball to roll in front of the pin next to be covered, for the reason that if a ball enters the space between two adjacent pins there will not be room enough for a ball to pass upon either of the pins and then permit said loose ball to pass out of suoli space without taking with it the impaled ball. In this connection it is to be noted that the arrangement of the pins and their relation to the bottom of the container are such that any impaled ball can not roll from its supporting pin, and any free ball in the container will roll and so change its posit-ion more freely, or with less tilting of the container, than the impaled ball will slide from its pin. This fact facilitates the manipulation of the loose balls so as to bring them into favorable position for passing upon the pms.

By a succession of light blows, the balls may be caused to vibrate or jump with slight rotation, which ultimately succeeds in disposing the hole 14.- provided in each ball opposite or in line with one of the pins, which may thereafter be threaded thereon.

In this way the various pins become eachV provided with the proper number of balls 13.

Claim:k

An apparatus as set forth comprising a container having a transparent cover and also a rigid end piece, a series of pins car' ried by saicl end piece and projecting thence parallel to each other and spaced from and parallel to the bottom of the container, and a series of balls Within the container yeach having a hole therethrough adapting it to be received upon one of the pins, there being twice as many balls as there are pins in said series of pins, and the diameter of the balls being so proportioned to the spaces between adjacentpius that When any pin is illecl with balls no other ball can gain access between the balls on such pin and the next adjacent pin.-

GEORGE R. PERRY.

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