US514901A - Puzzle apparatus - Google Patents

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(MOdeL) PUZZLE APPARATUS.

Patented Feb, 20, 1894.

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EDWIN E. BLANCI-IARD, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

PUZZLE APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.- 514,901, dated February 20, 1894.

To aIZ Z whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN E. BLANCHARD,

of the city of Troy, Rensselaer county, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Puzzle Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a puzzle apparatus, (and as will be more fully .set forth in the claim) consists of a frame having two upright sides, and three cross-bars arranged between, and at. right angles to the sides; each of which bars is made with a cord passage at each end where adjacent to the side-bars; said cord-passages being in alignment; and a cord having a threading needle atone of its ends and a ball at the 0ther; said cord being adapted to be passed up through said bars, and an intermediately placed disk or button between the bottom and middle barand between the latter and the top bar at each side of the frame.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there is a sheet of drawings contain-.

ing two figures illustrating my invention with the same designation of its parts by letter reference used in both of them.

,Of the illustrations Figure 1, is a perspective of my puzzle apparatus with the parts shown in a position forthe solution of the puzzle with the buttons shown as raised from off the cross-bars. Fig.2, is another perspective of the apparatus with the parts appearing when the puzzle has been solved.

The several parts of the apparatus thus illusitratedand their function are described as folows.

The letter F, designates the frame made with the sides S, the top cross-bar B made with thecord passages 0, 0 the middle crossbar B made with the cord passages 0 O and E the bottom cross-bar made with the cord passages 0 0 The letter O, designates the cord having the threading needle N, at one of its ends, and the ball E, at its other end.

Application filed May 29. 1893. Serial No. 475,816. (Model-l tween the bottom and middle bar and one between the latter and the top bar; the cord is then passed downwardly through the holes in the other end of the cross-bar, and a disk between the top and middle bar and also one between the middle and bottom bar as shown at Fig. 1. The solution of the puzzle consists in so threading the cord back and forth through the cord passages and those in the bars as to bring the disks into the position below the bottom bar on the cord above the ball as shown at Fig. 2.

With the buttons threaded on to the cord as shown at Fig. l, to remove them and have them appear as shown at Fig. 2, take a loop with the cord around the lower end of the right hand side vertical bar, adj aeent to where the cord and threading needle emerges, or around the little finger of the operators hand and then pass the cord up through the righthand hole in the lower cross bar and the button thereat, with the frame thus held, then up through the right-hand hole of the middle bar and through the button between the latter andthe top cross-bar, then through the latter, then pass the cord down through thelefthand hole in the top cross-bar; then down through the button between the top cross-bar and through the middle cross-bar at the left hand, then down through the button between the middle cross-bar and the bottom cross-bar at the left-hand side of the frame, through the bottom cross-bar; then pass the cord outside of the lower cross bar at the left-hand side, then through the button between the middle and bottom cross-bars outside of the latter bar, then up through the button between the left-hand topand middle cross-bars outside of the latter; then down through the button between the right-hand top and middle cross bars outside of the latter, then through the lower right-hand button outside of the bar; then remove the loop from the dle end, passing the needle through all the holes and disks (looping the cord around little finger as before) pass needle back through first hole (button end) without going through the disks; come back with needle without going through hole, and pick up first disk,then pass needle through second hole without going through disk, comeback with needle without going through hole and pick up second disk; then pass the needle through third and fourth hole without going through disk, come back without going through any of the holes and pick up third disk; then pass needle through fifth hole, come back with needle and pick up fourth disk, then pass needle through sixth and last hole. Drop loop from finger,

take needle in one hand and with other hand carefully pass the loop cord out of holes and the disks, when the disks will take their original places.

disks or buttons made with a central cord passage, constructed and arranged to be used substantially in the manner as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 25th day of March, 1893, in the presence of the two Witnesses whose names are hereto written.

EDWIN E. BLANOHARD.

Witnesses:

W. E. HOGAN, CHARLES S. BRINTNALL.

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