WO1996032994A1 - Puzzle - Google Patents
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- WO1996032994A1 WO1996032994A1 PCT/GB1996/000932 GB9600932W WO9632994A1 WO 1996032994 A1 WO1996032994 A1 WO 1996032994A1 GB 9600932 W GB9600932 W GB 9600932W WO 9632994 A1 WO9632994 A1 WO 9632994A1
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- puzzle
- back board
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Classifications
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
- A63F9/10—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
- A63F9/1044—Display boards therefor
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/0001—Games specially adapted for handicapped, blind or bed-ridden persons
- A63F2009/0003—Games specially adapted for blind or partially sighted people
- A63F2009/0006—Colour blind
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
- A63F9/0613—Puzzles or games based on the use of optical filters or elements, e.g. coloured filters, polaroid filters, transparent sheets with opaque parts
- A63F2009/064—Puzzles or games based on the use of optical filters or elements, e.g. coloured filters, polaroid filters, transparent sheets with opaque parts opaque, e.g. blindfold, obstructing view
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
- A63F9/10—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
- A63F2009/1016—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles the pieces having additional connections, i.e. in addition to the connection by the jig-saw shapes
- A63F2009/1022—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles the pieces having additional connections, i.e. in addition to the connection by the jig-saw shapes to the display board
- A63F2009/1027—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles the pieces having additional connections, i.e. in addition to the connection by the jig-saw shapes to the display board adhesive
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
- A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
- A63F9/10—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
- A63F2009/1016—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles the pieces having additional connections, i.e. in addition to the connection by the jig-saw shapes
- A63F2009/1022—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles the pieces having additional connections, i.e. in addition to the connection by the jig-saw shapes to the display board
- A63F2009/1038—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles the pieces having additional connections, i.e. in addition to the connection by the jig-saw shapes to the display board with hook and loop-type fastener
Definitions
- This invention relates to games, particularly though not exclusively, to educational puzzles.
- the educational toy market is generally considered to be quite lucrative as most parents perceive that their offspring will be at an educational advantage if they are encouraged to play with such toys.
- the specific educational market in this area is far smaller.
- educational puzzle type games do exist one example of which that is sold under the trade name TANGRAMS concerns one's ability to replicate images made up from seven alternately shaped tiles given the tiles and only the completed image.
- a puzzle of the kind in which a plurality of pieces assemble to form a panel which overlies a back board with means - for example, magnetic means - provided to cause the pieces to stick to the cooperating surface of the back board; characterised by the features firstly that the cooperating surface of the back board bears a pictorial display and secondly that the panel, when completed and when correctly positioned in its intended relative overlying relationship with the back board periphery deliberately obliterates at least a portion of that pictorial display.
- the means to cause the pieces to stick to the display are ferromagnetic means.
- the means to cause the pieces to stick to the display are chemical adhesive means.
- the means to cause the pieces to stick to the display are "one-shot" (ie, non-reusable) means.
- the means to cause the pieces to stick to the display comprise complementary cooperating touch-and-close fastening means of the VELCRO TM kind - wherein the term VELCRO TM is a registered trade mark denoting one type of touch-and-close fastening means.
- the cooperating surface of the back board exhibits a border which, when the pieces are assembled, bounds the edges of the panel.
- border edges are bevelled.
- the panel when assembled, exhibits its own pictorial display.
- the puzzle when completed is essentially two-dimensional.
- the invention also includes within its scope a puzzle substantially as herein described with reference to and as illustrated in any appropriate selection or combination of Figures 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawings.
- Figure 1 illustrates one embodiment of the present invention viewed from the top and illustrates a completed panel fitted to a back board incorporating a border.
- Figure 2 illustrates the back board and border as illustrated in Figure 1 without the pieces fitted on the back board.
- Figure 3 is a perspective view of the back board as illustrated in Figure 2.
- integral is intended to cover not only something which is formed from the outset as one single-entity component but also anything which, whilst being assembled from a plurality of initially disparately-produced integers, ends up as one overall and normally non-dismantable structure.
- panel is intended to cover not only a single continuous appropriately sized and shaped sheet of material assembled from pieces but also any apertured appropriately sized and shaped sheet of material assembled from pieces.
- pictorial display is intended to mean something other than solely a guide showing how the pieces assemble.
- Figure 1 shows a preferred embodiment of the current invention generally referenced 10. There is shown a back board 12 with four border sections integral with the back board 12 and joined at the corners 11 to form a substantially continuous peripheral border 14 for the back board 12. Figure 1 also illustrates a plurality of pieces generally referenced 13 that are assembled to form a panel generally referenced 16 that overlies the back board 12.
- the back board 12 is of laminate integral construction, there being a metallic plate susceptible to ferromagnetic attraction sandwiched between two sheets of plastics material.
- each respective sheet of plastics material (that acts as the cooperating surface for receiving the pieces generally referenced 13) incorporates a pictorial display 17, one of which is seen more clearly in Figure 2 which shows the back board 12 without the pieces generally referenced 13.
- the border 14 is also formed from plastics material.
- the plastics material used to form the border 14 may or may not be the same as the plastics material that forms part of the laminate construction of the back board 12.
- the border 14 in this particular embodiment comprises four separate continuous border sections that are substantially "C shaped when viewed in cross section through one plane and each respective border section is so sized and shaped as to mate/slot with/over each respective edge of the back board
- each respective border section are so shaped that when each of these respective border sections is fitted onto the back board 12 to form the integral border 14, each respective edge 11 of each respective border section is in substantially contiguous relationship with one other edge 11 from a different border section to form a substantially continuous integral border 14 that substantially surrounds the back board 12.
- the glass transition temperature of the plastics material used to form the border 14 is lower than the glass transition temperature of the plastics material used to form part of the laminate that is the back board 12.
- the plurality of pieces generally referenced 13 that when assembled correctly to form the completed panel 16 each comprise, in this particular embodiment, irregularly shaped triangles and quadrilaterals, as can clearly be seen in Figure 1.
- the panel 16 prior to being cut to form the pieces generally referenced 13 is also of laminate construction and comprises a continuous magnetic sheet that is bonded to a similar sized and shaped sheet of plastics material to form an integral panel 16 of laminate construction.
- the panel is then cut to form pieces generally referenced 13 and the object of the puzzle is to reform the panel 16 from the pieces generally referenced 13 on the back board 12 and within the confines of the border 14.
- the panel when completed and correctly positioned in its intended relative overlying relationship with the back board 12 periphery, deliberately obliterates at least a portion of the pictorial display 17 that is to be found on the back board 12.
- the pictorial display 17 is completely obliterated by the reformed panel 16.
- the panel 16 when reformed from the pieces generally referenced 13, is substantially the same size and shape as the internal area of the back board 12 defined by the inner edges of the border 14 and as such the reformed panel 16 substantially bounds the edges of the border 14.
- Figure 3 clearly illustrates the fact that each respective internal edge 15 of each respective border section that makes up the border 14 is raised and substantially orthogonal to the plane of the back board 12.
- the thickness of each respective piece generally referenced 13 is substantially constant and as a result, the reformed panel 16 is substantially flat, in other words it is "two dimensional".
- the thickness of the reformed panel 16 is relatively thicker than the internal edge 15 thickness of the border and as such, the plane of the assembled panel 16 on the back board 12 is not flush with the plane of the border 14.
- the back board 12 could still comprise a laminate construction of the type described hereinabove but in this alternative embodiment, the metallic sheet could comprise a ferromagnetic sheet.
- the pieces generally referenced 13 instead of having a surface that comprises a ferromagnetic material, could simply be a sheet of metallic material that will be "attracted" by the magnet that forms part of the laminate construction of the back board 12.
- the means to cause the pieces generally referenced 13 to stick to the pictorial display 17 of the back board 12 need not necessarily be ferromagnetic means.
- the back board could be adapted to receive the pieces generally referenced 13 if one surface of each respective playing piece was coated with a chemical adhesive designed to cooperate and adhere to the surface of the back board.
- either at least one surface of the pieces generally referenced 13, or at least one surface of the back board 12, is provided with a chemical adhesive that is "one shot” (ie, non-reusable).
- a chemical adhesive that is "one shot” (ie, non-reusable).
- the means to cause the pieces generally referenced 13 to stick to the back board 12 could be complimentary cooperating touch-and-close fastening means of the VELCRO TM kind (VELCRO TM being a registered trade mark for one type of touch-and-close fastening means).
- the means to cause the pieces generally referenced 13 to stick to the back board 12 need not necessarily comprise, for example, ferromagnetic means that cover the entirety of one surface of for example, the playing pieces generally referenced 13. It may be cheaper in alternative embodiments to produce playing pieces generally referenced 13 with for example ferromagnetic means that do not entirely cover one surface of each respective playing piece (generally referenced 13). Obviously, this partial coverage of either the playing pieces or the back board 12 of the means required to cause one to stick to the other can apply to all of the embodiments as just described hereinabove. Furthermore, in yet other alternative embodiments (not illustrated), combinations of ferromagnetic chemical adhesive and touch-and- close fastening means could be used.
- FIG. 1 The embodiment illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 essentially show a "two dimensional" back board 12.
- the back board 12 could be three dimensional, for example, the back board
- each face of the back board 12 would incorporate a border 14 as well.
- the means of incorporating a border 14 are known to the person skilled in the art and will not be discussed further in this specification.
- alternative embodiments need not necessarily have a continuous border 14.
- alternative embodiments could incorporate a bevelled border 14. This would be particularly advantageous if the completed panel was similar in size and shape to the exposed area of the back board given the confines of the internal area mapped out by the border 14. Such a bevelled surface would aid the assembly of pieces generally referenced 13 to the back board 12 to form the completed panel 16.
- FIGS 1, 2 and 3 show a substantially square, two dimensional arrangement for the puzzle 10.
- the puzzle 10 in its "two dimensional" form could be any particular shape and need not necessarily be restricted to straight edged shapes such as squares, triangles and oblongs. It could quite easily be envisaged that this substantially two dimensional form of the puzzle 10 could be circular, oval or combinations of both straight edges and curves.
- the pictorial display 17 could occur on both sides of the back board 12 as illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3, furthermore an alternative pictorial display 17, that need not necessarily be the same pictorial display that occurs on the back board 12, could appear on the pieces generally referenced 13 that when completed to form the panel 16 make up a recognised pictorial display.
- the completed panel 16 could be apertured to show a portion of the pictorial display that was present on the back board 12.
- the plane of the assembled panel 16 once in place on the back board 12, is substantially flush with the plane of the border 14.
- the assembled panel 16 need not necessarily be "two dimensional”. It is envisaged that the assembled panel could in fact be
- each respective piece generally referenced 13 has a flat edge profile, in other words, the plane that comprises the thickness of each respective piece is orthogonal to the plane of the back board 12 that the piece generally referenced 13 is stuck to.
- the thickness of the pieces generally referenced 13 could be profiled to form complementary male and female connectable pieces leading to a completed panel 16. This would add a further level of complexity to the puzzle.
- the pieces generally referenced 13 comprise at least one lug or socket so that they can be fitted together in a manner similar to a conventional jigsaw.
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Abstract
L'invention porte sur un puzzle dont les pièces sont assemblées pour former un tableau qu'on pose sur un fond par un moyen, par exemple magnétique, permettant de faire adhérer les pièces sur le fond, et caractérisé en ce que: (1) la surface dudit fond comporte une image et (2) en ce que le tableau une fois terminé et correctement placé dans la position de recouvrement voulue par rapport à la périphérie du fond cache au moins une partie de l'image.
Priority Applications (1)
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AU53407/96A AU5340796A (en) | 1995-04-18 | 1996-04-18 | Puzzle |
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AUPN2436 | 1995-04-18 | ||
AUPN2436A AUPN243695A0 (en) | 1995-04-18 | 1995-04-18 | The pure magnetism cube |
AUPN6688A AUPN668895A0 (en) | 1995-11-20 | 1995-11-20 | The mindbender game and portable billboard |
AUPN6688 | 1995-11-20 |
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GB455557A (en) * | 1935-04-18 | 1936-10-19 | John Maurice Frost Craven | Improvements in or relating to amusement devices |
US4336020A (en) * | 1980-07-15 | 1982-06-22 | David Zacharin | Jigsaw puzzle for use in bilingual education |
CH662954A5 (en) * | 1984-01-31 | 1987-11-13 | Manus Verlag Ag | Puzzle arrangement on a substrate, e.g. a postcard |
CH674469A5 (en) * | 1988-02-08 | 1990-06-15 | Laurent Debrot | Jigsaw puzzle with pieces having different thickness - puzzle being in several layers and some pieces having hollows or projections |
WO1991004774A1 (fr) * | 1989-09-29 | 1991-04-18 | Magnaplay Inc. | Puzzle magnetique |
US5056793A (en) * | 1990-06-01 | 1991-10-15 | Sigle Harold A | Picture identification game |
GB2255834A (en) * | 1991-05-11 | 1992-11-18 | Farsharp Ind Corp | A camera |
US5219168A (en) * | 1992-02-20 | 1993-06-15 | Morris James E | Puzzle apparatus |
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GB455557A (en) * | 1935-04-18 | 1936-10-19 | John Maurice Frost Craven | Improvements in or relating to amusement devices |
US4336020A (en) * | 1980-07-15 | 1982-06-22 | David Zacharin | Jigsaw puzzle for use in bilingual education |
CH662954A5 (en) * | 1984-01-31 | 1987-11-13 | Manus Verlag Ag | Puzzle arrangement on a substrate, e.g. a postcard |
CH674469A5 (en) * | 1988-02-08 | 1990-06-15 | Laurent Debrot | Jigsaw puzzle with pieces having different thickness - puzzle being in several layers and some pieces having hollows or projections |
WO1991004774A1 (fr) * | 1989-09-29 | 1991-04-18 | Magnaplay Inc. | Puzzle magnetique |
US5056793A (en) * | 1990-06-01 | 1991-10-15 | Sigle Harold A | Picture identification game |
GB2255834A (en) * | 1991-05-11 | 1992-11-18 | Farsharp Ind Corp | A camera |
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