Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Take-aparts and put-togethers
Patent
1989-10-30
1991-01-15
Coven, Edward M.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Take-aparts and put-togethers
2063151, 220377, 220326, 220 421, 40156, A63F 910, B65D 600
Patent
active
049847988
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
This invention releates to a composing plane for two-sided puzzles.
More particularly, this invention relates to a composing and supporting plane for games of patience such as for instance puzzles in which the composition of the figures can be performed on both sides of the game.
As is well known, such type of game essentially consists in recreating, by means of reciprocal fitting of small pieces in one another, a complete figure.
In games already known at the present time, such figure is formed on one of the two sides of the sheet that makes up the game, and that is divided accordingly into small pieces, so that each one of said pieces bears, on one side, a portion of the image that is to be reconstituted and, on the opposite side, a paper support of any color.
Such type of game of patience is generally composed by employing, as a supporting plane, very different kinds of supports such as the covers of the boxes, or tables, boards or planks . . . according to the size of the game itself.
Moreover, said game, once it is composed, must lie on a horizontal plane to avoid becoming undone and generally it is to be stored within boxes or similar containers in which it is quite hard to look at the final composition and to appreciate its beauty.
Moreover, it is well known that in the field of games of patience such as for instance puzzles, not only children but also adults love to put themselves to test, aiming at the creation and composition of images of ever increasing complexity and having an ever increasing number of details and of pieces into which the whole figure is subdivided.
One of the main complications is represented by the prearrangement of sheets on which the images to be composed are formed on both sides of the game, so that the action of composing the figure can be performed simultaneously on both parts.
One of the main problems met with in such type of composition is due to the need for having at disposal a suitable support so as to control the progress of the puzzle on both sides and so the puzzles, once it has been composed, can be shown for ornamental and decorative purposes indifferently from both sides.
In order to satisfy such requirement, the present invention suggests the realization or a composing plane for puzzles, perferably for two-sided puzzles, which is made up of a transparent material and consists of two complementary sheet members provided with side walls or stops and with checking means, which memebers can be opened so as to allow the composition to be performed on one side, and then can be closed again so as to obtain, through overturning, the transfer of the whole set of pieces of the inner side of one of the two sheets to the inner side of the other sheet, so that the composition of the game can be continued on the opposite side.
Accordingly, it is a specific object of the present invention a composing plans for two-sided puzzles, said plane being charactierized in that it comprises a first and a second transparent material sheet, first longitudinal side-wall means being provided on the inner side of said first and second sheet in order to enclose and contain the small pieces of the game; second longitudinal means being provided in a direction parallel to that of said first longitudinal side-wall means at the points corresponding to at least two contiguous sides of said first and said second sheet; said first longitudinal side-wall means and said second longitudinal side-wall means making up a continuous cavity intended for engagement with said first side-wall means provided on the inner surface of the complementary sheet; spring means being provided on said first side-wall means for fastening the upper and lower sheets at a closed position; a hole being provided at the point corresponding to the outer perimeter of each one of the sides of said upper and lower sheets for hanging said composing plane,
According to a preferred embodiment of the composing plane of the present invention, a supporting member can be associated to said holes provided at
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Coven Edward M.
Passaniti Sebastiano
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