Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Folding and relatively movable strips and disks
Patent
1992-06-26
1993-03-09
Millin, V.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Folding and relatively movable strips and disks
434196, A63H 3310
Patent
active
051920778
ABSTRACT:
A polyhedron with indicia carrying sections, for example a cube. The polyhedron is comprised of a first plurality of first larger sections, e.g. two halves of the cube, and the two larger sections are hinged together along neighboring edges. Their abutting, opposed surfaces, are hidden from view. When the larger sections are opened apart, this exposes indicia, e.g. a fraction, indicative of the portion of the whole polyhedron which each fractional larger sections comprises. Each of the larger sections of the polyhedron, e.g. a cube, are in turn openable apart around hinges to define smaller sections of the larger section. Surfaces of the hinged together smaller sections, which are hidden from view when the smaller sections are assembled, are exposed to view when the smaller sections are opened apart to define still smaller sections. Those indicia are related to the size of the smaller sections and, e.g., recite the fraction of the whole polyhedron which those smaller sections comprise. The opening apart sequence may continue with each smaller section being openable apart into a respective set of still smaller sections, etc. The hinges between any two sections of the cube are along their neighboring edges. The polyhedron may have any shape and the individual sections, smaller sections, etc. may be any number of smaller sections which together define the larger section or polyhedron.
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Caicedo Sylvia
Millin V.
Stoll William E.
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