Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Take-aparts and put-togethers
Patent
1998-03-19
1999-08-31
Wong, Steven
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Take-aparts and put-togethers
A63F 908
Patent
active
059443111
ABSTRACT:
An enclosure puzzle whose preferred embodiment comprises a primary end cap (31) and a secondary end cap (32) rigidly mounted to face each other across a short distance. Spanning the distance are four rods (44, 45, 47 and 48), including two blocking rods (44 and 48), evenly spaced to form a cage, the rod ends penetrating the caps. Contained within the primary end cap are a primary pendulum (50) and tertiary pendulum (57). A secondary pendulum (52) is contained within the secondary end cap. To unlock the cage, one end of the release rod (45), is withdrawn from end cap (32) when the rod's other end is allowed full penetration of end cap (31). However, such penetration is normally blocked by tertiary pendulum (57). Therefore, release must be accomplished through a specific series of attitudinal orientations of the puzzle, causing primary and secondary pendulums (50) and (52) to align sequentially in such a way as to allow longitudinal shifting of the two blocking rods (44) and (48) to positions that ultimately allow tertiary pendulum (57) to rotate to an orientation that permits the release rod (45) to achieve maximum penetration of end cap (31). As a result the other end of the release rod can be withdrawn from end cap (32), thus allowing the rod to be angularly displaced in such a way as to provide a widened passage for the insertion or extraction of an object into or out of the cage.
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