US 4,809,980 AGranted

Pictorial block puzzle

AssigneeThe Ritvik Group Inc.

InventorVic. Bertrand

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Abstract

There is disclosed a pictorial block puzzle capable of reproducing three different pictures. It consists of a pedestal and of a set of puzzle blocks. The pedestal has a flat upper face and a group of identical plugs projecting from its upper face; the plugs being disposed along orthogonal lines and being equally spaced from one another along those lines. The puzzle blocks are hollow cubes of equal size of which three walls illustrate a portion of one of the three pictures while the other walls are pierced with openings large enough to allow mounting of the cubes around one of the plugs of the pedestal to reproduce one of the pictures when all of the picture portions face up and are properly positioned. A block manipulator is also disclosed which comprises a handle having an air conduit including air openings at the ends of the handle and a section cup fixed to one end of the handle and having a central air opening registering with the air opening of the one end of the conduit, the suction cup being sized to be applied fully over the block flat face.

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Dependent claims

A pictorial block puzzle kit capable of reproducing different pictures, said kit comprising:

a pedestal having an upper face and a plurality of plugs projecting up from said upper face;
said plugs being equally spaced from one another along orthogonal lines such that the axial center lines of any four adjacent plugs lie at the four corners of a square;
a plurality of puzzle blocks in the form of cubes of equal size;
each cube having three only outer plain faces illustrating a portion of one picture, each one of said illustrative plain faces being opposite to another outer face of the cube formed with an opening;
said opening leading into said cubes and being sized to fit around said plugs;
wherein said plugs have a predetermined length selected so that said plugs are fully housed within said cubes when said cubes are fitted thereover;
wherein said cubes are outwardly sized, with respect to said spacing between said pedestal plugs, such as to adjoin one another when said cubes are fitted over said plugs;
and
a suction cup manipulator for placing or removing a selected one of said puzzle cubes over said pedestal plugs.

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