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US 4,824,112 AGranted
Three-dimensional puzzle building
OwnerRay Royinventor
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Abstract
The invention discloses a house or other structure defining an enclosure whose walls are constituted as multiple puzzle pieces. The disclosure extends to any sculpture-like three-dimensional puzzle where the walls defining the sculpture or structure are composed of self-standable puzzle-pieces, and the sculpture or structure is itself self-standing.
Claims14
A jigsaw puzzle assemblable into a three dimensional building-like structure having walls joined by corners, comprising:
- plural jigsaw puzzle wall pieces capable of interlocking in a vertical plane to form at least one of the walls of the building-like structure, each wall piece having an image bearing outer surface and peripheral male and female shapes which are capable of interlocking in said vertical plane with complimentary peripheral male and female shapes of other wall pieces to form a portion of the wall;
- plural, self-standing, unitary jigsaw puzzle corner pieces capable of forming the corners of the building-like structure, each corner piece capable of completely forming one of the corners of the building-like structure, each corner piece having a vertical height which is the full vertical height of the walls joined by the corner, each corner piece having peripheral male and female shapes which are capable of interlocking in a vertical plane with complimentary peripheral male and female shapes of some of said wall pieces, and each corner piece further comprised of first and second corner piece members, each member having an image bearing outer surface and joined substantially at a right angle to provide a substantially gap-free corner edge;
- said plural puzzle wall pieces and said plural puzzle corner pieces being cooperative to form the building-like structure when all of said wall pieces and said corner pieces are correctly interlocked together;
- said plural puzzle wall pieces and said plural puzzle corner pieces having a thickness dimension selected to be sufficient to stably support the building-like structure without aid when said wall pieces and said corner pieces are correctly interlocked together;
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- said image bearing outer surfaces collectively providing a visually continuous image on the walls and around the corners of the building-like structure when said plural puzzle wall pieces and said plural puzzle corner pieces are correctly interlocked together.
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A three dimensional building-like structure disassemblable into a plurality of each puzzle pieces, comprising:
- a plurality of walls, each wall further comprising a plurality of jigsaw puzzle wall pieces interlocked in a vertical plane, each wall piece having an image-bearing outer surface and peripheral male and female shapes which interlock in said vertical plane with complementary peripheral male and female shapes of other wall pieces to form a portion of said wall;
- a plurality of corners joining said walls, said corners further comprising a plurality of self-standing, unitary jigsaw puzzle corner pieces, each corner piece completely forming one of said corners, each corner piece having a vertical height which is the full vertical height of said walls joined by said corner, each corner piece having peripheral male and female shapes which interlock in a vertical plane with complementary peripheral male and female shapes of some of said wall pieces, and each corner piece further comprised of first and second corner piece members each having an image bearing outer surface and joined substantially at a right angle to provide a substantially gap-free corner edge;
- said plural puzzle wall pieces and said plural puzzle corner pieces having a thickness dimension sufficient to stably support the building-like structure without aid when said wall pieces and said corner pieces are correctly interlocked together;
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- said image bearing surfaces collectively providing a visually continuous image along said walls and around said corners when said jigsaw puzzle wall pieces and said jigsaw puzzle corner pieces are correctly interlocked together.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.