Multi-dimensional sculpture puzzle/toy

• US 4,778,184 A
• Filed: 06/26/1987
• Issued: 10/18/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Howard J. Fleischer
• Original Assignee: Howard J. Fleischer
• Inventors: Fleischer, Howard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Application Number:
  US07/066,516
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 273/155, 273/159, 273/58 D, 446/487, 446/490
• US Class Current: 273/155
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/088 Puzzles with elements that are connected by straps, strings or hinges, e.g. Rubik's Magic
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 52/10 Polyhedron

Abstract

This puzzle device is constructed for recreation, amusement and educational purposes. Primarily, it consists of a multiple number of tubes that are joined together by a cord that is exposed at the ends of the tubes to serve as hinges for manipulating the device to form various geometric shapes, such as, a cube, a square, a hexagonal form, a rectangle, a four sided pyramid, a three sided pyramid, etc.

Claims

1. A puzzle device comprising:

a plurality of tube members;

string means disposed within said tube members and linking the ends of said tube members together; and

wherein said string means comprises means to flexibly attach each of said tube members in proximate hinged contact with two other of said tube members at each end thereof.

2. The puzzle device of claim 1 wherein said tube members are equal in length and twelve in number.

3. The puzzle device of claim 1 wherein said tube members are pivotably manipulable to form such shapes comprising a cube, a square, a hexagon, a rectangle, a four-sided pyramid, and a three-sided pyramid.

4. The puzzle device of claim 1 wherein the string means is disposed within some of the tubes only once, some of the tubes twice and some of the tubes three times.