The present invention relates to stationeries and gifts, and particularly to an puzzle block.
Most of the known puzzle blocks are only used for entertainment and cannot incorporate other functions. Besides, they are too complicated in structure to be disassembled. Once the patterns are in a state of disorder, they are very difficult to recover, which may frustrate the user and to inevitably reduce the entertainment. Furthermore, since it is always difficult to recover the initial patterns, the advertising use of the puzzle block will lost. In view of the foregoing defects of the known puzzle blocks, the present invention provides new designs to a puzzle block.
The object of the present invention is to provide a puzzle block, which can be used for the purposes of advertisement and entertainment, such that the patterns and contents of advertisement become richer, and the build of the puzzle block is steady and not easy to fall apart.
The puzzle block according to the present invention comprises eight sub-blocks each having a plurality of faces, the plurality of sub-blocks being stacked one upon another to constitute a cylinder or prism; a plurality of single-unit prints, each being applied on the predetermined faces of the sub-blocks; and a plurality of double-unit prints, each being applied on the predetermined two abreast faces of the two adjacent sub-blocks for connecting the sub-blocks, such that the sub-blocks are foldable to change the puzzle block into different forms.
The prints on the predetermined faces of the sub-blocks individually or jointly constitute different patterns when the puzzle block is folded to different forms.
Magnets of opposite polarities are embedded into surfaces of a plurality of predetermined pairs of the sub-blocks and are covered by the single-unit or double-unit prints, such that when the puzzle block is folded to different forms, mutual attraction of the magnets provided in the predetermined pairs of the sub-blocks overcomes tension force at bend of the double-unit prints and causes the respective faces of the sub-blocks to abut against each other so as to maintain the form of the puzzle block.
The puzzle block additionally may include an annotation card for indicating the initial open position, which is disposed at the contact position between the single-unit prints or the double-unit prints of the adjacent sub-blocks to be initially opened.
Therefore, the puzzle block provided by the present invention has the following advantages compared with the prior art. The puzzle block is connected into an open or closed structure by the use of prints due to the geometric characteristics, such that it can transform into a number of different forms, thus improving the use of the advertisement display, and enhancing the amusement. The present invention is simple in manufacture and low in cost, and it has a steady build due to the introduction of magnets. Because the puzzle block may in an embodiment be provided with instructive marks in the form of an annotation card for indicating the initial open position, it is convenient for the user to operate.
The puzzle block of the present invention comprises eight sub-blocks and a plurality of single-unit prints and double-unit prints, which can constitute different forms, such as regular cube, cube, prism and cylinder. The basic structure of the present invention will be described hereinafter according to an example of regular cube with reference to
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The first embodiment of the present invention will be described hereinafter with reference to
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Step 2 represents opening the two vertical double-unit prints faceoff the first face away from each other to form a first cuboid on which a seventh face is provided with four lateral double-unit prints.
Step 3 represents rotating the regular cube by 180° from its initial position and opening the single-unit prints of the third face on the upper and lower sides away from each other.
Step 4 represents forming a second cuboid after the prints of the third face are opened, on which an eighth face is provided with two single-unit prints on each of left and right sides, and two lateral double-unit prints in the middle.
Step 5 represents opening the prints of the eighth face away from each other in the horizontal direction to form a third cuboid, on which a ninth face is provided with one vertical double-unit print on each of the left and right sides, and four single-unit prints in the middle.
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The second embodiment of the present invention will be described hereinafter with reference to
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Step 2 represents opening the two vertical double-unit prints of the first face on the top face away from each other to form a first cuboid, on which a seventh face is provided with four lateral double-unit prints.
Step 3 represents opening the prints of the seventh face away from each other to form a second cuboid, on which an eighth face if provided with one vertical double-unit prints on each of the left and right sides, and four single-unit prints in the middle. This arrangement is different from the first embodiment.
Step 4 represents rotating the regular cube by 180° from its initial position and opening the single-unit prints of the third face on the upper and lower sides away from each other.
Step 5 represents forming a third cuboid after the prints of the third face are opened, on which the two single-unit prints of the eighth face are located on each of the left and right sides and the two lateral double-unit prints of the eighth face are located in the middle.
Step 6 represents opening the prints of the eighth face away from each other in the horizontal direction to form a fourth cuboid, on which a ninth face is provided with one vertical double-unit print on each of the left and right sides and four single-unit prints in the middle.
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The third embodiment of the present invention will be described hereinafter with reference to
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Step 2 represents opening the two vertical double-unit prints of the first face on the top face away from each other to form a first cuboid, on which a seventh face is provided with four lateral double-unit prints.
Steps 3 and 4 represent opening the prints of the seventh face away from each other in the horizontal direction to form a second cuboid and opening the prints from the middle in the vertical direction and rotating them by 90°.
Step 5 represents forming a regular cube presenting six interior surfaces of the sub-blocks. Now, a seventh face, i.e. the top face of the puzzle block 300, is provided with two vertical double-unit prints. A eighth face, i.e. the front face, is provided with two single-unit prints on the upper side and one lateral double-unit print on the lower side. A ninth face, i.e. the bottom face, is provided with four single-unit prints. A tenth face, i.e. the back face, is provided with one lateral double-unit print on the upper side and two double-unit prints on the lower side. A eleventh face, i.e. the left side face, is provided with two vertical double-unit prints. A twelfth face, i.e. the right side face is provided with two vertical double-unit prints.
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The puzzle block 400 comprises eight triangular-prism sub-blocks, each having five faces including two top faces, two right-angle faces and one inclined face. The triangular-prism sub-blocks are stacked one upon another to constitute a cube. The puzzle block 400 further comprises eight single-unit prints and sixteen double-unit prints.
Step 1 shows that the first face, i.e. the front face of the puzzle block 400 in its initial form, is provided with four double-unit prints 1A-1D.
Step 2 shows that the second face, i.e. the inclined face of the puzzle block after the two double-unit prints of the first face being rotated relative to the other two double-unit prints of the first face to form a triangular prism, is provided with two lateral double-unit prints 2A, 2B.
Step 3 shows that the third face, i.e. the front face of the puzzle block 400 in a state after the two lateral double-unit prints 2A, 2B of the second face being opened away from each other, is provided with two vertical double-unit prints 3A, 3B.
Step 4 shows that the fourth face, i.e. the inclined face of the puzzle block 400 in a state after the two vertical double-unit prints 3A, 3B of the third face being opened to form a prism, is provided with four lateral double-unit prints 4A-4D.
Step 5 shows that the fifth face, i.e. the front face of the puzzle block 400 in a state after the lateral double-unit prints of the fourth face on upper and lower sides being opened in the horizontal direction, is provided with one vertical double-unit print 5A and 5D respectively on each of the left and right sides, and four single-unit prints 5B, 5B, 5C, 5C in the middle.
Step 6 shows that the front face of puzzle block 400 is reverted to the first face after folding in the vertical direction. Step 7 shows the sixth face, i.e. the front face of the puzzle block after a 180° turn of the first face in step 6, is provided with two single-unit prints 6D, 6D and 6B, 6B on each of the upper left side and lower right side, and one double-unit print 6C, 6A on each of the lower left side and the upper right side.
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An puzzle block 500 comprises eight ¼0 cylindrical sub-blocks each having five faces including two top faces, two side faces and one arcuate face. The ¼ cylindrical sub-blocks being stacked one upon another to constitute a cylinder. The puzzle block 500 also comprises eight single-unit prints and sixteen double-unit prints.
Step 1 shows that the front face of the lying puzzle block 500 is provided with one double-unit print of a first face on each of the left and right sides. The back face is provided with four single-unit prints of the first face at four corners. The left side face is provided with one double-unit print of a fifth face on each of the upper and lower sides. The right side face is provided with one double-unit print of a fourth face on each of the upper and lower sides.
Steps 2 and 3 show that the central plane, when the puzzle block 500 is in a state after the two double-unit prints of the first face being opened in the vertical direction to form a semi-cylinder, is provided with four vertical double-unit prints of a second face at four corners.
Step 4 shows that the front face, when the puzzle block 500 is in a state after the four vertical double-unit prints of the second face being opened in the horizontal direction, is provided with one lateral double-unit print of a third face on each of the left and right sides, and with one vertical double-unit prints of the third face on each the upper and lower sides in the middle.
Steps 5 and 6 show forming the puzzle block 500 into two semi-cylinders by folding the vertical double-unit prints of the third face along the horizontal centerline.
Step 7 shows forming the puzzle block 500 into two cylinders by folding the two vertical double-unit prints of the second face along the horizontal centerline. The top face of the left cylinder is provided with a double-unit print of a sixth face on the left side and two single-unit prints of the sixth face on the right side. The top face of the right cylinder is provided with a double-unit print of a seventh face on the right side and two single-unit prints of the seventh face on the left side.
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Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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201020002751.4 | Jan 2010 | CN | national |
10100264.7 | Jan 2010 | HK | national |