Three dimensional jigsaw puzzle
A three dimensional jigsaw puzzle includes a topmost puzzle piece, a bottommost puzzle piece and mediate puzzle pieces of different dimensions. A connection device is provided between two adjacent puzzle pieces to facilitate combination of the two adjacent puzzle pieces such that an object is formed after the combination of all the puzzle pieces.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle, and more particularly to a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle composed of multiple plates interconnected to one another so as to form a three dimensional object.
2. Description of the Prior Art
A conventional plan jigsaw puzzle is composed of multiple pieces each with multiple protrusions and cutouts. With the mutual correspondence between the protrusions and the cutouts, two adjacent pieces are connected together. Therefore, little by little, a complete picture is formed. The difficulty of the jigsaw puzzle depends on the number of the pieces involved. This kind of jigsaw puzzle does provide entertainment to the player. In order to increase the fun of playing with jigsaw puzzles, a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle is introduced to the market to challenge the player's patience and skill.
The 3D jigsaw puzzle is composed of multiple pieces and may somehow include a bladder. When the 3D jigsaw puzzle includes the bladder, the player is able to depend on the spherical contour of the bladder and place each of the pieces on the outer periphery of the bladder to manage to connect every two adjacent pieces. When there is no bladder provided to the 3D jigsaw puzzle, the player will have to depend on his/her own skill to gradually form a three dimensional pattern.
No matter what kind of jigsaw puzzle previously described, the pieces are interconnected to one another in a plan surface or a curved surface. That is, the space usage is confined and fixed and the challenge to the player's patience and skill is small.
To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention tends to provide an improved laminated 3D jigsaw puzzle to mitigate the aforementioned problems.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe primary objective of the present invention is to provide an improved three dimensional jigsaw puzzle having multiple pieces of different dimensions such that after the pieces are interconnected one another, a three dimensional object is formed.
Another objective of the present invention is that a connection device is provided to the three dimensional jigsaw puzzle to help position two adjacent pieces.
Still another objective of the present invention is that a box configured to have multiple receiving recesses defined to receive therein the pieces so that when the 3D jigsaw puzzle is not in use, the 3D jigsaw puzzle is compact for storage.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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It is to be understood, however, that even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
Claims
1. A three dimensional jigsaw puzzle comprising:
- a topmost puzzle piece, a bottommost puzzle piece and mediate puzzle pieces of different dimensions; and
- a connection device provided between two adjacent puzzle pieces to facilitate combination of the two adjacent puzzle pieces.
2. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connection device is composed of connection rods extending from one puzzle piece and connection holes defined in the puzzle piece so that the puzzle piece is able to be combined with an adjacent puzzle piece by extending the connection rods into the connection holes of the adjacent puzzle piece.
3. The jigsaw piece as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connection device is composed of magnetically positive pole and magnetically negative pole in two adjacent puzzle pieces so that attraction between the positive pole and the negative pole is able to combine two adjacent puzzle pieces.
4. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 2 further comprising a box having multiple receiving recesses defined to receive therein the puzzle pieces.
5. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 3 further comprising a box having multiple receiving recesses defined to receive therein the puzzle pieces.
6. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 4, wherein each puzzle piece is divided into two halves.
7. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 5, wherein each puzzle piece is divided into two halves.
8. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 5, wherein each mediate puzzle piece is provided with multiple recesses to accommodate other puzzle pieces having dimensions smaller than the mediate puzzle piece.
9. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 4, wherein an image is formed on a top face of the box for identification.
10. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 5, wherein an image is formed on a top face of the box for identification.
11. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 6, wherein an image is formed on a top face of the box for identification.
12. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 7, wherein an image is formed on a top face of the box for identification.
13. The jigsaw puzzle as claimed in claim 8, wherein an image is formed on a top face of the box for identification.
Type: Application
Filed: Feb 22, 2006
Publication Date: Aug 23, 2007
Inventor: Su-Lian Chuang (Taipei)
Application Number: 11/358,097
International Classification: A63F 9/00 (20060101); A63F 9/08 (20060101); A63F 9/10 (20060101);