Pyramid puzzle
CA 2027170 A1 · Owner: Essebaggers, Jan · Inventors: Essebaggers, Jan; Koops, Jaap; Koops, Jaap
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The invention provides a puzzle embodied in a 3-sided regularly shaped pyramid comprising eleven smaller 3-sided pyramides and four small octaeder shaped bodies, which smaller pieces are connected to a string forming an endless chain. The complexity of the puzzle is achieved by coloring the side planes of the smaller parts in various colors and connecting the smaller pieces in a certain sequence to a string. The solution of the puzzle is obtained by placing the smaller parts of puzzle in such a way that the large pyramid is formed and the side planes of the large pyramid are uniformly colored by the smaller pieces. A preferred embodiment is given in figure 1 and 2 comprising the 15 smaller …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 9, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 9, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 9, 2012.
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