Manipulatable toy

Claim 1

A TOY PUZZLE COMPRISING A CORE HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY SPHERICAL SMOOTH OUTER SURFACE SUBSTANTIALLY CONCENTRIC TO THE CENTER OF THE CORE; A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY TRIANGULAR FRACTIONALLY SPHERICAL INNER AND OUTER SEGMENTS OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM SIZE HAVING SIDE EDGES, THE INNER SEGMENTS HAVING MOUNTING PORTIONS PROVIDING INNER SURFACES SECURED TO THE CORE WITH SAID INNER SEGMENTS IN SUBSTANTIALLY SPHERICAL FORMATION AND PROVIDING MARGINAL FLANGES HAVING INNER SURFACES IN RADIALLY SPACED RELATION TO SAID OUTER SURFACE OF THE CORE AND SUBSTANTIALLY CONCENTRIC TO THE CENTER OF THE CORE WITH ADJACENT EDGES OF THE FLANGES OF ADJACENT SEGMENTS BEING IN SPACED PARALLEL RELATION SO AS TO DEFINE A PLURALITY OF ANNULAR INTERSECTING GROOVES IN CONCENTRIC CIRCUMSCRIBING RELATION TO AXES EXTENDED THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE CORE, THE OUTER SEGMENTS ROTATABLY SLIDABLY OVERLYING THE INNER SEGMENTS IN SUBSTANTIALLY SPHERICAL FORMATION CONCENTRIC TO THE CORE WITH ADJACENT EDGES OF ADJACENT OUTER SEGMENTS BEING IN SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL SPACED RELATION TO DEFINE A PLURALITY OF SLOTS DISPOSED IN SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULARLY RELATED PLANES PASSING THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE CORE, THERE BEING FIRST AND SECOND SETS OF SEMI-SPHERICALLY RELATED OUTER SEGMENTS HAVING TONGUE MEMBERS INDIVIDUALLY RIGIDLY CONNECTED THERETO AND EXTENDED RADIALLY INWARDLY TOWARD THE CORE THROUGH SAID GROOVES AND SLIDABLY INTERLOCKINGLY ENGAGING THE FLANGES OF THE INNER SURFACES OF THE INNER SEGMENTS FOR ENABLING RELATIVE ROTATABLE MOVEMENT OF THE FIRST AND SECOND SETS OF OUTER SEGMENTS ON THE INNER SEGMENTS AND FOR ENABLING COLLECTIVE ROTATABLE MOVEMENT OF THE OUTER SEGMENTS RELATIVE TO THE INNER SEGMENTS ABOUT THE AXES OF THE GROOVES.