Puzzle pad and picture frame

Abstract

A device for accommodating a puzzle including a flexible, particularly rollable surface element serving to store the puzzle, the device further comprising at least one, preferably a plurality of reinforcing elements which can be assembled together with the surface element so that the device is converted from a disassembled state with the surface element flexibly deformable to a plate-like stabilised state of the surface element, the reinforcing elements serving to stabilise the surface element in a plane, flat shape. A picture frame can present the puzzle.

1 . A device for accommodating a puzzle comprising a flexible, particularly rollable surface element serving to store the puzzle, and at least one reinforcing element which can be assembled together with the surface element so that the device is converted from a disassembled state with the surface element flexibly deformable to a plate-like stabilised state of the surface element, the at least one reinforcing element elements serving to stabilise the surface element in a planar, flat shape. 
     
     
         2 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein at least part of the at least one reinforcing element is fixedly arranged on the surface element and/or at least part of the at least one reinforcing element can be arranged in accommodation elements of the surface element. 
     
     
         3 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one reinforcing element is positively and/or non-positively connectable to one or more other of the at least one reinforcing element and/or two ends of the at least one reinforcing element are positively and/or non-positively connectable. 
     
     
         4 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the at least one reinforcing element are neither fixedly arranged on the surface element nor disposed in accommodation elements of the surface element but can only be attached to one or more adjacent ones of the at least one reinforcing element. 
     
     
         5 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one reinforcing element comprises a plurality of or exclusively identical reinforcing elements and/or different reinforcing elements. 
     
     
         6 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the device is dismountable from a plate-like stabilised state to a disassembled state with the surface element flexibly deformable. 
     
     
         7 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the device is in a plate-like stabilised state when the at least one reinforcing element comprises a plurality of reinforcement elements that are positively and/or non-positively connected to each other. 
     
     
         8 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the surface element is formed of at least one of the components of the group comprising planar-shaped textile structures of natural and synthetic fibres and metals, fabric, knitted fabric, crocheted fabric, braids, stitch-bonded fabric, non-woven fabric, felts, meshes, sheets of metal and plastic, as well as paper. 
     
     
         9 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the surface element is elastically stretchable. 
     
     
         10 . The device according to  claim 2 , wherein the accommodation elements of the surface element are selected from at least one component of the group comprising eyes, flaps, tubes, push buttons, rivets, hooks, buttons, slits, orifices, button holes and the like. 
     
     
         11 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one reinforcing element is selected from the group comprising rods, telescopic rods, rods with threaded ends and/or threaded holes, sleeves, threaded sleeves, blocks, cuboidal members with complementary protrusions and recesses, strips and the like. 
     
     
         12 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one reinforcing element is circumferentially arranged on an edge of the surface element. 
     
     
         13 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one reinforcing element comprises positive engagement and/or force-fitting elements, particularly at least one element from the group comprising hooks, eyes, clamping members, clip members, protrusions, recesses, undercuts, pins, lugs, blind holes, sleeves, combinations thereof and the like for mutual connection. 
     
     
         14 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one reinforcing element comprises spaced-apart cuboidal or strip-shaped or angularly configured reinforcing elements including protrusions protruding along a circumferential direction attached on one side of the surface element and complementary cuboidal or strip-shaped reinforcing elements including recesses oriented in a circumferential direction which are insertable into gaps between the spaced-apart cuboidal or strip-shaped or angularly configured reinforcing elements attached to the surface element, so that the surface element is flexibly rollable or foldable without the complementary cuboidal or strip-shaped reinforcing elements inserted into the gaps and in the plate-like stabilised state with the reinforcing elements inserted. 
     
     
         15 . The device according to  claim 1 , further comprising at least one frame element, preferably a plurality of frame elements, which is connectable to the surface element and/or the at least one reinforcing element and cover an edge of the surface element. 
     
     
         16 . The device according to  claim 15 , wherein the at least one frame element is formed so that the at least one frame element can be clipped onto the at least one reinforcing element in a clamping manner. 
     
     
         17 . A picture frame for a puzzle comprising a puzzle pad designed for laying the puzzle, particularly the device according to  claim 1 , wherein the puzzle pad is further configured so that the puzzle pad is connectable to a frame. 
     
     
         18 . The picture frame according to  claim 17 , wherein the frame or the puzzle pad comprises suspension members to hang the picture frame on the wall or a stand.