CA2361993A1 - Snap-fit construction system - Google Patents

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CA2361993A1
CA2361993A1 CA 2361993 CA2361993A CA2361993A1 CA 2361993 A1 CA2361993 A1 CA 2361993A1 CA 2361993 CA2361993 CA 2361993 CA 2361993 A CA2361993 A CA 2361993A CA 2361993 A1 CA2361993 A1 CA 2361993A1
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Ben I. Wiens
Eric G. Mcintosh
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H33/00—Other toys
    • A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
    • A63H33/06—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements
    • A63H33/062—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements with clip or snap mechanisms
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H33/00—Other toys
    • A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
    • A63H33/06—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements
    • A63H33/08—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails
    • A63H33/086—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails with primary projections fitting by friction in complementary spaces between secondary projections, e.g. sidewalls

Abstract

A modular construction system featuring an improved snap-fit connection element that can be in-corporated into a wide variety of construction elements. These construction elements may be made in a range of sizes and used in a variety of fields such as, construction, toys, educational, machinery, products, jigs, two and three dimensional art, and signs. Various shapes disclosed are blocks, beams, radial-hubs, struts, rods, wires, panels, plates, rotators, adaptors, and locks. The preferred connection element comprises of a bendable pair of male ribs containing ridges that snap-fit into a pair of grooves of a mating female connection element. The grooves contain projections at roughly their midpoint and locate into mating indentations in the ridges. This connection element is more exotic than typically used, but can be snap-fit together or taken apart easily in a variety of directions while still allowing it to be molded inexpensively.
CA 2361993 2001-10-25 2001-10-25 Snap-fit construction system Expired - Fee Related CA2361993C (en)

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Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US7517269B2 (en) 2003-08-12 2009-04-14 Parvia Corp. Building element for constructing a modular substructure
CN105311843A (en) * 2014-06-04 2016-02-10 宽鑫有限公司 Connecting building block
CN108671560A (en) * 2018-06-01 2018-10-19 杭州简泊智能科技有限公司 Intelligence development splicing component

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US7517269B2 (en) 2003-08-12 2009-04-14 Parvia Corp. Building element for constructing a modular substructure
CN105311843A (en) * 2014-06-04 2016-02-10 宽鑫有限公司 Connecting building block
CN108671560A (en) * 2018-06-01 2018-10-19 杭州简泊智能科技有限公司 Intelligence development splicing component

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