EP0045526A1 - Jouet créatif dont la forme de base est un bâton droit - Google Patents

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EP0045526A1
EP0045526A1 EP81106959A EP81106959A EP0045526A1 EP 0045526 A1 EP0045526 A1 EP 0045526A1 EP 81106959 A EP81106959 A EP 81106959A EP 81106959 A EP81106959 A EP 81106959A EP 0045526 A1 EP0045526 A1 EP 0045526A1
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Ernö Dipl.-Ing. Rubik
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/08—Puzzles provided with elements movable in relation, i.e. movably connected, to each other
    • A63F9/088—Puzzles with elements that are connected by straps, strings or hinges, e.g. Rubik's Magic
    • 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
    • A63H33/10—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled by means of additional non-adhesive elements
    • A63H33/102—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled by means of additional non-adhesive elements using elastic deformation

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  • the invention relates to a design toy, which is composed of strings that are movably connected to one another and connected to one another.
  • Logical toys are also known which are composed of building blocks to form a unit. They are constructed in such a way that the toy consisting of the building blocks forms a regular or irregular body through the connection of the building blocks, in which a certain group of the building blocks can be rotated about the spatial axes of the toy body.
  • the outer surfaces of the blocks are either provided with colors, figures, numbers or other symbols, so that a very large number of variations in the mutual relative arrangement of the blocks can be carried out by rotating the block groups.
  • the toy according to the invention differs from the known logical toys in particular in that the mutual arrangement and connection of the building blocks are different and the design toy, which is preferably a square prism in the basic position of its building blocks, is varied in its overall shape by rotating the building blocks relative to one another can.
  • the invention therefore achieves the object of creating a design toy of the type mentioned at the outset, which consists of individual, preferably shape-identical building blocks which are rotated relative to one another along their mutually contacting connecting surfaces with the aid of connecting elements arranged between them and appropriately elastically flexible can, so that different shape changes can be made to the entire body forming the toy.
  • the building blocks which are lined up in a chain-like manner each have two at right angles to one another, formed as circular surfaces or as regular polygons connecting surfaces running on and the building blocks which are adjacent to one another in the chain can be rotated with their adjacent, congruent connecting surfaces adjacent to one another about a connecting axis running perpendicular to them through their geometric center points. Since the connecting surfaces run at an angle to one another, the rotation of mutually adjacent building blocks changes their mutual angular position, so that the shape of the body forming the toy changes accordingly.
  • the design toy according to the invention can therefore also be described as a rod composed of the building blocks, which can take on a variety of different shapes by rotating the building blocks against one another. Since the building blocks lie flat against one another, the building blocks are held together in their possible relative positions in such a way that the individual spatial structures which arise in a variety of different ways are self-supporting in shape.
  • the design toy according to the invention can therefore be used to train and further develop the design skills and spatial imagination as well as to learn the stereo geometry.
  • the two connecting surfaces of the building blocks can be different from one another, as long as they are regularly polygonal or circular in the borderline case and the superimposed connecting surfaces of adjacent building blocks are congruent, the two connecting surfaces of each building block are preferably of identical design, so that all building blocks have identical connecting surfaces .
  • the individual building blocks can have different shapes. In the preferred solution, however, all of the building blocks are designed identically to one another.
  • the building blocks are preferably designed such that, in a certain basic position, they form a straight rod or column, which is designed as an oblique or, in particular, a straight prism.
  • the building blocks themselves are designed as straight prisms, the base area and the parallel top surface of which are designed as isosceles trapezoids or preferably isosceles triangles and the two sides of which are delimited by the same leg sides of the base area and the top area on opposite sides and form the connection surfaces.
  • the base area and the cover area as isosceles trapezoids in part of the prismatic modules, whereas the other part of the modules have base and cover areas designed as isosceles triangles.
  • blocks with a trapezoidal base can alternate with blocks with a triangular base.
  • the design toy 1 according to the invention is constructed in the embodiment shown from identical straight triangular prisms, the base area and parallel top surface 3 of FIG. 3 of which are congruent triangular surfaces and two of whose rectangular side surfaces are designed as square connecting surfaces 8 which are adjacent to each other in the toy 1 building blocks 2.
  • the outer surfaces of the toy body 1 are therefore formed by the base and top surfaces 3 and the third side surface 9 of the prismatic modules 2.
  • the base and top surface 3 are right-angled triangles, so that the connecting surfaces 8 form a right angle with one another.
  • the toy body 1 is composed of a total of preferably twelve or twenty-four building blocks 2.
  • the individual prism modules 2 are connected in a row next to one another in such a way that they are congruent with one another by means of their preferably square connecting surfaces 8 by means of pins and recesses known per se and formed on the connecting surfaces or by means of any connecting elements of this type, so that the superimposed connecting surfaces match each other.
  • the building blocks are hollow bodies which are closed along the side surface 9 by a pressed-in or glued-in cover plate 10.
  • the walls of the hollow body forming the side surfaces 8 each have a bore 5 in the geometric center of these connecting surfaces 8, through which a cylindrical pin 6 is inserted before the cover plate 10 is inserted, which pin forms the axis of rotation between the adjacent building blocks 2 and has a head at both ends.
  • a compression spring 11 is used as a helical spring, by means of which the mutually adjacent modules 2 are pressed against one another in the direction of their connecting axes.
  • the pins 6 can be designed, for example, as a cap screw with a nut screwed onto the free end or as a rivet or the like, on which the washers shown in FIG. 2 may be seated.
  • the interconnected building blocks can therefore be lifted from each other by a distance determined by the elastic modulus of the spring 11 and the free length of the pin 6 in the direction of the pin 6.
  • locking projections 4 arranged in a square on the one connecting surface 8 of the module 2, and locking holes or locking recesses 7 also arranged in a square on the connecting surface 8 are each formed in the same relative position and dimension.
  • the cylindrical or frustoconical or spherical projections 4 have a height of preferably a few tenths of a millimeter.
  • the design toy 1 is preferably composed of twelve or twenty-four building blocks, so that there is a number of possible design variations depending on their number and the number of possible design variations determined by the number of corners of the regular polygons formed by the connecting surfaces 8. One of these can be seen in FIG. 4.
  • the design toy according to the invention is particularly suitable for teaching stereo geometry.
  • the building blocks 2 of the design toy can easily be formed by injection molding from plastic and can be colored.
  • the cross-sectional outline of the building blocks 2 need not be rectangular, although this is currently preferred.
  • the cross-sectional outline of the building blocks 2 can also be, for example, hexagonal or octagonal or oval, in such a way that the two connecting surfaces running at an angle to one another, which preferably have opposite slopes, have the shape of a regular octagon or hexagon or a circle.
  • the outline of the building blocks is preferably an isosceles triangle or trapezoid or a parallelogram deviating from the rectangle.
  • the connecting surfaces 8 do not run at an angle to one another, but parallel, in accordance with the one side pair of the parallelogram.
  • the connecting surfaces run at an angle deviating from 90 ° to the other side pair of the parallelogram, the mutual angular position of mutually adjacent modules is also changed by their mutual rotation.

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AT81106959T ATE1661T1 (de) 1980-11-18 1981-09-04 Gestaltungsspielzeug mit der grundform einer geraden stange.

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HU275280 1980-11-18
HU80802752A HU180392B (en) 1980-11-18 1980-11-18 Form-construction toy
DE3114693 1981-04-10
DE3114693A DE3114693C2 (de) 1980-11-18 1981-04-10 Als gerade Stange ausgebildetes Gestaltungsspielzeug

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US5427558A (en) * 1990-12-04 1995-06-27 Interlego Ag Toy building element with a spring mechanism
AT400408B (de) * 1992-09-28 1995-12-27 Haraszti Attila Anordnung zum kuppeln von zwei bauteilen
WO1996027415A1 (fr) * 1995-03-08 1996-09-12 Blockbuster Marketing Limited Perfectionnements dans le domaine des casse-tete
WO1997026963A1 (fr) * 1995-12-14 1997-07-31 Dirk Laureyssens Puzzle modulaire adaptable
WO2006037270A1 (fr) * 2004-10-08 2006-04-13 Le Yang Sculpture modulaire
US9004799B1 (en) 2011-08-31 2015-04-14 Skylar Tibbits Transformable linked self-assembly system
CN106422367A (zh) * 2016-10-28 2017-02-22 骆运章 一种拼接式积木构件

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DK96335C (da) * 1960-03-16 1963-06-24 Hans Benedikt Boelling Puslespil.
US3597872A (en) * 1969-01-23 1971-08-10 Jorma Vennola A toy composed of a plurality of bodies held in end-to-end relation by an elastic member
US3773329A (en) * 1971-12-13 1973-11-20 M Secter Solid-geometrical puzzle and furniture arrangements
GB1585436A (en) * 1978-04-15 1981-03-04 Lin Wen Pin Building blocks

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DE7005541U (de) * 1970-02-17 1970-05-06 Deutsche Lufthansa Spielzeug, insbesondere bordspielzeug fuer verkehrsfahrzeuge.

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US3597872A (en) * 1969-01-23 1971-08-10 Jorma Vennola A toy composed of a plurality of bodies held in end-to-end relation by an elastic member
US3773329A (en) * 1971-12-13 1973-11-20 M Secter Solid-geometrical puzzle and furniture arrangements
GB1585436A (en) * 1978-04-15 1981-03-04 Lin Wen Pin Building blocks

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5427558A (en) * 1990-12-04 1995-06-27 Interlego Ag Toy building element with a spring mechanism
AT400408B (de) * 1992-09-28 1995-12-27 Haraszti Attila Anordnung zum kuppeln von zwei bauteilen
WO1996027415A1 (fr) * 1995-03-08 1996-09-12 Blockbuster Marketing Limited Perfectionnements dans le domaine des casse-tete
WO1997026963A1 (fr) * 1995-12-14 1997-07-31 Dirk Laureyssens Puzzle modulaire adaptable
WO2006037270A1 (fr) * 2004-10-08 2006-04-13 Le Yang Sculpture modulaire
US9004799B1 (en) 2011-08-31 2015-04-14 Skylar Tibbits Transformable linked self-assembly system
CN106422367A (zh) * 2016-10-28 2017-02-22 骆运章 一种拼接式积木构件

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