EP0101700A1

EP0101700A1 - Construction game.

Info

Publication number: EP0101700A1
Application number: EP83900711A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Lutz Krober
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1982-03-01
Filing date: 1983-02-24
Publication date: 1984-03-07
Also published as: WO1983003058A1; JPS59500549A; US4602908A; JPH0439349B2; EP0101700B1; DD207858A5; DE3207253A1

Abstract

Le jeu de construction se présente sous forme d'un jeu de cubes dont les éléments se composent de plusieurs sortes de cubes. Ce jeu de cubes comporte une plaque (1) ayant la forme d'un parallélépipède de hauteur (h), de largeur (b) et d'épaisseur (d), une poutre allongée (2) de section carrée d'une épaisseur (d) et de longueur (h) ainsi qu'un élément de forme trapézoïdale (3) d'épaisseur (d), de largeur du sommet pratiquement (d) de largeur de la base pratiquement (b) et de longueur d'un côté incliné pratiquement (h), le rapport d:b:h étant de 1:3:4. Les cubes fabriqués de préférence en matière plastique ou en bois peuvent être reliés entre eux par une combinaison de chevilles et de trous (4, 5). Avec ces cubes, des structures très proches de la réalité et d'un aspect esthétique plaisant peuvent être construites.The construction game comes in the form of a set of cubes, the elements of which are made up of several kinds of cubes. This set of cubes comprises a plate (1) having the shape of a parallelepiped of height (h), width (b) and thickness (d), an elongated beam (2) of square section with a thickness ( d) and length (h) as well as a trapezoidal element (3) of thickness (d), width of the apex substantially (d) width of the base substantially (b) and length of one side practically inclined (h), the ratio d: b: h being 1: 3: 4. The cubes preferably made of plastic or wood can be connected to each other by a combination of dowels and holes (4, 5). With these cubes, structures very close to reality and with a pleasant aesthetic appearance can be built.

Description

Play kit

The invention relates to a toy construction kit in the form of a block game consisting of a modular insert comprising a plurality of different types of building blocks.

Toy kits with small blocks to put together are often used by children to put together simple structures or designs. The building blocks of these block games are usually guader-shaped bar building blocks of different lengths, which can be put together by means of an ax or a bristle connection. The blocks can e.g. be placed on a base plate that supports the structure.

The number of structures to be built with these building blocks is limited; in addition, the appearance of the finished structure often only remotely corresponds to the model and can therefore only incompletely satisfy the aesthetic feeling of the child playing. This is, among other things. at the following:

The known building blocks can often only be used in a single preferred way, e.g. are plugged onto each other, so that direct plug connections between two building blocks perpendicular to it are not possible at all, but can only be constructed by interposing another building block, which does not correspond to the natural appearance

Furthermore, e.g. arched structures, such as entrance gates, can only be approximated by staircase-like rectangular construction.

Angular connections that are not right-angled cannot usually be made. For example, with a normal block insert, no sloping surfaces, such as roofs or the like, can be attached. A large number of special modules are available for such block games, with which, for example, connections other than right-angled connections are possible; however, these special building blocks are generally only available as part of a kit for a very specific building model to be stuck according to the plan, for example a house, and are not intended or often not to be used for building other building models or structures. The use of these special building blocks Exhausts itself in the construction of the proposed construction model strictly according to the given plan, without the child's own imagination being required or even being stimulated.

If one of these special modules is also lost, the entire kit or kits are canceled.

In the end, the child will fall back on the guader-shaped standard building blocks and thus create their own imaginary construction. Because of the above-mentioned limited construction possibilities and the unsatisfactory aesthetics of the assembled models, interest in working with the building blocks will diminish after a certain time.

The same applies to other block building blocks.

In addition, adults play with such block building blocks in their free time, although often for different reasons than children. You want e.g. Building a certain fantasy pattern, trying out possible combinations of building block connections or building a structure like a puzzle The reason for adults to play with the building blocks is therefore more intellectually determined than in children. At the same time, adults want to be aesthetically satisfied, i.e. as a result they want a harmonious, aesthetically pleasing

* * TZ AtF OMPI Achieve structure. The incentive to play is of course strengthened when such structures can only be achieved with a small number of types of building blocks without the need for a large number of special building blocks. This intellectual incentive with the indicated possibilities does not exist with known block building blocks.

The invention is based on the object of specifying a toy construction kit consisting of only a few different types of block building blocks with which a variety of fashion structures can be built up or inserted; on the one hand, the inserted model should be able to largely be modeled on the natural model, on the other hand, the building blocks should enable the model to have an aesthetic shape. This object is achieved according to the invention by the features specified in the characterizing part of the first claim 1

Such a toy building set has at least three flat building block types of the same thickness d, serving as basic building blocks, namely a flat plate block in cuboid shape with the height h, the width b and the thickness d, an ^" elongated bar or connecting block of length in cross section h and with square sides corresponding to the value b and a trapezoidal block with the thickness d, the base width close to the head width almost b and with inclined long sides close to the length The values for b, d, and h are in relation to 1: 3: 4 ¬ speaking dimensions for the building blocks result if d = 1c b = 3cm and h = 4cm are chosen.

The individual building blocks can face each other on their sides and also top and bottom sides can be connected by pin-hole connections. The connection points are arranged in a rectangular grid pattern, so that there are various connection options. The grid size of the grid pattern is chosen to be d / 2. Of course, it is not necessary for all the surfaces of the building blocks to be provided with a continuous grid pattern; Rather, a selection from this grid pattern is sufficient. For example, no connection options are provided for the trapezoidal building blocks on their front and rear sides, but only on the side surfaces and the base and top surfaces, since it has been found that only these connections are necessary due to structures. The plate modules, on the other hand, have connection options on all of their surfaces; In the case of the beam modules, connections are provided on the elongated front and side surfaces, while the square head surfaces do not necessarily have to have a connection option. This results in a variety of connection options; in particular, right-angled connections to a single module with other modules are also possible.

The three basic building blocks mentioned can also be expanded by a further slab building block of the same height and the same thickness, but with half the width and by a similarly guarantine beam building block with halved length or height.

In the play kit according to the invention, the bar modules are preferably constructed as connecting modules. They carry at least on one long side at a certain distance from one another symmetrically to the center two spacing pins which can be inserted into holes in other beam blocks or the plate blocks and trapezoidal blocks for assembly. The other building blocks therefore only have holes, which in the above-mentioned Pin spacing coordinated grid patterns are arranged. The pin spacing preferably corresponds to half the height of the beam modules.

Although the module insert according to the invention has only three different types of modules, it is possible to use them to build up a large number of structures which not only largely resemble the natural models, but also have a harmonious, aesthetically satisfactory design. With these modules, e.g. Arched structures can be produced by lining up trapezoidal building blocks and connecting beam building blocks or by attaching building blocks to existing structures. This was previously not possible with known toy kits.

Further refinements and advantages of the invention emerge from the subclaims in conjunction with the following description, in which the invention is explained in more detail with reference to the drawing. In the drawing:

FIGS. 1 a to c are perspective views of a plate building block, a beam or connecting building block and a trapezoidal building block for a toy building set according to the invention;

FIGS. 1d to f are perspective views of a further platform module or two further beam modules;

FIG. 2 shows a model of a house inserted with the building blocks according to FIG. 1;

OMPI FIG. 3 shows a fantasy structure made of building blocks according to the invention;

4 shows a circular ring inserted with bar and trapezoidal building blocks.

In Figure 1, three types of building blocks for a toy building set made of block building blocks are shown, namely in Figure 1a a plate building block 1 with the thickness d, the height h and the width b, in Figure 1b a beam building block 2, which serves as a connecting building block d width and thickness and having • length h, un ^"d in Figure 1c a trapezoid element of the same thickness, the head width of virtually d and the base width b of practically, the length of the inclined side practically corresponds to the dimension h d the ratio.: b: h corresponds to _the ratio 1: 3: 4. The thickness d of the building blocks is approximately 1 cm, so that b is approximately 3 cm and h approximately _ - 4 cm The building blocks are preferably made of wood.

The beam module 2 shown in FIG. 1b serves as a connecting module and has two connecting pins 4 on each of two opposite longitudinal sides. These connecting pins have a diameter of approximately 3 to 4 mm and protrude from the side surface of the module by approximately the same amount. The center points of the two connecting pins lie on the longitudinal center line of the longitudinal side symmetrically to the center thereof and are at a distance of 2 cm from one another; up to the top or bottom edge of the building block thus remain about 1 cm each. In the same geometric arrangement, the beam module has two holes 5 on the remaining sides. This

Holes have approximately the same diameter as the pins 4 and extend ^' by approximately the same amount in the depth of the block. The plate modules according to FIG. 1a each have pairs of holes 5 assigned to the connecting pins 4 of the beam module on all of their sides. On the front surface of the slab block there are twelve holes 5, the center points of which are arranged in three rows parallel to the longer edge of the height h of the slab block. The two outer rows each run at a distance of approximately 0.5 cm from the side edges; the centers of the five holes are, calculated from the lower edge of the slab, at values of about 0.5 cm, 1 cm, 2 cm, 3 cm and 3.5 cm. The further row of holes running in the longitudinal center line of the front surface has only two holes at a height of 1 cm or 3 cm. The hole arrangement described can be viewed as a selection from a grid pattern over the entire vprder area with a grid pattern R of 0.5 cm. The hole pattern on the back surface of the slab can be done as well as on the front. Since the holes on the longitudinal and transverse center lines are not so often required when assembling models, these holes on the back surface do not need to be provided to become.

On the remaining four narrow side surfaces of the slab module, two holes are provided at the spacing of the connection pin 4, the center points of which lie on the longitudinal center line symmetrically to the center thereof. If the bar module is e.g. inserted into the right-hand side surface in FIG. 1a, this beam module is flush with the existing plate module. If the beam block is inserted into the holes in the narrow side of the plate module, which is the top in FIG. 1a, the beam block which otherwise adjoins the plate block projects half a centimeter above the right or left upper edge

OMPI of the slab block.

The trapezoidal block shown in Figure 1c only has on its narrow sides, i.e. holes 5 in the base surface, the top surface and the two side surfaces. The holes 5 are set in the inclined rare surfaces in such a way that the inserted beam module with its side surface carrying the connecting pins 4 rests directly on the side surface of the trapezoidal module. The "lower" base surface in FIG. 1c with a width b of approximately 3 cm has two holes in the same geometric arrangement as the upper narrow side of the plate module 1. The top surface of the trapezoidal stone only has a central hole 5.

A large number of interesting models and patterns can be created with these three basic components.

The described module insert can still be expanded by the modules shown in FIGS. 1d to 1f. FIG. 1d shows a plate module 1 * which corresponds to a plate module 1 divided in width and thus has the width b. The height h and the thickness d are unchanged. The seven holes 5 in this case on the front surface run in two rows, the centers of five holes being arranged in a row parallel to the longitudinal edge at a distance of about 0.5 cm, as in the case of the plate module 1. For similar reasons as mentioned above, it is possible to provide the middle hole in this row only on the front surface of the plate module 1 '. The two remaining holes 5 are arranged so that a beam module 2 can be plugged with its connecting pin on the front surface of half the plate module 1 'that it is flush with the left edge and the upper and lower edges of the plate module 1'. The longer ones

O PI Side surfaces of the half plate module 1 'each have two holes 5 in the same geometric arrangement as on the side surfaces of the plate module 1. Only a hole is provided on the upper and lower narrow sides in FIG. 1b, which is a distance of approximately 0.5 cm from the right edge of the module 1 *.

A variant 2 ′ of the beam module 2 is shown in FIG. 1d. This beam module 2 'differs from that shown in Figure 1b only in that it carries connecting pins 4 only on one side surface, while on the opposite side surface instead of connecting pins 4 further two holes are provided. Such bar modules 2 'are often used as termination modules ver.

FIG. 1f shows a further beam module 2 ″, which corresponds to a beam module 2 ′ divided in length according to FIG. 1, also in the arrangement of the connecting pins 4 and holes 5.

FIG. 2 shows a house model constructed with the described building blocks. As can be seen from the figure, e.g. the sloping roofs are displayed very realistically by using trapezoidal blocks. The

The roof of the house model is made from a composite of slab and beam blocks. The beam modules 2 'serve as front end modules on the roof, while the beam modules 2 each serve as a connection module between two adjacent plate modules 1. The half bar modules 2 "are used as facade decorations and can represent" flower boxes ", for example.

OMPI FIG. 3 shows a fantasy structure, which is constructed from an arm 6 and an angled heart structure 7. The arm 6 is composed of plate modules 1 and beam modules 2, the angled heart structure alternatingly from omega modules 3 and connecting modules 2 and at the kink of connecting stones. The transition structure between the arm and heart structure is made up of half plate modules 1 'and connecting modules 2 builds. This fantasy structure clearly shows that right-angled connections are also possible on a single component without the overall structure losing harmony or aesthetics.

In Figure 4, the model of a circular ring is shown, which is alternately made up of trapezoidal components 3 and connecting components. This circular ring shape corresponds very well to the natural model. According to this example, archways or other arches can be made in this way

Structures are built in an aesthetically satisfactory manner.

An interesting expansion of the play kit results from the introduction of a building block at height h with the cross section of an equilateral triangle of side length d. This stone makes it possible to connect the other stones upright and to produce round tubular structures such as rollers, arches, etc. The variety of shapes is increased considerably. Of course, the corresponding pins or are again located on the side surfaces of this Guer-cut triangular building block; Holes for connection to the other building blocks.

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Claims

P a t e n t a n s r u c h e

A toy building set in the form of a block game consisting of a set of building blocks comprising a number of building blocks of different types, characterized in that the building block insert has three types of flat building blocks of the same thickness, namely a block (1) in cuboid shape with the height (h), the width (b) and the thickness (d), an elongated block (2, 2 ') with a cross-section which is square in cross section, the height or length (h) and the thickness (d) and a plate module in a trapezoidal shape (trapezoid module of the thickness (d) , the head width almost (d), the base width almost (b) and the length of an inclined side of almost (h), the ratio of d: b: h being 1: 3: 4.

OMPI

2. Play kit according to claim 1, characterized in that a plate module 1 ') with the width b / 2, the height h and the thickness d is provided as a further module.

3. toy building set according to claim 1 or 2, characterized g e k e n z e i c h e t that a further bar module (2 ") with halved length or height h / 2 is provided.

4. Play kit according to one of the preceding claims, since by g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that the building blocks

(1, 2, 3) can be connected to one another by a pin-hole connection (4, 5).

5. Play kit according to one of the preceding claims, since by g e k e n n z e i c h n e-t that the Balkenbau¬ blocks (2, 2 ') are constructed as connecting modules, di at least on one long side at a certain distance (pin spacing 4R.) From each other symmetrically to the center two

Wear the connecting pin (4) in the holes (5). other bar modules (2, 2 ') or the other modules (1, 1', 3, 2 ") can be inserted, the holes being in a grid pattern with a grid dimension (R) matched to the spacing of the connecting pins. are arranged.

6. Building kit according to claim 5, characterized in that the distance between the connecting pins (4) of the connecting component (2) corresponds to half the length h / 2 ^{* of} this component.

7. Building kit according to one of claims 5 and 6, characterized in that the bar-shaped connecting modules (2) on two opposite longitudinal side connecting pins (4) and on the remaining length

f OMPI sides two holes (5) arranged symmetrically to the center in the connecting pins (4).

8. toy building set according to one of claims 5 to 7, characterized g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that the Εapezsteine (3) have on their inclined side surfaces and on their base surface two symmetrical to the center holes (5) in grid spacing. (4R).

9. Toy system according to claim 8, characterized labeled in ^• - characterized in that the trapezoidal block (3) having on its top surface a centrally located hole (5).

10. Play kit according to one of the preceding claims. 5 to 9, due to the fact that the plate modules (1, 1 ') have on their front and back: - flat holes (5) arranged in a grid pattern matched to the pin spacing (4R).

11. Building kit according to claim 10, characterized in that the grid dimension (R) of the grid pattern corresponds to half the thickness (d / 2) of the bar or link modules (2, 2'-, 2 ").

12. A toy construction kit according to one of claims 10 and 11, so that the plate modules (1) have holes (5) in peg spacing (4R) which are assigned to each other in pairs and symmetrically to the center on their side surfaces.

13. Building kit according to one or more of claims 1 to 12, characterized in that a connecting module is provided as a further module, which has the height h and whose cross section is an equilateral triangle with the side length d,

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