EP1207951B1 - Jeu de construction permettant de creer des structures de jouet tridimensionnelles - Google Patents

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EP1207951B1
EP1207951B1 EP00944130A EP00944130A EP1207951B1 EP 1207951 B1 EP1207951 B1 EP 1207951B1 EP 00944130 A EP00944130 A EP 00944130A EP 00944130 A EP00944130 A EP 00944130A EP 1207951 B1 EP1207951 B1 EP 1207951B1
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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
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  • the present invention relates to an assembly kit for creating three-dimensional formations, especially toy structures from pre-fabricated modular building blocks made preferably of wood and interconnected by releasable couplings.
  • the assembly kit according to the invention is, depending on one's creativity, suitable for constructing toy structures that would substantially resemble buildings, vehicles, moving figures, balance toys and other three-dimensional formations.
  • Assembly kits comprising wood and/or plastic building blocks, from which by means of plug-type, ribbed pin-type or threaded coupling members various dimensional formations and toy structures can be constructed are known in a large variety.
  • a certain tool generally a single purpose tool (screwdriver, pliers, hammer or other pushing or pulling means) for disassembling the constructed formations.
  • the published German patent application DE 33 05 518 describes a pin-type coupling member for which a special tool is applied for dismounting.
  • Hungarian patent specification No. 181 256 introduces a tubular coupling member split along its generatrix, whereby the coupling member is allowed to certain flexible compressibility.
  • the coupling member In a direction normal to the longitudinal split the coupling member is provided with several incisions, and one of these incisions can be associated with a plug element having a retaining rib when inserted into a located crosswise to the bore receiving the coupling member.
  • This known coupling member design has the disadvantage that on the one hand it is requires the use of a separate tool, while its design and thus, its handling are quite complicated on the other.
  • a further assembly kit for constructing figural bodies and especially toy figures is described in Hungarian patent specification No. 186 437.
  • the coupling members of this assembly kit are threaded pins that can be handled even without the use of an additional tool.
  • the coupling members are associated with correspondingly threaded disk-like nuts. Especially for smaller children, however, the use of such multi-component coupling members causes difficulties and a frequent feeling of failure.
  • Hungarian patent specification No. 186 437 refers in its paragraphs in which the background art is dealt with to the possibility of using wooden pins as coupling members that are provided with longitudinal slots. In said reference to slotted wooden pins however, the necessary use of additional tools, primarily hammer and pliers for their handling is also included.
  • US patent No. 3 803 754 discloses an assembly kit comprising a plurality of prismatic building blocks with non-circular slits and flat connectors.
  • other connecting elements having a connecting portion of generally circular cross-sectional configuration adapted to be inserted into a generally cylindrical socket in a rotary component such as a wheel or the like are also described.
  • the US patent also refers to the connecting portion of said other connecting elements comprising two widened spreaders separated by a longitudinal slot.
  • the main object of the present invention is to create an assembly kit, which is suitable even from the age of four on to develop children's spatial vision and manual skills, without the necessity for complicated coupling members of difficult and clumsy handling that would make an adverse effect on these skills.
  • an assembly kit comprising a plurality of building blocks of generally rectilinear configuration, connecting plates of elongate rectangular shape, and optional further elements such as e.g. wheels and wheel shafts.
  • the building blocks, connecting plates and optional further elements of the assembly kit are, at least preferably, made of wood, and the building blocks have a generally prismatic shape confined by substantially plane faces.
  • At least one of the plane faces of the building blocks comprises at least two transverse grooves of pre-determined depth, capable of receiving, in a releasable manner, at least one connecting plate of the assembly kit for interconnecting at least a pair of adjoining building blocks.
  • the building blocks of the assembly have the shape of a cube of a pre-determined edge length, or of an elongate rectangular prismatic body having, as a base face, a plane face of rectangular shape confined by two sides of a length equalling each, an integer multiple of one-half of said pre-determined edge length of said cube.
  • the building blocks of the shape of an elongate prismatic body have a height that is equal again, to an integer multiple of one-half of said pre-determined edge length of said cube.
  • the transverse grooves have an equal depth that is less than one-half of the pre-determined edge length of the cube, and the grooves are recessed into the at least one plane face of the building blocks in a manner so that they extend all along said plane face between pair-wise opposite sides thereof.
  • the assembly kit also comprises coupling members having a substantially cylindrical shaft section.
  • the coupling members may have a head portion of enlarged diameter at one end of the substantially cylindrical shaft portion.
  • the shaft portion of the coupling members terminates in a pair of widened, substantially elastic spreaders separated by a longitudinal slot.
  • the building blocks as well as the connecting plates are provided with a number of thoroughfare bores capable of fittingly receiving the cylindrical shaft sections of said coupling members.
  • the thoroughfare bores of the building blocks intersect the grooves by being perpendicular to and in parallel arrangement with respective plane faces of the building blocks, and the bores in the connecting plates are in axial alignment with the bores of the building blocks when a connecting plate is inserted, into any of the grooves of the building blocks, in its position interconnecting adjacent building blocks of the assembly kit.
  • Preferred embodiments of the assembly kit according to the invention providing more room for construction ideas for the children's manipulation abilities and for creativity, may also comprise at least one additional building block that is generated either from a building block having a shape of a cube or an elongate prismatic body by cutting away an edge portion of the cube or the prismatic body along a section plane enclosing an acute angle with one of the plane faces of the cube or the prismatic body.
  • the section plane should be parallel with or include at least one of the edges of the building block concerned.
  • At least one of the building blocks preferably at least one of the building blocks having the shape of an elongate prismatic body may also include at least a pair of shaft bores of a diameter that is at least equal to that of the thoroughfare bores of the building blocks.
  • FIG. 1 may depict a pair of wheel sets, each of them consisting of a wheel body and a wheel shaft.
  • the wheel body has a central bore and at least one lateral spacer shoulder, while the wheel shaft has a shaft body to be inserted, with substantially tight fit, into one of the shaft bores of a building block.
  • the wheel shaft also has an axle portion terminating in a pair of widened spreaders separated by a longitudinal slot, and the axle portion of the wheel shaft is receivable, under loose fit, by the central bore of the wheel body.
  • Fig. 1 of the attached drawing shows two cube-shaped building blocks 10 of the assembly kit embodying the invention and one of their possible connections by way of example only, while Fig. 2 of the drawing depicts a simple structure comprising a cube-shaped building block 10 and another building block 11 having the shape of an elongate rectangular prismatic body.
  • the building block 11 shown in Fig. 2 has a height that is equal to two cube edge lengths.
  • perpendicular grooves 13 are recessed into all of the side faces confining the building blocks 10 and 11.
  • All transverse grooves 13 have an equal depth that is less than one-half of the edge length of the cube-shaped building block 10, and the grooves 13 are recessed into the plane faces of the building blocks 10 and 11 in a manner extending all along the plane faces between pair-wise opposite sides.
  • Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing further indicate connecting plates 20 and coupling members 30 of the assembly kit of the invention. It is apparent that the building blocks 10, 11 as well as the connecting plates 20 are provided with thoroughfare bores 14 capable of fittingly receiving cylindrical shaft sections 32 of the coupling members 30 shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
  • the thoroughfare bores 14 intersect the grooves 13 of the building blocks 10 and 11, and they are perpendicular to and in parallel arrangement with respective plane faces of the building blocks 10, 11.
  • Thoroughfare bores 21 in the connecting plates 20 are in axial alignment with the bores 14 of the building blocks 10, 11 when a connecting plate 20 is inserted in aligned grooves 13 of the building blocks 10, 11 in its position interconnecting adjacent building blocks 10 and 11.
  • the thoroughfare bores 14 of the building blocks 10, 11 are arranged at equal distances from their edges, and the distance measured between an edge of the building blocks 10, 11 and the centrelines of the bores 14 arranged nearest to said side edge are substantially equal to one-half of the depth of the grooves 13 in the building blocks 10, 11.
  • the grooves 13 located in the two extreme positions when viewed in the direction of the largest dimension are also recessed at distances of one-half of the cube edge length when measured from opposite side edges of the building block 11.
  • FIG. 2 has a height equal to six times the one-half edge length of the cube, and the grooves 13 of its middle portion are spaced from each other at distances equal to the edge length of the cube.
  • the two cube-shaped building blocks 10 shown in Fig. 1 as well as the building blocks 10 and 11 shown in Fig. 2 are joined by a connecting plate 20 which has a thickness that fits into that of the grooves 13.
  • the width of the connecting plates 20 of elongate rectangular shape is equal to the double depth of the grooves 13 in the building blocks 10 and 11, and the connecting plates 20 have the length of at least two or more integer multiples of one-half of said pre-determined edge length of a building block having the shape of a cube.
  • FIG. 2 depicts a connecting plate 20 of a double cube edge length. Further building blocks of the assembly kit can be joined to the section of the connecting plate 21, which section protrudes when seen in the drawing, in upward direction and contains four bores 21 not yet used, i.e. being still free for joining another building block of the toy structure to be created.
  • the coupling member 30 has a cylindrical shaft portion 32 having a head portion 31 of increased diameter at its one end.
  • the other end of the coupling member 30 has a pair of spreaders 33 each of said spreaders having end portions of semi-spherical shape increasing to a diameter larger than that of the cylindrical shaft portion 32.
  • a slot 34 lying in the halving plane is recessed into a part of the shaft portion of the coupling member 30 from the direction of the ends of the spreaders 33.
  • the semi-spherical ends of the spreaders 33 of the coupling members 30 have a flattened design on both sides normal to the plane of the slots 34.
  • the length of the cylindrical shaft portion 32 of the coupling member 30 is substantially equal to one and the half times the one-half edge length of the cube-shaped building blocks 10, and the slot 34 is of a depth of at least one-half of the length of the cylindrical shaft portion 32 when measured in axial direction. Due to their preferred design shown in Figs. 5 to 7, the coupling members 30, when inserted in the bores 14 of the building blocks 10 and 11 are capable of joining, in a reliable way resisting to light pulling forces, the respective building blocks 10, 10 and 10, 11 with connecting plates 20 inserted in the grooves 13. In the course of pushing in and pulling out, the coupling member 30 would not get stuck in the bore 14.
  • the head portion 31 of the coupling members 30 provides for a good grip, so that they can be easily pulled out and handled manually, without the need for applying extreme force or a single-purpose tool.
  • FIG. 8 of the attached drawing depicts, by way of example again, a toy car assembled from an assembly kit of the present invention.
  • This and other vehicles can be assembled from assembly kits, which in addition to the building blocks 10 and 11 already described also comprise a building block 12 of a different, not fully rectangular shape.
  • Building block 12 is generated for example from a building block 11 by cutting away one of its edge portions along a section plane enclosing an acute angle with a basic plane face of building block 11.
  • the assembly kit may also comprise building blocks of other shapes generated for example from a cube-shaped building block 10 or from building blocks of other different shape, portions of which are cut away along one or more other acute section planes. From such further building blocks (not shown) e.g. structures resembling roofs of buildings etc. can be created.
  • the building block 11 of the assembly kit suitable for assembling a toy car as shown in Fig. 8 has a longitudinal dimension equal to the length of three cube edges. It also contains three shaft bores 15 of a diameter larger than that of the bores 14. Two of such shaft bores 15 are used for receiving and retaining shaft bodies 51 of a wheel shaft 50 of a wheel set shown by way of example only, in Figs. 3 and 4 of the attached drawing.
  • the wheel set shown includes a wheel body 40 and a wheel shaft 50.
  • the wheel body 40 has a central bore 42 and a lateral spacer shoulder 41.
  • the wheel shaft 50 has, as shown in Fig. 4, a shaft body 51 to be inserted, with a substantially retaining fit, into the shaft bores 15 of the building block 11 shown in Fig. 8.
  • the wheel shaft 50 has an axle portion 52 terminating in a pair of widened spreaders 54 separated by a longitudinal slot 53.
  • the axle portion 52 of the wheel shaft 50 is receivable, under loose fit, by the central bore 42 of the wheel body 40.
  • the split spherical end pin-type design of the wheel shaft 50 is identical both in shape and function, with the slotted end design of the coupling members 30.
  • the assembly shown in Fig. 8 by way of example only can be created and assembled even by small children very simply and within a short time, and the vehicle designed and assembled by the child him- or herself, can be immediately used as a toy.
  • the assembly kit according to the present invention can be easily handled by children from the approximate age of four on. It enhances both the spatial vision and the manual skills of children, because assembling and disassembling toy structures from the building blocks and optional additional elements of the assembly kit are extremely simple, and the coupling members of the kit can be easily handled without the need for a tool.
  • the creation of simple three-dimensional formations provides to the children an immediate feeling of success which encourages them to continue with creating further structures of more complicated and thus, challenging shapes.

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  1. Jeu de construction permettant de créer des structures de jouet tridimensionnelles, le jeu de construction comprenant une pluralité d'éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) de configuration globalement rectiligne, des plaques de liaison (20) de forme rectangulaire allongée, et des éléments supplémentaires facultatifs tels que, par exemple, des ensembles de roues, lesdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12), les plaques de liaison (20) et les éléments supplémentaires facultatifs du jeu de construction étant, au moins de préférence, constitués de bois, les éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) ayant une forme globalement prismatique confinée par des faces sensiblement planes, au moins l'une desdites faces planes des éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) comprenant au moins deux rainures transversales (13) de profondeur prédéterminée, lesdites rainures (13) étant capables de recevoir, d'une façon amovible, au moins l'une desdites plaques de liaison (20) du jeu de construction pour interconnecter au moins une paire d'éléments d'assemblage voisins (10, 11, 12) du jeu de construction, moyennant quoi à partir dudit jeu d'éléments d'assemblage (10, 1, 12), des plaques de liaison (20) et des éléments supplémentaires facultatifs diverses structures de jouet autocréées peuvent être assemblées, lesdites au moins deux rainures transversales (13) dans lesdites faces planes des éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) étant encastrées dans lesdites faces planes dans un agencement parallèle avec les côtés respectifs desdites faces planes, lesdits côtés formant les bords respectifs desdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12), au moins deux desdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11) ayant la forme d'un cube d'une longueur de bord prédéterminée, ou d'un corps prismatique rectangulaire allongé ayant, comme face de base, une face plane de forme rectangulaire confinée par deux côtés d'une longueur égale chacune, un multiple de nombre entier de la moitié de ladite longueur de bord prédéterminée dudit cube, et ledit corps prismatique allongé ayant une taille qui est de nouveau égale, à un multiple de nombre entier de la moitié de ladite longueur de bord prédéterminée dudit cube, lesdites rainures transversales (13) ayant toutes une profondeur égale qui est inférieure à la moitié de ladite longueur de bord prédéterminée dudit cube, lesdites rainures (13) étant encastrées dans ladite au moins une face plane desdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) s'étendant d'une certaine manière tout le long de ladite face plane entre des côtés opposés par paires de ceux-ci, le jeu de construction comprenant en outre des éléments de couplage (30) ayant une partie d'arbre sensiblement cylindrique (32), caractérisé en ce que les éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) ainsi que les plaques de liaison (20) sont munis d'un certain nombre d'alésages de passage (14, 21) capables de recevoir de façon appropriée les parties cylindriques d'arbre (32) desdits éléments de couplage (30), lesdits alésages de passage (14) desdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) croisant lesdites rainures (13) en étant perpendiculaires à et dans un agencement parallèle avec les faces planes respectives desdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12), et les alésages (21) dans lesdites plaques de liaison (20) étant en alignement axial avec lesdits alésages (14) des éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) lorsqu'une plaque de liaison (20) est insérée, dans n'importe laquelle desdites rainures (13) des éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12), dans sa position interconnectant les éléments d'assemblage adjacents (10, 11, 12) du jeu de construction.
  2. Jeu de construction selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que dans lesdits alésages de passage (14) des éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) sont agencés à des distances égales des bords desdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12), ladite distance mesurée entre un bord de l'élément d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) et les axes des alésages (14) agencés le plus près dudit bord est sensiblement égale à la moitié de la profondeur des rainures dans ledit élément d'assemblage (10, 11, 12).
  3. Jeu de construction selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce qu'avec les éléments d'assemblage (10) ayant la forme desdites rainures transversales d'un cube (13) sont encastrés, mesurés à partir des bords dudit élément d'assemblage (10), dans chaque face plane dudit élément d'assemblage (10) au niveau d'une distance qui est égale à la moitié de la longueur de bord prédéterminée dudit cube.
  4. Jeu de construction selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce qu'avec les éléments d'assemblage (11) ayant la forme d'un corps prismatique rectangulaire allongé, lesdites rainures transversales (13) sont encastrées dans chaque face plane dudit élément d'assemblage (11) à des distances égales mesurées à la fois à partir des bords les plus proches dudit élément d'assemblage (11) et à partir de l'évidement voisin (13) s'il est présent, ladite distance étant égale à la moitié de la longueur de bord prédéterminée dudit cube.
  5. Jeu de construction selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend au moins un élément d'assemblage supplémentaire (12) qui est produit à partir d'un élément d'assemblage (10, 11) ayant une forme d'un cube ou d'un corps prismatique allongé en enlevant une partie de bord dudit cube ou du corps prismatique le long d'un plan de section entourant un angle aigu avec l'une des faces planes dudit cube ou du corps prismatique, ledit plan de section étant parallèle ou comprenant au moins l'un des bords dudit élément d'assemblage (12).
  6. Jeu de construction selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins l'un des éléments d'assemblage (10, I 1, 12), de préférence au moins l'un des éléments d'assemblage (11) ayant la forme d'un corps prismatique allongé, comprend également au moins une paire d'alésages d'arbre (15) d'un diamètre qui est au moins égal, de préférence plus grand que celui des alésages de passage (14, 21) des éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12) et des plaques de liaison (20).
  7. Jeu de construction selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend, comme élément supplémentaire, au moins une paire d'ensembles de roues, chacun desdits ensembles de roues étant constitué par un corps de roue (40) et un arbre de roue (50), ledit corps de roue (40) ayant un alésage central (42) et au moins un épaulement d'écartement transversal (41), l'arbre de roue (50) ayant un corps d'arbre (51) destiné à être inséré, avec un ajustement sensiblement de retenue, dans l'un desdits alésages d'arbre (15) dudit au moins un élément d'assemblage (11), ledit arbre de roue (50) ayant également une partie d'essieu (52) se terminant dans une paire d'écarteurs élargis (54) séparés par une fente longitudinale (53), et ladite partie d'essieu (52) dudit arbre de roue (50) pouvant être reçue, en ajustement lâche, par ledit alésage central (42) dudit corps de roue (40).
  8. Jeu de construction selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que la largeur desdites plaques de liaison (20) de forme rectangulaire allongée est égale à la double profondeur des rainures (13) dans lesdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12), et lesdites plaques de liaison (20) ont la longueur d'au moins deux multiples de nombre entier de la moitié de ladite longueur de bord prédéterminée d'un élément d'assemblage (10) ayant la forme d'un cube.
  9. Jeu de construction selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que lesdits éléments de couplage (30) ont une partie principale (31) de diamètre agrandi au niveau d'une extrémité de la partie d'arbre sensiblement cylindrique (32), et ladite partie d'arbre (32) desdits éléments de couplage (30) se termine dans une paire d'écarteurs élargis et sensiblement élastiques (33) séparés par une fente longitudinale (34), moyennant quoi lesdites parties d'arbre (32) desdits éléments de couplage (30) sont retenues, d'une façon facilement amovible, dans lesdits alésages de passage (14) desdits éléments d'assemblage (10, 11, 12).
  10. Jeu de construction selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que lesdites parties d'arbre sensiblement cylindriques (32) desdits éléments de couplage (30) ont une longueur qui est sensiblement égale à une fois et demi la moitié de ladite longueur de bord prédéterminée d'un élément d'assemblage (10) ayant la forme d'un cube, et ladite fente longitudinale (34) séparant les écarteurs élargis (33) de la partie d'arbre cylindrique (32) est encastrée dans ladite partie d'arbre (32) à une profondeur qui est égale à approximativement la moitié de la longueur de ladite partie d'arbre cylindrique (32) desdits éléments de couplage (30).
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