EP2254675B1 - Système de construction de jouet - Google Patents

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EP2254675B1
EP2254675B1 EP09712965A EP09712965A EP2254675B1 EP 2254675 B1 EP2254675 B1 EP 2254675B1 EP 09712965 A EP09712965 A EP 09712965A EP 09712965 A EP09712965 A EP 09712965A EP 2254675 B1 EP2254675 B1 EP 2254675B1
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Rachel Fogel
Alta Mrdechai Fogel
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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

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  • This invention relates to toy construction systems and particularly to those employing a plurality of individual construction pieces which may be fitted together by way of ball and socket joints.
  • BP-A-0900112 discloses a construction system consisting of a plurality of short rod-like members with a ball or socket on each end. These have been successfully commercialised under the trade mark ZOOB.
  • US-A-5769681 discloses toy construction systems consisting of a plurality of rod members and connector members, the latter being preferably flat.
  • the connector members have a plurality of balls or sockets about their periphery, usually at the corners, and may have a socket located in their centre.
  • the use of only one form of connector member (ball or socket) about the periphery of the connector members is restrictive.
  • US-A-4792319 discloses building blocks in the form of flat generally hexagonal shapes having fastening devices on their edges and faces to enable the shapes to be connected to one another to form structures.
  • US-A-2002/0086605 discloses a toy model building set including daisy elements, wedge elements and straight and curved rod elements. Some of them may have a central through-hole for receiving a rod element.
  • ball and socket joint refers to a joint formed by the insertion of a projection having a part-spherical surface into a socket having an inner concave part-spherical wall, with the resilience of the material of which the projection and the socket are made being sufficient to allow the joint to be made and unmade, and with the diameter of the part-spherical surface on each of projection and socket being substantially identical.
  • the necessary resilience may be achieved by the use of appropriate material for the components, as well as by the geometrical arrangement and extent of the part-spherical surfaces.
  • a preferred projection shape for use in the present invention is that of a generally spherical head set on a post projecting from a construction piece, with a particularly preferred shape having the spherical head relieved about a circular equatorial region lying in a plane perpendicular to the direction of extension of the post.
  • a preferred socket shape is a pair of spaced apart tabs extending in parallel planes from a construction piece and having part-spherical depressions in their facing surfaces.
  • a toy construction system including a plurality of pieces according to claim 1.
  • Such pieces are preferably square, oblong or round and the ball and socket connection components are preferably located halfway along the sides, or evenly distributed about the periphery of the piece.
  • the distance of the centre of rotation of the ball within the socket from the edges of the pieces may be varied. It should be no less than half the thickness of the piece in order to enable a ball to be engaged in the socket in the centre of another piece. However, it is preferred that the distance is slightly greater so that when the ball of one piece is inserted into the socket in the centre of another piece, the inserted piece may rotate about an axis in the plane of the piece into which it is inserted by a small amount, usually at most 15°, but preferably at least 5°.
  • the centre sockets may include a wall around the socket components which is relieved to receive the edge of another piece and allow such a degree of rotation.
  • the ball-receiving socket in the centre of the piece may also receive a ball-receiving socket from another piece.
  • the socket component in the centre of a piece is set in an aperture sufficiently large to accommodate an assembled ball and socket joint formed between two other pieces.
  • the socket components are preferably formed of two facing tabs having concave depressions in their facing surfaces, to receive the ball components, and a flat surface on their outer sides.
  • Toy construction systems according to the present invention may include other construction pieces with at least one ball and/or socket component on them which may be used together with the aforementioned pieces as desired.
  • These may take a very wide variety of forms, for example rods, wheels, base plates or wall plates, as well as ones where instead of being generally square, oblong or circular, the overall shape is triangular or polygonal.
  • Large constructional pieces in particular may include several apertures which are of sufficient size to accommodate an assembled ball and socket joint linking two other pieces, located to each side of the apertured piece.
  • a further type of piece for use in toy construction systems may be in the form of a block rather than a generally flat plate or a rod.
  • the blocks may have one or balls protruding from them, one or more sockets in one or more faces, or both.
  • the balls and socket components are sized to fit the other ball and socket components in the other pieces of the entire construction system.
  • Other construction pieces may be representational, for example human or animal figures having a ball or socket connection component so that they may be attached to a structure made using the construction system according to the invention, or be in the form of additional components, such as wheels, feet or rings.
  • Even more complex accessories may be envisaged, for example a peg board structure including ball and/or socket connectors on to which one or more pieces may be fixed.
  • the peg board structure may be of simple fixed construction type or, for example, it may have one or more sections movable with respect to others, for example one section being slidable with respect to the remainder of the board.
  • the pieces of the toy construction system in accordance with the present invention are preferably made of appropriate plastics materials.
  • the ball and socket joints may be made so that they can be snap fitted together or pulled apart without using too much force, but where the degree of force needed to pull them apart is not so little that constructions made with them tend to fall apart too easily.
  • toy construction systems according to the present invention are predominantly directed to providing sets of pieces which are assembled together, and where the resulting construction may have few, if any, moving parts, it is possible to include in such sets appropriate pieces which enable the construction of structures having several moving parts, and these may even be driven by appropriate motor and gearing apparatus if desired.
  • Using the underlying ball and socket structure as described above enables a wide range of possibilities to be explored.
  • the construction piece shown in Figure 1 consists of a square frame 1 having an inner transverse web 2 supporting a central socket component 3. On two opposite sides of frame 1 project balls 4 and 5 while on the other two opposed sides project the two arms of socket components 6 and 7. Each of balls 4 and 5 is split to enable it to be slightly compressed as it is inserted into a socket component 6 or 7 in another piece. Insertion is facilitated by relieved sections 9.
  • the central socket component 3 consists of a centre section having a pair of opposed concave spherical spaces 8 between which a ball 4 or 5 from another piece may be held captive.
  • channels 12 and 13 To either side of that pair of opposed concave spherical sections 8 are channels 12 and 13 which are dimensioned so that they may receive the members constituting a socket component 6 or 7 from another piece. That socket component 6 or 7 engages with the same ball as is engaged between the two concave faces 8, so simply enabling three of the pieces to be held together.
  • Each piece is made of resilient plastics material, integrally moulded.
  • Figure 2 shows a piece analogous to that shown in Figure 1 , but in which the balls, in place of the relieved spherical projections 4, 5, consist of a projection having a post 30 extending from a square base 31 and carrying a spherical head 32 of which the central equatorial region has been flattened to form a cylindrical surface 33.
  • Mounted on the sides of base 31 which do not carry the balls are sockets 34 of construction as in Figure 1 , sockets 6 and 7.
  • the piece shown in Figure 2 has a central socket component 35 set in an elongate aperture 36 analogously to socket component 8 in Figure 1 .
  • the elongation of the aperture 36 may be oriented (relative to the ball and socket portions on the edge of the piece) so that it lies in the direction of a line linking the two posts 30 on opposite sides of the piece.
  • the central socket component 35 has two facing part hemispherical concave walls 38, each on a crooked tab 39, the shaping being such as to allow part of a socket component 34 of another such piece to be inserted into aperture 36, and engage over a spherical head 32 of a third such piece.
  • the side walls of the second and third piece lie across a wall 37 surrounding aperture 36.
  • the top of the wall is relieved by a shallow W-shaped lowering, so enabling rotation of the inserted piece about the axis joining heads 32 by a small amount, e.g. 15°.
  • pieces may be fitted together with their planes at right angles to one another, for example as shown in Figure 3 where a chain of three links denoted 49, 50 and 51 has one of them turned with respect to the other, and the central link 50 has a pair of opposed pieces 52, 53 inserted into its central socket. Additional pieces 54 and 55 in the form of an apertured square and a rod member including a plurality of socket components are attached to pieces 49 and 51.
  • Figure 4 shows a chair made of 6
  • Figure 5 an arch made of 16
  • a tower likewise made of 23 pieces is shown in Figure 6
  • a ring made of 24 is shown in Figure 7 .
  • Figures 8 to 18 show various forms of constructional pieces which may be collected together in different numbers to form a construction set.
  • Figure 8 shows a base plate which has twenty four balls and sockets set round its periphery and twenty four socket components in its central web.
  • Figure 9 shows a piece of analogous construction to that shown in Figure 2 , but where the piece is generally oblong and has two sockets 60, 61 set in its central portion and three socket portions 62 and one ball 63 on its periphery.
  • Figure 10 shows three forms of rods useful in a construction system in accordance with the present invention, that on the left having a ball at each end and that on the right a socket component at each end. Each has two socket components intermediate its ends.
  • Figures 11 to 18 show other construction pieces of different shapes and with different numbers of balls and sockets.
  • the central web part of each of those shown in Figures 11 to 15 may be plain or apertured as well as including one or more sockets.
  • the plain ones may be used by the child as a holder for an inserted item, particularly a card insert bearing a legend or symbol, a textured material insert such as cork, rubber or cloth, or e.g. a mirror insert, the shape of the insert being matched to that of the piece and the size being such as to enable a press fit.
  • Circular pieces which may be attached by ball and socket connection to a structure built up from a plurality of playing pieces of the type illustrated are shown in Figures 16 and 17 while Figure 18 shows a wheel which carries a head for insertion into a socket component.

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L'invention porte sur un système de construction de jouet qui est conçu sur la base d'une pièce globalement carrée ayant des composants de liaison par bille (32) et connecteur (34) sur ses bords. De plus, son centre comporte un composant de liaison par connecteur supplémentaire (35) permettant aux pièces d'être assemblées pour former une diversité de structures tridimensionnelles d'intérêt spécial pour l'utilisateur, par l'encliquetage ensemble de composants de liaison par bille et connecteur, reposant sur l'élasticité du matériau dont les pièces sont faites.

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  1. Système de construction de jouet, comprenant une pluralité d'éléments (1) pouvant être reliés entre eux, au moyen d'articulations sphériques, au moins certains des éléments (1) étant globalement plats et ayant à la fois des composants de connexion à rotule (4, 5, 6, 7) mâles et femelles autour de leur périphérie, et dans lequel les articulations sphériques sont formées par l'insertion d'une saillie (4, 5) ayant une surface partiellement sphérique dans une calotte (6, 7) ayant une paroi intérieure concave partiellement sphérique, l'élasticité du matériau à partir duquel la saillie (4, 5) et la calotte (6, 7) sont faites étant suffisante pour permettre aux articulations d'être assemblées et désassemblées, et le diamètre de la surface partiellement sphérique sur chacune des saillies (4, 5) et calottes (6, 7) étant sensiblement identique et caractérisé par un composant de calotte (3) situé sensiblement centralement à l'élément (1) dans lequel un composant de connexion à rotule (4, 5), sur la périphérie d'un autre élément (1), peut être inséré.
  2. Système selon la revendication 1, dans lequel au moins certaines des éléments (1) sont carrés et les composants de connexion à rotule (4, 5, 6, 7) sont situés sensiblement à mi-longueur sur les côtés.
  3. Système selon la revendication 1. dans lequel la distance du centre de rotation de la rotule dans la calotte, par rapport aux bords des éléments (1), n'est pas inférieure à la moitié de l'épaisseur de l'élément (1).
  4. Système selon la revendication 3, dans lequel la distance est légèrement supérieure à la moitié de l'épaisseur de l'élément, de manière que, lorsque la rotule (4, 5) d'un élément (1) est insérée dans la calotte (3) située sensiblement centralement à un autre élément (1), l'élément (1) inséré puisse tourner autour d'un axe situé dans le plan de l'élément dans lequel il est inséré.
  5. Système selon la revendication 3, dans lequel le composant à calotte (3), situé sensiblement à mi longueur de l'élément (1), présente une paroi de pourtour (37) creusée (40), de manière à permettre à un élément inséré de tourner autour d'un axe dans le plan de l'élément dans lequel il est inséré.
  6. Système selon la revendication 4 ou 5, dans lequel les dimensions des composants sont telles qu'elles limitent l'ampleur de la rotation à une fourchette comprise entre 5° et 15°,
  7. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, dans lequel la culotte de réception de rotule (3) située sensiblement centralement à un élément est configurée pour recevoir une calotte de réception de rotule provenant d'un autre élément.
  8. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, dans lequel les composants à calotte sont formés de deux pattes en regard, ayant des creusements dans leurs surfaces en regard, pour recevoir les composants à rotule, et une surface plate sur leurs côtés extérieurs.
  9. Système selon la revendication 8, dans lequel les pattes sont creusées (9), de manière à faciliter l'introduction d'une rotule entre elles.
  10. Système selon les revendications 1 à 9 et comprenant au moins certaines des tiges, roues, plaques de base et planques de paroi en plus des éléments (1) avec un composant à calotte situé sensiblement centralement.
  11. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 9 et comprenant des éléments (1) de forme globale oblongue, triangulaire, circulaire ou polygonale.
  12. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel les éléments (1) sont faits d'une matière plastique élastique.
  13. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel les composants de connexion à rotule comprennent une tête (32) globalement sphérique, montée sur un pilier (30) faisant saillie d'un élément de construction et creusée autour d'une région équatoriale (33) circulaire, située dans un plan perpendiculaire à la direction d'extension du pilier (30).
  14. Système selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel au moins certains des composants de connexion à calotte comprennent une paire de pattes espacées les unes des autres, s'étendant dans des plans parallèles à partir d'un élément de construction et ayant des évidements en parties de sphères dans leurs surfaces tournées les unes vers les autres.
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