EP3706880B1 - Jeu de construction - Google Patents

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EP3706880B1
EP3706880B1 EP18804243.6A EP18804243A EP3706880B1 EP 3706880 B1 EP3706880 B1 EP 3706880B1 EP 18804243 A EP18804243 A EP 18804243A EP 3706880 B1 EP3706880 B1 EP 3706880B1
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Allan GREGERSEN
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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
    • A63H33/08—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
    • A63H33/088—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 holes
    • 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
    • A63H33/065—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements using elastic deformation
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a toy building set comprising one or more first type building elements having an integrally shaped body and at least two plane knob surfaces each being provided with at least one knob extending perpendicular from the knob surface and where the integrally shaped body further has at least two plane socket surfaces each being provided with at least one socket each extending into a socket surface, and being adapted for frictional interconnection with the knobs on the knob surface on an identical building element, and where the two knob surfaces extends in two mutually parallel and not coinciding planes and where the two socket surfaces also extends in two mutually parallel and not coinciding planes, and in that the distance between the mutually parallel planes comprising the two knob surfaces and the two socket surfaces respectively, are identical, and the mutual position between the two knob surfaces is the same as the corresponding mutual position between the two socket surfaces, so that it allows the knobs at a first one of the two knob surfaces to be inserted into the socket of a first one of the two sockets on an identical building element simultaneously with allowing the knobs at a second one
  • this is achieved by a toy building set as defined in the introduction, and where the two knob surfaces extends in two mutually parallel and not coinciding planes and where the two socket surfaces also extends in two mutually parallel and not coinciding planes, and in that the distance between the mutually parallel planes comprising the two knob surfaces and the two socket surfaces respectively, are identical, and the mutual position between the two knob surfaces is the same as the corresponding mutual position between the two socket surfaces, so that it allows the knobs at a first one of the two knob surfaces to be inserted into the socket of a first one of the two sockets on an identical building element simultaneously with allowing the knobs at a second one of the two knob surfaces to be inserted into the socket of a second one of the socket surfaces of an identical building element.
  • the body part comprises an intermediate body portion having a first side where the first one of the two knob surfaces is arranged, and a second side where the second one of the two socket surfaces is arranged, and where the second one of the two knob surfaces is arranged on the free end of a first extension extending perpendicular from the first side next to the first one of the knob surfaces, and where the first one of the two socket surfaces is arranged on the free end of a second extension extending perpendicular from the second side next to the second one of the two socket surfaces.
  • knob surfaces and the socket surfaces may all preferably be rectangular or square.
  • knob surfaces and the socket surfaces may advantageously have the same size.
  • cross section of the intermediate body and/or the extensions may in a preferred embodiment be rectangular or square.
  • the mutually parallel planes comprising the two knob surfaces extends parallel or perpendicular to the mutually parallel planes comprising the two socket surfaces.
  • the toy building set may advantageously further comprise a number of second type building elements each having a box shaped body part comprising four rectangular side faces and at least one plane knob surface being provided with at least one knob extending perpendicular from the knob surface and one plane socket surface being provided with at least one socket each extending into the socket surface, and where the distance between the two knob surfaces of a first building element as well as the distance between the two socket surfaces of a first building element is equal to two or more times the distance between the plane socket surface and the plane knob surface of the second type building element.
  • the toy building set may also comprise a third type building element with an integrally shaped body having only one plane socket surface and at least two plane knob surfaces each being provided with at least one knob extending perpendicular from the knob surface, and where the two knob surfaces of the third type building element extends in two mutually parallel and not coinciding planes, and in that the distance between the mutually parallel planes comprising the two knob surfaces of the third type building element is identical with the distance between the two mutually parallel and not coinciding planes of the first building element comprising the two socket surfaces respectively, and the mutual position between the two knob surfaces of the third type building element is the same as the corresponding mutual position between the two socket surfaces of the first building element, so that it allows the knobs at a first one of the two knob surfaces of the third type building element to be inserted into the socket of a first one of the two sockets of the first building element simultaneously with allowing the knobs at a second one of the two knob surfaces of the third type building element to be inserted into the socket of a second one of the socket surfaces
  • the toy building set may advantageously further comprise a fourth type building element with an integrally shaped body having only one plane knob surface and at least two plane socket surfaces each being provided with at least one socket least one socket extending into each socket surface, and being adapted for frictional interconnection with the knobs on the knob surface on a first building element, and where the two socket surfaces of the fourth type building element extends in two mutually parallel and not coinciding planes, and in that the distance between the mutually parallel planes comprising the two knob surfaces of the fourth type building element is identical with the distance between the two mutually parallel and not coinciding planes of the first building element comprising the two knob surfaces respectively, and the mutual position between the two socket surfaces of the third type building element is the same as the corresponding mutual position between the two knob surfaces of the first building element, so that it allows the socket at a first one of the two socket surfaces of the fourth type building element to be frictionally interconnected with the knobs of the first knob surface of the first building element simultaneously with allowing the socket at a second one of the two socket
  • the invention also provides a computer-readable model comprising computer-readable instructions configured to cause, when processed by an apparatus for performing an additive manufacturing process, said apparatus to manufacture the toy building elements as defined above.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective drawing of one embodiment of a toy building set according to the invention and comprising two of a first type of building elements 1 according to the invention.
  • the first type of building elements 1 shown in figure 1 are shown in more detail in figures 2, 3 and 4 , where figure 2 is a side view of this first type of building element, and figure 3 and 4 are top and bottom views of the same element.
  • the first type of building element 1 has a box shaped intermediate body portion 2 with a first side where a first one of two knob surfaces 3 are arranged having one knob 4.
  • the second one of the two knob surfaces 3 is arranged on the free end of the box shaped extension or finger 5 that extends from the intermediate body portion 2 from an area just beside the first knob surface 3.
  • a one socket surface 6 with a socket 7 is arranged, and another socket surface 6 is arranged on the free end of the extension 8.
  • extension 5, 8 Due to the fact that the extension 5, 8 has the same length, then it is possible to assemble two or more of this first type of building elements 1 to form a mechanically stable column as shown in figure 1 .
  • the knobs 4 and sockets 7 are adapted such that assembling two building elements requires pressing the knobs into the sockets, and the knobs 4 are kept in place in the socket only by the frictional force established between the knobs 4 and the sockets 7.
  • Figure 5 shows an alternative embodiment of a first type of the building elements where the knob surfaces 3 has two knobs 4 and the corresponding socket surfaces 6 are adapted for insertion of the two knobs 4.
  • the skilled person will also recognize that it is possible also to have two or more extensions 5, 8 extending from the side of the intermediate body 2 of the building element as long as the multiple extensions are arranged in a pattern allowing interconnection of the two building elements as shown on figure 1 .
  • Figure 8 shows a further alternative embodiment of a first type of building element according to the invention having an intermediate body 2 forming a corner so that the two knobs surfaces and the two sockets surfaces extends in mutually perpendicular planes.
  • the intermediate body 2 of the first type of building element may have any shape as long as both knobs surfaces 3 and both socket surfaces 6 extends in parallel planes.
  • Figure 9 shows an embodiment of the first type of building element, where the integrally shaped element or single body is formed by attaching two substantially similarly shaped elements 9 to each other e.g. by gluing or welding, or by using geometrically interlocking members such as a dovetail interconnection or any other interconnection that ensures that the two elements are fixed to each other to withstand pulling the two substantially similarly shaped elements apart.
  • Figure 6 and 7 shows a third and a fourth type of building elements 10, 11 for a toy building set according to the invention, where the third and fourth type of building elements only has extensions 13, 14 with either knob or socket surfaces 15, 16 arranged on the free end of the extensions 13, 14.
  • a toy building set according to the invention may also have various different kinds of building elements known from the prior art, such as the two second type of building elements 12 shown on figure 6 .
  • the height of the extensions of the first, third and fourth type of building elements 1, 10, 11 according to the invention corresponds to the height of two or more of the second type of building elements 12 known from prior art, so that the building elements according to the invention are easy to integrate into a toy construction comprising prior art building elements.
  • a first type of building element is shown in punctured lines attached to the third type of building element 10, and showing that the length of the extensions 5, 8, 13, 14 on both the first, the third and the fourth type of building elements 1, 10, 11 are the same, so that they can all be assembled to form a stable column with the third and the fourth type of building elements 10, 11 forming the ends of the column.
  • the present disclosure further relates to a computer-readable model comprising computer-readable instructions configured to cause, when processed by an apparatus for performing an additive manufacturing process, said apparatus to manufacture a toy building element as disclosed herein.
  • the computer-readable model may comprise geometry information indicative of at least the shape of the toy construction element.
  • the computer-readable model may be embodied as a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure representing the computer-readable model.
  • the computer-readable medium may include a hard disk, a memory, or another suitable storage device.
  • the additive manufacturing process may include a 3D printing process.

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  1. Ensemble de jeu de construction comprenant un ou plusieurs éléments de construction de premier type (1) présentant un corps (2) et au moins deux surfaces de bouton planes (3), chacune étant pourvue d'au moins un bouton (4) s'étendant perpendiculairement depuis la surface de bouton (3) et où le corps formé d'un seul tenant (2) présente en outre au moins deux surfaces d'emboîture planes (6), chacune étant pourvue d'au moins une emboîture s'étendant chacune dans une surface d'emboîture (6), et étant conçue pour une interconnexion par frottement avec les boutons (4) sur la surface de bouton (3) sur un élément de construction identique (1), et où les deux surfaces de bouton (3) s'étendent dans deux plans mutuellement parallèles et non coïncidents et les deux surfaces d'emboîture (6) s'étendent également dans deux plans mutuellement parallèles et non coïncidents, et la distance entre les plans mutuellement parallèles comprenant les deux surfaces de bouton (3) et les deux surfaces d'emboîture (6), respectivement, est identique, et la position mutuelle entre les deux surfaces de bouton (3) est la même que la position mutuelle correspondante entre les deux surfaces d'emboîture (6) de telle sorte qu'elle permette aux boutons (4) au niveau d'une première surface des deux surfaces de bouton (3) d'être insérés dans l'emboîture d'une première emboîture des deux emboîtures (6) sur un élément de construction identique (1) tout en permettant en même temps aux boutons (4) au niveau d'une seconde surface des deux surfaces de bouton (3) d'être insérés dans l'emboîture d'une seconde surface des surfaces d'emboîture (6) de l'élément de construction identique (1), caractérisé en que les surfaces de bouton (3) et les surfaces d'emboîture (6) présentent toutes la même taille.
  2. Ensemble de jeu de construction selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la partie de corps (2) de chacun du premier type d'éléments de construction (1) comprend une partie de corps intermédiaire présentant un premier côté où la première surface des deux surfaces de bouton (3) est agencée, et un second côté où la seconde surface des deux surfaces d'emboîture (3) est agencée et où la seconde surface des deux surfaces de bouton (3) est agencée sur l'extrémité libre d'une première extension (5) s'étendant perpendiculairement depuis le premier côté près de la première surface des surfaces de bouton (3) et où la première surface des deux surfaces d'emboîture (6) est agencée sur l'extrémité libre d'une seconde extension (8) s'étendant perpendiculairement depuis le second côté près de la seconde surface des surfaces d'emboîture (6) et où la première et la seconde extension (5, 8) présentent la même longueur.
  3. Ensemble de jeu de construction selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les surfaces de bouton (3) et les surfaces d'emboîture (6) sont toutes rectangulaires ou carrées.
  4. Ensemble de jeu de construction selon la revendication 1, 2 ou 3, caractérisé en ce que la section transversale du corps intermédiaire et de chaque extension (5, 8) mesurée dans une direction en parallèle avec les deux plans mutuellement parallèles et non coïncidents comprenant les surfaces de bouton (3) ou les surfaces d'emboîture (6) respectivement de l'extension (5, 8) sont rectangulaires ou carrées.
  5. Ensemble de jeu de construction selon une ou plusieurs des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les plans mutuellement parallèles comprenant les deux surfaces de bouton (3) s'étendent perpendiculairement aux plans mutuellement parallèles comprenant les deux surfaces d'emboîture (6).
  6. Ensemble de jeu de construction selon une ou plusieurs des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'ensemble de jeu de construction comprend en outre un certain nombre d'éléments de construction de deuxième type (12), chacun présentant une partie de corps en forme de boîte comprenant quatre faces latérales rectangulaires et au moins une surface de bouton plane qui est pourvue d'au moins un bouton s'étendant perpendiculairement depuis la surface de bouton et une surface d'emboîture plane qui est pourvue d'au moins une emboîture, chacune s'étendant dans la surface d'emboîture, et où la distance entre les deux surfaces de bouton d'un élément de construction de premier type ainsi que la distance entre les deux surfaces d'emboîture d'un élément de construction de premier type sont égales à au moins deux fois la distance entre la surface d'emboîture plane et la surface de bouton plane de l'élément de construction de deuxième type (12).
  7. Ensemble de jeu de construction selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que l'ensemble de jeu de construction comprend en outre un élément de construction de troisième type (10) présentant un corps formé d'un seul tenant présentant seulement une surface d'emboîture plane et au moins deux surfaces de bouton planes, chacune étant pourvue d'au moins un bouton s'étendant perpendiculairement depuis la surface de bouton et où les deux surfaces de bouton de l'élément de construction de troisième type (10) s'étendent dans deux plans mutuellement parallèles et non coïncidents et en ce que la distance entre les plans mutuellement parallèles comprenant les deux surfaces de bouton de l'élément de construction de troisième type est identique à la distance entre les deux plans mutuellement parallèles et non coïncidents de l'élément de construction de premier type (1) comprenant les deux surfaces d'emboîture respectivement, et la position mutuelle entre les deux surfaces de bouton de l'élément de construction de troisième type (10) est la même que la position mutuelle correspondante entre les deux surfaces d'emboîture (6) de l'élément de construction de premier type de telle sorte qu'elle permette aux boutons au niveau d'une première surface des deux surfaces de bouton de l'élément de construction de troisième type (10) d'être insérés dans l'emboîture d'une première emboîture des deux emboîtures de l'élément de construction de premier type (1) tout en permettant en même temps aux boutons au niveau d'une seconde surface des deux surfaces de bouton de l'élément de construction de troisième type (10) d'être insérés dans l'emboîture d'une seconde surface des surfaces d'emboîture (6) de l'élément de construction de premier type (1).
  8. Ensemble de jeu de construction selon la revendication 7 ou 8, caractérisé en ce que l'ensemble de jeu de construction comprend en outre un élément de construction de quatrième type (11) présentant un corps formé d'un seul tenant présentant seulement une surface d'emboîture plane et au moins deux surfaces de bouton planes, chacune étant pourvue d'au moins un bouton s'étendant dans chaque surface d'emboîture, et étant conçue pour une interconnexion par frottement avec les boutons sur la surface de bouton (3) sur un élément de construction de premier type (1), et où les deux surfaces de bouton de l'élément de construction de quatrième type (11) s'étendent dans deux plans mutuellement parallèles et non coïncidents et en ce que la distance entre les plans mutuellement parallèles comprenant les deux surfaces d'emboîture de l'élément de construction de quatrième type (11) est identique à la distance entre les deux plans mutuellement parallèles et non coïncidents de l'élément de construction de premier type (1) comprenant les deux surfaces de bouton (6) respectivement, et la position mutuelle entre les deux surfaces d'emboîture de l'élément de construction de quatrième type (11) est la même que la position mutuelle correspondante entre les deux surfaces de bouton (3) de l'élément de construction de premier type (1) de telle sorte qu'elle permette à l'emboîture au niveau d'une première surface des deux surfaces d'emboîture de l'élément de construction de quatrième type d'être interconnectée par frottement avec les boutons (4) de la première surface de bouton (3) de l'élément de construction de premier type (1) tout en permettant en même temps à l'emboîture au niveau d'une seconde surface des deux surfaces d'emboîture de l'élément de construction de quatrième type (11) d'être interconnectée par frottement avec les boutons (4) de la seconde surface des surfaces de bouton (3) de l'élément de construction de premier type (1).
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